No, it would be cynical to say that all talk of space colonization is actually a lie to spur interest in government funded space technology, which gets contracted out to one major company owned by the richest man in the world who has become that rich off the back of other government subsidies.

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I feel like 90+% of the time I use Google, it’s just because it’s more convenient than going to the actual website I want. Like if I want a Wikipedia article about a movie, it turns out it’s faster to type in the movie name in Google and click than go to Wikipedia and search the movie.

How about we:

1. Don’t let random customers test it and instead use heavily trained, specialized test drivers
2. Require permitting and, e.g., an obstacle course before letting a company’s software be randomly updated and thrown on the road?

Why is there this constant false dichotomy implying that the only way to test self driving cars is a wild west of no regulation?

And also who said that self driving cars are safer than humans? Tesla’s numbers are all statistical lies (in fact Teslas were recently shown to have the most accidents), Cruise just shutdown in SF because they were a liability, and Waymo is heavily limited in its time/weather/areas for driving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout

Same vibes

Has it seriously not occurred to zionists that there’s a middle step between doing absolutely nothing and leveling the entire building?

But where’s the genocide in that?

How do you use it as a laptop replacement? What tasks are you doing on it that would otherwise be done on a laptop? I feel like its too small, it would only replace phone tasks for me.

Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy. An original and a copy of a digital artwork are identical.

Look at 80s sex comedies and realize they were made by people who learned what they knew during the 60s. You’re not wrong.

It’s okay to kill civilians if you’re the government, but not if you’re the rebels? Is that the logic?

So like what’s the actual deal with pirating content nowadays? I remember in the early 2000s it was don’t seed and don’t torrent just-released content and you won’t get caught. Are the companies more rigorous nowadays? Are they going after people and you really do need a VPN? Can you torrent content at a human-watchable pace (like a show or two a month, maybe a movie or two a week) and no one’s going to notice you?

They used to do that for a handful of shows due to streaming contracts, but last time I checked (~2019) it was literally two shows. Is it more now?

Is it the FTC’s fault at all? Lina Khan is doing great work, and the US has fought against Microsoft’s monopoly before. The real problem is the judicial system has no interest in joining this fight.

Lina Khan is staking her career on this one, but the way the US judiciary looks there’s no way Amazon suffers.

I still use Chrome when I need to Chromecast, any way around that?

Reddit admins note: "you’ll receive a new shiny badge on your profile indicating you’re in the program and can earn cash! "

Hoping that reddit mods have the balls to auto-delete all posts from users who are approved for the monetization system. Knowing that they won’t, I’m waiting for the Firefox extension and Revanced patch that auto-censor posts by those users.

Of course reddit will quickly remove that visibility.

That’s not accurate, they don’t stop your benefits when you hit the cancel button. I just cancelled today and have my benefits until the end of my yearly subscription in November.

Do ISPs actively encourage you to watch extremist content? Do they push that content toward people who are at risk of radicalization to get extra money?

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE

Exactly, you can’t just drive without verifying that you’re a safe driver. That’s why we have a process to get a driver’s license. Has Autopilot passed licensing?

If you were curious how rich people justify this to themselves and whitewash their behavior:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/