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Just don’t have the drive. Perfectly happy with not bothering with the social dynamics required to flirt / commit etc. I don’t have much need to have a partner either short term or long term.

No idea if I’m just weird or if it’s a somewhat common thing for some people.

I’m surprised Xbox never sued them for the button layout.

Not terrible to use the same letter but the colours being the same is pretty blatant copying.

I can’t see it as being a high expenditure business. Majority of spending should be towards rent/mortgage and repair and maintenance. It’s not like there is a lot of consumables or anything. All that money has to go somewhere.

I’ve no idea how true it is but I’ve read that vehicle speedometers aren’t 100% accurate, so one vehicle going a displayed 30mph might be going the same speed as another vehicle displayed at 35mph.

There’s probably some leeway built into the system to cover inaccuracies like that, as well as in the cameras own speed detection ability

I’ve definitely went by those speed display signs that say slow down and show your speed and they’ve been wrong quite often by upwards of 5-10mph.

Enjoy things that don’t use your money to fund corruption and illegal activities.

True, cars should have speed limiters built in at the manufacturer. No car needs to go over 100-120km/h depending on the highway. In the city 50-80km/h should be the max.

I’m mostly forced to by my job but also where I live.

My job requires lots of travel as well as moving stuff around the province. One day I might need to drive 8 hours to a city and carry with me 4-5 bins of stuff and a bag of equipment. Not terribly feasible with a bus, especially if I need to leave at 4-5am to get there before 3-4pm.

But even without my job I live just outside city limits so there’s no bus service. I suppose I could bike the 5kms to the nearest bus stop and then hop on there but that’s just too much of a pain in the arse when I need to get 1-2 weeks worth of groceries.

Because CEOs do not think long term. They only think in terms of 3-12 months.

Sure they might save a bunch of money by firing their whole work force and using AI. They will immediately gain a shit ton of profit over the next year simply from the lower expenses.

But then their company services will go to shit, customers will get pissed, their revenues will start to decline but that takes years to show on the books and by then they will probably be at some new company.

Not only that, once they fire their workforce and AI cost 2 million a year instead of 5 million for people, two years later AI companies will increase the costs to 4 million. Then 4 years later it will be 6 million. They can’t cancel the contract because then they will have to re-hire and re-train an entire workforce which they already had and probably would only cost them $6 million a year at that point if they had kept them.

Then two years later it will cost them 8 million. So on and so forth

They do not realize that AI costs will increase over time a lot faster than what workers demand since workers don’t have as many rights as AI corporations, and they will be held hostage by AI companies once they get suckered in.

But AI could totally tell you the top rated lawn mowers in stock in your area based on fake bought and paid for reviews to optimize your efficiency at mowing your lawn and increasing the capitalist profit margins of local stores that pay Google for increased foot traffic to their stores.

I feel like any lawyer should only be able to bill half their rate if they lose the case

Marketing and advertisers

I wonder at what point government will tax AI use by companies similarly to payroll taxes and incomes taxes.

If they pay an AI company $150,000 a month to replace $50,000 in salaries, the government then loses all that income tax from the previous employees as well as the payroll tax on $600k a year.

The Ford 350 I recently rented was $297 to fill up 3/4 of a tank.

I drove a rental truck for work. It cost $297 to fill up before handing it back. It was still on 1/4 tank.

At least with human labour companies have control. They withhold raises and bat down wages and the people tend to have to take it.

With AI you get suckered in and all of a sudden have a subscription or something similar. Then next year the costs go up. You’ve already tailored your workflow to use AI, you can’t just not pay the higher bill. Next year, costs go up again. What are you going to do? Not pay your bill and lose your entire workforce all at once? Now the company is being held hostage by the AI companies.

I don’t know of a way to clean/maintain a drain field.

From what I understand the tank captures the solids and the liquids rise to the top after everything settles and goes through a series of small tubes to drain into a field and be filtered through the soil.

Then the tanks gets cleaned every 2-3 years to remove the built up solids.

Usually the series of tubes in the deain field are all underground and inaccessible so I don’t think there is a way to clean or maintain them.

When we had our house inspected the plumber couldn’t even locate the drain field. Just told us it switched in this part of the yard or that part of the yard.

Currently playing Windrose which is early access, ticks most of those boxes except for the alive world. There are communities you can go to for quests but most NPCs you can’t interact with.

It’s also a survival craft so you build your base.

It’s a fantasy pirate setting rather than old knights and wizards setting.

Character creation is somewhat limited but you can tailor it to be more ranged/agile or beefy/heavy hitter etc.

Still early access though so could be improved

That seems like a giant waste of battery/fuel.

People are addicted to it and see the aspartame water with no sugar and no calories and feel they can drink as much as they want guilt free.

Why? Is it creating construction jobs? Doubt the entire salaries of everyone building it will total anywhere near that amount.

Jobs after? What, like a dozen security guards and a couple IT people? Those things practically run themselves from what I understand.

Just pay that money directly to the construction workers and scrap the data centre.