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Comment Do they not read? (Score 1) 158

This isnâ(TM)t new, itâ(TM)s in the sales material and on the dash warnings. The average daily commute is 42 miles (66 for me). I have never needed to drive gas because the temp dropped for my daily commute, ever.

Sure, you might need to take occasional road trips of over 200 miles and want gas, but then you make the rent vs buy decision based on your situation.

Comment Re:A non-paywalled article (Score 1) 175

We're busy all the time, and a lot of that time is with things that make us really fucking angry or stressed: work, traffic, the infinite social obligations that are probably bullshit but we feel we need to do to survive (business networking, our fucking gym memberships, that friend who always wants to do something stupid), and for those not single, don't even get me started on all the things we're pressured to do for our kids.

We get home and we're angry and have 10 minutes before it's time to go to bed and repeat it all, and we choose not to take out our frustrations on our partner and ditract ourselves with scrolling or tv or something. Is it really a surprise that we don't fuck as much? It's not that we don't want to, it's just that in the time-slot dedicated to sexy time, we're probably not feeling like sexy time.

I don't think our society is worth saving enough to figure out how to unwind all of this, although the obvious solution is so obvious.

Comment Re:apple is just asking for being forced to allow (Score 3, Interesting) 31

A torrent app will put government will to the test. I have no doubt citizens will want this, but governments are bought and paid for by many corporate interests, and those interests dislike torrent apps, whether they're used for things that aren't yet owned, but especially for things that are.

Comment Re:Tragedy is not a sufficent reason for liability (Score 0) 112

This is slashdot, there's no room for nuance on AI. Obviuosly the AI did what it was supposed to do, the person in question had made up his mind. End of sad story.

A kid around the corner did this just last week, I'm told that he'd been telling actual humans he was going to do it for a while, and they didn't believe him. But he did, and we're not able to sue Texas government for its abuse of trans-kids, even though arguably they're more deliberately motivating suicides than AI.

Mom and dad should be more focused on helping get mental health access for teens than worrying about Scam Altman.

Comment Re:I would argue (Score 2) 47

You can't blame society, people are people. Ragebait, trolling and "that guy who is so wrong on the internet that I can't not flame him" have been around forever. The issue is that engagement is easily measured, but engagement does not equate to quality. If we had a way of assessing quality that was reliable, we could probably have social media websites that aren't trash.

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