Long term, perhaps. But I do understand that before I start making a place to display my Olympic gold medal in swimming, I should first be able to traverse the kiddie pool without needing the lifeguard.

It might be a good idea to practice on Antarctica first, then think about how we get to Mars.

Social media does have a place when it's actually social media which means it's meant to bring like-minded people together to socialize.

So it can be a good thing when it helps you find a friend group or a bunch of guys to play Warhammer with or whatever.

The problem is that as soon as profit motive kicks it the goal is going to be to get as much engagement so you can do as many advertisements and steal as much data as possible. What's worse is that these platforms make money either by selling your data or advertising. The date is selling is obviously bad advertising by itself should be relatively harmless but online advertising just doesn't work. It's barely functional for branding exercises at best and completely useless for direct sales.

It is however very good at finding suckers and marks and people to victimize through advertising so virtually everything on social media being advertised is a scam. It's actually a great way to find out if something is a garbage product look and see if you can find ads for it online when you're in private browsing or using a VPN and if you can odds are good that product is trash.

But only after you have spent tens of millions of dollars fighting the Trump doj.

The point is to drain resources because Trump has unlimited resources because he has the federal government behind him at least until 2028 and maybe even beyond that.

And that's going to continue as long as Republican primary voters slavishly do whatever dear leader says. Trump doesn't win every primary he endorses for example he tried to endorse the brown person and that's just not going to fly into Republican party. But he's got enough hits that a fair amount of Republicans are worried about being taken out during a primary election from their safe districts and states.

It's still a better framerate than the 3DO version.

I explained that in my comment. The only reason the Filipinos are better right now is because Google is spending a lot of extra money to let them put a lot of extra attention into their driving and into training them to drive the cars.

Eventually this is going to need to be profitable and when that happens they're going to start putting more pressure on the employees to do more. So what we're going to see is the lane assist feature will be used in places it's not supposed to be and the Filipinos will be driving two or three or even four cars at the same time jumping between them trying to help the lane assist out and eventually it's going to cause all sorts of wrecks and traffic jams and problems. By then this will all be handed over to subcontractors and sub companies so that Google can wash their hands of the whole thing when the shit hits the fan.

So your life and mine will get worse so that some billionaire or trillionaire can pay even less money. How are you not upset about that?

Is your Google broken?

covid by itself doesn't kill that many people. The risk with covid was that it was going to overwhelm our already strained hospital system and that would kill a shitload of people. But that is way the fuck too complicated to explain to somebody who would vote for a pedophile rapist convicted felon to be president of the United States and expect good things to happen

The American right wing had a absolute conniption fit about trans mice. And money spent on trans mice.

What they were actually talking about is transgenic mice which are mice who have had some Gene edits for use in specific research scenarios.

But somewhere out there is an uncle or an aunt that is absolutely furious that their taxpayer dollars paid for a little boy mouse to wear a dress or something. I don't know I don't listen to those people... I only hear about them because the president of the United States is apparently one of them...

What about all the gay frogs having heart attacks huh? But you didn't think of that. Study it out! Do your own research!

You should borrow Obama's magic weather machine. He keeps it right next to his magic time machine.

Again he already admitted to Congress that when they need the vehicles to do anything more complicated than basic Lane assist driving it's a call center in the Philippines doing the actual driving. I think there is also a center in United States but they weren't clear on when or if it's gets used.

You can look it up on google. It's amazing how different their tune gets when they are under oath to Congress...

This isn't the future this is just more outsourcing and you're going to be on the road with remote control cars pilot it from another country so that they can pay taxi cab drivers even less than they pay them now. And over time it will become increasingly unsafe because they will start using layers of contractors and they won't follow driving laws the way the current batch does because they won't be sitting on limitless amounts of investor cash hoping to reduce wages even more than what Uber pays which is already sub minimum wage

In the dystopian cyberpunk books they never really get this deep into all the nasty little pieces of dystopia that affect daily life it's usually the big cool stuff of course. I'm not enjoying learning about the banal aspects of a techno-feudal corporatocracy

Well assuming you're not just trolling which is assuming a lot then EA is going to take features out of the games you enjoy and then sell them back to you at a premium. The entire design of the games you enjoy will be radically altered to try and push your buttons so that you will part with more money. So even if you have limitless cash because you're Elon Musk (and I could see him wasting his time trolling slashdot after all he's never invented anything so he's got nothing but time) the basic design of the games you enjoy is going to be radically altered to turn them into nasty little Skinner boxes designed to get money out of you...

Antitrust doesn't just ask is this a monopoly it also asks will this substantially reduce competition or negatively impact consumers.

You don't have to be a monopoly to run afoul of antitrust law properly enforced. Just like how you don't have to murder somebody before you can be brought up on charges for conspiracy.

He can do all the bullshit outrage posts for clicks he wants he has never once spoken out in detail or frankly at all about county level voter suppression or what to do about it. He is yet another useless progressive. Somebody who just wants to go back to the '60s and how much fun they had in protests back then instead of thinking about and dealing with the incredibly boring work of stopping voter suppression where it's happening.

He's especially bad because he has the background in statistics that he can actually see the effects of county level voter suppression and fully understand them. I've seen some academics do studies but I have to admit some of it escapes me. I do know a broken voting machine and a 7 hour wait time when I see one though and they always seem to be in blue districts...

Fetterment is 20 points below water in polls. As soon as the next election comes around he's out. Exact same thing happened to that Sinema. The real issue is that these are senators so it's 6 years before we can kick them out which is by design