Yeah I don’t think teens are particularly pro-Palestine or anti-Israel.

Teens throughout history have just been anti-war and anti-killing-children.

Is couchsurfing still a thing?

I also heard every victim were addicted to water…

The fact that nobody dies in Disney’s Hunchback will always be super weird…

Yeah it’s more about whatever safe guards you put life will find a way to twist them.

Wasn’t the last I, Robot story about how the robots directly the world’s politics decide that we were living better and longer lives without technology and brought the world back to medieval level of tech?

I’ll stay on NES where once you get a game that’s the game, bugs and all. No DLC, expansion, nothing. That’s the game.

Also having to manually bring the pigeon back to the launching site, because pigeons only work one way.

It’s closer to how you (as a person) know things than, say, how a database know things.

I still remember my childhood home phone number. You could ask me to forget it a million times I wouldn’t be able to. It’s useless information today. I just can’t stop remembering it.

Here’s an article that explores pros and cons; https://www.nationaltransmission.ca/manual-vs-automatic/

Interestingly all automatic transmissions I used had a high and low drives, which can be used to down shift or up shift as needed. Also, many automatic transmission from middle or high end cars have a semi-automatic shifter to go up and down gears. Best of both world.

I think this debate will be useless real soon anyway, with EV not needing a transmission at all.

Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

In the marketing department apparently.

Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

And modern automatic gearbox are actually more performant and use less gas than human shifters. We’re not driving 90s cars anymore.

TBF, we have achieved a FSD that is safer than one human this year. But we took away the driver license of grandma so now we have to find another human that’s worse than FSD.

We need UBI, like, 5 centuries ago.

With less sexual harassment than the competition.

A proper server should have one user per service.

Don’t let the culture drive you, you do you.

Veritasium did a video about it, with data to back it up. They took old video and reposted them with and without clickbait titles and images. The difference of views is staggering. People just like it o suppose.

I’m an engineer with trade secrets on his laptop. I’ve heard of dozens of people getting laptops stolen from their cars that they left for like ten or fifteen minutes.

The chances are slims, but if it happens I’m in deep trouble whether those secrets leak of not. I’m not taking the risk. I’m encrypting my disk.

It’s not like there’s a difference in performance nowadays.