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Lol

Seems relevant to me as it is still a service that their company relied on.

So the solution is the same as it has been for over a decade. Don’t do business with Google.

I’ve had GIMP recommended as a free photo editing tool in many classes. Just saying that’s while you may not feel comfortable with recommending it, many others do.

I guess it would need an internet connection to work but sounds fun.

I would bill by ticket machine too if it was my job to collect money on the parking. I’m guessing that the amount of people who never pay is much higher than zero so it really only makes sense when you have such high throughput that the slowdown is detrimental (such as the Bay bridge).

No one wants to do nothing. People want to feel like they are contributing to society in some way.

Speak for yourself. I want to do nothing and have no interest in contributing anything to society. If I won the lottery tomorrow I’d guarantee a net negative for society.

I think people who want to stay anonymous just will not participate anymore. Like I’ve enjoyed using this site, Reddit etc but couldn’t care less about dropping them if I need to have an id verification to access. Someone will probably create a new communication method to replace this.

Nelson voice: Ha ha

Yet I still see someone scanning books with their phone to find the value most times I am in goodwill.

To each their own I guess. I never found the Expanse television series to be very good when compared to the books.

I live in as suburban of an area as you can imagine with master planned communities and what not. I can still walk to 3 grocery stores, multiple bars, fast food restaurants, fast casual restaurants, coffee shops, medical offices, convenience stores, and loads of other services in under 15 minutes. The suburbs built in the 90s and 2000s are not the dystopia people make them out to be.

Please give an example of somewhere that has groceries 30 minutes away and is denying some small business to move in near by. This makes it sound like you have never seen a suburb and are describing some extremely rural area.

Or move somewhere with bigger homes at a more affordable price.

The good news for you is that you can live like this in almost any major city. Those of us that absolutely want to drive places and live in SFH zoned areas can also do that. Win win.

It’s the raving drug addicts that cause the problem. That is a choice those people made.

It might but I’ll be still driving home “intoxicated” so long as the vehicle I drove to the drinking establishment can’t drive itself home. This is why I prefer the model for personal self driving vehicles.

Even if it is only 0.5% I would prefer that large institutional investment firms not be allowed into the housing market.

Unless hands are tied by work or contract.

So most people.

I’ve been to the big European cities and I am not sure I’ve seen anything I’d say was nicer than the big American cities. What specifically are you referring to?

Did you start using Linux on the Mac hardware or on PC hardware? I have a late era Intel Macbook and was considering switching it to Ubuntu or Debian since it is getting kinda slow.

Yes but many of us love it all the same.

I work in state government and while contractors don’t get benefits that FTEs receive, they are usually paid close to double in salary.

Just curious. How does that benefit someone like Ellison?

I always describe the smell like a cross between a skunk and a Christmas tree.

Hey if developers and office jobs get fucked by AI “promises” then fuck blue collar as well. You need a united population to destroy the interests of the 1%.

If so then call me a NIMBY. Not a Chandler but in Gilbert, the town next door. No need for data centers here or anywhere else around here either.

Because how do you reorient the demand to those areas that have the supply? It's not easy. We can't seem to do it currently, and there's no real plan to do it if even if we could somehow build even more housing.

Uh have you heard of telework? I am sure that both federal and state governments could incentivize companies to offer telework instead of some forced RTO situation.

Or you know the 97% can just kill the AI. I’d probably go that route.

Folks whose only news sources are Facebook shares and Fox News are simply stupid.

Maybe or maybe not. What I do know is that they are large in number and a political opponent should realize this and strategize accordingly.