Humans are also bad drivers who get edge cases wrong all the time.

It would be so awesome if humans only got the edge cases wrong.

What if it kills the deer out of season?

I honestly think it shouldn’t be called “self driving” or “autopilot” but should work more like the safety systems in Airbusses by simply not allowing the human to make a decision that would create a dangerous situation.

Maybe it just got a kiss from Neptune

David Graeber wrote an entire book about it called Bullshit Jobs.

Yeah, all the neonazis in prison will consider him a hero

I disagree with that last part. It wasn’t that we didn’t persecute the hoarders. It’s that we got into groups too large to achieve consensus and we forgot how to live without agriculture so we couldn’t leave. That’s why it was a trap: Suddenly we had to do it and couldn’t stop. Nobody has to be hoarding things if we’re all reliant on farming. We have to stick around.

What we did from there was just kludgy attempts to get a nomadic primate that lives in small groups to live in sedentary large groups. If we can’t fathom the cosmos because the notion of “one million” is too large for the human brain to comprehend, how are we supposed to make sense of a planet with eight billion humans? If we can only remember about 150 names and faces, how are we supposed to feel belonging in a community of thousands, let alone millions?

Also, I didn’t blame agriculture for late-stage capitalism. I blamed it for authoritarianism. Once you start having to enforce the will of the majority on the minority things start to suck fast.

Do you know how little that narrows it down?

I think electing Kamala would increase division because the last time we had a black president the racists lost their fucking shit.

To which I say: Good. Fuck those assholes. Die mad.

I guess defunding the police is okay if it’s for a racist reason

Once a group gets big enough you’re not able to get everybody to agree. So you do things some people want and use force against the opposition. Combine this with larger groups fighting over limited resources and you’ve got a recipe for authoritarianism.

Agriculture was a trap.

This election cycle will cost America $15 billion.

That’s enough money to build over 3,500 elementary schools. Or over 35,000 homes.

True, but you don’t need a passport to go there. To your average American it’s as much outside the US as Hawaii.

They can fit a bigger rechargeable battery in the same space as a battery bay for replaceable batteries. Plus it eliminates the waste of throwing away batteries, and has longer battery life than similarly sized alkalines.

The fact that Puerto Rico isn’t even outside US borders is what makes this ridiculous

Humanity is like that racist analogy of a bowl of M&Ms but a few are poisoned.

Except that almost all of them are candy covered shit and there’s like one or two in the bowl that are chocolate.

Oh, and if you don’t try every one there’s something wrong with you.

No wonder he’s so fucking weird.

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I voted to have my taxes go up to pay for a new elementary school. They replaced a flat occupation tax with an increase in the income tax which would be about an extra $400 a year for me. But it’ll come right out of my paycheck instead of being a separate bill I have to remember to pay.

Of course, all the idiots who live near me will probably vote against it and we won’t get the school because “TAX BAD.”

Sad Richmond noises