If you have the one with cranberries, yes!

If you have one without cranberries, also yes!

Just double parked, eh?

Throw away the key

That brings a whole new dimension to the T, but you know what, after being subjected to the green line more than a few times it entirely makes sense.

Never leave the vehicle! It’s for your own safety! We can’t guarantee your safety if you leave the vehicle!

I do still have Gmail, and a Pixel phone which I’ve since switched over to GrapheneOS. I signed up when Gmail was in beta many years ago, and for most of that time I thought it was great. (and I think I still even have the free 1gb of storage they threw at me.)

The article cites a feature called Personal Intelligence which for me was an opt-in feature, and I tried it for a day or so out of curiosity. It’s basically you formally agreeing to let them mine your emails and Google searches and have those inform/weight your Gemini responses.

I fooled around with it a bit, asked it about my search history, and it did do what it said it would do, but like all these LLM products it would straight up hallucinate and fabricate all kinds of things that never happened.

It creeped me out, even without the failures so I opted back out. (And yes, before the lectures come, I know they’re taking this data anyway and doing what they want with it without my knowledge. Google and I are in the midst of divorce proceedings, but I got so entrenched, that’s a very messy marathon of a process.)

The kicker is Google punished me for opting out by removing the automatic sorting of emails into categories that Gmail has been doing (and doing quite well at) for a very long time now without LLM. (E.g. updates, promotions, social etc., leaving the truly important stuff in the main inbox.) So that sucks, but it also forced me to find better ways to clean that up.

I haven’t got to the stage in our divorce proceedings where I switch to a different email provider yet. I’m dreading that, but maybe there are some FOSS tools that will make it not so bad. At the very least, I’ve managed to reduce exposure to Gmail by only interacting with that inbox using FOSS clients, and also using @ duck.com addresses for any new signups. I can recommend FairEmail for Android. I just downloaded the APK from GitHub, but you can also get it from the Play Store and on F-Droid.

Might sound crazy, but we might be able to link multiple vehicles together as needed for capacity so they’ll move as one!

Yeah the pensioners I know were definitely shaped by the last time it got this hard, and they were raised by people who experienced the depression… They will be perfectly happy living off Vienna sausage and toast or whatever other cursed preservative-laden calorie loaf lives in their pantry. (Store-brand potato salad once a month, as a treat.)

Meanwhile the cash will continue to roll in. They often have fantastic supplemental health insurance built into their pension from a retirement in the 00’s on top of Medicare. A policy so generous it can no longer exist. Would make a millennial’s eyes water. Those any younger could spontaneously combust upon viewing gam gam’s health allowances.

The smart ones have investments on top of all that, which taken alone could passively guarantee a comfortable life. Throw that bitch in a trust and - slaps the side - that right there’s a durable multigenerational wealth vehicle off a normal person’s very average career from 50 years ago.

Susan Collins it is then

Could this reverse the curse of Harambe?

That may all be true, but choosing to allow them does create a precedent for automated “unmanned” enforcement of all kinds, which I’m not exactly ok with personally. It is usually terrible for privacy as well, as there’s no guarantee how that data is handled or where it goes.

There are many issues with the area where I currently live, but I would consider the blanket ban on automated enforcement a big plus. It doesn’t mean traffic enforcement can’t be high-tech; it simply means that a citation cannot be issued by an automated system - a human needs to witness the violation, interpret the severity, and personally write and deliver the ticket to the offender.

Speed cameras can also just be implemented very poorly sometimes. The outcomes you cite only happen if the implementation is sound. If corruption in policing already exists these systems can create an opening to exacerbate it. For example, I used to live in a city that had used cameras for so long, the stretches of road covered by them were common knowledge to speeders. The cameras did shape behavior but only in the specific zones they covered. The local police relied on speed cameras and red light cameras so heavily, they served to substitute for in-person enforcement activities instead of augmenting them. That led to the police basically forgetting how to even do traffic enforcement very much at all. They would say “look how much revenue we’re collecting!” at press events, but in reality they were using it to disengage, which created a palpable feeling of lawlessness on the streets. All of that put together led to worse issues than before the cameras were installed, even for things that weren’t related to traffic laws at all.

So was the first horse

I have a human-powered one. Cuts just as well, and lawn-mowing days are leg day

Nearly everything on wheels is street legal in some states - Georgia might be one of them?

Someone finally out-pizza’d the hut!

Someone should tell Windows 11

Yo dawg

She’s not Mother Teresa, but not an absolute monster either, and just barely a billionaire. Most of that billion is intangible assets, she doesn’t literally have $1 billion in her bank account.

It’s hard to hate or speak against someone like that when they’re so insulated and it’s not clear how much class consciousness they even have. At the same time, someone like that could obviously do more.

Porn stache

I told you, Jenkem is real!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK. How DARE you accuse us of being sensible!