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stewie3128 ,

Podcast, or some insane Art Bell interview from 30 years ago.

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Make the passing grade for a driving test 20% higher than it currently is, and make everyone take a driving test every five years. You get one re-test if you fail.

And once you hit 70, driving tests every year.

Anyone who fails under the new regulations would have been causing a lot of problems on the roads.

stewie3128 ,

I'm of two minds about people not adblocking.

On one hand: Ads are gross noise pollution, and people are increasingly unaware of all the noise around them (or the noise they're generating) largely because they've been passively trained to "tune out" ads. Also consumerism.

On the other hand: As long as there are a significant amount of people oblivious to the possibility of adblock, corporate ad mobsters and the other worst people in the world out there will largely leave those of us blocking their ads alone. If everyone ran adblockers, we'd definitely live in a world of WEI... and probably worse. So, maybe all those people are watching ads so that I don't have to, as the YouTube thumbnails say.

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I just don't want to see ads.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

stewie3128 ,

I think old people are the ones less likely to understand this stuff.

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70 or older in my family. My dad's wife just posted an excited post on Facebook about a Tesla Concorde taking off, and do had to explain to her that it's a flight simulator. She's 73.

stewie3128 ,

In the US, there will always be a critical mass of voters ready to end the careers of anyone who tries to do any of the above.

I'd add that buses for the most part don't help, and we should revive the trolly systems that Goodyear intentionally put out of business, and furthermore build out mega railway projects to take long haul trucks off the road.

Railways need to be nationalized, and we need to make it easier to live rurally without the need for multiple cars and lots of gas consumption.

And we need to start building a bunch of new nuke plants like 30 years ago.

None of that will start to happen until it is way beyond too late though. And even if the US got onboard with the program, there will always be 40% of the planet who won't. So fuck it, enjoy nature while it lasts. We'll turn the sky white to geoengineer away some of the solar radiation, but the line will continue to go down from here.

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It was the style at the time

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iPhone or Mac?

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Stupidest law I've heard of this week.

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Kagi. It's better here.

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Well, it costs Kagi about 1.5 cents to answer a search query. Consider how many searches you use in a month to determine how much they're making off you at $10/mo.

I'm lucky enough to be in a position to be able to pay for products that I use, instead of relying on freemium, or ad-supported, or data-mined, or pirated products. That hasn't always been the case for me, so I don't judge anyone for making a different choice.

stewie3128 ,

They've said that it costs them 1.5 cents to answer a search query, so that dollar a month wouldn't go very far. I probably incidentally run 40-50 searches a day between my devices... $10 is a value that works for me.

I've been using Kagi as my default since June, and don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

stewie3128 ,

Is there a way to USB boot Tails on a phone?

2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sense as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet...

Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable...

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In Atlanta I had a choice of natural gas companies, even though it would have been cheaper if there were simply one single regulated monopoly.

Competing utilities are just a way to give out cash to rent-seeking middlemen.

stewie3128 ,

Quoth George Carlin... Commandment :

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

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Almost all of the US states that have more cows than people share borders.

They should all be merged into one state.

This would solve many problems.

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Company directors.

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There's no deterrent effect in that. You need to take away much more than simply the money they illegally made.... Either MUCH more money, or their freedom.

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion (www.vice.com)

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

stewie3128 ,

The US doesn't have any strategic benefit in propping up Israel other than doing so being weirdly important to white voters.

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Yeah, the US is the only thing keeping Israel in business. They're useful to keep an eye on Iran, because we don't like Iran, because...?

Saudis need our weapons, and Qatar likes the money we spend to keep our increasing number of bases there. But these are purely transactional relationships that we can have with anyone.

I think Kuwait are still fans of the US.

Other than that, everyone hates us because we protect Israel, and they hate Israel. Why don't we just join the club, and pick up an entire region of strategic allies instead of "Israel at all costs"?

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I get the sense that everyone responding to this is completely missing the joke.

They mean laser printers, people.

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