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Your points illustrate why other means besides cameras should be also used, as well as why the human brain's ability to filter or even ignore things is a bonus to our driving ability. Or a detriment. People who power through bad weather or sun glare or any other obstacles that obscure them seeing well and manage to get through aren't greater than the computer driver, they're just lucky. Same can be said for all the people driving while on the phone, they aren't skilled in multitasking while moving hundreds of feet per second, they just happen to have it clear 99% of the time so think they're that good.

The main point was that computers need all the information they can get to compete with humans, but they also have the ability to get data we cannot, and it's stupid to not give them that ability because of some desire to simulate the full (read that as limited) human experience. Humans deal with less info all the time, but that doesn't make them better.

Benevolent dictators almost always happen only in fiction, and they don't last. I guess you can get some that do a few good things while being bad overall.

I think we should have billionaires.

Because they wouldn't miss a 90% tax on their highest bracket, and they aren't going away, so why not turn them into the resource they should have stayed.

I mean there's lots of other problems that have gotten far worse in the past decades to make the wealth inequality ridiculous, but a good starting point is MAGA. Bring back the high taxes on those who can afford it, to fund helping those in need.

When Autopilot started I would hear people joke about how it couldn't drive in bad weather where people could. They seem to miss the point that when the computer begins to lose information needed to navigate, it's going to stop driving. People lose information and they keep going. One of these is safer.

Of course if Elon had thrown everything at the car to make it have information even in terrible or odd conditions, there'd be more merit in claiming those cars are safer than humans. But between genius brain (however much there is) and narcissist, the latter won out in doing it his way because others were doing it the obvious way.

The safest roads would be fully automated and tapped into each other. We wouldn't even need lights at intersections. A hybrid mix of human/computer traffic is always going to be dangerous.

Whenever I see the 1% or 99% numbers when discussing wealth inequality, this fact is the first thing that comes to mind. We need to use decimal points to get to the real ones in power. 1% contains a lot of people who have money, but are still out of the loop as the rest of us, or as Carlin said, "not in the Club". They are millionaires, but like they say, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.

And that's US - many Americans are in the 1% in worldwide numbers, with rough income numbers being around half a million income. Again, they may or may not be comfortable depending on their expenses, but having money doesn't mean you have power. It's the .1 that is the beginning of that, and the .01 is moving the pieces for everyone.

(The numbers are just estimates, there's gray areas everywhere, the point is the top people want us to be yelling at the top middle and ignore what they do.)

Why wouldn't they give an example of what they are talking about?

My spirit animal. I'd rather be blamed for disrupting things than deal with the drama.

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." - Fred Rogers (mother)

"I'm taking my toys and going home!"

"You owe me some tariff taxes on those."

"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!"

It's not propaganda if anyone can try things out for themselves, and even use them both if they want. Stop trying to keep your MS stock high.

That isn't the reason to yeet Windows. If you were talking years ago about 7 or XP, things were different. 10 is not that great comparably, and 11 is a mess. But keep your Windows, if it's what works for you. Until it doesn't.

Dual boot for the best of both worlds (although I'm finding myself more and more on the Linux side because it's better for me.)

Isn't that now "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"?

Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more "I didn't vote for this". Yes, you did. You just weren't listening.

For military stuff, I go to RadarBox.

Thankfully, there hasn't been any reason recently to look up military activity. 🙄

That's the reference I was looking for.

You're correct in that it's not as sharp, but it still poses problems with getting into seals and lungs and sticking to everything. Plus it's very toxic, probably the bigger concern for living there.

Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.

Like so many other things, this could be a motivation for Trump to undo things, regardless of understanding any of it. It's why he ran for President the first time, out of spite.

Better than applying the money to socialist programs back home, for sure. (the ones still around)

"I hate moon dust. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."

"I hate Mars dust too."

It's actually a huge problem to solve before any rational long term settlement occurs in these places. The stuff is pretty bad.

-- Trump response when asked about how the tariff situation was going.