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I don't need to experience taking my attention off the road and not controlling a vehicle because that in itself is dangerous. Computers and sensors aren't bulletproof. The point I'm trying to make isn't that it existing is bad. It's that Musk and his legion of cultists have marketed the self driving aspects as some panacea to all safety and traffic issues. It just isn't. Self driving capabilities should be seen as, marketed as, and designed for being safety assistance. It should never be the intention that the car is solely under its own control.

If I wanted that, I'd take a rideshare.

Because it isn't self driving. There are lots of gaps in capability the self driving systems have that make people not take the act of driving as seriously as it should be for how dangerous it is.

The best thing Elon does is hire execs well. That's why SpaceX is so successful. He's an "ideas man" first and foremost. And most of his ideas actually truly suck. Reusable rocket stages is Buck Rogers shit that I will never not love and one of the best space flight advancements since the Space Shuttle. Everything else Musk has done has been done by someone else (electric car battery layouts), could be done by others (charging standardization and proliferation), or isn't done by anyone else because the idea is dumb as fuck and either doesn't work at all, or makes things worse (self driving AI, hyperloop, the fucking flamethrower, his kid with the dumb name, neuralink, Mars colony, labor exploitation, starlink, the Thai cave rescue, the dumb Harambe rap).

That's some good art. I need more art that's good. I have a few rando posters and then some band posters I like but that's about it.

Supervillain-ass shit.

Libs are indeed the softest.

"...because of GEORGE W. BUSH!!!"

Here's a thread from a real virologist:

This dude is Seth Abramson, but for Covid. Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding UNDARK.ORG The scientist has gained popularity as Covid's excitable play-by-play announcer. But some experts want to pull his plug.

Dear god.

Looks cool as a building. But if you think that's a buttplug...

This is really helpful. I was going to skip it unless I found a summary. Now I get to revel in failure and confirm my priors!

To treat cancer you need radiation and chemotherapy, which both weaken and destroy parts of the body. And since McConnell doesn't want to weaken OR destroy ANY parts of the Republican Party, they'll probably take the Steve Jobs approach to this one and do the political equivalent of a fruit juice enema.

Oh wow... So 66% basically means you might still get sick. But you probably won't die if you get the J&J vax, still get covid, and wind up in the hospital. Whereas, otherwise...

What are the odds this snowballs and crashes the stock market?

Ugh SAME. Due to all the Robinhood fuckery though, I think I'm just not going to do anything on their platform.

I've had a Fiesta ST since 2013. I've almost put 100,000 miles on it and it might be my favorite car I've ever owned. Fuck Ford for discontinuing it in the US. Huzzah to the manual hot hatch gang.

Gee, it's almost as if capitalism is based on nonsense.

I like how all of us have hit the argument each from a different and specific direction to point out why each of those pieces were wrong. Great job team.

What you've misunderstood is that the Russian interference was what the Democrats used as the REASON FOR THE OUTCOME. Not that the result of the election was illegitimate and should be reversed.

I'm thinking this isn't going to be included. Because it's an astonishingly bad idea for these specifically.

I saw the "Diane Feinstein" and "87" parts of this thread title and my brain legit thought this was an obituary. Fuck her.

This is something I don't necessarily agree with. Godzilla's relationship to humans is the whole point. Obviously, with 1954's Godzilla, it's most prominent in the form of a fable of man vs. the consequences of the development of the atomic bomb. Even when Godzilla's character transitioned to a more kid-friendly earthly protector, there were still pretty cool messages from time to time. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster is one of the best movies from the Showa era because it shifts the danger to humanity from atomic energy to pollution. And it showed massive human costs in stark ways. Fast forward to 2016's Shin Godzilla, and it yet again anchors the story of man's (inadequate) response to Godzilla--this time as a natural or nuclear disaster a la Fukushima. Yeah, most of the movies are about fighting space aliens or whatever and the humans are kindof set pieces. But I believe there are flashes of brilliance all throughout Godzilla's run that MUST relate Godzilla to the humans. That's when Godzilla is truly the king.