Schadrach

Someone outside of the vehicle should be either calling an ambulance or grabbing the jaws of life and telling the door it doesn’t have a choice in the matter.

As civilization has progressed, we’ve done more and more writing and record keeping and done so an less and less durable media. From stone to clay to papyrus/parchment to paper to film to digital media.

I feel like there needs to be some kind of write once media that’s extremely durable and reasonably dense for digital data specifically for long term archival purposes. What’s the digital equivalent to carving something on a stone tablet, that a thousand years from now despite age and weathering could be dug up in a field somewhere and still hypothetically be at least mostly readable?

There are cameras inside the car, it self drives… imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer.

How would a camera determine if you are queer?

Also, I am just imagining the piles of blackmail material Tesla has on it’s customers.

Now, what happens when we combine them together to make… Sonichu!

…you get serially harassed by online weirdos, likely become the single most documented human in all of history because of said weirdos, come out as trans and eventually get charged for incest with your mother?

Basically. I mean there’s a bit more to it than that but it’s the core idea. It’s also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn’t want the peons to be able to talk about it.

I saw the “and there’s no filing for bankruptcy on this one” at the end and all I could think is that even if you thought running a country like a business was a good idea (it’s not) why would you pick a businessman who’s filed for bankruptcy quite a lot to be the one to do so? I feel like he needs to ask himself that.

Such a massive number that you could add several zeros to it and not notice the difference.

Like the ridiculous subscription mouse a few months back, I’d be willing to bite with the right incentives, but those aren’t incentives the manufacturer is going to be OK with. I’d take a car with ads, so long as it was sufficiently discounted compared to a normal car. And then I’d look up how to disable the ads.

Of course, that’s because you’re rounding up. On average the adult population would have one boob and one testicle, barring misadventure, medical need, or medical prophylaxis which bring down the number. Not enough people born without them are having fresh installs done to make up the difference.

if it breaks even, or even if it’s designed to run at a slight loss because it’s value is more important than profit.

If it breaks even it can sustain itself in a market economy (anything where revenue >= costs can). If it operates at a loss, then someone other than the user is having to pay for it, and that’s usually where you lose them (because generally the answer is that you’re expecting them to pay for it in part, usually through taxes).

This is also why they get so grumpy about things like welfare (especially the ones who are working class and barely getting by) - they actively dislike the idea that they should have to pay for their own food/shelter/etc and also help pay for your food/shelter/etc when things are tight and they’re destroying their work/life balance just to get by and life would be meaningfully easier for them if they weren’t paying as much in taxes (and they grossly overestimate how much tax money goes to SNAP/TANF/etc).

Same but with my mom. When the labels of several of the buttons have worn off from repeated use over years, and she can’t figure out why the screen is blue because she’s accidentally changed it to the wrong input. And all she would tell me before ten minutes of detailed questioning as far as what the issue was is “it’s not working”, I had to get from “not working” to “on the wrong input” over the phone. And when the first thing I asked was “what’s on the screen?” and she answered “nothing.”

https://tubitv.com/movies/332938/repo-the-genetic-opera

I guess that could be the specific dystopia we’re aiming for. It’s a hell of a race to beat the other dystopias/apocalypses there though. But what else would you expect from a type 13 planet in it’s final stage?

I don’t think this is the kind of neuroplasticity we’re supposed to be aiming for.

Blocklist is literally empty.

They federate with everyone, including the insufferable right wingers, the insufferable tankies, and the people who draw loli (I think there’s only one lemmy instance still active that allows loli and it’s the radqueer one, and it’s tiny enough you don’t notice it unless you go looking for it). Most of the insufferable right wingers have also closed their respective instances.

If their mastodon instance is any comparison, it still federate with everyone including the instances that post loli. I suspect if an instance were posting stuff illegal in the US that would be grounds for SDF to defederate for legal reasons, but 1A protections are broader than speech protections in most of the rest of the world.

You can always block the community or even the entire instance of anyone you don’t want to see.

Or one with the broadest possible federation like lemmy.sdf.org, though they are US based if that’s a problem for you.

SDF does not defederate. The blocklist is empty. And it’s small enough and chill enough that it’s unlikely to get blocked by other instances much.

They’re a non-profit that’s older than the web and offers a variety of network and retrocomputing services including most famously a public access Unix server. They started as a dialup anime BBS.

I’ve never had that problem. Not on my instance’s web page or using Sync on my phone.

Yeah, but the interpreter is pretty universal, if sometimes buggy.

VP has the same requirements as President, which exclude Musk because he isn’t a citizen by birth. Musk was essentially put in the highest possible position he could be that didn’t require him to be elected or confirmed by Congress.

Which is why he needed a puppet to be President for him. I don’t know that he ideally wanted a puppet he’d have to time-share with Putin, but that’s the puppet he bought.

And I firmly believe that aside from the occasional going off script as a kind of tantrum that Trump is entirely a puppet - consider the narcissism and desire to exude power that he has, and then look at him in the photos of that meeting where Elon was in the Oval Office with little Kevlar Musk and just how defeated Trump looks. He knows his choices were win office or be buried by the courts, and he signed whatever deals with whatever devils were necessary to guarantee it happened, he’s owned by Elon and Putin, he knows it and that eats at him.

No one cares about your unique social characteristics or what demographics you fall into.

Of course they do, they make great lines to create schisms to prevent people from really grasping the rest of what you wrote.

Using computers with closed source biology. Classic.

Hey now, biology is pretty definitively open source. Every generation produces small patches of varying quality (mutations) and for most organisms the source is freely distributed to create new builds (reproduction). I mean if no one is downloading your genetic repo that’s largely a you problem (natural selection) not a biology problem.