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Comment Re:One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 61

Should we then apply the same logic to very fallible human drivers?

The entire positive side to bureaucracies and committees and governments is that they have enough people in them to do multiple things at once.

Usually when someone says something like what you said and I quoted above here, they are trying to argue that human drivers shouldn't exist. Maybe this is true, for some particular set of truths, but there's always a number of ways you can look at a situation. For example, I would argue that no one and no computer should be driving in the bulk of situations we are currently driving in, because cars are a terrible mode of transportation in the cities where most people live.

Comment Re:What nobody notices in Steam HW Survey (Score 1) 28

Yes, and also the open driver is worth a shit unlike the closed driver for Windows, which provably is not. So not only do you not have the Nvidia driver shittiness, you don't have the AMD Windows driver shittiness either. If you're not deeply into LLMs then AMD is the obvious choice for a GPU for Linux.

Comment Re:They warn about the dangers of Socialism (Score 1, Troll) 54

Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle

Nobody has ever tried to implement "Communism without a small inner circle" at the national level, and WITH it, it isn't Communism. Maybe there is no such thing as Communism, like there is no such thing as a completely free market, but nobody ever made a good faith effort to have everyone be equal at that level. There's always the plan to ride atop the masses.

Comment Wow... (Score 4, Insightful) 57

... questioned the accuracy of First Street's data, saying he didn't think that areas which haven't flooded in the last 40 to 50 years were likely to flood in the next five.

So good to read a scientific, rational approach to analyzing claims. And so comforting to know that climate and weather patterns aren't changing, and that climate and associated risks over the next five years will be the same as they were during the previous 40 or 50.

/sarc

Comment Re:One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 61

Sure, when you live in a parallel dimension you may think they are louder than a regular car. Unfortunately not at all on planet earth.

My experience agrees with that of CubicleZombie, especially when the vehicles are travelling at lower speeds. Keep in mind that frequency content is important - the levels recorded on a sound level meter don't necessarily correlate well with human perception, interpretation, and emotional response.

I think that rather than weird synthesized noises, EVs should use actual recordings of IC vehicles. Pitch and volume should be adjusted according to speed, so the EVs mimic the sounds we've already become familiar with and adjusted to over many decades.

Comment I think it's part of the plan (Score 1) 86

The skills that future graduates will most need in an age of automation -- creative thinking, critical analysis, the capacity to learn new things -- are precisely those that a growing body of research suggests may be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process

I've said it before and I'll say it again: in the future envisioned by Thiel, Andreessen, Yarvin, and others, there will be the ruling class and the abject rabble. Thinking, learning, and analysis are not desired in the people whom they plan to rise above, rule, and ultimately dispose of. These psychopaths see the rest of us as a drain on limited resources and as obstacles to remaking the world in their own sick and twisted image. When we're no longer useful to them - and a lot of us already fall into that category - we're to be eliminated.

The parallels between the US today and Nazi Germany - including the funding of a genocide in Palestine - are not a coincidence. The dumbing down of public education and the destruction of social safety nets aren't merely economic measures. They are meant to decrease population and to render the remaining people too focused on survival to mount any serious opposition.

I may be giving the bastards too much credit. And I may sound like a whacked-out conspiracy theorist. I hope it turns out that I'm just that - but I don't think I am.

Comment Re:Guys, just do coalition government already. (Score 0, Troll) 96

Just redo your constitutional setup.

"Just"

It's super hard to redo our constitution. There's only two ways, one is with fire and the other requires consensus.

It's not that the vast majority of people in the US ain't noticing that fundamentals of the US system have to change.

The vast majority of people in the US don't know shit.

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