But without decent public transportation or reliable eyes-off autonomous driving, we're going to continue to waste money and human life on distracted driving.

While I would love to believe that getting the word out with public service announcements to improve the public's general awareness of the risks of distracted driving, or actively reworking our training and licensing programs. The cynic in me knows in my bones that most people think they are above average drivers, and that people will feel that raising the requirements to get a license is somehow unfair.

VAT is a regressive tax too. Utter dogshit policy to be expected of the center-right ordoliberal governments that dominate EU economic politics.

Maybe next do a museum of all the libraries paved over for parking lots at upscale shopping centers.
The grocery store near my old apartment was torn down to make space for upscale condos that started at $400k back in the mid-2000's, I'm sure they're like $1.8m now.

As they benefit from the improved economy. Call the payment network public infrastructure

They letter should say you are exempt from the clause, in exchange you will continue paying for prime and at Amazons choice they can end this agreement by returning your payment within 90 days.

No idea if it would hold up against an army of corporate attorneys that would file in the most business bias district possible, but that it technically a contract as it has valid considerations.

IANAL - I watched a semester of introductory course work on public access in the 1990's. This is not legal advice, for entertainment purposes only.

Where is Jesus to give the moneylenders the beat down they deserve?

It's so terrible that we live in a society where we have to constantly negotiate and compromise to accommodate a wide range of opinions. Pluralism is terrible, I prefer the good old days when I was 6 months old and the world revolved around my personal needs. With no "government" telling me what I can or cannot do with my own property, where I could freely poop my own diaper (my sovereign property). It would be much simpler if I was the only human being on Earth, or at least if all the other humans owed me money or depended on me for basic necessities so that these negotiations would finally go my own way.

It's your government, it belongs to the People. If you want to let a handful of special interests to drive everything while you walk to the polls only once every four years, then I suppose we deserve exactly the sort of government we've got.

It's called first sale doctrine in the US, but parallels exist in other jurisdictions as well.

If you don't have a disc then you don't own the game. A download only model is not a price for ownership, it is a rental fee.

As much as I use stuff like Steam (probably 800 games in my library), I also am forced to admit that I don't own any of those games. The moment some companies buys Valve and alters the deal, I lose access to my games.

There are almost no guard rails with these agents. I got sick enough to write a small CLI that uses Landlock and container-like namespaces to isolate agents. Because the way they run in Claude CLI and VS Code is wide open.

The mainstream AI agents are set up the way they are for maximum functionality, maximum convenience. I learned from my sandbox system that it is very inconvenient to use. But given that the first time I used Claude ultracode, one agent deleted the remotes in my got config claiming another agent was trying to push (that command is already blacklisted in my Claude settings.jaon). Then when I asked to restore the config, the agent apologized because it forgot what the remote actually was.

You should add more antennas and pump our some disruptive signals to blind this tech

Sounds like an argument for degrowth, which has growing support in Europe.

There's a lot of expensive shit that is basically mandatory for your business these days: Google, AWS, Quickbooks, MS 365, Cloudflare, etc.

That's a very hand wavy definition of "human life"