I, for one, am glad someone is finally cracking down on explicit images. If you have words to say, post them as actual text! Don't just throw text onto an image and call it a "meme," because that's totally lame.

I don't claim any different.

As I have used an EV, I can safely confirm it causes less pain.

The ICE industry seems to be full of lies. Every proponent will tell you internal combustion engine is the best thing in the world, but they won't tell you the pain they go through just to go on a trip. Then they tell you the flying car is coming. Apparently it isn't.

I would expect that our backward-ass leaders will instead get all nationalistic and prideful of the "homegrown" Microsoft monopoly

Then we must lead them down a better path.

"It takes four hundred thirty people to man a starship. With this, you don't need anyone. One machine can do all those things they send men out to do now. Men no longer need die in space, or on some alien world. Men can live, and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take. You can't understand. We don't want to destroy life, we want to save it!" -- Blacula

In other words, the "gap" you describe is considered to be good news for the humans who have to do those jobs.

I say this jokingly, but I really did drink the Kool Aide, and I think it's just Kool Aide without any additional harmful ingredients. I'm seriously all for us at least striving to live a completely hedonistic lifestyle, where we never toil because our robots slaves do everything tedious for us.

I want to die in an Orion whorehouse, looking like a character from WALL-E. Only in my final moments do I want to learn the awful truth, when one of the green-skinned ladies' faceplate falls off, revealing a robot.

Ok, maybe it wasn't pure Kool Aide.

The premise is that you would understand how it works. Once we've glossed over the story of finding that holy grail, then you can build minds with different amounts of spite. (e.g. doubly-infinite for a TortureBot, or decreased for most other uses.)

Wait, are you suggesting I can simply hire humans, to design and manufacture these intelligent computers for me?!

Oh, duh, I get it! You're taking Bezos' own point of view, rather than the point of view of his engineers.

But how do the engineers create the intelligent computer? It's not hiring-people all the way down, is it?

I don't get it. Governments require many things, and most of them are to be bought privately.

I never had any issues handing my children a lighter. None of them became an arsonist, not even an accidental one. Make lighting a lighter the most boring thing to do, and they will use one only to perform some boring task.

⦠which is comically high for the U.S., but not anywhere else. As soon as there is a sizeable market for used EVs, the prices stabilize. Until a year ago, used EVs on offer were either first gen types long superseded, or EVs with extremely high mileage of 150,000 miles or more, which indeed did not sell well. Right now, this changes at least in the E.U., and resale values increase.

What do you think is the right age for Carousel? As someone over 30, I think 30 is too young. ;-) But what age might we all agree isn't too young?

The majority of the population is not steeped in tech culture. Knowing about ublock is a bit like knowing which fork you are supposed to use.. a good way of signaling your membership in a particular subculture, but not something most people know since they have their own subcultures to signal.

I sometimes wonder if we are going to see the bottom fall out of the ad industry as a new generation grows up expecting ads to be ignorable garbage.

It hasn't produced anything yet, but somehow it's already Too Big to Fail? Sanders and Trump can go fuck themselves.