We had efficiency answered decades ago during the 70s fuel shortage. Big oil didn’t want to normalize cars like the Vega, Moodymobile, VW Rabbit, later the Geo Metro. They wanted us to burn more oil not less. And that hasn’t changed. Cars don’t need to be designed in wind tunnels.

Which is beyond insane. People are broke.

I just want cheap economy shitboxes back. User serviceable ones. Without an extra half ton of plastic and unnecessary electronics. Bring back wind up windows and normal radios. Vinyl seats. Hell, bench seats. Wind up windows.

Fucking finally.

Now make cars look like cars again. Last 30 years has been a parade of Jellybeans and Electric Shavers.

You know the craziest part? Had king dipshit just used fkin’ cameras LIDAR instead of LIDAR Cameras not only would manufacture had been cheaper, but it would work waaaaaaaay better at the whole self driving part.

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I really hate living in the armpit of history. Too late to see first flight and the moon landing. Too early to travel into space.

I might actually be alive to see AGI happen. At least in its proto-form. Which actually is kinda exciting. Unfortunately its owned and controlled by the most sadistic avaricious capitalists that have ever existed. Meaning it will be used almost exclusively for evil. Killbots and wiping out whole industries worth of jobs. Naturally with no retraining or UBI to float the inevitable victims.

That’s the ideal outcome imo. That instead of just killing us it takes over management of the planet Earth and everything on it. AI Driven Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism baby. Oh yeah.

That said, killing us would be more efficient.

We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.

And that’s fine. We won’t be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.

corpses.

YT Exec - /rips massive line of coke off Intern’s ass/ - “Remove View Count”

YT Engineer - “But Sir, users will hate that. It will actively make the user experience worse”

YT Exec - “That’s the goddamn point!”

Well yes. That’s the point. Cut costs (slash staff, quality, etc) then make as much money as you can as fast as you can off the goodwill and fan loyalty built up by the original product/service.

Vulture Capital doing what it does. Make everything shittier AND more expensive.

Once dreamed I was a D-Class. They gave me a fully functional Absolute Exclusion Harness from SCP-5000 and made me look at a picture of SCP-096. For shits and giggles I suppose.

Then I had to evade it’s pursuit…It didn’t work. He found me immediately. And he ate me. Whole.

Whichever is closest.

Acetaminophen kills your liver. Ibuprofen melts the glue holding your guts together.

What matters right now is your headache.

Oh yeah? ~reaches for feathered Tricorn~

You don’t say? ~shifts buckaneer coat across shoulders~

No, you don’t mean that? ~straps on pistol/saber belt~

Why would you say such a thing ya daft cunt ? ~quote by nearby African Grey Parrot~

https://youtu.be/gP9qaDhcSwQ?si=fXLBBjA0VxJeHcja

I only keep twitter installed so I can check service outages.

Why do I need a twitter account to do that?

Edge only exists to download Firefox.

Trust the process.

The man is a tragic waste of functioning organs. And it would be really really funny if one of his own jank ass “smart cars” ends up ending him.

It can. In theory.

The theoretical part is the “uncorrupt government” you speak of.

The only way to keep a govt “uncorrupt” as you put it is under pain of literal death. And even then its not foolproof. Some will still be tempted.

If you want a govt that will serve the people while being as incorruptible as possible you have to choose politicians by lottery instead of election. They get called, go serve, then go back to the life they had before. Like 4 years of Jury Duty. Political graspers, climbers, those will always trend towards corruption. Like that old addage, anyone actively seeking political office is unfit to serve in that capacity as their motivations are suspect. Power, authority, etc. All that is only intensified in a system as inconceivably corrupt and broken as ours is.

Democrats making obviously winning plays? You cannot be serious.

They are intentionally bad at politics. Their greatest skills are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and shitting and falling back in it. Wanna see how for yourself? Dig into the DNC. They’re not a political entity, they’re a corp. And they work for the interests of corps. If what they do occasionally isnt absolute shit its almost entirely incidental.

Israel’s plan has always been to start the war then have the US fight it for them. Because they wouldn’t have a prayer even if they shared a border.

Seriously. They’ve been trying to engineer this war for a long time. McCain, Bolton, all those Cryptkeeper age neocons were on the take even back before Bush kicked off his Global War on Peace.

(for the Uninitiated, Tales from the Cryptkeeper. 1989-1996)