You see, that’s the fun thing about a Political Action Committee.
They are not directly working with the candidate, they are wholly independent. Meaning the candidate is not taking any money, regardless of the source.
And since companies are people, and money is speech, the PAC can get money from where they please, and do with it what they want.
They only need to make sure no evidence of direct cooperation between the PAC and the candidate can be found.
Although direct cooperation is not really needed, running ads for a candidate and trashing the other can be done perfectly fine completely independent. Plus it gives a candidate deniability.
Deze meneer is al zo lang topambtenaar. Dus terwijl Rutte en Co hun beleid uitstippelden was deze meneer de baas van de organisaties die het uitvoerden.
Uiteindelijk wellicht een logische keuze. Hij moet dalijk leiding geven aan de extra parlementaire handpoppen die ze (pvv, vvd, ncs, BBB) onder de bus flikkeren als blijkt dat een hoop beloftes helemaal niet blijken te kunnen.
Maar wellicht heb ik het mis. Ik ben wel benieuwd.
We kunnen hopen dat hij en een aantal andere bewindslieden dalijk erg goede politici blijken die echt beleid schrijven, meerderheden onderhandelen en daadwerkelijk dingen regelen.
Ik vrees dat een implosie nog erger is voor Nederland.
En wat ik wel hoop is dat, omdat er echt wel veel kaders al liggen er een hoop gepolderd moet worden met echte oplossingen. Iets roepen voor de bühne is een ding… maar nu moeten ze het laten zien.
And their assets will be seized by the government.
But it important to keep repeating … companies are not moral. They are profit driven, cost externalizing entities. If you want or need them to do something for the public good… you legislate them.
One thing Russia understands better than the western world. It might be a dog and pony show, but they don’t ask nicely. When dealing with companies, that is the only way.
Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow’s involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday....
Conflating Pokemon and genocide really reduces the value of genocide. That it might be a tongue in cheek accusation towards our livestock and animal treatments … but genocide.
Like calling everyone Hitler and a nazi. Or groomer or…
Defense officials in Poland have shared details on a plan to strengthen the country’s eastern border. They say Poland is at constant risk of hostile actions by Russia and its ally, Belarus....
President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.
And on the other side of the same coin you have suburbanites driving 2 ton vehicles that drive 20 miles to the gallon.
So higher gas prices will primarily require a lot of people to abandon the “who cares about mileage” mindset and start driving actually normal vehicles.
Also plenty of EVs have 300+ mile ranges and that will suffice for 95% of travel in the US too. Insert proper plug in hybrids in the mix that do 50 miles electric and probably range anxiety is something of the past.
Remaining on the teet of big oil means big oil will keep sucking up corporate welfare while devastating our planet.
Also public transport needs to improve. Dedicated buslanes to bypass traffic jams in big cities means that each bus takes dozens of cars off the road.
Cost is a factor for sure… that is where the government can step in. Mandate more affordable vehicles. In the Netherlands the subsidies on new EVs where now limited to 50k sticker price set to be reduced again. To guide the market.
And buslanes should just be more intensively used then… but it starts by showing that public transport is a viable alternative.
Train infra in the US is just hub and spoke… the interconnects are missing between the suburbs.
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
But this is not misinformation, it is uncontrolled nonsense. It directly devalues their offering of being able to provide you with an accurate answer to something you look for. And if their overall offering becomes less valuable, so does their ability to steer you using their results.
So while the incorrect nature is not a problem in itself for them, (as you see from his answer)… the degradation of their ability to influence results is.
Oh don’t get me wrong I know exactly what you mean and I agree… it’s just that the LLMs are spewing actual nonsense and that breaks the whole principle of what a search engine should do… provide me accurate results.
I don’t believe they will retain user interactions if the reason for the user interactions dissapears. The value of Google is they provide accurate search results.
I can understand some users just want to be spoonfed an answer. But that’s not what most people expect from a search engine.
I want google to use actual AI to filter out all the nonsense sites that turn a Reddit post into an article of 500 words using an LLM without any actual value. That should be googles proposition.
The motherboard has an onboard battery that could have been empty and by having it plugged in it charged a little. I’d check if the system just works now.
Een nieuw kiesstelsel kan prima een verbetering zijn. Ranked choice voting bijvoorbeeld. Kijk als ze naar een kies mannen en kiesdistrict systeem ga dan is het niet beter idd.
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Nou, voormalig NCTV en AIVD. Kan me voorstellen dat we een hoop veiligheid krijgen in ruil voor onze privacy....
Helldivers 2 blooper contest (lemmy.world)
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Western businesses backtrack on their Russia exit plans (www.ft.com)
Companies such as Avon Products, Air Liquide and Reckitt remain in country as bureaucratic obstacles to leaving increase...
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Poland to limit movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow's involvement in hybrid war against the EU (www.reuters.com)
Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow’s involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday....
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Poland presents plan to fortify border to Russia, Belarus (www.dw.com)
Defense officials in Poland have shared details on a plan to strengthen the country’s eastern border. They say Poland is at constant risk of hostile actions by Russia and its ally, Belarus....
Republicans enraged by Biden’s efforts to keep gas prices lower (www.msnbc.com)
President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
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Dit zijn de belangrijke plannen en voornemens uit het coalitieakkoord (nos.nl) Dutch
Hoop, lef en trots is de naam van het coalitieakkoord van PVV, VVD, NSC en BBB. In 26 pagina’s doen ze uit de doeken wat ze van plan zijn.