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  Angela Collier is a physicist (?) with a popular science youtube channel. She was talking about human shaped robots recently: https://youtu.be/rwsowgBE_P8 There's a lot of crossover between human-like robots and chat bots and slavery.

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  The thing about good scams is that they exist in the grey area between fraud and real services. Almost every answer in this thread is an example of this. Insurance for example - this is when you pay someone else to take responsibility for a risk. The modern economy couldn't exist without it. However, there are plenty of insurance policies which don't provide much value and are more like fraud than a real service.

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  My son and daughter are citizens of the country they were born in, but could choose to acquire citizenship of their mother's country of birth, by descent. For my daughter, this might be a nice-to-have as it would make things easier for her if she chose to reside there for any period of time. For my son, it's a more complex choice as he would be required to complete military service in that country. For some teenage boys that might be the adventure of a life time, for others it woul...

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  Piefed. For all intents and purposes it's the same as lemmy and interacts with lemmy instances, but it's... less tankie.

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  Satisfying homogenised mammalian excretion.

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  - google messages - I really need the web ui, trying to switch to scrcpy - google wallet & samsung wallet - have already decided to go back to a physical wallet with cards - google maps - I use this mostly to find opening times for businesses. - ms teams - for work - facebook messenger - selling junk on facebook marketplace