Carbon neutral concrete exists.

So let's just give up because it's a tough engineering problem, right?

People need to stop letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Apollo sensors > *

Build one of these in a year, or plant 10 thousand trees and wait decades for them to grow...

I feel you. My 20 year old Honda that I bought for $3k cash 3 years ago is reliable and easy to work on.

I do like the idea of not ever buying gasoline again, but I also like the idea of a $32 a month insurance payment and no car note, too...

This is exactly the kind of government overreach people like me have been screaming about since, in my case, the 1990s.

"I told you so" just doesn't feel so good when what's happening is nothing less than the entirety of human freedom and liberty is being eroded before our very eyes, and those who disagree with it get labeled as kooks, and accused of hating whatever "oppressed group" of the day is in vogue.

What's crazy is, bus stops, and their associated shelters DO NOT MOVE. So there's no need to even detect them if you just code the things properly. The GPS is accurate enough to avoid them entirely using proper mapping. This particular problem should NOT be happening at all, no matter how poor the detection equipment or algorithms are.

Cable TV providers in the 70s: "No commercials when you pay for our services!"

Cable TV providers in the early 80s: "Ok, we actually meant no commercials on premium channels, but local channels will, and it's not our fault."

Cable TV providers in the late 80s: "Fine. What we meant was no commercials on movie channels."

Cable TV providers in the 90s: "Uhm, so only on-demand shows will be commercial free."

Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as "Wi-Fi" and it pisses me off, too.

Now do you see why I don't trust government?

Because it does things like this. And it's not just our US government doing it. The entire world is getting more and more authoritarian.

Government seeks power. Always. Which is why it must always be restrained.

Why is it that so many people do absolutely zero maintenance on their computers, and think that's completely normal?

Clean that bitch out at the very least. Allowing dust to build up in all the little books and crannies means it's not getting enough air flow.

It's typically common sense that when your AC isn't working well, you clean/replace the filter(s) to keep it operating at peak efficiency, and if you don't, you risk burning up fan and/or compressor motors.

Same thing with your car's cooling system. Keep that radiator grill clean of mud and dirt, or it's more likely to overheat and burn up your engine.

Why the fuck don't people think of that when it comes to their computers just blows my damn mind.

A tube of Arctic Silver thermal grease is less than 10 bucks. A can of compressed air is like 20 bucks, and will typically last for months.

Once a month, take the PC case outside, and blow out all the damn dust.

Every year or so, replace the thermal grease/paste.

"My computer runs slower and slower as times goes by!" Yeah no shit, it's trying not to burn itself up. Clean the fucker.

Probably the same way easy access to it affected my own generation.

Not a damn bit. At least one out of every friend group had a dad with porn magazines and tapes, and they'd get passed around during, and after school.

I was born in 1976.

Apple has always said this about their users. Too stupid to allow choices outside of a few curated options.

Obfuscation.

Nothing is truly unhackable. The difficulty lies in being unable to undo/retry any failed attempts because you don't have an easy way to read or write to the hardware once you've done it wrong.

Which means if your attempt fails, this probably just means that you're throwing the device away since you can't fix it without access

WTF, dude, get out of my pocket!

It's called a CB radio. Enjoy.

There's a theory that we already are. That our entire observable universe is, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

You did WHAT with them?

They don't GO there....

Soulseek has far more music on it than you can typically find on free public torrent sites.

Just a heads up.

Civilians and their property have been targets in war for centuries if not millennia. This is nothing new, and it's absolutely a valid way to end a war against a nation that is even marginally democratic.

If the people electing the leaders don't support the war, then, in theory, the war will end.

It worked for Vietnam. There was finally enough pushback from the people that not only did the US pull it's troops, but there was an anti war sentiment across the entire nation for at least a decade beyond it.

This is why there's so much propaganda against our "enemies" these days, to ensure that the people keep seeing them as enemies and not as people.