To be honest this is only phrasing from people that have never lived under totalitarianism. If you have and then you managed to move or overturn it, you count your lucky stars every day about the ways you can actually affect outcomes in your life.

Of course you are only one voice, but the fact that you’re allowed to organise groups to address grievances is a revolutionary idea that most people that have it barely appreciate it - they think it’s natural and self evident, in fact it isn’t for most of the world.

The downfall from self inflicted injury will be faster and more severe than anything seen in history.

I’m also in possession of original hand-written letters by Jesus Christ himself, inside the original envelope complete with the “par avion” stamp that my neighbour gifted me.

Two hours later :

Where does she poop without poisoning of the water table and causing a plague?

This assumes a benign state/host. What I would want from the law is enforcing interoperability and transferability between networks - a portable identity that can be transferred in the first sign of trouble to a different provider.

You also need to be aware that it doesn’t like acidic sauces like heavy tomato as it strips the seasoning and you’ll the taste it in the food. You are better off using stainless steel for those.

I see. The first mistake I was making if I remember correctly was using the same continuous high heat as I would in a non stick and not wait long enough for the pan to heat evenly.

The difference in the amount of mass it carries makes it a different beast to cook in: it takes a while to warm up but also for the same reason it maintains and exceeds the temperature a non stick if you maintain high heat under it.

So try either starting at a low heat and waiting a while to warm up - maybe 3-5min. Or start at a high heat wait 2 mins to get it warm fast and then lower the stove to what would have been a simmer so you don’t overshoot.

Look, realistically, it’s never going to be less work than a new non stick pan - it’s heavy, might need some oil now and then and can’t put it in the dish washer.

But if you are like me, once you settle into a routine that you’re happy with you’ll be glad with the freedom that you don’t have to babysit this thing: that it can take a beating the non stick never could, that you don’t eat pfas, that you can stab it, scrape it, wash it, stack it, throw it in the oven, cook at any temperature, heavy mass means even heat and that you’ll never have to buy another one and will probably pass it on to your grandkids or even let it rust and come back to it and will be fine with a bit of love.

“Where are you coming from?”

…suspect smoking pipe…

“Alright then, keep your secrets”

“Amiable” is not “very friendly” - complete nonsense.

Not quite. It’s just easier to jump in to mechanics you already know, rather than try to reconceptualise the structure and learn to navigate new pitfalls: oh I need to select a server? Which one is the right one? Oh I need a client, which one? Oh I can’t quote retweet? How do I find interesting people to follow? Is this the right handle in the right server or am I following a bot?

Brill. One of us.

All of it, they’re human estimates.

In this timeline he already killed Trotsky and Che is female (or I can’t tell who the person in the beret is).

My first thought.

Yes - but here the words “flying car” do a lot of heavy lifting.

They feed people some expectations about an techno utopia as well as operating costs, availability, complexity, range, noise, maintenance none of which match reality.

Indeed - but that’s not the central issue here.

Traffic casualties, like running a reverse casino and deciding which games to include, are a matter of statistics.

Something that will kill you 9 times / 10 vs 4/10 will simply cause less deaths, the same for lesser injuries, less cost on society in general.

I don’t see the value of equivocating the two by ignoring their statistics.

Because we’ve been building “flying cars” for 70 years with nothing to show for it other than prototypes. Or in this instance not even that - a render.

The idea is too sweet and the investor money from the gullible too ready to flow so we rehash it every decade or so, ignoring physics and logic.

It seems to me that so long as a human adds a competitive edge to a product above and beyond to what the ai will produce nothing much will change other than some companies going bust after they made the mistake of firing people only to produce Gordian knots of slop that need to be torn down to be fixed. Productivity might increase for some sectors but it will also increase for their competitors- so where’s the competitive advantage? In the talent, again.

Basic physics says that lighter vehicles have less inertia, that carries less force, that stops faster and causes less damage. Let alone the host of other benefits of smaller cars, environmental, psychological, societal etc.