I knew someone who did that because the sidewalks were too uneven. She had bad ankles and kept rolling them trying to walk in the sidewalk

Since pandemic I’ve fallen twice because of bad sidewalks. It’s embarrassing as shit

We’re still working on the loss of caring about driving from pandemic. For some reason it brought out the worst in people, and some of them are still there

I’m not buying that. Sure, what you say is absolutely true but we’re talking pedestrian deaths. That’s more of the fault of the high steel wall at the front, and that is purely a style choice.

There are plenty of cars with stock LED headlights and proper cutoffs, so they’re less blinding than traditional headlights

It’s aftermarket “illegal” LEDs, LEDs that are misaligned or started at a bad height, and way too many drivers who never turn off their high beams. Yet another safety rule we only pay lip service to, resulting in unnecessary deaths

My stock Subaru can handle more off-roading than most trucks ever do

Home Assistant hs communities to share exactly that

My similar script has a very different goal: at midnight if someone is still up, it dims the family room light and announces on speaker”hey kids, it’s time for bed”

It’s also possible my pitiful attempt at poisoning the data backfired on me. When they force me to enter my birthday I select the oldest allowed date, so maybe they think I’m like 120

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Doge was a complete failure. Just like a leading EV manufacturer with a dominant chain of superchargers firing their entire charger group. Not saving any significant money, just hurting ourselves, and will have to try to hire than all back …. Just to replace an inspired and motivated group with the same people who are now disgruntled and just going through the motions

Plus in all too many places you’re practically forced to buy a car

Yes. That as a household income is not actually that far from two median individual incomes. As someone in a high cost of living area, I can see you’d be very restricted on less than that, and it’s tough to see how you’d ever afford to own a home.

Oh I’ve posted repeatedly about an underrated danger of pulling back from EVs, for example, is not only are we not establishing a commercial base for future manufacturing, but after a few quarters of profit, American manufacturers will find themselves unable to compete globally. We are doomed for a long slow death of protectionism.

What even are the options at this point? Car manufacturing is millions of jobs and a huge part of the economy so we can’t afford to let it die. But they’re already focussed on vehicles that can’t be sold anywhere else, and now they’re ceding the entire global market while no longer even developing their own technology.

But politicians can’t afford to let them fail. So I’m calling it now: the next president will have to continue the protectionism while investing billions of dollars in incentives to try to help them recover. But they’ll still drag their feet, still focus on the largest models and highest trims that none of us can afford. The EV market will be ascendant, with established leading manufacturers, while legacy car companies will still be trying the squeeze pennies out of a dying market rather than compete

Not like that, but either YouTube leans way conservative or ……. Perhaps it’s purely demographics. As a middle aged white male, of course I must be conservative, love stories of revenge against feminist/hoa/boss, and i really want to be advertised scams like ivermectin and viagra substitutes.

I figure they must have at least figured out my demographics and making assumptions about that is more important than looking at who I follow and offering similar

Damn, I can do all of those things. I wonder how big the bounty is and what you need to do to qualify. I can use a vacation in a tropical hellhole paradise and a little something to retire on …… it’s probably more likely to pay off than social security

No but Biden helped boost the economy on a long recovery after Covid, set us up for the future with a huge investment in long neglected infrastructure, and gave us hope for domestic manufacturing by investing in upcoming technologies.

You can see how Trump would want to undo that. /s

Did musk claim to be working toward AGI? I hadn’t heard that but I also stopped paying attention.

I can see his logic for Optimus. Personal robots were a 1960s dream of the future, just like electric cars. He had perfect timing to scale up to the first affordable, compelling electric cars, and disrupt that market. He had perfect timing to scale up 1960s style self-landing rockets and disrupt that market. Now you look at what Boston Dynamics and similar can do, so maybe the timing is right for humanoid robots to suddenly hit the big times! Personally I’m skeptical because there is no market but also I think that dream faded. Why would I want a personal humanoid robot when we have dirt cheap Roombas, drones, 3d printing? Why would anyone want a humanoid robot for manufacturing when real automation will always be faster? So we’re down to Amazon distribution centers? Who’s the remaining market here?

And Grok makes sense from the perspective of desperately trying to get self-driving to happen, and to make the robot work, and maybe he even wants to compete with Alexa, etc.

But LLMs are not a path toward AGI. Neither is the neural bet that drives the cars.

Yeah the scam seems pretty obvious; I don’t know how the politician doesn’t recognize it. A company with no prior datacenter history promises to build in your district more datacenter value than pretty much exists. Right.

Can you say “stranded infrastructure”, anyone?

If you want to stretch that even further, the bright side is that when it pops, there will suddenly be a large amount of excess power generation, giving the opportunity for a massive, visible shift to renewables!

Surely they’ll shut down excess fossil fuel generation first, right?

I started watching YouTube in the last year after successfully withstanding it all this time. I make at least some effort to protect my data with mixed results.

But the algorithms has decided what it wants to show me. And yes it includes a large category of revenge against militant feminists. They’re clearly ai slop and entirely fiction. But I have watched some (which means I got more 🙁) and I do like a good case of karma

So yes, there is significant ongoing effort to paint the term “feminist” into the worst case scenario. If you keep watching that, it will affect you

…… and I have to figure out how to make the algorithms the work for me. Unfortunately that probably means giving away more personal data, including truthful data, so you can’t win