VincentEvans

Maybe it’s humor, or maybe when after one comes of as a jackass with a freudian sentence - a pitiful attempt to brush it off with “haha, it’s a joke”. The line is thin.

As an apparently “poor person” owner of model 3 bought used, who it seems “must drive” it - I dislike the whiff of elitism in your post.

What must your world look like that you consider a 30K off-lease car a poor person’s last resort vehicle….

It might surprise you - as having never owned an EV before - I turned to Tesla because I thought of it as buying a trend-setting vehicle from a pioneering car maker that envisioned what next generation transportation might be unanchored to tradition - rather than risking buying a half-baked me-too attempt at a market-share catchup from a legacy brand.

Whether I was ultimately correct in these expectations is a different conversation, but I think one might see how I may have thought that knowing little about EV?

Lol, reminds me of audiophile discussions when most people listen to youtube streaming a recompressed version of an mp3 someone uploaded.

I am inclined to doubt the sources of these empirical observations. Statistics are funny like that, “average patient temperature in the hospital” effect and frequent inability to correctly attribute confounding factors outside of observed window.

Equally bad is anecdotal evidence, but I’ll drop some anyway. For a while now I am observing a crisis thats, admittedly subjectively, easy to see - but is somehow absent in those empirical sources citing economic accomplishments. An indirect evidence of what I am talking about - is crushing defeat of democrats/establishment in last election, following among other reasons, quite a backlash for boasting about said accomplishments.

But rather than picking issue with one of my points - I still would like someone to describe the counterpoint to my dystopian expectations - where, for example, would all those professional drivers I mentioned earlier go?

Ps. Oh speaking of statistics - remember Greenspan’s “there’s no real estate bubble, there’s froth in individual markets” right before 2008 financial crisis? It be funny like that, sometimes much derided common sense is all you need /shrug.

Whats the end game here?

Let’s follow the AI and automation craze to its eventual conclusion - automations everywhere, humans are either employed in automation industry, or are unemployed at a massive scale.

Stable jobs are replaced by ever-optimized gig economy for some, and chronic poverty for others. For there to even be economy - the massive underemployed population subsists on government welfare.

Cynic in me thinks that all of the wealth generated by enormous productivity gains resulting from automation will not find its way towards population displaced by it. Those cashiers, toll booth, and warehouse workers did not find themselves in much more lucrative careers - I don’t see why it will be any different for truck and cab drivers who will be joining them in the near future.

If you see a future where these people who suddenly found all this extra leisure time o. Their hands and no income - are somehow blossoming in creative directions and realizing their own potential - I’d like to have it painted for me, as it all looks pretty bleak to me. Just not quiet sure of the timeline.

Best I can come up with is an emergence of some kind of counter-cultural protest market where people buy and sell “made by humans” products, and are continuously attacked by various regulations originating from mega corporations who captured the government.

To provide a counterpoint to your hypothesis that “people are fine with easily accessible but subpar results” I often switch from dubbed anime english voiceover to original japanese that I don’t understand and prefer reading subtitles because they convey the meaning and humor much better than the americanized voiceover, and the voice actors are better.

I hope that AI generated simulacra will eventually take its rightful place next to microwave dinners in consumption hall of fame once the novelty wears off.

Invited you to state what musk stands for in your opinion, not to attempt to speak for me.

I agree with what Buttigieg is doing, but I don’t think it's the same at all - coming to a hostile interview requires that overcoming adversity and displaying certain bravery.

To continue having an account on twitter really doesn’t. I would even say it’s quite the opposite - to abandon your lived-in account and all its followers on a network that serves financial interests of your opponents - would actually be a more principled stand.

You define it?

Is this intended to disprove my point? Would a link to aoc’s profile on livejournal or tumbler accomplish that too?

Of what? This?

https://x.com/repaoc

… and near entirety of democratic congress?

I mean is my claim really so weak it needs evidence to support it? Its not an easily observable phenomenon?

Throughout entire human and chicken collective history we somehow haven’t managed to get wiped out by chicken transmitted decease - and suddenly its practically imminent and only massive mega farms can keeps us safe.

A thought occurs - perhaps it’s the mega farming that is the root of this problem and having some backyard chickens won’t really move the needle any closer to doom?

Maybe occasional free pizza, casual Friday's, and an employee of the month plaque would help?

Conversation about how there’s a critical shortage of ATCs is at least a decade old, and likely older. “Best time to plant a tree” and all that.

Imposing such choices fuels political polarization, with increasingly evident consequences.

You can watch as it happens all around the world, but I am sure it won’t happen in Norway. /sarcasm

The announcement of investing $500B with the proposed benefit of creating $100K jobs - to my amazement did not produce any commentary that I came across raising questions about the ROI of spending $5M per job created. I mean it’s all right there in the announcement!

For instance, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, which allocated approximately $787 billion, was estimated to have created or saved between 2.4 and 3.6 million jobs by early 2011. This translates to a cost of roughly $218,000 to $328,000 per job

In contrast, a study summarized by economist Valerie Ramey in 2011 found that each $35,000 of government spending produced one extra job.

Federal Highway Administration estimated that every $1 billion in federal highway and transit investment supports approximately 13,000 jobs for one year, equating to about $77,000 per job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest... https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w17787/w177... https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/pubs/impacts/

> If i say there was an ask, you know I think it's something a bit bigger, possibly a bit unreasonable.

That’s the point - it isn’t any of those things. It’s made up by you (nothing personal, waving in general direction) on the spot and is not in any way a part of some imagined shared lingo. It’s all complete and utter meaningless bs that some people like to imagine to be loaded with contextual depth. It’s not.

Solves, asks, learnings.

It was a surprise when I discovered just how much negativity and frustration wells up in me when I see verbs turn into nouns when there are already perfectly serviceable nouns available.

I am motivated to passive aggressively retaliate by turning even more verbs into unnecessary nouns: seeings, helpings, deliverings, discussings, respondings.

Is this still covered by "Millennium Gray" trend or is it something new?

Just so that there isn’t any confusion what russia is all about:

https://youtu.be/_9olGWX-1eI?si=MS4--_WH96BEjiSN

Very appropriate in light of the topic.

OS/2 competed against Windows 3.1 - and I don’t recall it visually looking at all inferior.

I think we are observing a shift of tectonic proportions in the opposite direction that is picking up steam each year, at least from the US perspective: flat earth movement, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, “you don’t need college” meme, anti-intellectualism of the sort of “your educated opinion is no better than my pulled out of the ass opinion”, defunding of public education, calls to eliminate Department of Education… I could probably name more, but this seems like enough.

And this before we get into structural things that seem to be designed to thwart the goals of advancing knowledge economy: soaring costs of higher education, making college loans non dischargeable in bankruptcy, schools unable to eject disruptive students that are at the same time burdened with security preparedness caused by constant active shooter threat.

When I was a kid and needed rabies vaccine for a dog bite (the owner snatched the dog that bit me and took off before anyone had a chance to query her whether the dog was vaccinated) - it was 30 or so shots into my stomach, given over multiple days - and causing a lot of soreness and pain in between. I wonder if it’s still like this, because damn.

So basically in other words what this means - is that if battery capacity was over-provisioned by mere 13 percent with battery firmware keeping it essentially hidden - then in effect there would not be any degradation at all.

“Now, some say they are an eyesore that has idled for at least three years.”

Yeah, on that headline picture - it’s the turbines that are the “eyesore”, sure.

Somebody’s agenda is showing.

What happens if family earns $200,001 ?

Follow up question - what is a “family” here? A single parent with 3 kids? A married couple with one child?

Is “the monument” visible on the picture at top of the article?

To paraphrase Sheldon’s joke - Archeology is a science of “what did I just trip over”.

I am joking. Enjoy your cornish wonder of the world :)

Crunchyroll app, which I am a subscriber of by the way, has “mature content” setting - like that, add a setting. Or label the version like they do for different releases. They have lots of options.

Again, this discussion thread has nothing to do with Crunchyroll and everything to do with charging people who want and expect to be able to see an unaltered version - as discriminating against disabled viewers.

And finally, quote directly from the article:

“Over 2500 fans signed a change.org petition asking Crunchyroll to take down this edited, safe, version of the series and instead upload an unedited version that was true to the original vision—even if it had the potential to cause seizures.”

If we are going to discuss the article - we should both read it.

I feel like you are arguing with some “bad telephone” version of what I wrote.

I am supportive if efforts being made to accommodate people’s disabilities.

My charge here - is that also offering unedited versions of original experience is not discriminatory, not insensitive, and not “ableist” as the article claims it to be.

Furthermore - the author presented facts in bad faith. I went to the petition linked in the article, and unlike what the article claims - it makes no demand to take down epileptic-friendly version, just asking to offer the unedited one. And i quote:

“ As fans, we implore Crunchyroll to try to acquire an uncut version of the simulcast as we are paying good money each month for the services they provide. Not only does it impact the fans but Toho and Crunchyroll are gravely underestimating how the lack of effort to provide clean versions is affecting the engagement and overall reception of the season, as in many instances the ghosting completely ruins or takes you out of the experience.”

Putting up a warning (and maybe this warning should be more prominent, or some other mechanism ought to be invented if warnings are not effective) - is what we currently do to accommodate people with food allergies. Does it make sense to take peanut butter off the store shelves, and completely eradicate all nuts, dairy, and wheat out of all food products?

Are people who want to make PB&J “ableist”?