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My boss gave me the week off (I'm my boss).

grandma had a mean nerve pinch

I'd think anything that involved an open casket would be red tinted. Who wants to see grandma in her casket with visibly green veins...

If you are a child and one of the things you want to do is gamble, yes.

All kinds of machine-assisted things do much more than you can with your own effort, without getting extreme. Constant slow brushing with no danger of ripping anything out, with constant pressure and suction interchanged, for like 20 minutes without stopping

This isn't the first machine from Japan to promise these things.

They're not human washing machines though.

What items do you think that you have control over? You don't own anything in your account and it can be taken away for any reason or for no reason at all.

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What you're describing is exactly how these echo chambers naturally form.

You'll have a group of active people that share a set of beliefs and anybody who doesn't share all of those beliefs is treated as an enemy and bullied. Name calling, downvote brigading, strawmanning their position, etc. until that person leaves and the community is just a bit more of an echo chamber.

This happens in video game communities and in social justice communities. One thing that everyone has in common is that as soon as someone is identified as an enemy then there is little that you can do to them that is immoral.

We a similar problem as MAGA in that a large part of the base doesn't actually understand how anything works and lives in a world of memes and hot takes.

The amount of people who don't know basic civics lessons like "Who is responsible for the US Budget?" or "How does military service work?" is frightening.

No wonder democracy is starting to crumble. A large number of our population has no idea what democracy is about, the day to day that they live in is more akin to authoritarian totalitarianism (corporate life, smh). It's not surprising that people don't value democracy... they never experience it and don't have the education to understand it.

Yeah but it feels a little more scummy when it's Visa, Mastercard and American Express

They also let your children gamble, so that's cool too

Until it's no longer more profitable to make their cars safer, or regulation requires they make their cars safer, or a competitor decides to take market share by making their cars safer.

“Because they’ve become safer over time, they’ll continue to do so indefinitely” doesn’t work for me.

That's fine because that's not what I said.

Which of these do you disagree with?:

• Human driving capability has shown no indication of improving.

• Autonomous vehicle capabilities are showing indications of improving.

It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to recognize that these measures of performance will eventually intersect (unless you think there's something fundamentally special about human driving that is impossible to replicate).

It's odd that the thing that terrifies you is that nobody is able to be punished. Grandma and her dog are dead in both scenarios. We want whatever will cause that scenario to happen the least.

I'd rather 1 grandma is run over without a clearly responsible party than 10 grandmothers be killed while 10 drivers are sent to prison.

A person who's not paying attention or drunk is always going to exist no matter how many grandmas are flattened. The software bug can be fixed and sensors can be improved.

Self-driving cars are the worst they will ever be and they will only get better. Human drivers are not going to improve.