Nature findsâ" uhâ" a way.

Well here in America, when we hit an public policy impass that requires either favoring individual wellbeing or industry profits, we've got an ace up our sleeve. Policy protecting industry forces becomes a matter of grave public importance, while policy protecting the public is magically relegated to ::hand waving:: personal responsibility. Surely companies shouldn't be expected to plan for unexpected business difficulties and shareholders must be insulated from losses. But individuals? Personal responsibility. Stuff like: eat healthy food, be productive, exercise, spend wisely and pay your debts, respect others property, don't get replaced by an army of robots at work, have good hygiene, drive responsibly... That sort of thing.

It may be the only way that the super-rich tech magnates can avoid a metaphorical beheading by guillotine while maintaining their comparatively obscenely disparate wealth. If UBI it's implemented, it will probably save many from ruination in the short term but still essentially keep the same exact bullshit power structures in place.

I was in the emergency room and some dude was watching tik tok super loud. I started repeating everything the people in the videos said in normal conversation-level voice. It was fantastically awkward but the guy turned it down like 90% immediately. I'm also a very imposing looking guy so there's that.

I'd love to but quickly walking down the street so the phone in my pocket often isn't directly in contact with my leg, or being on a loud rumbly subway/bus where everything is vibrating anyway, etc. usually precludes my doing that.

LOL. The amount of art and law pseudoexpertise I've seen from the tech crowd in the time since midjourney was released is absolutely fucking flabbergasting. One big huge Dunning-Krueger circus.

You clearly know much less about this topic than you realize.

That must be why AirBnB is only really popular in places with restrictive rental laws like NYC.

Apparently released them to little fanfare as well because I'd never fucking heard of them.

The problem with your analogy is that computers aren't people.

Yeah what is wrong with those fucking assholes making incredible discoveries with cheap materials when it's not optimally useful for my use case. Didn't they think about me and my electricity needs before arrogantly flaunting their discovery in a peer-reviewed journal? How can they be so self-absorbed.

Provide the evidence that parents and children need to communicate? You're a fucking moron.

Nice non-response. So... kids in the US don't have a need to coordinate with their parents about logistical things? Either they're doing something different in France that we should replicate here, or they have different logistics that make these things unnecessary.

It's pretty reasonable to assume kids will need to get in touch with parents for logistical things-- plans change, things get cancelled, etc. All of the schools around me have thousands of students. You really think that the school office is logistically capable of managing communications for thousands of students after school activities, illnesses, etc. ? How many admins would you have for a company that had thousands of workers? When I was a kid, there were payphones everywhere. These days I'm shocked to see a working payphone and I live in a major city. Saying there isn't a real logistical need for direct communication is just wrong.

I'm notâ" I'm looking for stupid satire to comment on. I'm on exactly the right website.