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  • Chulk@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    From the linked article

    But VRT NWS said that 153 of the 1,000 recordings it listened to “were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command ‘OK Google’ was clearly not given.”

    15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were “inadvertant.” I’d say that’s pretty high.








  • I had a discussion/argument in ~2018 with a friend who is/was very anti-trump. I brought up the dangers of ICE and how, at the time, they were the biggest sign of an overtly fascist future. He immediately handwaved it and dismissed me as crazy.

    He’s got a degree in history education and was obsessed with WW2 history, so I didn’t think this would be a point of contention. But for a lot of liberals (including him) Fascists have to literally be wearing a swastika before they’re called what they are. Some won’t even acknowledge the existence of a Nazi Salute when they see one.

    Even today he’s obsessed with Trump as the single anomaly in US politics and doesn’t see the bigger picture.







  • While i abhor Bush Jr, I would put Reagan as #1. He paved the way for Bush Jr. And Biden. IMO Bush Sr is tied for the #3 spot simply for pardoning members of the Iran-Contra affair.

    Nixon is one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had though, and I would put him higher than any of the others. The “war on drugs” caused so many rippling horrors domestically. And those horrors don’t compare to what he did abroad.