My city recently reworked the local bus service; the main trunkline is now served by segmented BRTs that have limited stops, are never more than 15 minutes away from a stop, and have their own dedicated lane. The remaining routes of the older system are now basically feeders to/from the trunkline. It works really well and getting around without a car is more convenient than ever.

Just go to therapy.

When I was last on FB Dating several years ago it was filled with scam profiles (mannequins and fake Chinese women). I imagine it's way worse post-AI.

More than that, they don't even understand the basic purpose of the story from which the name comes from. Tolkien wasn't a fan of the military-industrial complex.

Accurate emulation of the SNES is actually pretty difficult. Higan/BSNES was the only recent emulator to even come close to being cycle-accurate.

Facebook blatantly does nothing to protect elderly people from being targeted by scammers, and a public-facing platform like Facebook is only going to become more dangerous for your folks as they get older, even if they just lurk to keep in touch with their children. There are better solutions for a "digital family photobook" that don't have the rest of the bullshit and danger that Facebook poses for the elderly and digitally illiterate. With AI gen and bot posts flooding the site, it's become a direct metaphor for the Matrix, except instead of turning human life into power, it turns human potential into money for advertisers and bad faith actors on the platform.

Generative AI isn't "just like radio, TV, and the internet". None of those flat out replaced human connection and interaction. We need a total Butlerian Jihad, and now.

I don't touch any of this AI shit being pushed into apps and browsers or willingly provide them training data. The impact of generative AI has been a cultural disaster and it will render many systems that we've come to take for granted, like search engines and social media effectively unusable because of the flood of meaningless drivel spewed out by the truckload from algorithms that don't understand any of the input being given to them. Automation was supposed to free people from labor and let them do the art, science, and leisure. Now we just let the algorithms do that. What I'd really like to know is, what the purpose of all of the AI and bot spam on social media is. Corporations collecting training data from clueless Boomers? Russian cyber trolling? Garden variety scammers?

Wages haven't followed productivity gains in decades. They act like they're entitled to our labor above what they're willing to shell out for.

I can't get into any because I wasn't able to see the straight two weeks' worth of backlog going all the way back to Iron Man 1. These movies are way too interconnected and assume the viewer had seen twenty years of releases.

William Shatner is just a whiny Boomer long past his pull date who can't accept that the world has moved past him.

I've long since stopped understanding why he keeps getting mentioned except for "being famous for being famous".

They should all be sent to jail for market manipulation.

they take your phone away when you go to prison.

The rampant class divide and ecological holocaust being perpetuated by capitalism is more damaging than belief in any deity. New Atheism stopped having anything new or insightful to say fifteen years ago.