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If you replace the cars first, such that no one's daily schedules are significantly altered,

Is that going to happen if you replace cars with another vehicle that still requires car infrastructure?

Well, if that's how it worked before, they must've changed it. I installed it last night without paying and it never blocked me.

Doesn't sound that weird. More people means more people to serve, so more service jobs are needed.

I don't see how going from car to proper city planning is any harder than going from not-car to proper city planning. This just feels like an extra unnecessary step that could be taking resources away from the city planning part.

we can only do that in our fiction

At present, yes. The hypothetical is in the future, possibly in one where we've developed interstellar travel and we can be the ones visiting the alien planet.

Another one of the million projects in my backlog that I'll never get to.

There's one major problem with this kind of website that I've been wanting a solution for, and it's that people often only leave reviews when they have an exceptionally bad experience. So when you see a product with lots of negative reviews, does that mean it's actually bad? Or is it just a very popular product, so lots of people will find issues with it? I think the solution to that is some form of review pre-registration. When you buy something that's intended to last a while, inform the review website of that purchase. Then if something goes wrong and you leave a negative review, you can see what percentage of purchases are affected.

since they are by definition far beyond our technology

How so? Aliens aren't going to suddenly come into existence and have super-human technology in that same instant.

Are you talking about DeArrow? The website gives you the option to pay or just download without paying.

Rules for thee, but not for me

I've heard a lot about the Rwandan genocide, but this is my first time hearing of OP's thing. It's more interesting to read about something novel, which is probably why you see more of this being shared.

Or "I thought you guys might find this interesting"

Before I started adblocking, I'd get "relevant" ads in that I can understand how someone of my age/gender might like it, but they're never things I'd purchase myself. I just want a mostly empty home with as little visual stimulation as possible, and buying more stuff doesn't help with that.

So yeah, I'm definitely saying "ads don't work for me", but it's probably only because these companies refuse to make ads targeted to people like me.

Wherever I see weird things in a dream and I'm lucid enough to notice, I just panic thinking that something's wrong with my brain, followed by doing anything I can to get to a hospital.

The majority of Mozilla's income comes from advertising for Google

Who is to say their neighbor didn't burn her trying to frame the guy? If you aren't 100% sure then you might be killing innocents. And you can never be 100% sure.

In the context of the American general public, a healthy burger would require a very different ratio of meat to bun to veggies, at which point most people probably wouldn't call it a burger anymore.

There are so many different types of tofu and different ways to prepare them that all taste vastly different. That stuff is basically a blank canvas.

Even if it were a credit card, wouldn't the estate still have to cover all debts before inheritance? So it would effectively be the same thing.

So what are these sentient dots? I keep seeing them everywhere, but no one else around me does. This is the first time I've seen anyone else acknowledge their existence.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a stationary bike generator at home to help charge a proper EV car than to have it built into the vehicle? That way, you have one device that you can mass produce and that will be useful for everyone, including those who don't need a vehicle of their own.