With fusion power, crypt-coyn, Quantum computing, vegi-meat  and *.AI all producing negative returns ... and promising those losses  continuing into the indefinite future ... pure-play investors need to believe in SOME sure outrageously profitable money-stream.  The wife may tolerate silver, but the mistress demands gold ! If not hallucinogens then ... what ...? Panic ... panic ...

Why make life easy for AirBNB community smashers. Owners of such properties ARE running mini-hotels and denying land-use/housing  to real residents. Instead of shelter for full-time residents AirBNB creates  drug-addled adult  vacation-toys for the upper-mid class. Is that act basically  wrong?  Yes ... in that nearby rental properties decrease land/aesthetic  values for nearby permanent residents --- see < Isle of Palms SC  > for a prime example, where proliferation of AirBNB-type housing culturally  raped the local community.  Of-course ... no moreso than a resort in the Poconos or Sierra Nevada. But, the distinction should be perfectly clear, between residential  and recreational properties ; things like tax-rates, professional services and maintenance ought to reflect that difference. AirBNB owners want it both ways ... hotel+ income while shoving maintenance on visitors. I'd stop that right now ... as well as allowing ANY AirBNB properties within residential neighborhoods.

I can understand ( if not sympathize with ) building data-centers/LLM factories in West Virginia. They have lots of coal. So while the supported AI corrupts human minds, so the coal power plants will corrupt your lungs. < Les oiseaux de mauvaise augure >.

You describe a race-to-the-bottom; your betters are not impressed.  The wealthy still wear hand-loomed silk suites and dresses ... sail hand-fitted wooden yachts ...  grouse-hunt with  hand-bored shotguns ... and have their man-of-business do their trading. Factories can't compete. Maybe you need to save-up for a week to buy that hand-built & sharpened paring-knife; splitting goose-berries for cobbler really takes  thumb-against-blade. 

You speak as if gun-barrel-supported "laws" were required to define human behavior. But, humans were self-organizing, negotiating  and exercising self-discipline for 10s of thousands of years before the first Sumerian codex. Perhaps a Bible-reading culture could do W/O lawyers entirely.

Generally speaking ..."Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made." ... replacing human labor with machines is no progress. The wealthy have ALWAYS understood this ... for example ...  butlers, tailors, men-of-business, lawyers , secretaries, chauffeurs . Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made. Wealthy engage an entire class of personal , human assistants .  OTOH grifters,  strivers ,  hustlers and wanna-Beez pretend silly machines can substitute -- a humanist inhuman touch  like  self-driving autos OMG -- and consciously try forcing all to the same pretense. More honest and more "agentic"  leaving  "service"  to your betters  while practicing DIY tasking.

Funny that ... Nixon Republicans thought a guaranteed annual income would change no social structures or generate self-propagating personal change; I believe at-the-time $7100 was proposed.  Humphrey Democrats thought  such a guaranteed income would fundamentally change  America ... and consequently refused to pass the Republican sponsored bill.

These are not systems intended for economic every day drivers.

This is a supercar. You use features like this on an autobahn or similar road where there are no obstacles of that nature.

This is a feature like a maximum speed unlock on Veyron. You don't use it unless you know exactly where you are.

I'm unconvinced that rear and side facing thrusters will be road legal due to problems they will cause to other cars around you. As for jumping thrusters, I can already see some old rich boomer stuck in an overhead road sign because he thought he was adjusting music when he told the car to jump.

Fans sucking car to the road on the other hand are an excellent idea.

Technically you can still die from rupturing of carbon fiber pressure vessel with this thing.

This car uses them to store compressed air after all.

Are you making excuses for institutions whose procedures  ( including software ) ought to be bullet-proof ?  Security 1st ... customer service 2nd ... investor profits 3rd. Banks  and power-companies and medical manufacture have no "right" to be careless . That's why penalties for commercial  abuse include flogging, water-boarding & the Gulag!  What kind of Randish dystopia  fits your naive fantasy  ? 

Preferably those "counter-measures" will SCREAM at the person doing the recording. Even ... kick them in the nuts ...

I'm blame the millions fucking retards that will buy this thing unironically who are actively making things worse for the 1%~2% of us that de-google our phones, self-host as much as possible and don't have big social networking accounts.

At some point we won't be able to say "I won't participate." My current company didn't understand why I couldn't use Microsoft Authenticator. I had to send them the screen shot of it crashing with a message about how Google Services were required. It's like owning a stick shift (no family member will ask to borrow your truck because they literally can't drive it). I have a viable excuse to not install company shit on my person devices without being an asshole about it. At the same time, I've seen an increasing number of job applications that require a LinkedIn profile URL! I thought about deleting LinkedIn years ago when I deleted FB/Twitter/Insta, but I would have trouble applying for jobs today if I did.

A time is soon coming where it will be impossible for someone seeking a Wal-mart or fast food job to even apply for it without owning a smartphone.

If that's a Jonestown reference, you should do some research on that. Jim Jones was deeply connected to the CIA, including doctors that were a part of the MK Ultra program. It's very likely that no one "Drank the Koolaid." I think once that Congressman discovered what was really going on, the intelligence operatives just shot everyone and claimed they committed mass suicide. The aid to that congressman who survived had this statement:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroo...

They promised what ?  Large American data-wranglers < any of the top 50 >  lie, cheat and steal.  Their mindset is some neo-Satanic anti-Enlightenment poison reaching even beyond  digital-Feudalism.   I would not believe a word they say , even if  promised their 1st-born as collateral.