And what do Bob, Fred and Levar have in common?

PBS

A common good in the USA.

Like that one national outage couple years back.

Like the server failure at my grocery store last month.

And like the communications cable cut at my local gas station a few months before.

It happens far more often than you might think.

The next several election cycles are going to be awash with AI generated video and audio of politicians doing and saying atrocious things that they never actually did.

And the sociopaths who released these tools on the world will just shrug and say “nothing I can do about it”…

Wasn’t their country created specifically because of another government who thought mass executions of their “enemies” was a good thing?

Cash isn’t that hard.

People have been using cash for a helluva lot longer that they have been using cards.

And having some cash on me has been very handy when the card machines are down (which has happened a few times a year at one store or another)

my question is: why does nobody do that?

That’s the part I don’t get too.

It seems like nobody has ever tried to stop the guy. The more he gets away with, the more shit he tries.

Because nobody calls their bluff.

Question: what value do self driving taxis add to regular taxis?

Additional profit for the owners.

Paying drivers cuts into the profits.

I don’t really have any plausible explanation

Far too many people want simple (and therefore simplistic) answers to complex problems.

And that’s exactly what populists offer them.

Of course, in the real world, complex problems never have simple solutions that actually work.

And, usually, those simple solutions cause more problems than they solve.

Once elected, they’ll do exactly the same things.

Only slightly quieter and in a less chaotic manner.

Fucking up everybody else is a sacrifice he’s willing to do…

It’s what he has always done.

As long as he thinks he can make a nickel of profit, he will bulldoze right through you.

Not one jot or tiddle will change… except all the changes I’m making. But also I’m unchanging because I’m god." It frightens me when people assert that the bible contains no contradictions. It is a dangerous lack of critical thinking.

It’s almost like the whole thing was made up by an assortment of self-appointed leaders who were trying to control other people’s behaviors.

“I know what my God demands of you”

But when questioned further

“God works in mysterious ways”

they’ve got a lot of things in there I like.

None of the positive things about any religion are unique to that religion. And those don’t require belief in some mythical deity, nor a priesthood to enforce (their sect’s interpretation of) that deitiy’s rules and demands.

Those good things are just as possible in a secular society, and don’t require all the dogmatism and tribalism that comes with religion.

And a platform that requires login to download.

Doesn’t pla become brittle?

Maybe.

Eventually.

But but I’ve had PLA light shades and garden decorations out in the weather (direct sun, rain, freezing temperatures) for 3-4 years without any noticeable deterioration.

You can’t 100% 3D print a working gun that won’t be as dangerous to the user as it is to the target.

You still need some actual metal gun parts to make it do gun things properly.

Not really relevant to the topic being discussed, but ok…

This has been a problem since the early days of usenet.

I suspect there is no good solution

They call it a dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe it.