It's sad to say but you get used to it, just like you get used to crazy people on the road. It's actually better because the person isn't operating a ton of metal at 60 mph. Also you can hear/see the crazy ones and try to keep your distance, whereas on the road some guy could be yelling that he's going to kill you for going a bit too slow and you won't know until he cuts you off dangerously close. Like others have said statistically your always way safer on a bus then in a car.

Even more of a reason to wear masks on public transit

You okay Britain? You've been going through PMs like DiCaprio goes through 20 year olds.

All of this so Israel can keep killing Lebanese people. Epstein must've given them some really good compromat.

Why would the billionaires pay 5% when they can spend less then 1% flooding the tvs and mailboxes of Californiana with ads that this will destroy the economy?

Is there much heavy crude coming out of the strait? I always thought gulf oil was pretty light and the heavy shit mostly came from Venezuela and Canada who would be uneffected by the strait being close.

If, not saying we should, but if we were going to restrict gun rights for substance use it should be for alcohol. A drunk person with a gun is orders of magnitude more dangerous then a high person.

Personally I'd probably be safer with a gun if I were stoned because I'd just stay the fuck away from it because it would make me anxious.

They aren't easy to get, just look at the centuries old mass graveyard just outside the walls at Constantinople.

The US is a net exporter of oil. If we put price and export controls on domestic oil we could let them keep the strait closed and not suffer any increase in gas prices.

It's just that export and price controls cut into the profits of the oil corporations, who have been making bank off this and are the real winners of this whole thing, and trump would never let that happen.

Technically this would boost "the economy" in the way these guys measure it by increasing corporate profits and stock values because companies will be able to squeeze there workers for more output with the greater threat of unaided unemployment.

But lowering wages would decrease consumer spending

A majority of consumer spending is now done by the top 20%, as long as this doesn't effect them the corporate overlords don't give a fuck.

Not in poor america*

Kids play in the streets all the time in cul de sacs in affluent suburbs with low car traffic

I don't think it's AI, AI would've fucked up the characters and the numbers on the scarf and Jersey.

Missing the Mediterranean climates in California, Spain, Italy, Greece etc. and Australia, but otherwise accurate

The article is partially a response to this article from jacobin which makes some good points, chief of which the author doesn't really address in that they'll just be built somewhere else. There will always be some city or state or country that will allow them being built and this sort of NIMBY activism only really protects the better off people who have the free time to attend city hall meetings.

Also the author seems to equate the means with the end. The jacobin article is criticizing the end goal being a blanket moratorium instead of regulation targeting the harms. It doesn't say anything about the means, but the author of this one equates there criticism of the movements aims to be an elitist criticism of the grassroots organizing of the movement, which I assume the jacobin author would be more then fine with as long as it's directed towards reasonable goals.

I too was hardened in the trenches of WWI people ghosting me on dating apps.

Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet. It gives people easy access to a lot more information, but it also gives them access to a lot more bullshit.

Even after we've had years for it fully develop IDK if I'd say the Internet is positively impacting society.

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

Ignore the "containment" framing, they made a hacking bot and it seems to actually be good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities:

The AI model "found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world," the company wrote.

Dismiss this as marketing drivel all you want but hacking is just the sort of needle in a haystack problem that AI is very good at. It requires broad knowledge, a lot of cycles trying and failing, and is easily verifiable, ie. Can you execute arbitrary scripts or not. Even if this release is BS good hacking agents are bound to come eventually and we should be discussing the implications of that instead of burying our heads in the sand, pretending AI is useless and that this is all hype.

Alright new atrocity from Israel just dropped, who should we blame:

• The fascists running Israel
• the fascists running the US
• the democratic party who teed up the atrocity
• a couple hundred leftists on lemmy who didn't vote

At least the mayor knows what's up:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson swiftly condemned the action.

"He just wants his own secret police force that will do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking, whenever his jobs report shows a stagnating economy, whenever he needs another distraction from his failures," he told reporters.