No matter how irreversibly fucked we are, we can and will continue to get even more fucked every second we don’t change our habits.

I would very much like to know what the sentencing guidelines are for negligent homicide in circumstances other than driving.

Yep. Also, you can tell Youtube doesn’t actually care about stopping slop because if it did, it would take the AI videos down, not just “demonetize” them.

Not sure, but I think Medicaid pays for more than medicare does. My retired parents still have copays for stuff.

the way people who might otherwise choose a unique car

IMO the problem with cars is that people don’t “choose” the color at all. They buy what’s available on the lot, and what’s available on the lot is almost entirely shitty neutrals because that’s what dealers/manufacturers think sells because that’s all that people could choose from because that’s what was on the lot…

I don’t normally buy new cars, but in 2019 I was going to bite the bullet and get myself a “BIFL” Toyota Tacoma. I knew exactly what I wanted: a manual transmission TRD Off-Road in Voodoo Blue – that color specifically. But guess what: I do not have a Tacoma because Toyota could not and would not sell me that car. There wasn’t a single one in that color available anywhere in the entire Southeastern US, and they would not take an order to build one for me. If I wanted to settle for some random boring color they had plenty, but not Voodoo Blue.

I ended up deciding that if I couldn’t get exactly what I wanted it defeated the point of buying new at all, and got an old 2nd-gen 4Runner instead.

Anyway, point is that Toyota tanked the sale entirely by refusing to provide a bright color^{with correct trim level and transmission}, and because I’m that stubborn. Most people are not like me and will settle instead, and that’s how all the cars end up being boring, shitty colors!

I mean, just look at the garish blue reflecting pool.

Okay, but now imagine any of those buildings you cited painted teal.

(They work because they’re the authentic color of the materials they’re made out of and people interpret authentic as “correct,” not because monochromatic is inherently good.)

Sure, if they’re trying to appeal to liberals. But if they actually tried to appeal to the working class, they could win even “deep red” districts.

Virtual meetings give the person running the software way more power to censor participants than in-person meetings do. That’s the real reason they want this.

I noticed while riding home today that my neighbor up the street has built a guillotine. I think it’s meant to be a Halloween decoration, but you never know…

Exchange it until you get one that isn’t destroyed by improper packaging.

I think it’s a failure of imagination that the people running things believe public transport should turn a profit.

It’s not a failure of imagination, it’s deliberate sabotage. They don’t want transit to work because they’re classist and transit is egalitarian.

Plus, I don’t see how we could effectively get rid of cars without making everyone move to the cities.

80% already did, and the other 20% can be ignored.

I think the most important thing to remember is that even if 100% of rural folks drive, that’s still only 20% of the total population. The notion that transit doesn’t work for them does not excuse failing to provide it for the other 80% that it would work for.

Saying “but whatabout my special-snowflake rural lifestyle” to attack transit in general is always dishonest concern trolling.

For those wondering what could possibly be serious enough to justify that, unfortunately, they don’t say:

Details about the circumstances that led to their medical evacuation have not been disclosed.

How do you buy kitchen knives without becoming a felon?

Sometime before 2007:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

Facebook was NEVER not evil, regardless of your rose-tinted glasses.

But a driver’s license has a photo on it, and (I assume) they check to see if it resembles the person standing there presenting it.

“Most common” (i.e. statistical mode) is often such a misleading thing to pay attention to because it’s so sensitive to how the person doing the study chooses to group things. For example, also on the Steam Hardware Survey, it looks like Arch is more popular than Ubuntu, but that’s because Arch (being a rolling release) is only one entry, while Ubuntu is separated out into versions.

Similarly, “16GB is most common” is easily confused with “most people have 16GB,” which is very much not true. It’s just that the majority, which is less than 16GB, is divided between people with 4, 8, 12, etc.