Was in Ireland a while back and I hit a guy with my rental car. Just a love tap. Nothing serious and no one was hurt. I was pulling out of a lot and it was really hard to see and I was looking for traffic and inching (centimetering?) out. And I look and there’s suddenly a bloke there, getting pushed a little. He smacks the hood of the car and yells something, then waves his hand at me and keeps walking.

In the States that would have been a lawsuit.

At least once a day I’m behind a human driver that does the phantom brake thing.

Sounds like lying humans that I know.

Sounds like you’re left with almost no modern conveniences or technology. I don’t mean this disparagingly, but I am curious how you live your life and ensure you are truly not using any of these companies or their subsidiaries, or even those shitlist companies if they are a white box supplier of someone else not on your list. Or even if a mom and pop shop down the street is using technologies, software, or appliances from one of these companies to run their local business…

Doesn’t seem possible in reality. Or at the very least seems like a full time job that would get really futile after a while.

You do realize how much money Microsoft spends to make games work well on Windows, right? It is absolutely the responsibility of the OS to ensure smooth experience across many apps and services. This attitude right here is why Linux plays second fiddle to Windows still.

This attitude is so broken. You don’t need to look for a new job, you just can do more complex things now. You get to play an orchestra, not just a single instrument.

Article version if you don’t want to YouTube this:

https://everydayastronaut.com/why-dont-they-just-launch-rockets-from-mountains-or-the-equator/

I save so much water since I started working from home.

Does Musk have a short position we don’t know about?

These warnings and fears would be a little easier to hear if they weren’t pushed so hard by the most disingenuous people ever. Sounds like they want everyone else to pause so they can get ahead.

I just can’t stand being pushed on something constantly. I don’t use Edge out of spite. I can be honest about that.

I’m guessing they could easily support this with a simple premise: Examine a legal fetish, which AI can generate images of, and ask people who generate those images if their consumption of real images have fallen as a result. Also check if actual real life participation in it has been reduced due to the ability to generate the scenarios privately.

It will be skewed if the fetish is legal, since participating won’t land you in jail. But there may be some out there that present other risks besides legal ones to help with that.