Thanks. Haven’t read any of these and you make em all sound pretty rad.

Honestly, probably the most enjoyable series of novels ever. The jokes are so layered and absurd while being witty well setup. It’s been a few years since I’ve read them, may be time to start over…

I don’t have any issues with autonomous driving, I have an issue with the marketing associated with it. Word choice is important and the words Tesla uses imply it can fully self drive and it can’t.

Honestly I agree with the rest of your sentiment, don’t tell me I can’t because of some other dipshit.

It doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out 1/4 people sitting in the plane don’t understand that. Most Tesla drivers understand that FSD and autopilot aren’t as robust as their titles imply, but you’ve gotta remember how stupid the average consumer is.

Anecdote: last night I was talking to a childhood friend while gaming and he just rented a new Tesla on a work trip and was talking about FSD. The overconfidence in the system after a few easy highway miles was palpable. The phrase “the future is now” was used. This is a high achieving, high earner in a stem career. A smart guy for sure, and he hadn’t taken the time to understand the system he was using; my expectations for a grocery store manager with a GED is lower.

Pilots are highly trained professionals, Tesla drivers are not.

With names like autopilot and full self driving, there’s a reason people are overconfident in the cars abilities.

Any complication in emergency door releases is a critical failure and tremendous design flaw. Emergency features should be incredibly obvious and easy to use, because when you go to use it there’s a huge chance you’re disoriented or hurt. A system you need to look for as you burn may as well not exist.

The exterior handle design is just awful. There’s a reason other countries are making them illegal and it’s not because they’re a safe choice.

There’s a reason Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate in the US despite having some of the best crash test results. You survive the impact to die a slower more painful death.

To cool the iss they’re exchanging heat into water pumping to ammonia exchangers then radiated through infrared. The radiators for a space data center would need to be prohibitively massive as I understand it.

People with actual reasoning and intellect will see these numskulls for what they are. Unfortunately the average person has very little reasoning or intellect. The amount of my peers who haven’t opened a book since school ended is too damned high.

100% accurate. I ran a family owned grocery and the owners never shut up about payroll. As soon as I started managing a department it was “you’re overstaffed” every flipping week. I explained my plan to use the extra hours to have the employees trained on how to make more prepared food instead of buying the premade junk. They complained and complained until the end of the second month when my numbers for prepared food in that single month grossed enough to pay for the extra staff need for over half the year.

They still complained I was overstaffed.

Having tried a game with AI NPCs, they’re fucking awful. I don’t want to sit there and have a conversation with irrelevant individuals. Give me that concise “here’s your mission and reward.”

An AI companion who can converse, comment and learn may be cool, but I definitely don’t want anything like what I’ve seen.

Yup, I’m a train/e scooter commuter and I have added reflective and lights to all my gear because I care about my personal safety. While the cars should see me and should be traveling at a safe speed (especially when visibility is low), I don’t expect them to because they’re fucking car brains. It’s self awareness and preservation, I know the cars are mostly looking for other cars because they’re more common and a larger threat to the driver. I can help them not fuck me up by clipping a couple cheap lights and reflective stickers. Honestly even with that I’ve almost been struck, so I recently installed an electric horn to my scooter and I’m constantly hooting at dumbass Uber drivers more focused on their phone than the road (I also find the disproportionately loud horn from the scooter quite funny).

Yup, if enough people switch to graphene big G will fuck them over. Exiting entirely is the only long term solution.

Steam decks are expensive and relatively bulky when compared to a phone. I don’t think it’s really a practical solution for most of us.

I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We’ll try a few alternatives and even if I’ve gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.