Frustrated they can’t just steamroll everything, the dems are forcing the republicans to own their shitty policy they are trying to get the dems to vote for.

Self reinforcing policy for republicans in the US. Just keep making things shittier and more difficult which causes more unrest, so they justify more extreme responses and power grabs. Sounds like they know exactly what they’re doing.

Yeah.

I “blame” popular neighborhoods. Used to be you went around your neighborhood or went with a friend in town if you were more rural or something.

Now there are “it” neighborhoods or even small towns that seem to attract large groups, it’s almost like a block party. Tons of people arrive, there’s wild and extreme halloween decorations, effort gets put into costumes, and sometimes even full-size candy bars. My kids started going to popular areas with friends, one friend lives in a neighborhood like that so everyone uses his house as a starting point. It’s cool, but unfortunately large gatherings tend to bring assholes, too, and now there’s a cop nearby on standby because some people have to be dipshits and start being destructive or try to start fights.

We barely handed out one bag of candy in our neighborhood, last year we went through two big ones.

And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.

My heroes? The instance operators and good mods, of course, along with everyone who contributes material.

Plus there’s more community when dealing with issues, such as problem instances and users. The fediverse doesn’t have the “old internet” feel, it’s still more restrained than that thanks to instance owners probably not wanting to host a lot of darker material thanks to the instances being under private ownership, but it feels more free than a place like reddit.

Probably grade school. Pretty sensitive to hypocrisy and noticed very early on that honesty got shat on or punished, and bullying, favoritism, and schmoozing got you ahead quicker. Being audhd made me very bad at the latter. Could not stand the requirement to kiss ass to get ahead, and just being a hard worker just got you more work.

Trump says [insert completely wrong bullshit here]. Again.

Goddamn costume ball while the Titanic sinks.

Sounds like it could be. In drugged out bliss and thrall to a god in its domain. No change, no learning…nothing except stasis until the end of time.

But what % of overall traffic do these bots make up?

You’re basically saying that because you say you behave right e-bikes are fine. I’m sure there are responsible car owners that have exactly the same excuse.

Good.

E-bikes are too fast, heavy, ridden by idiots in close proximity to pedestrians, and are just as bad as E-scooters at disregarding traffic rules. Riders are way under-equipped to handle a crash at E-bike speeds. These riders are always on pedestrian rights of way even where there are plenty of signs stating electric scooters and bikes are not allowed.

I’m all for alternative transportation that reduces cars on the road, but fuck these things.

“We don’t want to go through the trouble of trying to verify who the legit owner is even of we think it’s you.”

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I’m sure this is well thought through and factual.

TL;DR

4 layers of stupidification. The (possibly willfully) ignorant user, the source bias, the bias/agenda of the media owner, then shitty AI.

AI should be a backup to human skill and not a replacement for it. It isn’t good enough, and who knows when or if it will ever be at a reasonable cost. The problem with the current state of AI is that it’s being sold as a replacement for many human jobs and knowledge. 30-40 years ago we had to contend with basic human bias and nationalism filtering facts and news before it got to the end user, then we got the mega-media companies owned by the ultra wealthy who consolidated everything and injected yet more bias with the internet and social media but at least you got provided with multiple sources, now we have AI being pushed as a source that can be programmed to use biased sources and/or objectively wrong sources that people don’t even bother checking another source about. AI should be used to find unique solutions to medical research, materials design, etc. Not whether or not microwaving your phone is a good idea.

The real punchline is that he came to America and voted for trump.

The republicans took every shitty thing they said they hated about other countries like Russia, China and even North Korea and made those things goals.

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Ok dude. This doesn’t change what I said. Your explanation is irrelevant to people’s understanding prior to that and your pedantry looking to make yourself right. When people talk about a car with a clutch, we overall assume manual transmission. You want pedantry? Next time say “clutch pack” or “clutches”, seeing as traditional automatics don’t have a singular clutch. So you can at least be right in your explanation.

Good luck.