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I don't think the metaverse was the part they were warning about.. I think it was the hypercapitalism and corporations taking over control from the government's

I was really struggling for the right place honestly, I didn't want to throw it in the generic "funny" pile - I figured you guys would get it.

but you need to hit it with a hockey stick otherwise the science doesn't happen

lol US is barely first world. can't even cover basic healthcare.

Oh I agree, it's more a mental attitude - if I take on the risk of riding, I need to take on the responsibility of anticipating what other road users might do. If I end up in an accident part of that is failing to fully anticipate the stupid, illegal shit car drivers constantly do that will kill you.

Sure, the guy who turning right across two lanes in front of me was at fault, but I had the opportunity to spot him slowing down to make the turn and I know cars don't always see bikes or indicate. I can move to the outside of the road to give myself more space, I can roll off and cover the brake, and then I can accelerate as soon as I can to get past them quickly so I'm out of danger.

If I do none of those things and don't notice the car, I consider myself at fault even if the car was doing something illegal.

After the fact of course you can say the car driver was at fault but it's completely academic when you're dead, so before that happens you need to take on as much responsibility as possible.

but, won't car drivers being more aware help? if that's a big factor, wouldn't it be good to address?

if i'm reading this right, you don't think car drivers should have to worry if they're going to kill someone, because you think that person deserves it due to the risk they personally took on?

you think it's too much to expect someone driving a safer vehicle to drive safely and not kill other people? you resent being told to pay basic attention while driving a car because if you hit someone that isn't also in a car, they might die and that pisses you off?

wtf?

to be honest, as a rider, i always blame myself if i'm in a position to be hit by a car.

you really have to assume everyone is going to do the wrong thing and ride accordingly. it doesn't matter if someone wasn't supposed to do something, someone will eventually fail to see you and you've got to plan for it. I've had near misses but no accidents - and every near miss was a good lesson in what to look for in future. on a bike road rules are nice to know but you have to monitor everything for threats and make sure you're always in a safe position. if you ride in someone's blind spot you're actively putting yourself in danger.

having said that, the op comment is an asshole. YES obviously car drivers should be more aware. what the fuck? if you're obliviously running people off the road you don't blame them, good lord what a fucking psycho.

I posted this a while ago - it's about the olympics but I think a lot of the conclusions are relevant. Personally I back the logic of a known loss now, rather that doubling down and facing an uncertain and likely worse loss during an already difficult time.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-games

always. but saying "oh there's all these developments and they're all vapor" - i get sick of armchair experts telling everyone they know better every time on-the-horizon announcements come out. I get not all of them ever get produced, but by current phone has 10 times the battery capacity of my first one, and the quick charge really does give me something like an 80% charge in 15 minutes or so.

some of these claims are pretty out there but development keeps going and by the time something with high levels of performance is in your car these guys will be smugly crapping on something else to assert nerd authority. i guess it's just a social niche thing and nothing about batteries 🤷‍♂️

I switched back to Spotify after google music disappeared.

too much crossover between random youtube videos and actual high quality music

honestly though batteries have improved a lot

I'm also sort of sick of talking about the politics of social media, I'd rather use social media to talk about other more interesting things

I do miss some of the more specialist communities on reddit but honestly this is great for just scrolling stuff, and it's completely replaced reddit for that.

not sure if you're joking but I can see the url is wrong.. .ee on the end, not .me

I'm actually cool with that. have a big dataset? charge a fee to use it for training

happily she's on the wrong side of most issues so it's easy to have both

specifically, she was attacked for articles people found on social media. she was teacher of the year, she was objectively a great teacher who brought good things into the classroom.

people hunted for things on social media and attacked her personally.

I'd rather like it if they train it on stuff I say. I want the AI of tomorrow to reflect my thoughts.

seriously I would much prefer gold tier journalism and news sites let it crawl so when people use it to make choices in the future they're guided to better choices.

it is honestly so hard to know what will happen though, it's so complicated it's virtually guaranteed we're not correctly anticipating the consequences of any of this. I'm not really even talking about the AI, I'm talking about the effects on society which are a lot more complex.

honestly i will watch westworld once, but i never use my netflix account but i watch stuff like physics lectures and chemistry videos all the time. i just find it fascinating, in a way scripted TV isn't for me.

I sleep to lectures on youtube so I probably clock up a lot of hours a day and ads would ruin that forever - so I pay

but i do enjoy a lot of creator channels too, so it's worth it for that as well. plus i really fucking hate ads.

part of me also thinks - it must cost a bomb to deliver that much data and storage, plus the bandwidth for 4k video at any time, plus paying the people who make content. some of them are millionaires, youtuber is kind of a career and it's not all in-video endorsements.

at some point, someone has to pay, and it's the advertisers paying to access me, or it's me paying. i'd rather pay. i'd prefer it if it was free but i kind of get that it's not. I couldn't pay to host youtube and develop the platform and have everyone watch free.