I dont know if i could sleep there without waking up from nighmares of SCP-3008

How about we reframe this from ‘dramatic U-turn’ to instead be: “school district piloting AI program finds that it has a negative effect and decides to exclude it from use.”

Fine, I’ll put my “yard trimmings” in a car compactor instead

Delivery or click&collect is the worst option. I like to actually pick my fruit, veg & meat very specifically rather than just getting whatever the overworked grocery store worker throws in in the mad rush to complete orders in the allotted time.

You would be pretty much on the money.

Because the USA produces practically enough oil to be self reliant without oil coming through the straight, their prices havent actually increased as much as other countries who dont produce their own oil.
So not only did they drive up prices worldwide to fuck every other country over but americans have the gall to bitch about fuel prices which have increased a fraction of the impact its had on ours whilst being the sole reason for the fuckery.

I know, cant look grandma the same any more.

I mean, shes dead, but the point still stands.

No way, me too!

They have been banned in the CBD of my city because they are ridden on footwaths plenty and after numerous collision injuries someone was killed by an electric scooter. They are need to be regulated, licenced and only ridden on the road/cycle paths if they go that fast (whilst also being practically silent mind you).

Im suprised it isnt “New New America” yet

Fresh air, zero light pollution, zero traffic or background noise.

The thing that took me longest to get used to after moving to the ciry was the noise, even in your backyard in the suburbs you can hear constant hum and drone, the occasional loud motorbike or distant ambulance.

That and never seeing the milky way again, sometimes on a new moon i can see like some stars in the scluster, but not the absolute cloud of endless stars you see when your 3hrs from the nearest city.

Jokes on you, i charge myne primarily with home solar, so its free.

Sounds like someone doesnt know their Nyet’s from their Nein’s.

useless gadget

Tactically mounted gaudy gold-plated phone with only the ability to spam all-caps messages to social media randomly throughout the day

They already phased out their gas showers, so i would say progress is being made.

I resort to attaching them mentally to a video game/tv show character of the same (or rhyming) name, then forever hope i dont accidentally make a reference to that fact or the character they have been assigned in my head.

Possibly.
Also I imagine the rich class (who dont cook themselves, be honest) like their fridge to keep itself stocked with sparkling water, charcuterie cheese and cocktail mixers itself.

Python?

Someone who finds the concept of seeing the milk getting low and adding to the shopping list manually themselves too baffling.

Also to add that the people with money and power control the game, they have total control over the news papers/channels/websites, the algorithms on social media, everything.

They push their agenda and whatever they need to keep us distracted, arguing, missing the actual things that matter and disillusioned to our ability to change the direction we are heading.
Power will always be in the interest of maintaining power.

There is more than enough money and food to go around, there is the ability to throw our best and smartest at solving our problems and people as a whole generally are good and want to get along.
The cost of people with the mental sickness that allows them to disregard everybody else to continue endlessly sucking up every bit of power and money is immeasurable.

The only real solution is to provide as much friction as possible. Push back when you can, be a voice of change or support somebody else who is that voice for you, dont be afraid to question your own beliefs, do what you can to help and be kind to your fellow human.