People should be doing the same stuff that they’re always supposed to do while driving, but they don’t usually have the attention for.

You know, like watch the road carefully for potholes or objects. Pay attention to the way other people drive so that you can better predict what they’re going to do. Scan up the road for problems that might crop up.

There’s actually a lot to actively do as a driver even beyond the basics.

It’s supposed to be trained to drive like a human, but I expected it would drive like a human who had immediate access to extremely detailed map and GPS information.

Just to clear things up, the Tesla turned off of the road and onto train tracks.

Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” mode requires the driver to pay attention the entire time. For common things like not stopping on train tracks, the driver is expected to perform this. Obviously, that’s not “Full Self Driving”, but it’s something that you can get used to.

On the other hand, turning onto train tracks is unforgivable. In an unfamiliar area, the driver may be confused about what is the correct place to turn, especially in the early morning as this was, and it might be natural to defer to the car’s superior knowledge of the map and GPS. As a driver, it would be hard to imagine that the car would turn you on to train tracks.

I think that if you know a person who eats a hot dog every day, you will have many other reasons to suspect that they’re unhealthy.

The last time I built my computer, my storage was magnetic disk drives, and I moved to solid state, but I’d normally save my hard disks as secondary disks. Fans aren’t that expensive and I think it’s a good time to replace them, and I always end up hating my case by the time I need to upgrade.

I hate my current case because first, it didn’t perfectly fit my motherboard, so the metal plate where all the connectors go wouldn’t fit. I’ve lived with that part missing for over 5 years now. And second, it’s got a stupid plexiglass window in its side, and I hate the whole concept of RGB stuff inside a computer. So all I get to see is how messy my cabling is and how much dust has accumulated.

If I was upgrading today, I’d probably try to reuse my disks and my power supply.

He gives one of the criteria as “upgradable”. I also always purchase my PCs with the intention of having them upgradable, but the problem is that I do a good enough job at choosing parts that I never feel the need to upgrade them.

So, I only “upgrade” stuff if it breaks sooner than I expected, and otherwise, I simply use the PC until it breaks and I get an entirely new one.

As a result, I always tell myself that next time, I won’t worry about whether something is upgradable. But then, I choose parts to be upgradable anyways, because I can’t pretend to be somebody that I’m not.

One good way to think about the budget for a PC is to break it down by expected lifetime. So, if he’s spending $700 on a PC, and he uses it for 7 years, then it’s $100 per year. (My PCs usually last about that long, but I’m sure I’m the exception.)

Standley said he remembers Roley left high school in the middle of sophomore year. He said he believes Roley was expelled “after some trouble with a girl.”

I found this part interesting. Also the part where they said they were scared of him… although that might just be tinted by the fact that they’re trying to remember this guy they didn’t know very well.

If you looked at my Duolingo, you’d think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you’d think I knew very little Japanese.

My best commute was once when I lived within walking distance of my work. The only downside was that they one time figured I could make it into the office when nobody else could due to snow.

My second best commute was via a bus.

By far my worst commute was one time when I moved in with a friend who liked cars and lived far away. With zero traffic, the commute was 45 minutes, but there was always traffic.

I would like to clarify that I did not actually murder him in response to that comment.

It’s meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

While I disagree with denaturalization, I’d accept it if it meant that this reasoning became universal. If you lied while taking an oath that gives you special status, then your special status will be revoked.

Since virtually all Republican politicians lied in their oaths of office to defend the constitution, we could sue to have them removed.

When my grandmother got too old to drive, she became confined because of cars. There was no public transit in walking distance. There was nothing in walking distance except houses.

She just sat at home by herself and waited for the end. Hoping someone would come to visit her. It was insulting and inhumane.

I was talking to a coworker about how I thought public transit was superior to individual cars, and so we should put a lot more investment into it, and his response was, “You’ll have to pry my car keys out of my cold dead hands.”

Like, dude, I wasn’t even talking about that.

Anyways, my point is that a big thing missing from this is how people often build their identities around their stupid fucking cars.

There is no reason to put these two people up as a comparison. They have nothing in common, except that they are two people that the author thought of.

I learned from game theory that these situations are the equivalent of the prisoner’s dilemma.

In the prisoner’s dilemma, in the case where you only play the game once, cooperation has a worse outcome for you, regardless of what your opponent does. It is a dominated option. Only in the case where the game is repeated many times, and where both players are paying attention to their opponent, only in that case does cooperation become a useful option.

When people recycle, we are choosing to cooperate. But as nobody is paying attention to what we’re doing, it is always the dominated option. We end up having to work more, and we don’t get better results. And then we inevitably get huge betrayals.

But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t recycle. It simply means the game has shitty rules. That’s why responsible government regulations are essential for environmentalism, if we actually want to see results.

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At some point, somebody convinced people that unrealized gains were not actually income because you don’t know for sure that you’d make that money, and I think that was a bad idea. Maybe unrealized gains aren’t 1:1 the same thing as income, but the calculations of an income equivalent aren’t going to be complicated.

Yes, I read it and said, “Where’s the government?” I don’t think you can have socialism without a government or some equivalent. If it’s just two entities interacting without outside regulation, then it’s definitely not something specific to socialism.

That’s closer to the way communism is generally used. Socialism would be more like if the government had a mousetrap program where it distributed mousetraps to people with rodent problems.

I say “generally used” because some people have used “socialism” and “communism” interchangeably, but I think it’s just confusing to do that today.

Sheafe said the attack was part of what he claimed was a divine mission to punish religious leaders who, in his view, were misleading followers.

Religious on religious violence.