I mean, that goes against my principles, but make no mistake that would make education cool and edgey with kids like nothing else.

Dumb idea, banning something for kids just makes it cooler.

Also a dumb idea because we will just get outsmarted by kids evading these bans faster than we make them, and the end result will be wherever kids will go as an alternative (digital or not) will just be more opaque to adults who genuinely care and want the best for kids.

Sexism is believing it is okay to grope a woman and commit sexual assault.

Casual sexism is automatically assuming a woman (in power or not) who brings legal action against someone for committing sexual assault is doing so for attention or some other false ulterior motive.

I just want to say, I share your specific species of frustration here and understand it well. Ughhh.

They actively encourage it in fact.

Yes, this is the extra cherry on top that makes San Francisco look like a parody of itself here lol

I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too though? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.

Not an excuse.

Then again, the human passengers didn’t see it either.

The human passengers weren’t responsible for driving the vehicle, their lack of awareness is a feature of getting a taxi ride?

This, at least, can likely be remedied fleet-wide and permanently with a software fix.

You have so much misplaced faith in these massive corporations…

What you aren’t taking into account how much the US social safety net has hollowed out since the dotcom crash.

This is going to be very bad, I wouldn’t waste words speculating about the extent of the damage, we haven’t seen this kind of shock hit such a fragile US society. There is no resilience left in the US people to climb out of a big economic crash, things will just shatter.

The dotcom crash was a process of a period of vibrant growth and opportunity smashing into a wall, this is different… this is much worse, it is like a runner already in terrible shape collapsing in the middle of a marathon from their body shutting down, AI is just the acute symptom of a much more worrying disease where the ruling class is attempting to hallucinate itself out of the consequences of their divestment from any functional social safety for the rest of the country.

I agree completely with this assessment.

gulp

The AI bubble will pop, but will likely be more like the doctom crash than the 2008 one. It isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the economy.

This is going to age like milk.

So that’s it. Sorry for the long, rambly wall of text, but I feel like for responses to be truly helpful, people should know exactly what it is I’m looking for.

absolutely! no reason to apologize

In some pockets yes, but travelling through reddit to find those pockets is like wandering through a sandcastle falling into the sea to find the handful of luxurious dry pristine rooms left.

The nicer the rooms are the sadder it makes you to know it is all for naught and is being washed away in front of your very eyes.

I used to go to reddit often for niche information, these days it barely feels worth the trouble even when there is no alternative source for the information anymore/yet.

True, but to me that indicates the people enshittifying Reddit to pump and dump it for short term profit did a good job of sowing enough confusion and distrust that it obscured all the bots pouring in. They leaned into a culture of fakeness and inhumanness in developing Reddit as a for-profit entity.

Way to make me nauseous with that thought lol, I doubt actual reddit users are as brain dead as all the bots and corporate shilling makes them look however…

I know you are kidding but “15% are corporate shills” is verrrry generous to reddit in my experience. Reddit is a dead husk.

hell yeah!

All that Genocide Profiteering got you down Microsoft?