UBI needs to be combined with rent and price controls if it is not, inflation will eat the benefits inside of a 5-year period and money will be siphoned up the chain.

Otherwise I am all for it.

This isn't specific to electric cars, vehicles equipped with On Star can be remotely disabled in the event of theft (and by extension I imagine a legal injunction). I imagine this extends to other vehicles also.

The real problem is the OTA updates and always-online nature of modern vehicles, not necessarily what powers them.

I think this is because they are part of the Unicode standard so they're just standard characters. That's pure speculation though.

I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

I actually ended up switching to Kagi for this exact reason. Google is basically AI at the start usually spouting nonsense then sponsor posts and then a bunch of SEO optimized BS.

Thankfully paying for search circumvents the ads and it hasn’t been AI by default (it has it but it’s off) and the results have been generally closer to 2010s Google.

Honestly the only time I’ve said this it was a relief to know that the answer was yes, because while it sucks others are hurting it made me feel far less alone and obscure.

I genuinely like the idea of higher density, as much as I like driving, having a city that’s walkable and with good transit (which density incentives) would be a dream.

My current city is a sprawling suburb and it’s almost an hour by bus to do a trip that takes 10 minutes by car.

Also thank you for expanding on this!

Worked for me on iOS

I don’t entirely follow? I’m totally open to alternatives to making sure the money stays where it is, I just don’t immediately understand the mechanism.

There is a program called thefuck that does this - can fix things like gti instead of git etc..

Pour one out for the real heros

I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

Uber had a fatal crash, albeit with a safety driver who was distracted at the time. There was uproar and Uber scaled back their venture but society largely moved past it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359

Electric cars are heavier, noise dampened, and have the same blind spots, they do accelerate faster though depending on the situation that can just make an inattentive driver more dangerous.

Electric cars are better environmentally then gas cars but they certainly don’t absolve the need for traffic signals the way purely pedestrian and cycle traffic would

Church seems to fill the hobby need and has some of the same core aspects

• common interest
• regular meet ups
• online and in person groups

Honestly replacement really could be as simple as finding a group that fits your hobbies (I’m in a writing group for example)

Alternatively volunteer, it checks a lot of the same boxes (sense of community, trying to make things better) with none of the religious bits (assuming you find an agnostic organization)

Oop I read through the top comments and probably missed it! ^^

I mean Linux can run command line mode only, most server variants do this :p

That profile is almost certainly AI based on the language patterns

Ironically a common writing technique is B->C dialog.

Basically cutting out the preamble and post dialog. Most times even in my writing I include “Hello” since that would stand out, but generally get right to the point.

You see this a lot in movies too, if done well it blends in since your scene is focusing on the action and not rambling on.

There are exceptions (teens talking may include a “no you hang up” trope for comedic effect) but that’s used sparingly.

Someone finally found the house hippo???