The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.
It was awful.
“Oh, look. He’s a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook.”
Exactly! If I’m not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?
Yes. It’s been a few years since I countered a video game that didn’t have separate volume sliders for dialog, for music, and for all others sounds.
I’ll wait and see if they can add some AI to it. But if they can, I’ll invest my entire life savings.
Yes. That’s what AI actually adds - plausible deniability.
My partner and I used to use location sharing pretty much 100% of the time. We just felt better knowing we could find each other.
But today, we do not, because the trust is shattered.
Google just cannot be trusted with our locations.
“Hospitality/ Nevada”
I see we’re still playing along with that euphemism. Haha.
Yes. I’m not sure what else has gone on, but NAFTA and the US China Relations Act sweaping all of the manufacturing out of the country could account for the whole change between the two maps.
If they came with wall mounts, you might think like I did “I’m not sure I want to wall mount these.”
But now I can say - it’s great. It feels good to have them wall mounted in a prominent visible place.
More of the same, because they have the same sponsors. Maybe make a big show of a big change, and then fail to pass it.
nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example.
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
“We could be in serious legal trouble.”
“Don’t worry. My billions will protect me.”
But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.
Same as how an entry level architect can build a building 60% as tall, and that’ll last 60% as long, right?
Edit: And an entry level aerospace engineer with AI assistance will build a plane that’s 60% as good at not crashing.
I’m not looking forward to the world I believe is coming…
Sure, like NFTs were here to stay, and the gazillion different shitcoins that were popping up everywhere some years ago.
I bet you’re just angry that you didn’t hold onto your ape NFTs. They’re going to skyrocket back soon. (I hope my sarcasm here is obvious, of course.)
The little squiggles are necessary to ensure election outcomes acceptable to the ultra rich.
I’m joking. (Mostly)
The squiggles are probably county line divisions, and probably simply the smallest existing land divisions with good population data available to make the map from.
I say “mostly joking” because existing county line divisions are already weird in some cases, to ensure election outcomes acceptable to the ultra rich. So there’s an unpleasant grain of truth in my joke.
the very fact that there is a big urban/rural cultural divide is one of the things killing America.
I agree wholeheartedly about the problem. But blind highest count vote on every topic is one of the big dividers between rural and urban folks.
Rural folks will simply never have the numbers to influence outcomes in a pure vote count scenario. They’re aware of this, and it leads to animosity.
Incidentally, I agree that financial decoupling would be ruinous for both, as well.
The real solution is represtational seats that give everyone a voice - no matter how the voting zone is divided.
I suspect that requires doing away with first-past-the-poll. The winner of that race will almost always be a city person, by raw numeric chance. That’s fine, city folks have some good ideas. The problem is when there’s no rural voice at the negotiation, at all.
And I think any sensible person realizes we also have to put a stop to all gerrymandering.
Also, we need to give seats to what remains of all of the first nations, while we’re at it.
This still has the representative issue that each of the narrow bands are narrow due to a huge metropolis within them, and the rural population of that band will always live with rules created by the metropolis for the metropolis.
It’s a pretty map, though.
And is still makes more sense than “carefully negotiated by powerful ultra rich a few hundred years ago to protect each of their giant egos.”
I don’t see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.
So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn’t collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?
Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.
I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.