That too. I went from a 1998 sedan to a 2010 hatchback, and the latter feels like it has good visibility because of the tall window, but the A-pillar will block pedestrians in the crosswalk, and even mask whole cars. I have to bob my head around from side to side to be confident I’m not about to hit something while turning.
My understanding is that it has to do with updated rollover safety requirements that came in in the mid-late 2000s. They have to be able to support something like 2.5 times their weight on the roof, making all of the pillars thicker. Combined with additional overall weight from other crash regulations, this means that A-pillars are yet bigger. Cars have become much safer for occupants at the expense of safety for pedestrians, who are not part of the equation as pedestrians are subhuman.
An automated factory employing machine learning algorithms is very different from an LLM chatbot. They both get lumped together as “AI” (which doesn’t exist), but machine learning is actually useful
e: to get more specific, machine learning “AI” does things like predict how molecules will bind to proteins, for purposes of creating novel pharmaceuticals or whatever. a far cry from “@grok is this real”
Ah! You’re from any given Canadian large city I see
No, they get driven. The important people are driven around and everyone else can eat shit
You don’t have to worry about that too much, the mighty chinese industrial economy will steamroll the american scam economy before they’re able to implement their plans worldwide. Now, we in western countries might end up trapped in a prison society where all information is controlled by LLM chatbots, but it won’t be the fate of the whole world.
It is relevant, though. They’re geopolitically aligned with China and are the junior partner. It’s ridiculous to think that they’re the biggest threat to world peace
They aren’t ideologically aligned (at least for the most part), but they’re geopolitically aligned by circumstance.
THE SUN SMILES AT YOU WITH ETERNAL MALICE
YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE MANMADE HORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION.
Ultimately I think things’ll work out ok, though.
Thank God for imbuing you with skepticism
democracy for the slave owners?
You can’t let a pesky volk get in the way of the endsieg
Didn’t I say “admirable future goal” rather than “good idea right now”? Eventually, society ought to progress to the point where money is no longer needed, through both development of productive forces and development of societal attitudes. This is the goal of communism. The concept of money is only a few thousand years old, and humanity existed for hundreds of thousands of years longer than it, so it’s by no means impossible.
Did you ever watch the Star Trek shows? The Federation in Star Trek doesn’t have money. Both because they have replicators and can instantly reproduce any item using only energy, but also because they’re a more advanced society that has moved beyond needing a medium of exchange
I would like it if you were to expound on this in detail
I don’t think any socialist society has ever abolished money so far, though it’s an admirable future goal. The USSR certainly didn’t abolish money, they had Rubles.
Comparing the Holocaust to something that isn’t a genocide, in seriousness and not in jest.
A famine caused by mismanagement is a damn sight different from the deliberate and industrialized mass-extermination of entire ethnic groups.
nato is a heckin’ epic defensive alliance that is completely isolated from either its own actions or the actions of its members. it is an ideal, a pure monad representing the defence of the free world against authoritarianism. the “free world” is also a pure monad that has nothing to do with the actions of any of its members.