source: https://electrek.co/2024/12/16/tesla-major-issue-self-driving-computer-inside-new-cars/
Tesla drivers are reporting computer #failures after driving off with their brand-new cars over just the first few tens to hundreds of miles.
https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/113653097610306336 jensorensen@mastodon.social - Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.
#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings
Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/de-de/blog/hotforsecurity/holiday-shopping-and-the-dark-market-parallel
No time to build a social media following for yourself or your business? For a small price, you can purchase 25,000 Twitter followers or a batch of TikTok likes. Some sellers even offer a “lifetime warranty” on these ghost followers.
#darknet #sale #economy #Blackfriday #cybermonday #consumer #customer #buy #bews #marketing
Source: https://www.stopkillinggames.com
An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends. The legality of this practice is untested worldwide, and many #governments do not have clear laws regarding these actions. It is our goal to have authorities examine this behavior and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both #consumer #rights and preservation of #media.
#news #protest #gamer #game #Software #law #politics #economy #history #Europe
The complaint says #Avast violated millions of consumers' rights by collecting, storing, and selling their browsing data without their knowledge and consent while misleading them that the products used to harvest their data would block online #tracking.
#news #crime #economy #security #software #scandal #internet #browser #fail #consumer #software
AstraZeneca Faces Legal Challenge in #UK Over #COVID-19 #Vaccine
Citing the UK’s #Consumer #Protection Act, the man launching this #legal #action says that AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is “defective” and less safe than should have been expected. After suffering a #blood clot that left him with #brain damage, the man has been unable to continue working.
In a separate case, around 90 families are similarly reported to be pursuing legal action against AstraZeneca. Many say the firm’s COVID-19 vaccine caused them to develop deadly blood clots. Others developed Guillan-Barre syndrome, which can result in paralysis. Some have even had limbs amputated. This lawsuit currently involves over two dozen #fatalities, some of whom were aged as young as 18-years-old.
The compensation bill for British victims killed or maimed by the AstraZeneca vaccine could theoretically exceed £1 billion ($1.24 billion). But as the UK government’s contract with the firm included an indemnity clause, the final bill will ultimately end up being footed by taxpayers.
To read about the first German lawsuit brought against vaccine maker BioNTech over side effects caused by its COVID-19 injection, see this article on our website.
"After complaints from me, we received a call at 5.30pm on the Wednesday saying the battery was damaged due to water ingress and it was unfortunately not covered by the battery’s 8-year warranty and so the repair would be around £17,500. Did I wish to proceed?? I was flabbergasted and couldn’t really find my words."
John said he pressed representatives of #Tesla on whether he or Rob were at fault for the damage, to which he claims he was told that it was a weather issue. He added: "They said that the battery is effectively submerged in water. How can that be our fault?
"After finally getting to speak to a manager, he told me it had water in it due to the fact the weather in Scotland has been so bad. That was the issue. They said it’s not necessarily my fault but it’s not Tesla’s to pay under warranty. He reminded me there was a yellow weather warning in some parts of Scotland.
"I pushed him on this and said I've never heard or something like this happening. He said it can happen with Range Rovers and Mercs but I'm just not buying it. To date, it's been a disaster of a service and the stress and worry of this is excruciating.
"I said to the manager, ‘so, my understanding is, Teslas are unfit for purpose in Scotland?.” I’ve been driving for 30 years and this is my most premium car to date and this is what it does when Edinburgh’s roads get puddles or a little wet!"
#EV #cars #autos #Scotland #battery #Electric #ElectricCars #Scotland #rain #weather #Capitalism #CapitalismFails #scam #Consumer #complaints #BoycottTesla
#iPhone #smartphone #obsolecence #justice #economy #consumer #customer #news #technology
So....
No surprise oil co's are profiting hand over fist now, with record high consumer prices, and associated all-time profits. Well, 115 yeqrs.
I'm still chewing on that 115 year stat. Comparing 2023 with 106 years ago? What were gas prices and profit margins like then?
The Model T Ford appeared in 1908, and Shell's record profits came in ... 1908!
Coincidence? True, 'fun fact'.
#Shell #Oil #OilProfits #Profiteering #Consumer #Prices #ShellOil #Petrol
#Nanotechnology Used #in Over 2,000 #Food Items Goes Unlabeled Due to Weird FDA Loophole:
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlAi3KIeTN8
Nanotechnology Used in #Covid #poison darts, 2,000 #Foods Goes #Unlabeled
Extremely small #particles of various #compounds are being used as food #additives, with unknown effects
If you’re one of those people that can often be found in the food aisles of grocery stores reading labels and looking for ingredients you can’t pronounce and don’t want to eat, you’ve most likely noticed several ingredients that, unbeknownst to you, are made using nanotechnology—a process that converts silver, copper, gold, aluminum, silicon, carbon, and metal oxides, among other metals, into atom-sized particles that are one-billionth of a meter in size.
Commonly used nano-sized ingredients include #TitaniumDioxide, which may be the most well-known additive. Others, such as #silicon oxide, calcium carbonate, iron oxides and hydroxides, calcium silicate, tricalcium phosphates, and #synthetic #silicas, are only a few of the additives that may be in your pantry right now.
A New Ingredient
Nanotechnology has become widely used in food production and manufacturing since the #1990s, and its components are unimaginably small—one-hundredth the size of a strand of human hair. They make our food more colorful, brighter, creamier, or crunchier, and they keep it fresher for longer as well.
Nano-sized additives also make some of our medicines more effective.
Nanotechnology is used in the manufacturing of #everyday #products, such as electronics, food and food #packaging, #medicine, #toys, #clothing, #sunscreens, #cosmetics, #dietary #supplements, and #much #more.
While they can provide a myriad of benefits, these increasingly popular product enhancers come at a price, according to #consumer groups and #health experts—and that price is our health.
Because these particles are so small, studies have shown that they can breach the #blood-brain barrier. Researchers are already exploring this quality for drugs meant to treat neurological conditions. But when it comes to food, that’s not a feature anyone is asking for. These particles are also able to circulate throughout the body and get absorbed into the bloodstream and organs. They can #penetrate #cell #walls and potentially create #inflammation and #disease.
“They may pass through the #lining #of the #gut and enter the #bloodstream, which may trigger an inflammatory or immune response,” Harvard School of Public Health’s Georgios Pyrgiotakis told WebMD. “They may also build up in various parts of the body, including the #lungs, the #heart, and reproductive organs.”
In a July 2020 study, a group of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that titanium dioxide, which is commonly added to #gum, #candy, #drinks, and #desserts, caused changes in the gut #microorganisms of two groups of mice.
Both were given doses of titanium oxide. One group was fed a low-fat diet and the other a high-fat diet. After further testing to isolate the titanium dioxide effect, both groups had inflamed colons, which can lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea. The obese mice had more pronounced symptoms.
Vaccine Technology
Nanotechnology is currently being used in two of the three #mRNA #COVID-19 vaccines being given in the United States today.
There’s a #ipid #nanoparticle coating surrounding the mRNA in the vaccines, which allows them to penetrate the cell’s wall.
“Lipid #nanoparticles are a vital component of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, playing a key role in protecting and transporting the mRNA effectively to the right place in cells,” stated the Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society.
“Of the many COVID-19 vaccines under development, the two vaccines that have shown the most promising results in preventing COVID-19 infection represent a new class of vaccine products: They are composed of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) strands encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNP).”
But scientists have continued to call for greater oversight of these substances by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of their size. Because they easily cross the blood-brain barrier, they may damage it by altering the layer of cells that line the inner wall of blood vessels.
FDA Looks Closer
The FDA, the agency charged with overseeing these additives, has begun to weigh the health risks from nano-sized additives.
The agency currently classifies nanoparticles in food with the designation Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) if the manufacturer is already using the same ingredient in its larger, conventional form.
“The particle size distribution of a food substance may affect its ability to be absorbed by the body or to migrate from food packaging into food,” the FDA stated in a 2007 guidance document on nanotechnology in food.
“The FDA does not categorically judge all products nanomaterial or otherwise involving application of nanotechnology as intrinsically benign or harmful. The FDA is monitoring the evolving science and has a robust research agenda to help assess the safety and effectiveness of products using nanotechnology.”
In 2011, the FDA Nanotechnology Task Force was created to coordinate its efforts with research scientists in the United States and internationally. Its goals are to train staff in the latest science at state-of-the-art facilities and to encourage collaborative research projects.
“Production and application of nanoparticles in consumer products is at an all-time high due to the emerging field of nanotechnology,” the FDA stated in a 2017 Grand Rounds webcast. “Direct detection and quantification of trace levels of nanoparticles within consumer products is very challenging and problematic.”
Tiny Particles, Growing Problem
By 2020, the FDA reported that applications for the approval of products containing nanotechnology had skyrocketed in the previous 10 years. According to many experts in the United States, there are 1,900 to 2,500 food products that use nanotechnology.
In response to health concerns about these products, countries around the #world have taken steps to limit or #ban some or all nanotechnology in their food.
In 2010, #Canada #banned nanotechnology in #organic food production. Since 2011, the #EuropeanUnion has required all food to be #labeled if it contains #engineered #nanomaterials. In 2015, the bloc required additional testing to ensure health safety.
In 2018, the European Food Safety Commission was petitioned by a group of scientists within the agency to reject the food additive silicon dioxide as safe for consumption because of nanoparticles in it, until a particle size distribution could be confirmed.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, #France banned any foods containing #titanium #dioxide from entering the country.
In the United States, the FDA doesn’t require any products produced with nanoparticles to be labeled or banned, and its guidelines recommend oversight on a case-by-case basis. Research on the long-term effects of ingesting nanoparticles remains scant.
Raoul Servais - To speak or not to speak (1970)
L’homme de la rue se voit interviewé afin d’exprimer son opinion sur la situation politique. Il donne des réponses évasives, banales et incohérentes qui se retrouvent dans des textes apparaissant dans des « bulles ». Un personnage marginal, une sorte de hippie, osera, en revanche, formuler une opinion coloriée qui fera preuve de caractère.
When the man in the street has to give his opinion about the political situation, there is not much to note in his speech bubbles. Vagueness and lack of personality are trump cards. Only a marginal figure dares to give an opinion that is distinguished by personality.
https://en.raoulservaiscollection.com/films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5fbyvX_uk8
#art #cinéma #cinema #movie #film #courtmétrage #shortfilm #animation #servais #opinion #langage #language #politics #politique #consommation #consumer
Always blame the hands that feed you, not the source of the problem!
#pollution #blame #consumer not #corporations
source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/johnson-johnson-and-a-new-war-on-consumer-protection
Johnson & Johnson’s most recent quarterly report shows $24 billion in sales, and in the 11 months since it filed for bankruptcy, an average of one woman a day has died waiting to find out if her case would ever be heard. Read about the brazen #legal #strategy that may allow corporate #America to evade accountability.
#justice #USA #law #health #death #problem #humanRights #economy #news
A big Shoutout to PatriotSwitch.com
PatriotSwitch.com was created to offer family and patriot owned #alternatives to the items we are normally stuck buying at these big box conglomerates every month of our lives.
How many small businesses do you know that were affected or shut down completely over the last couple of years while the mandates required us to keep making the rich, richer? It's time to start supporting the little guys and quit funding our own demise.
Thanks again Patriot Switch!
Patriot Switch - Taking back our country one purchase at a time!
More specifically non-durable consumer goods are the items we purchase and run out of month after month for our entire lives. The items like toothpaste, dish soap, laundry detergent, lotion, soaps, etc. By controlling the distribution of this category these corporations have created a predictable model of cashflow based on our buying habits.
There are hundreds of consumer goods brands in our country and the vast majority of them are all owned and controlled by just a handful of mega-corporations. Even when you think you are buying natural products in many cases those natural companies have been absorbed by these giant corporations
Studies show that nearly 63% of the price you pay for consumer goods add no value to the end consumer. Billions of dollars each year is used to purchase advertising with media companies, fund distribution and big box stores. Spending that money on better, safer ingredients and a company that supports freedom is a better option.
This not a problem for rich people but many poor people were duped by #right-wing #politicians into voting for something that has clearly been demonstrated to have been against the poor people's interests.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/30/brexit-uk-shoppers-pay-more-eu-zara-ikea-decathlon
#reverseengineering #toolhacks #bluepill #consumer #diy #drm #dymo #everythingasaservice #i2c #stm32 #thermalprinter #hackaday
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WTF ever happened to "The cost of doing business?"
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/11/uber-adds-fuel-surcharge-because-of-high-gas-prices.html
