It doesn’t seem that way. After reading through the article a couple of times, it looks like the “no” they are referring to is regarding data recording of one’s actual use of the assistant. And since I don’t use the assistant and have completely disabled it, the shouldn’t be any data to record.

Though I do have to admit that I may be completely off base in my interpretation.

And how does this effect those of us that have completely disabled Gemini Assistant?

You do realize that is a comedy site, right?

I think I’d rather be lost at sea than be anywhere near any portion of our current civilization.

I think you aren’t that familiar with android. Android’s main purpose is to collect as much information on you as possible. Google did not offer it up out of the goodness of their heart. It’s integral to their data collection and resale business model.

CDC data from 2022 indicated that more than one in five U.S. adults under the age of 45 experienced symptoms of mental distress.

Must be the lack of personnel. Couldn’t have anything to do with the global insecurity of rising inflation and low wage jobs coupled with the skyrocketing housing costs. Not to mention the whole “the earth is steadily getting hotter and extreme weather events are happening more and more frequently.”

Yeah, let’s invest in more AI that will fuck over the planet even more with colossal energy requirements and not even bother with making people more financially and socially secure.

That’s fine, billionaires do not add to an economy, they drain it. So if they leave it will remove a useless burden on the economy and whatever country is dumb enough to take them in can deal with them instead. Meanwhile, if they are pulling money from our country we can find ways to tax it and prevent them from draining our resources (and yes, money is a resource like any other).

So glad I have never given a dime to that fucking company.

The price of everything is too damned high.

That’s plutonium. You would die of radiation poisoning long before you could ever even come close to developing cancer.

Yeah a couple of weeks ago Google secretly activated Gemini on every Pixel user’s phone. I ran into the same problem, my phone suddenly activated and Gemini popped up interrupting a song that I was playing while I was away from my phone. Ended up screwing up the song and having it repeat over and over and over.

It’s called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.

I don’t agree with Israel at all. But Iran is a theocratic ethnostate as well. One that has pretty loudly proclaimed that the day they have nuclear weapons is the day before they use one on Israel. There’s nobody out there who’s in a morally high position.

I was referring to the mental breakdown that institutionalized her. Which is even listed in that health section you’re so obsessed with. But there’s far more to it and her conversion to Islam if you had read anything besides the Wikipedia page. She was pretty vocal about her reasons for converting and she was fairly adamant about how much becoming Muslim helped her mentally.

But feel free to continue with your prejudices based on little to no information.

Did you read anything else? She converted to Islam in 2018/2019. Her mental breakdown happened in 2017 and was mostly a result of losing custody of her kid.

NBC did not rebroadcast the live performance unedited until 2025, when it was featured in the documentary film Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music. In it, Lorne Michaels stated that he had “admired the bravery of what she’d done, and also the absolute sincerity of it”, though no mention was made of prior negative comments from him or the show.

Oh FUCK Lorne Michaels. What a lying sack of dog feces.

I don’t think her switching religions had a detrimental effect on her mental health. Probably quite the opposite. And it really doesn’t matter that she switched from one mainstream religion to another mainstream religion. It’s not like joining an offshoot’s going to be any better or worse. She was seeking peace. Maybe she found it, maybe she didn’t, that’s for her to decide in whatever afterlife she ended up in.

And when SpaceX does it with real full size rockets and they explode scattering debris and chemicals everywhere, the nearby towns pay the price.

I don’t see any towns being decimated by Honda’s approach.

Yeah, you are still pinning her for her belief in Islam because members of Islam have been and continue being vile detestable people. But they aren’t vile detestable people because of their belief in Islam any more than the Christians, Catholic or otherwise, are evil because of their belief in Christianity. They are vile and detestable people regardless of their belief. Their religious beliefs isn’t the source, though it does end up being a justification for those acts. But that’s just sophistry used to cover their own prejudices.

She dumped Christianity and chose a different religion. That doesn’t make her culpable for the evils of that religion any more than anyone else is for the deeds of others who believe in the same religion they do.

That is not why starship fails. Starship fails because like everything that Elon does lately it emphasizes style over practicality. Starship is a very badly designed rocket that looks cool to Elon. Not unlike the Cyber truck which has been an abject failure in every way possible.