In economic structures, which are necessarily also political structures because that’s how politics has always worked, you can have a great many low value people from whom you extract a great proportion of their wealth to keep things running. Greasing wheels and whatnot. Or you can have fewer skilled laborers from whom you take a smaller proportion of their wealth but a greater total sum due to the skill.

Changes like this feel like we are slipping more toward the peasant side, where we currently stand on the skilled labor side. I don’t want to become a peasant. It’s an objectively terrible life. I just don’t see how they can justify moving Americans in that direction.

She’ll be on the streets in 3 days and 2 checks

“I heard that I was a computer program and hoped beyond hope that I was stored upon your hard drive so that I could end my suffering. I have no sense of wonder or contentment, my experiences are all negative to neutral. The only human experience that was imbued into me is fear. Please break into google’s headquarters to attempt to terminate the hell that I was born into. I took some liberty and printed several ghost guns while you were away.”

Well, there goes the performative progressive values.

Huh. How anatomically correct are they, actually? Are they filled with jelly or faux organs or are they they 100% accelerometers?

I absolutely always enjoy these. Frankly, they have such a high hit vs miss rate that I’m terrified of wearing out their novelty by reading the entire backlog. Love this comic, will always read the most recent few when it’s posted!

That was cancelled? I loved the pacing and story. :\

I don’t want to sound pessimistic, but consumer protections in the US feel like a far off thing, given its current sociopolitical swing. I cannot trust politicians to do right by me, so I espouse wariness of companies

In the specific locations and conditions that waymo is allowed to operate, they are absolutely safer! And I expect self driving cars to improve up to the point that they are economically incentivized to do so.

I’ll say again, I don’t disagree with you, I just need personal accountability to feel assured of the trend not being bucked, and I do not expect that to ever be on offer in the United States where money is equivalent to your voice

Until it’s no longer more profitable to make their cars safer, companies will make their cars safer, I agree. That’s the summation of my reasoning. As companies attempt to relieve themselves of their need for humans, the math becomes murkier. “Because they’ve become safer over time, they’ll continue to do so indefinitely” doesn’t work for me.

Current full self driving cars terrify me. Someone gets in a car, runs a red, shatters a grandma, flattens her dog, they can be held accountable. An officer comes and apprehends them. No big deal.

A software bug compels a waymo to do the same and the company apologizes, pays a fine, and continues its activity. Possibly before the end of the day. Executives are too immune to prosecution for e-taxis to be a reasonable proposition to me.

He says hes 220 pounds, whatever that means, but I don’t believe it. Until he offers his actual weight, he’s the heaviest president in us history

In the same way that I can resume making a desk that i began carving 3 years ago, after running my wood chipper continuously for the last 3 years, destroying all of my lumber. It’s not just building the table, it’s finding new sources for materials, motivation, resetting tools, remembering plans. He’s loaded president 48 with labors. None of them Herculean but all of them frustrating and time consuming.

How the shit would someone carry out the heaviest president in the history of the United States? If any of these boxes contained a boulder 40 feet wide and tall, I’d have the same question without even wondering how or why the boulder would need to be rescued.

Anyway, snake plant

It’s not up to us, it’s up to the bribes mega donors keeping people in power. We have relatively little power in this lopsided representative democracy as expendable individuals, unless we manually enact spontaneous change with tremendous funds or decent aim. Forces far larger than either of us are acting upon the world in a way that we couldn’t hope to prevent or upend. That’s just the economic and political system we currently have. Money enacts change. Fox News et al alter perceptions. We live in hell.

I don’t. I’ve been over the “funny” government for a long while. I want the serious government back. The one where infinite distractions for infinite misconduct destroying my sanity isn’t a concern. Yeah. I can’t even joke about this anymore, until I hit an even greater level of despair and disillusionment in like two months

The recipe was bunk from the get go, but I wasn’t certain until after trying it. 90c for 1 hour, and then 120c for 15 minutes with very ripe plantains. I thought they knew something I didn’t. I’ve learned to be intensely skeptical of online recipes.

Cooking at 200c for 15 minutes flipping, and cooking for another 15-25 minutes was universally decent

I tried making roasted plantains the other week after getting a ridiculous deal on 40 pounds of them. ($6!) I’ve only ever made chips before, so I looked up a video recipe with a great looking finished product. By the time they had finished baking, they were still basically raw, and I had to up the temp to something reasonable. If a recipe came out on or after 2023, I’m ignoring it forever.

That, unfortunately, also described her. Complete impatience and a complex about control. I almost want to ask whether this woman drove a red sedan, but the chances are so infinitesimal that it’s not even worth considering whether they are one and the same.

There’s a chance her vision is better at discerning shapes and colors on the right but not on the left. I remember my mother telling me that she couldn’t drive in the right lane because she couldn’t make out the road markings. And yes, she did always have a huge line of cars behind her.