I work at a large university, and unfortunately here those percentages seem rather high. I haven’t seen many scooters around here yet, but those Lime bikes seem to get left in places deliberately chosen to interfere with foot traffic. I am not convinced it’s riders doing this... I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the people hired to move the bikes around are instructed to place them deliberately this way to get attention.

I would call the walking trashcan sitting next to me "It". Sorry folks, but we are not going to see a Commander Data for a verrrrrrrry long time, if ever.

Oh, I called the robot a "walking trashcan", that might be seen as hate speech! %{

Neighbor: not my problem. My home: maybe a very limited time period, not complete access.

The creation of black holes can't create wormholes. Solutions to einstein and rosen's equations can have wormholes when "exotic matter", having negative energy density and negative spacetime pressure are used.... stuff that doesn't exist.

it's all bullshit, mental masturbation about things never observed

The whole point is to forbid warrantless access, to stop everything from "LOVEINT" to spying on corporate or political or other enemies.

As with the stuff deep in the billion dollar NSA buildings, there needs to be uncorruptible access logs for later review.

The problem is the silly idea that people will treat them well if they are not personally owned
If it was my scooter, I wouldn't throw it in a river unless I was drunk and angry at it for failing

No, this is Perl 6, not Rust. (See "Rust for functional programmers" by Raphael Poss.)

...and get off my lawn.

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Drop them in the nearest dumpster since they're litter. Expensive litter, but litter nonetheless.

It's self-selection. There's no benefit of one media over the other.

I've run a gaming league for over six years. To respond to Ostracus below, my league doesn't allow drama.

A benefit you won't find in a bridge club is we have members of all ages. Very social and we all have fun. A detriment is keeping rein on all the vulgarity.

So if your home, or a neighbor across the street, that gets robbed, no?

I have always wondered how protected people felt about this. Never knowing if they were hired because of what they identified as, or if they happened to be the most qualified candidate.

As a completely generic white male, I know I was hired because I was the best person for the job. In the professional fields that matters to people, even if some are pleased to take advantage of being protected.

This is the case against Harvard by Asian/Americans? There's only hundreds of cases against universities, so I took a guess.

Impound the damn things and charge the company a hefty fee to get it back. There are companies that specialize in this now. If you're feeling particularly generous to these companies you can even point out that they can pass the fine on to the customer.

Yeah, they are not forced to put it on their homes. But they are still being manipulated (conned?) into doing this nonetheless.

  Anything that's shady deserves to be put under a very powerful microscope, and pushed back against. What Amazon is doing is shady (to really understate this).

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No, no experiment has shown any such thing. No "wormhole" has ever been known to exist. No event horizon has ever been contained, what sci-fi show are you watching.

You spew bullshit