Which side? Left, right?
There is only one side but with different rhetoric
Readit NewsFox and CNN are two wings of the same bird. That I keep hearing people refer to Fox as the right-wing outlet tells me either "right-wingers" aren't caught up, or they are caught up, and the everyone else still thinks they care what Fox has to say. Not sure which.
The two party system is a farce. There is only one party and one media with opposing methodology to herd the masses into the end results the "ESTABLISHMENT" wants.
“My father firmly believed in freedom, and Lachlan is absolutely committed to the cause. Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose. Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.”
I would say the lack of self-awareness is astonishing but as is the usual case with reactionaries, this is pure projection.
LOL , exactly what I was thinking .
Either he has 0 self awareness, has gone complete senile , or he is at the top of cow dung pushers.I tend to think he is at top of the dung pushing business.
Isn't this the selling point of Bird/Lime/Citibike etc... personal mobility? With e-mobility you don't arrive all sweaty.
Golf carts can provide rain and sun protection and can also allow for people to drive their kids to school and other activities as well.
Not saying that ebikes are bad but it would also be more appealing for the masses to embrace golf carts over bikes as a replacement for their vehicles.
How would we feel about it if the tunnels were for bikes? Seems like that would have some benefits: sheltered from the weather, no interaction with multi-ton vehicles driven by inattentive drivers, etc.
Maybe not bikes but small electric vehicles such as golf carts would be great.
Most wouldn't want to go to work all sweaty.
It amazes me that a lot of these green cities haven't incorporated a small golf cart lanes as most people work within a range of a golf cart distance to travel.
The cost would be a lot cheaper than a car, no need for insurance premiums(if so, very little) , and less maintenance than . Also could likely double the lane traffic within the equivalent car lanes. The consumer would be more than willing to get on board using and buying golf carts just for the financial benefit of it.
bitsnbytes commented on America Faces a Debt Nightmare economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I'm still waiting to see the results of the massive infrastructure package that was passed in 2008. We've had a few more rounds of such spending, supposedly because of outdated infrastructure. You have to wonder how many more times they are going to get away with that trick.
Whenever they pass massive spending, its clear they are not talking to American people. They are talking to the corporations that are going to benefit.
This. Some of my clients are in the transportation industry and they were scratching their heads on where that money went.
I’ll remind everyone of the Princeton study that proved our democracy is a sham. Policy outcomes are almost exclusively the product of the preferences of economic elites, not of the People. If you do get a legislative outcome you wanted it’s a coincidence that some big power’s agenda accidentally aligned with your own.
Unfortunately the majority are to easily distracted and manipulated to concentrate on all the WRONG issues.That goes for both parties.
The CORRECT ISSUE and primary issue we need to be focused on is conflict of interest.
It makes no sense to try to get a group of people such as congress that have conflict of interest to fix the problems they created and are benefiting from , hence the result of the Princeton study.
The sad part is that BOTH individual republicans and democrats should want to reduce conflict of interest as it benefits both sides and everyone in general. However BOTH party are too successful in keeping them fighting with each other , blaming each other, and chasing their tails trying to fix the issues with the people that created them.
bitsnbytes commented on Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years thepointsguy.com/news/air... · Posted by u/lxm
> Why isn't cleaning part of staying somewhere???
I think you touched on it but there is some reasonable compromise. Dirt on the floor mats and basic cleaning should be included, but if you are spraying champagne on the walls it would be reasonable not to be included. Where do you draw the line. If you want to charge for the "worst case" it will inflate your prices dramatically. If you charge for the average then people are basically incentivized to be unnecessarily messy. Of course many hosts will be unreasonable and charge extra for the very basics that should be included.
>Where do you draw the line.
when it becomes damage versus expected usage would be a good line just like hotels have been doing centuries.
basic cleaning services such as cleaning linens,dishes,furniture,light dusting, basic floor sweeping ,etc.
you destroy the property or require excessive cleaning because you had a party with excessive dirtiness like spilled drinks on walls , linens thrown all over the place and stained, etc. then include an abusive charge.
bitsnbytes commented on ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time tedgioia.substack.com/p/i... · Posted by u/zdw
I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's overhyped".
They're both missing the point.
Yes, ChatGPT can be tricked, confidently give wrong answers, but it is still ludicrously useful.
It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well, but for pretty much every field. Does this "person" make mistakes? Can't cite their sources? Yeah this definitely happens (especially the sources thing), but when you're trying to understand something new and complex and you can't get the "gist" of it, ChatGPT does surprisingly well.
I've had it debug broken configs on my server and router (and explain to me why they were broken), help me practice a foreign language I've slowly been forgetting (hint: "I would like to practice $language, so let's have a conversation in $language where you only use very simple words." -> ChatGPT will obey), and help me understand how to use obscure software libraries that don't have much documentation online (e.g. Boost Yap, useful but with a dearth of blog / reddit posts about it).
Does it sometimes goof up? Yep, but it is such an incredibly useful tool nonetheless for the messy process of learning something new.
FWIW I see it the same and have had the same experience.
The tech is there now to be utilized as an assistant. However as the end user you better have enough knowledge to understand the solution or answer it spits at you to fact check it.
The biggest danger I see is utilizing the tool for solutions or answers by novices that don't understand enough to grasp the solution and confirm if in fact the answer it gives is correct or appropriate.
Simplistic example: A non techie manager trying to have it create sql queries to get the information they are asking for , is asking for trouble. However in the hands of a sql developer it could provide enough of the query build out to just require minimal tweaks.
Oh good old propaganda then
Especially with ycombinator as it appears that Tech people land on the Liberal side based on the comments I have seen in the past here.
Anyhow I look forward to the downvotes . lol