I always think about this. Like a lot of the engineering youtubers I follow do some pretty dangerous stuff. They take the necessary safety precautions, but I have no idea how insurance can work when you’re flagrantly disobeying OSHA regulations.

As an independent operator, you can abuse yourself in a way that legally nobody else is allowed to.

Man, more power to these people. I can’t imagine getting on a skateboard blind.

Or is it yet another example of social decay, that parents can’t even discipline/raise their kids well enough to allow them outside without leashes?

From what I’ve heard, the expectations of behavior for children in public spaces has gotten a lot more strict. People generally have very little patience for your kid’s antics. Also fewer mothers are dedicated homemakers, and when time and energy are tight, a leash might be a good bandaid.

Mario taking a nap basically anywhere in Mario64 is cute.

I had literally had my credit card out and ready in 2010 during the iPad announcement until I learned that it was a giant iPhone. Fifteen years later, and it’s finally a real computer.

The band officially does not remember what the third line of the lyrics actually is. I have the album on vinyl and they intentionally put blurred text as that line.

In an attempt to answer your question, there tends to be a lot of misinformation following events like this. Often footage doesn’t even need to be AI or altered, it can just be footage from other events that looks similar that’s posted in good faith by people trying to spread the news. I assure you some of the clips flying around at the moment are from the George Floyd protests, or even a sports hooligan riot, or from events that didn’t even occur in this country.

At least in theory (and theory is doing a lot of heavy lifting with my attempt at answering your question), a news publication has an obligation to in some way determine the veracity of what they’re publishing.

Currently ripping all episodes of The Twilight Zone from the box set.

Well it’s going to be pretty slick when the poors riding the normal bus in the bus lane get to watch all the uber shuttle people stuck in traffic.

https://www.uber.com/in/en/ride/uber-shuttle/

eventually

It’s been ten fucking years. They are one of the top five companies in the world. What are we waiting for here?

All of the investors that originally paid into the idea have already made their money. There is no reason to continue the project.

I think that’s kind of the thing. They can’t physically make the camera any smaller, but they assume you’re going to make the phone thicker with a case. So it’s a compromise based on customer preference.

Highly recommend the When Phones were Fun series.

Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.

Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.

These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5133VkJ5Hlc&list=PLvHDW6f8HUaSL0XUD52Sox0z-kPjU-zcZ&index=21

I wish the whole streak paradigm was time weighted. Like I got over a 1 year streak on my Apple watch over Covid. That’s basically never going to happen again. I wish there was some kind of “this is your longest streak in the past <time period>” or something. It all just feels so all or nothing.

We should probably still turn off the orphan-crushing machine.

It DOES NOT matter if it’s done with 3 feet to merge or 300 feet to merge. There’s no efficiency gain.

Merging early leaves unused road. Shoving the cars into fewer lanes makes the traffic jam longer and makes it impact more interesections far behind the actual hangup. If you can merge early without slowing down, sure go for it. I’m mostly talking about the scenarios where it’s already slowed to a crawl and people feel like they have to merge early to not be seen as “cutting in line.”

Edit, also to add, if everyone merges early even at speed, eventually, the car density in the reduced lanes will reach a point where people naturally slow down and you have bumper to bumper traffic.

I suggest Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt for more.