Most of that goes toward implementation (data centers) and chip manufacturing. China is making money on compute services and maintaining capability parity on software the good old fashioned pirate way merely to prevent a technology gap with the US, as is their way.

I would reckon that China is perfectly satisfied to let us be the sole host of the thing that is rapidly destroying our economy and trust in all media from the inside out.

I wrote jewish zionist only because I had just written rastafari zionist, so needed differentiation. Nothing I wrote was incorrect, but there are so many potentially triggering words in my comment that I think people’s brains just took off running without reading carefully. Read my other reply to the comment above, too.

Israel and Judaism are not synonyms. The nation state of Israel is a European white supremacist project, conceived and launched by the British, that scapegoats Judaism to justify western incursion into the Arab world.

It’s crazy that I wrote “Jewish Zionist” specifically to differentiate from “Rastafari Zionist” (Quite different) and the reading comprehension level in this thread had the takeaway that I was being antisemitic. Fucking unreal.

Rastafari are technically zionist -> There is jewish zionist reggae -> The israeli state is controlled by jewish zionists -> The israeli state is a white supremacist project.

So uh… Yes?

You’re about to get mad at him for taking so long but then you realize it’s only because he was having trouble carrying a dozen pints. Then you remember that he has three times as many appendages than you and you get mad again.

They were so expensive at their peak and I’m convinced it was due almost as much to raw amount of material as it was their popularity.

No no, I voluntarily moved on to skinny jeans around 2005 (Don’t worry, I eventually voluntarily moved on from those too).

Right, but you’re talking past their point. You both have good points but yours does not faithfully address theirs.

It takes practice and skill to get a standard bicycle going that fast

It does not. As someone who does regularly do that on rides, I can vet that any able bodied kid can get a road bicycle to hit 40 on a long downhill, first try. The real difference is that they do not go seeking that experience, usually they’re just trying to get somewhere they need to be.

Personally I’m good with “If it has a throttle-driven motor, it’s a motor vehicle” and just doing motor vehicle licenses as we always have. Maybe just lower the permit age if teens need access to motor vehicles, or ask ourselves why we built a society where teens need access to motor vehicles.

Which is somewhat funny to me, because I break 40 on a downhill with normal effort on my regular, motorless, leg-powered bicycle that was built in the 90s. I do understand there is some difference there in that I have to work for it and remain focused to stay at speed, I’m not just twisting a throttle and getting distracted. But in terms of defining vehicle classes through legalese it does seem like the wrong sort of taxonomy to me, sometimes feels like we’re either legislating ourselves into a corner or aiming to solve the wrong problem.

I’m trying to figure out what the problem actually is here. Is it that kids have access to a motor vehicle that can go fast enough to hurt them? Is that the primary issue under discussion? Might be good to treat them how some northern states treat snowmobiles and require a safety certificate that kids can get by doing a drivers ed-type class. Cops don’t have to putz around harassing kids for enforcement, just require it be presented to purchase, to get school parking, submitted after a crash, etc. But that should be a state solution, not a municipal one. Schools should be educating kids about safe use, and cities/towns should consider providing safer infrastructure for micromobility. I think the best you can and should be doing is making it as safe as possible, not prohibiting. Real adaptation will require some investment at the state level just like any other class of vehicle. But municipal representatives can encourage acceleration of that process.

Why? Little corporations must comply with KYC law, too. They’re all required to gather personal data.

It’s an insult to tell someone to look before crossing the street in a fuckcars comm. Like no shit. Why do you think we’re all in here. It’s really frustrating because accounting for the externalities of cars is the normative state of being for us, nobody is in here to fool themselves about that fact, we’re here because of it. At least I am. I’m not really down in this thread to entertain the myth of the bumbling jay as some sage counter-argument. It’s not.

Fuck off. Email or call your city council member and advocate for better pedestrian infrastructure. Do it, right now.

Well shit I guess I need to go get a fuschia tracksuit for my night walks. A whole different set of drivers can harass me for a new reason.

Sounds like neither company will be complying, as Spain used a local kangaroo court where the proceedings are carried out without the awareness or presence of the defendants, likely disqualifying it for EU Digital Services Regulation. This doesn’t hurt VPN providers, this just makes a clown show of the Spanish legal system.

Hundreds of square miles of tollway spaghetti. When I lived in NYC I was convinced that it’s intentionally confusing, so that you exit and enter through the toll booths over and over.