Now THAT was a decent joke.

The Matrix is from 1999. Tron is from 1982. Totally different eras of the computer age.

Urban core is way harder to do than highways, technically speaking. Inter-state regulations are more of an obstacle there.

I could explain the joke, but it's more entertaining not to. You'll figure it out if you've seen the original.

And Waymo was working pretty well before Gemini came along.

You haven't seen Tron, obviously.

[Skippy]Well, hehe....you are really not going to like this.[/Skippy]

Someone should report this to fbi.org!

Shhh. The purple bicycles are sleeping.

Efficiency. Fraud reduction. Fiscal responsibility. They're even right that DEI is sometimes implemented in poor ways despite good intentions. But those are what you might call "ideal" Republican ideas. The reality on the ground is those things get lip service when convenient and nothing more.

Far be it from me to defend Republicans. But I do try to see things from their perspective sometimes.

I'm not going to disagree with any of that. But if you look at it a certain way, most of the policies fall into the model I proposed. Look at healthcare. The ACA tries to lower prices for the sickest but everyone else pays more. The Republican alternatives, such as they have been, focus on lowering costs for the majority instead. Social justice? Democrats focus on the marginalized, Republicans focus on the majority.

In general, American Republican policies seek to minimize average unhappiness while American Democrat policies seek to minimize maximum unhappiness. Turns out these are very different things.

of course, Trumpian policies seek to maximize unhappiness of Trump's enemies, which is different from either one.

Daredevil confirmed

Build a 4DX theater into the Waymo and I'm sold.