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I can see this becoming a culture war thing like vaccines. Conservatives will become pro-CSAM because it triggers the overly sensitive crybaby Liberals.

Waymo may be currently safer than human drivers, but this right here is why I don't believe for a second they'll stay that way. People will complain it took to long to get somewhere because "stupid car was following all the rules!" and they'll be programmed to become more aggressive and dangerous (and due to regulatory capture they'll get away with this of course). I've already noticed this in San Francisco.

Americans are increasingly adopting the kind of mindset Israelis have, where following the rules makes you a sucker. https://www.thejc.com/judaism/jewish-words/freier-fa15k306

Many Americans desperately want to believe that other countries' healthcare systems are "just as bad" as a form of coping.

Look at when all the "No Kings" protests are happening: on the weekend. Because there is no way the vast majority of Americans can go on strike, because healthcare is tied to employment. This is why healthcare is never getting "fixed" in America--it's doing its job quite well.

Kinda ironic that a post about attention to detail was so hard to read. Why is the font size so small?

Someone I used to work for was borrowing all kinds of money with seemingly little scrutiny and when she couldn't pay it back the worst possible thing happened. https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/09/family-four-murder-suicide...

Hope you like traffic!

Sounds like you'd be better off living in a less remote area.

One of the houses across the street from me had its driveway dug up, all the way from the street to inside the garage, for what I first thought was for putting a bathroom or something in the downstairs level. When I walked past the old pipes they took out they were full of roots.

This reminded me of how in the early 2000s I was taught to enclose the content of SCRIPT tags in HTML comments, e.g.

  <script language="JavaScript"><!--
  
  // script contents

  -->

  </script>

I'll just keep scraping

Stop killing games, and also stop making websites where all you see is a blank page if you don't have JavaScript enabled.

How do they breathe? That's what I'm wondering.

Seems like the opposite could be true though. AI models now have all been trained on real human-generated texts but as more of the web gets flooded with slop the models will be increasingly trained on their own outputs.

The plagiarism machine got an update! Yay!

Why the light grey text on a white background? Seriously. It's every other website these days. I of course know how to fix this in Developer Tools but I resent that I have to.

Apologies for going off-topic but putting light grey text on a white background is one of the most baffling (and infuriating) design trends I've ever witnessed on the web.

I was actually just thinking about Grooveshark earlier today; April will mark 10 years since it was shut down.

Did North Korea piss in your cornflakes?

If those people hit the streets they'll be hit by chemical weapons (i.e. tear gas) that are illegal for our government to use in war but perfectly legal to use on peaceful protesters. Just something to keep in mind in case anyone is wondering why Americans don't really protest.

You guys certainly have some of the nicest accents in the Anglosphere, imo.

Tandem was a special company for sure. My dad worked there in the 80s and 90s and said it was the best job he ever had.

I know it's deprecated but I was expecting to see <xmp>.

A bit like Google removing their "Don't Be Evil" motto

This was actually something that was tried with music in the early 90s, by Philips and Sony with the CD-i. The musician/producer Todd Rundgren made an album specifically for this format called "No World Order" where the songs were all broken up into "modules", so to speak, and the user could configure them however they'd like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i

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

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

I have an idea for a parody of that song called "We Bilked This City" about the non-profit industrial complex.

I did not notice any images being incorrectly displayed upside-down when I submitted this, I apologize if some of you had trouble viewing them.

Bad news for sensitive wetlands