Feature request:

Implement more engaging side quests after the main goal of winning capitalism has been completed.

In my neck of the woods, idiot human drivers regularly still somehow manage to get hit by our commuter train. That's astoundingly easy to avoid - just don't stop on the train tracks. The bar for autonomous driving being better than humans is very, very low.

Tesla's FSD actually seems kind of decent from the videos I've seen people post. It's definitely no worse than how humans drive on I-4 in Orlando. What I mostly take issue with is that Tesla promised this feature to people who bought cars with hardware that would never be capable of running the current generation of FSD software.

I recall this one episode where the boys are tasked with doing a chocolate bar fundraiser for their school. IIRC, they manage to sell a single candy bar and then "loan" the dollar between each other repeatedly until they've purchased (and eaten) all the chocolate for themselves. What an absolutely perfect unintentional metaphor for the tech bro industry.

Considering that Siri is dumb as a box of rocks, I can't help but imagine that the only trade secrets stolen from Apple were what not to do.

I'm really not seeing what the advantage is of putting data centers in space that can't be accomplished less expensively down here on good old terra firma. That was the same problem with solar roadways. You want to put up solar panels? Great - we've yet to run out of places you can put them where they aren't going to be driven over by cars.

I realize there's some NIMBYism over data centers lately, but surely putting them somewhere in the middle of nowhere where nobody will complain is still orders of magnitude cheaper than space. Space is really, really not cheap.

The irony is, I've seen a lot of people stop being active on Facebook since it has been enshittified so heavily. Everybody I know doesn't bother posting anymore because the algorithmically promoted crap from people you're not actually following drowns out all the content from the people you do follow. Why bother posting if no one who follows you is even going to see it?

I'm kind of thinking these states are going after Facebook because they're clueless and still believe that Facebook = social media. Kids are getting their brain rot from Snapchat and TikTok these days.

So, we're just going to ignore that it was actually the parents who provided the devices capable of accessing these services in the first place? Letting kids access a site that is primarily populated by adults discussing adult subjects, could be harmful to their mental state? Yeah, who could've seen that coming.

Of course, a similar thing is going on right now with e-bikes, because there's apparently quite a few parents who don't understand that giving what is essentially an electric motorcycle to their underaged kid, is a bad idea.

You can still buy tobacco. Hell, post the retailpocalypse, it seems like every other brick and mortar store still standing is now a smoke shop. So, it was never really about protecting people from a harmful product, it was about the government seeing something they could slap a sin tax on and raise some easy revenue without the majority of the electorate going "hey, don't do that, we hate more taxes!" That's always the playbook.

I think the distinction is in the human interpretable output, not how the data is stored. You can compress the crap out of a Harry Potter film and watch it as a blurry distorted mess, but it's still the same film. However, if you asked ChatGPT to output the same story, I wouldn't be surprised if it hallucinates halfway through how Harry Potter is also a prolific drug kingpin, in addition to being a boy wizard.

Free will likely be just ads, like that radio station from Demolition Man.

I've never really considered any of the user-created videos on YouTube as being living room TV content. I'm not gonna sit down to a plate of Chipotle and put on a video of someone repairing their car, though I might certainly watch the same thing on my iPad while I've got my brakes in million pieces.

I'd still say it depends on the person. Both on X and Facebook reels, the further you go down the rabbit hole, the more asinine the content becomes. It doesn't take long before I just close the app because it's nothing but slop, political garbage, and rage bait.

Ironically, Reddit already doesn't let me doomscroll. I think I'm not subscribed to enough subs, so it eventually just runs out of content to show me.

I think there's a middle ground between the libertarian view of it's your own damn fault if you didn't realize buying Snicker bars in bulk and stuffing your face with them will make you fat!" or "People lack the self control to snack responsibly, so we're locking the junk food behind the counter and placing purchase limits on it." IMHO, that middle ground should be educating and informing people of the risks, but ultimately leaving the final decision up to them (assuming they're an adult, obviously).

Yeah, I know we're discussing social media and not unhealthy food, but there's a common thread with lawmakers believing they can make people healthier (mentally/physically) in spite of themselves.