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psychothumbs ,

If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.

psychothumbs ,

Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.

psychothumbs OP ,

What do all the people downvoting it based on the title assume it means?

psychothumbs ,

Any time a company is pushing a change this hard I know it's not something I want.

psychothumbs ,

It will be nice when the energy density on batteries has gotten high enough and charging times have gotten low enough that we can move on from making cars so aerodynamic and experiment more with funkier form factors.

psychothumbs ,

So trashy

psychothumbs ,

This is one of many reasons you should use a password of some kind that you keep inside of your head to unlock your phone rather than a biometric that people can use to unlock it against your will.

psychothumbs ,

How is that different from the usual way of having a password as your way of accessing your phone?

psychothumbs OP ,

Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.

psychothumbs OP ,

It has already been done, that's what the article is about: https://drivers.coop/

Currently based in NYC, but getting ready for a big launch in Minneapolis in response to the incumbent rideshare companies pulling out of the city in protest of increased rideshare regulation. Big opportunity to seize some marketshare without needing that much startup capital if your better financed competitors are removing themselves from that part of the market.

psychothumbs OP ,

Yeah I think it's pretty much just in NYC for now, with a big launch in Minneapolis in progress. Hopefully they get to Denver soon!

psychothumbs OP ,

The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.

psychothumbs OP ,

The offshoot running Android would hopefully just be called "Android"

psychothumbs ,

But the reality they're referencing is someone being "in their house" in the sense of being in their tweet replies. Nobody is following you around online, you're carrying them around in your pocket.

psychothumbs ,

What inbox? Like people are sending you angry emails? Still doesn't really have a "following you around" vibe.

psychothumbs ,

That seems more like you are going to hang out in a place where those people also hang out, and are encountering them there, as opposed to them following you around.

psychothumbs ,

Thanks I appreciate that, I do need to be right and will think whatever I want.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

psychothumbs ,

Airlines must be pretty crazy to think not letting people use their phones is going to decrease air rage

psychothumbs ,

Sure people talking on the phone can be annoying, but that's not the main thing people use their phones for - scrolling and texting are the ultimate tools for getting people to sit silently for long periods.

psychothumbs ,

The trouble is we end up having to install both when we could be only using Signal

psychothumbs ,

But it's not the same - there's a community of people doing the same thing, and with those contacts you'll be using Signal.

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