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I’m partial to this explanation, what do you people think? I’m not an expert

Summary: Western car makers don’t make cars, they assemble cars from parts they buy. Their business is procurement and they don’t engineer the car from the ground up to meet a product vision. Rather, they’re trying to make something from the same old parts and suppliers of the internal combustion engine times.

It’s “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” but for cars

https://youtu.be/UhhZu0ZHdw4

Sure, you can say it’s an honest mistake by the customer and by Google. But then Google wouldn’t budge. This guy was left with zero options

Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

I’m not saying leave them out to dry, but we shouldn’t do labor just for the sake of it. If we can automate it and we save labor overall, that’s how society advances. The real question is who gets the benefit, and how we take care of people’s needs, not if it’s a good idea to improve labor efficiency

As those people move on to other jobs, there will be growth in other areas. This is part of the normal ebb and flow of the economy. Rather let’s make sure everyone is generally being taken care of. We can’t put society in stasis for fear of someone somewhere losing out.

Loss of jobs is a distraction. People can get other jobs. If jobs can be automated cheaply, they should be. The problem is how the economy treats people who need to switch jobs and what it means for their income. Automate truck driving, please, but make sure ex-truck drivers are taken care of and can move on to other jobs that need doing.

Edit: I’ll make an exception for jobs that need human interaction. There is a limit to automating things like care or service jobs because most people also need human interaction. And give those people decision making power, too, not this “computer says no” hellscape customer service workers have to go through

Lifelong fan started my boycott two years ago. What Israel is doing, is beyond appalling. It has opened the eyes of so many people that Israel has always been doing this, that it will not stop doing this by their own initiative, so that it is our responsibility as international community to make them stop. Israel is a pariah state for me. All their enablers in Europe, including Germany and Austria, will find themselves on the wrong side of history. They have a historic responsibility to support the Jews, but that should not expand to Israel as a state. A state built on stolen land, with unequal rights, a fundamentalist theocracy, highly militaristic, unbelievable amounts of nasty propaganda, the whole country is beyond saving right now

That wording “$109.95 each” makes it sound like you have to buy left and right separately

You’re right, I also prefer this shape but couldn’t find a good one. I’m using Sony WF-1000XM5 now and am quite happy with them, but it would be better if they made this shape

Not really, no.

TIL

Onze this place gets enough users, it’s gonna be exactly the same.

How is denying patients not medical negligence as well

Speed limiting devices aren’t bad, it’s the GPS tracking that bugs people. I’m waiting for the day Germany finally gets a speed limit and the EU starts asking for a limiter to 140kmh or something on every car

Exactly, how does one even speed there

Or they change the law so that it doesn’t matter who was driving. Unless it was stolen, the owner could still be held responsible. Stop the nonsense

“We insisted on fossil fuels and now Chinese electric car companies are eating our lunch, boo hoo”

Cry more fat capitalists

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Kinda creepy but as someone who crashed and almost killed themselves when driving too tired… Uhm yeah maybe it helps?

Edit: I never even said I was in favor of this legislation. No need for the dogpile

I’m reminded of the article “Fatal Distraction” about children being left in a hot car. It’s a thing nobody thinks can happen to them because they’re a good parent. Well guess what, this happens to good parents too. It’s a fantastic article, go look out up. Thinking those parents are selfish assholes and should be punished, is a defense mechanism of “this could never happen to me”.

I think driving tired was the same for me. I would never drive tired if given a conscious choice, but the nature of it is that you’re not thinking straight and you don’t realize. It’s not like I made it a habit to drive while tired, it’s a thing that happened once because I didn’t pay attention to it. You don’t have to be that tired, it was 11pm. The consequences can be extreme. I’m overall a super careful driver, will never speed, drink, text or generally take risks while driving. But everyone gets tired

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

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