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Hard hat and a white truck, you can do anything you ever wanted.

Envision. The car was worth like $18k but with labor the fender was about $7.5k and since that’s over 40% of the value, it automatically totaled. I argued to no avail and almost kept it but the damage title wasn’t worth it.

I got into a fender bender with my Buick and they totalled it because the fender was worth half as much as the car. They’re doing something very wrong in car design.

Sex work back then was, I think, a lot more about the sex act. Today it’s focused on the escort side a lot, being a human being they can spend time with. Almost a social surrogate. I’ve known a lot of sex workers who said it was 50/50 on guys who wanted to fuck vs guys who wanted to cuddle/cry/talk. But in this case they’re being hired for their knowledge. I bet little of what’s happening here is actual sex. Which shows how broken and disconnected our society is - the people driving it, at the bleeding edge, need to pay big bucks for a IRL flesh-and-blood fix. We’re all cooked if we continue this timeline of loneliness and fragmentation.

On today’s edition of Hoarders

Weird take, I am not ready to just say “oh it’s fine when X does this because the CCP started it.”

Non tech people don’t understand, gay bar owners are not civil rights advocates who are attuned to digital privacy. It’s ignorance and I hope to god they get a shitton of media attention that teaches them this is a bad idea, and then we can start a movement on it.

Americans don’t know how to fight AI so they’re fighting data centers instead. You’ll notice folks who don’t care about climate change or brown kids with cancer taking an interest in this fight.

The Internet is pretty fucked, we might as well just call it and go home. Oh wait

It says “over 1.2” which means you know what some engineer gave the spec as.

I think that was the joke there

Remember all those dystopian movies that were trying to warn us? Well now they’re guides.

A jet has multiple integrated digital systems meaning it would be super easy to hide things within the wiring or on circuit boards, which is exactly what security professionals said when they accepted the plane - it could never be made truly safe without being gutted - but they didn’t listen.

Well thank god there are no stories out there about AI wanting to kill humans

Remember Kodak too but it’s not their fault someone else took digital photography and actually did something with it.

I’ve fantasized about doing something like this but putting in a nonprofit, foundation-based system run by a board of mental health workers, that was designed to actually bring people together. It may still happen. I don’t have the high barrier to entry it takes to start a social network so I’m starting from the other end and doing community organizing instead. Power to the real people offline, who aren’t trying to make a profit off our need for human connection.

Folks who work in social justice will know the acronym “POC” but “p. of c.” I don’t usually encounter.

Are we sure it’s not “prince of caspian?”