I've been working on a short story for a while about human drivers trolling AI-based autonomous vehicle systems.
It's hard to write - not because the premise is implausible, but because it becomes more and more plausible, and making it believable enough to satisfy a reader is hard.
And we all know how that trolling will manifest - tiny events that set off unstable oscillations within traffic systems.

Bingo. Conservatives are just lying (again) to try to bolster an indefensible and untrue premise.

I'll just hope that we as a species start to handle this pandemic a little better.
I wear a mask in case I've got it, to avoid spreading if I have it.
And I appreciate when others do the same.
And I hope that there's a way to test enough people to figure out how this thing works and spreads in more detail.

I really hope there's a treatment, but I'm not holding my breath. Gonna be a while unless we get very lucky.

Thank you!

He’s just a troll. DNFTEC. 14-year-olds get off on asserting their superiority and only back off when challenged on specific points they can’t bullshit about.

Really nice straw man you set up there. Environmentalists don’t want to place everything off limits, but some is ok - and that’s what causes 14-year-old-minded libertarians to star screaming ”You’re not the boss of me!!”

Yup, they're jewelry. And it's why I have a quartz watch - aesthetically nice, perhaps, but still quartz, and vastly more accurate than any mechanical.

Agree entirely! I hate having to charge devices - and few devices beyond a Kindle/nook/kobo have batteries that last longer than a day.

The problem with building up on the coast of CA is the faults. Where Tesla is located, the Hayward runs nearby, and it's way overdue for a major quake - when it happens, Tesla is going to be in a world of hurt (along with the rest of the East Bay). East of the hills, there's the Calaveras fault, which has been a little odd lately, with lots of little quakes. So going up is way hard, as it subjects a lot of people to unacceptable levels of risk.

But there's up and there's up - a lot of the new condo complexes being built in NE San Jose/Milpitas/Fremont/Union City/Hayward are 4 or 5 story balloon frame buildings which are designed to withstand at least some degree of earthquake. Those are not my favorite sort of place if they're not built well (they're noisy) but otoh they have city-style density. The trick is to adjust zoning so that there is commercial on the ground floor and residential above, just like the rest of the world's cities....

....and Fremont is, itself, not a small city. It's huge - lots of land and increasingly dense.

Never thought of the speedo as a disease preventative, but for certain body types....

"You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road."

Arthur's talkng about the Boeing spaceflight test that failed and landed in NM....

.....really, only the thong violates the dress code. The pasties are perfectly acceptable, even if the glitter does get on everything.

I don't trust the graph on the last one....bacon is trending down. They must have a bad exporter on Prometheus.