The whole thing is BS. AI is a tool. I used it recently in a case. It was able to help me with the case. I was in superior court pro-se against the assistant AG. The document it helped me develop took the AG and the court by surprise because it was put together well with strong arguments. But, it could never have done itself without me guiding it. AI is the wrong word for it. It's more like a hammer. If you know how to use it, it's quite powerful. If you don't, you fail. Look at it like this: a lawyer can take on more cases with the help of his legal aid using AI than without it. Technology has always done this. For the first time, it helps solve things on the intellectual side. We're not used to that.

My small city has plans to install a total of around 12 roundabouts. 2 are in place, but the government did something stupid: they put in the most complicated design first. They should have started out with two two-lane roads crossing. Easy to figure out. Instead, they put in a 4 lane road intersecting a two lane road. Not a good starting point in an area that has never encountered them.

I love them. Seriously. I can go around a roundabout in a fraction of the amount of time it takes to stop and start. Oh, and it saves fuel as well.

It's the worst concept to creep into motorcars since... well possibly ever. A better idea: set up lights so that people don't stop as much. That'll save far more gas as people aren't sitting in idle all of the time.

An article about 10 years ago pointed to the fact that company boards had learned that executives that were psychopaths (literal, psychological, not "name calling") were better for profits. Capitalism only works if the owners have a conscience.

We have this idiotic viewpoint that everything needs to be either far-right or far-left. There's a such thing as people being for some policies and against others. Want to know why America has been going downhill? It's stuff like this, where compromise is gone. I'm pro-labor, even when I was in a situation when I had my own employees. I gave unskilled programmers a chance, sales people a chance, etc. I didn't give people a chance based on demographics, I gave them a chance based on their willingness to perform their duties and learn when needed. I'm politically moderate overall and unaffiliated with either party because both have their demons.

Their blonde roast isn't bad.It was developed after Starbucks realized that European clients didn't want burnt coffee and instead preferred a medium roast. I complement Starbucks for introducing us Americans to the idea that coffee didn't have to be the crap we used to have, but going all out burnt wasn't going to last once independent roasters opened up and served a good medium roast.

I did like the NeXT layout, where there were buttons on the right, and buttons that looked stunning and detailed. Mac OSX and iPhone kept that going, until Jony Ive came through with his ugly stick and ruined everything. Apple has never had a beautiful UI since and frankly the whole "Let's make it thinner" thing has run its course. Folding phones are the future.

I think to a great degree we've reached or surpassed a critical mass, where so much data is out there that it's of little value for extortion, unless you do something stupid with your data. The Equifax breach exposed hundreds of millions of records.

How about they make something of their shithole countries so they're no longer shithole countries and there's nothing to move away from. And a reminder, it took guns to get the British to get the message, and it may take the same for these countries.

I've taken an approach of working to get rid of my smartphone. I quit most social media years ago, minus Slashdot. I've disabled or deleted all internet browsers. I'm left with a few apps that have become somewhat necessary, like texting and reminders. Uber would be a nice to have since I can't drive right now, but it doesn't work well in the area I live in and planning with a friend is a lot more reliable. There's just not enough people here. I've taken the next step, by accident, of generally carrying the phone in airplane mode. Like the old days, I can wait until I get to someplace where I have WiFi. At this point, It's more or less a dumb phone because almost all of the apps are gone. I just don't need them. With WiFi calling only, the phone element is almost back to being a land line.

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FTFY. Whether it's fun or "stupid" is subjective. Big trucks aren't something I find fun, but I appreciate and respect the fact that others do. I personally drive a V8 powered supercar because I find it fun to drive. That's why you need to go back and have a reading session with Webster's Dictionary or dictionary.com. I'm curious if you can name something that you do and that you would call "fun". I'm sure you can come up with things that you find "interesting", but what about "fun"?

They already do (as do I). It's paid for via the higher gasoline taxes we pay because the vehicles get lower MPGs. We therefore buy more gas. And if you want to play the environmental card, I've got 15 solar panels on my roof and an electric bill that ranges between $0 and $16. That savings buys me a lot of gas for my supercar.

Uhm, you know how buses don't have seat belts? Even school busses, as far as sitting students? And poles for on public passengers to hold on to? They're not there because they're not needed. Growing up, I was on a city bus when it was in an accident. Nobody on the bus felt a thing and nobody even knew we'd been in one. We were just wondering why the bus driver suddenly got out of the bus. Somebody got up, looked out of the front and saw that the bus driver had hit a car. We felt nothing because weight transfer matters a lot. Crumple zones are designed to absorb as many forces as possible instead of passing them on to the passengers, but weight difference matters a lot, and often a lot more. The Smart four 2 is a great example of a vehicle that has taken safety to the maximum possible and does its best to absorb accidents. Still, the vehicle is still going to get tossed into the next county if it's hit by anything bigger than a moped. Look up the test runs Mercedes did with it (Smart is a Mercedes brand). The passenger compartment stayed intact, but the car was flung so far that Poland thought it was the opening shot of another German invasion.

Among the things I did like in the EU were the bamboo forks. They seemed wasteful to a degree, but they are biodegradable and they were a lot more rigid than some of the plastic silverware given to you in a to-go box or fast food restaurant that you end up having to throw away anyway because they're so flimsy they're useless.