Oh God, that’s so fucking stupid.

Petra’s Stone Collection

I don’t know how well this house off the side of the road really fits the traditional definition, but if you’re visiting Iceland you probably like fancy rocks and this place definitely has those.

A very small part of me fantasizes about being forced to fight

I just said I wanted to impress people with my drone skills. Never went past that.

A “conscript” is someone who’s forced to fight. By your own admission a part of you fantasizes about being forced to fight. When questioned about your desire to be a conscript you say that the only thing you talked about was impressing people with your drone skills and that you “never went past that.”

JFC, I know reading comprehension’s in the gutter, but you’re talking about things YOU wrote. You should at least be able to follow that.

Some folks maybe aren’t prepared to do that themselves, but the more you use AI, the more confident you’ll become in leveraging those tools

Unfortunately it’s not the confidence in using AI that’s lacking. It’s the confidence in the output.

I trust that they will aid in extrajudicial surveillance and autonomous killings.

• Starset
• Yellow card
• BMTH
• BVB
• LOTL
• Bloodywood
• Icon for Hire
• Grandson

I like their music, and so far their ticket prices haven’t become outrageous.

Discussing a ban and imposing restrictions in some jurisdictions is not what I would describe as “banned by society” especially when the deleterious health effects affect everyone exposed regardless of jurisdiction.

Also one jurisdiction banning something doesn’t mean it just isn’t available. I can go on eBay right now and buy asbestos brake pads even though they’re technically getting phased out in my country. Airplanes the world over continue to use leaded gas and plastic bottles are available (almost) everywhere. That doesn’t seem very “banned by society” to me.

Asbestos, leaded gas, plastics, forever chemicals, alcohol, and cigarettes are still used extensively and are far from getting banned by society.

Not exactly the same thing between the positive and negative outcomes, but we still use nuclear processes for energy generation and medical treatments even though our nuclear bombs can level cities.

So, yeah, it’d have to be worse than potentially killing 9 million people with ease (and potentially everyone in the resulting MAD race).

Realistically if something threatens the bank accounts of the elites it’ll be banned regardless of its societal or individual benefits.

An infotainment screen can be separate from the thing that handles driving without a need to replace everything with physical buttons. It’s just a matter of having 2 computers (and thus extra cost) that are not connected. The driving computer can handle things like ECS, ABS, acceleration, braking, locking, unlocking, headlights, turn signals, and of course managing the motor components all while being disconnected from the Internet. The cabin computer can handle everything else and appear to the user the same as it does today. You can even connect the cabin computer to the Internet without risk of dying if you want the ability to remotely heat or cool the cabin or want an auto emergency response call in cases of a crash.

You don’t need an individual control for all the things that happen in a car, you just need intelligent, security aware decisions to be made when deciding what is critical for driving or safety and what is just there for comfort.

Parts of Iot are great, but not the whole “smart home sending multiple video and microphone feeds to Amazon/Google/Facebook” thing.

The ability to set up remote sensors on critical infrastructure to give early alerts is a benefit.

It is not a necessary design element of a car to have a single touchscreen to control the car. It is a willful bad choice.

It is entirely possibly to have a car who’s main driving components are air gapped from the windows, ac, radio, locks, etc. It just isn’t done for a lot of modern cars.

Oh yeah, definitely. The wiring needs for an industrial space or event venue are different than a domicile, but I don’t think anyone’s buying audiophile snake oil for those. They really seem to market that kinda crap to the fool and their money crowd.

I fucking love audio and have an extensive collection of equipment. The last thing in the chain before your ears (so headphones and speakers) will absolutely make a difference and the thing that provides power to that can make a difference. But the cables? The fucking cables?! Absolutely no impact once you’re above like $10. Turns out, electrons are electrons and they behave like electrons. Shockingly that doesn’t change in copper, gold plated copper, pure silver, or mud. Doubly so for the non analog part of the chain. Hell I’ve even seen “audiophile grade” ethernet cables.

The other part of the equation is if the differences made by the things that do make a difference actually matter to the listener. They do to me, but my dad is more than happy to just use the speakers on his Dell monitors.

In the case of what wound up on Roman Numeral Ten (formerly twitter) that’s correct, but given the actual PDF dump from the gov, if they just slapped an annotation on top of the image it’ll be possible to remove it and reveal what’s underneath.

It was simpler than that. You can just copy the black highlighter text and paste it anywhere.

Honestly, I kinda want VR theatres. You don’t gotta wear glasses that block half the light and you can individually adjust the screen size per user, but still have the audio/snack/social experience theatres are today.

I don’t think I’ve ever been on a city bus that didn’t have people just standing, and while thanking the driver is nice and I’ll do it if I exit the front leaving from the middle is always an option.

I’d personally just assume they were having a bad day and move on, but yeah, getting fussed at for no reason is annoying.

One of the proprieters I know had this exact complaint when the parking was removed from in front of her store for a bike lane.

It’s like 8 blocks of small shops directly abutting each other and the only way to see all the shops is by walking around. Too bad there’s still 4 lanes separating the shops on either side of the road.

Are we sure it’s not to stop more people cancelling their performances in protest of Trump?