We did not have this problem 20ish years ago, aligned headlights can be bright and not aimed at your eyes. I’d be nice to have this also but could we just get some enforcement on the alignment.

Brightness is obviously an issue … Id be happy with them pointed at the fucking road, there is nothing at other drivers eye level you need to see

Looking in my area FR-S’ seem about the same price, gr86’s seemed a bit more pricey. I considered them all equal when i was looking (at the time i was looking at wrx’s or miata’s also). Really enjoy driving this this car so far only downside is more expensive gas, and the paint which seems to chip super easy.

Not so much with ai, but Palo Bacigalupi I feel like does a pretty good dystopian future wrt climate change, I’d recommend the windup girl

Gleefully upload awful shit, poison them at their source

15k cad, and 26k km for my very serious brz (also 13 years old). I also had the same lack of evs in my price range (not even including fun ones).

You could easily use this same logic (if you can’t afford the tip don’t eat out) the other way: if you can’t make enough in a tipping profession when someone doesn’t tip don’t work there.

Tipping is also highly biased, good looking people get more. There are racial aspects. The whole thing sucks.

I’m ok with tipping for performance, tipping as expectation is terrible. All of this is stupid anyway we should be taxing wealthy people and making the world a better place for all.

“a” has a name: regulatory capture.

Regulators have in the past fulfilled their role, they’ve just been hamstrung.

Companies have reversed unpopular decisions in the past (just saw a thing about Facebook reversing some AI thing). So there may be some possible chance of them reversing this decision. I’m not hopeful but the cost is cheap, and it has a better chance of success than doing nothing

this entire thread makes me sad, i guess there’s no accounting for taste.

Screams AI

That is rad. My father started with solar domestic hot water heating, then got some PV solar, never bothered with batteries (it was at a time when batteries kind of sucked). Did ok for our northern latitudes. Power company didn’t encourage it though which makes it feel like a bit of an uphill battle. I’m thinking of doing my own house but again, it seems like you’ve got to be the expert if you want to make it work, and power companies aren’t happy to have your contributions.

I guess I just get a bit - understanding when people say they are scared of nuclear. I do realize that in aggregate fossile has been way worse than nuclear.

Must solve all problems at the same time for entire country, can’t possibly wind things down while building up alternatives. Only good solution is nuclear, ignore all previous nuclear issues, they were one offs that only happened because people were stupid. We now smart humans will never have stupid or corrupt people.

Really I don’t even dislike nuclear, some people treat it as the only option when there are clearly alternatives, and solar and batteries appears to be one.

This is sort of the premis of the book “the future” by Naomi Alderman

Wait till they find out about batteries!

Too bad you aren’t liking carless people, I really like learning how crazy the muckity mucks were at FB.

Among my favorites I remember: Gideon the ninth, slavery by another name, worst journey in the world, anything by Ted Chiang, blindsight/echopraxia

Recent reads: little bosses everywhere (excellent), no more tears (also excellent), get in trouble (I really like parts of it but it’s classic Kelly link, super weird and abrupt)

Common dude, don’t support elon

WE TAKE ZA MONIES OR WE FUCKS YOU UP!..

This is my mistake,.I went through a Heinlein phase and this one was the last straw for me.I may have had some bleedover from his other books, where I recall his treatment of women sucked ass, was pretty incestuous, and always features promiscuous red heads. I did really like “the moon is a harsh mistress” even if I think libitarism is purile.

I still think stranger is just a Jesus story (it’s been ages), where hhgtg didn’t have a point except maybe you are at the mercy of the universe, and God is sorry for the inconvenience.

I’m not sure how you got that message, Arthur specifically isn’t even aware of his friend being an alien when his house is demolished. He kind of just faces what’s next in terror, at least until the fenchurch bits. Even when he’s stuck on earth I wouldn’t say he’s having a good time.