That’s the real kicker. a place to moor your boat is often more expensive and even then maintenance costs will be a lot.

Yeah, which is why I included a news article to get a sense of what it is.

I thought there was a social network that is completely filled with AI and no real humans.

Edit: found it https://socialai.co/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247253/social-ai-app-replace-humans-with-bots

Portmanteau of X (current name) and Twitter (former name)

That only works until stop killing games is passed and forces game devs to release the code for running servers for the games yourselves after the official server(s) close down. Like how City of Heroes/Villians works now.

I’m also saying that cars are the only option in a vast majority of the land in the US. Park and ride spots (especially with EV charging) would be a great improvement for many of the cities for those of us coming from an area without a reasonable means to get there other than by car if buses and metros were available. The closest major city to me doesn’t have a metro, nor a great bus schedule. I’m trying to no be a part of the problem, but cities have got to get it together.

Also you can’t totally eliminate roads for cities mainly for deliveries via vans and trucks. The need for locksmiths, plumbers, electricians, and the like also need to be mobile to go to the problems as well.

I’ve lived in the city, mind you not a large one, but I noticed most everyone around me in my home at the time. From the guy 2 doors down that yelled at his dog to get off the couch anytime I had my window open, to sirens going off a few times a night, it was enough to notice how quiet the country is when the loudest thing at nights is the interstate 10 air miles from my home or the occasional owl that roosts in a tree in my back yard.

Buying a fare on plane, train, or metro is just essentially a one time license if you think about it. My point is that the traveling on time frames for departures and limited destinations for planes, trains, and metros is more restrictive over leave at anytime and go anywhere most anywhere on your continent of a personal vehicle. Each mode has their place and advocating for the elimination of any seems shortsighted.

Having someone live below, above, and on either side within a couple of feet absolutely sounds like prison conditions. As far as hard to leave, unless you’re walking or biking, you don’t have that much freedom of movement, at least in comparison to a car or a motorcycle which becomes much more of a hassle of owning in cities. I’m also not saying cities should cater more to cars either.

Money for the most part. It’s cheaper to own, no HoA or Condo association. Not to mention it’s quieter.

https://youtu.be/3kf_im01RC0

we could absolutely build up denser housing in urban cores to shift the population over time into areas that allow for more efficient transportation.

Sounds like prison

Not everyone lives in cities in the US and even then they are really spread out. It’s the one thing I think the world doesn’t comprehend about the US; we’re spread way out.

From what I can remember, the LTX thing that Louis brought up was after Linus had apologized for and then they did a colab video where it seemed they buried the hatchet on the main channel in a video where Steve and Louis both called out Linus for not doing in regards to Honey. Louis bringing that up again felt like the cliche arguing with your wife that never fails to forget some little slight you did years ago.

It all seems like jealousy on the part of Steve’s behalf especially since Linus was recently on the Tonight Show then Steve changed parts of his website to not claim to be a journalist and Louis buying into it hook line and sinker. Steve is better off staying in the investigative journalist role and Rossmann would do better not getting into youtuber drama.

Windmills in mini-golf but for real this time

So it begins. I’ve been expecting Google to start help push people to Android Automotive to get people off the free Android Auto platform.

I think the biggest factor missing from this discussion are the people that voted for both Obama and Trump. This is where the fallacy of reaching across as a good thing comes from. Both sides want to win that voter and both sides misunderstand why both voted the way they did. Or if it is understood, getting the getting the entrenched base who is the party’s power to buy in turns them off.

Taking Biden as a centrist as fact, he wasn’t portrayed that way in the media by both sides. And that goes in favor for my argument as trying to be centrist is or playing favorable to the center is political suicide.

Who she would’ve cozied up to wouldn’t have made a difference. The issue that she didn’t have a primary and probably her record as AG in California was the biggest turnoff for the base and generating turnout. The best thing she had going for her was she wasn’t Trump.

And yes, the pushing the investigation was incredibly unpopular with the GOP rank and file. They get their news from Fox and the like. GOP friendly news sites that have turned on Trump aren’t as popular anymore. It’s why nobody talks about sites like Drudge Report. Going anti-Trump didn’t win themselves more Democratic readers, it just lost them their base. Both sides should view going across the aisle as essentially political suicide.

You think the Cheney’s are/were popular within the Republican rank and file? She lost her primary for Wyoming’s house seat in 22. She didn’t make it to the general. She only won her primary with a majority twice in 18 and 20. The only Republicans she would have brought to the table were the Never Trumpers, who were already never voting for trump.

In hindsight, this has been a downward trend since the proliferation of smart phones circa 2012. Google (android) isn’t the best choice, but it is much better being open source over other ecosystems namely Apple. There is also an issue I strongly suspect that wireless carriers wouldn’t allow open hardware/software on their networks because they have baked in restrictions in the major OSes on how you can access the network like tethering. I don’t expect that to change for the better either because even when net neutrality was a thing wireless was exempt from the rules. Kinda reminds me how back in the day ISPs had to be forced to offer naked DSL (internet from the phone company without requiring phone service). This all has deep issues that won’t be resolved anytime soon if ever. I’m putting my money on Linux becoming an actual threat to Microsoft and Apple in the desktop, laptop, handheld space and then that spreading into the mobile and tablet space. Depending on how Apple and Google antitrust situations are handled, we could start to see a shift by the end of the decade at best. This is why the tech sector will cozy up and do the bidding of whoever is in power. They won’t run the risk of drawing the ire of the government to break up their monopolies so long as the party in power believes tech companies are in their party’s pocket. This shift happened when Biden’s election was inevitable toward Democrat favored polices and it’s happening now for Republican favord polices since the last Biden Trump debate made a Trump victory inevitable.

My points are the tech sector is blatantly doing whatever it can to keep its power and change won’t happen quickly if it happens at all.

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This will be a problem until a non-google open OS is adopted for mobile phones. Right now that list is incredibly short and nothing competes in the flagship department. I don’t see it changing anytime soon because gen x and millenials may be the last generations that have a signifigant portion of itself that has a grasp of how computers work beyond “tap app icon, app does things”.

Thing I took for granted like how a file system works is lost on my kids (late Z early alpha). Explaining what a file extension is like teaching a new language. I used to think “training wheels” for learning computering via tablets and phones and touch screens were a good thing but there is nothing that compels people today to shed themselves of them. It feels very reminiscent of my childhood and teaching my boomer dad how to right click. I think computer literacy needs to be required education, but I’m afraid that the definition for computer literacy might be meaningless nowadays if it doesn’t go beyond open app store, install app, run app.