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They can make safety, fuel efficiency, usability, and comfort improvements AND enshittify things too! These are complicated machines.

I don’t know if this is the right solution, but a big reason I stopped bringing my family on city buses was because of belligerant personalities making things stressful/scary as fuck on 3 out of my 4 last rides (and less frequently but still really dangerous experiences before that) The frequency was just getting too high and I hit my limit.

Hopefully I just had really shit luck, but if it can happen to me, it can happen to others, and I really want public transit to work.

But all it takes is a system that can’t prevent a few rotten apples from spoiling it for everyone else.

Sorry, no fake internet points for “I almost did it” 😉 Good on ya for buying refurbished though, it’s a real gamble sometimes, unfortunately.

Buying a Framework laptop always felt ideological, not value-based. Like a statement that you want to support Linux-first hardware. Hard to compete without economy of scale, of course, but that wasn’t their main goal.

Interesting that the thousands of protesters that this authoritarian theocracy murdered just a little while ago are so easily forgotten with the latest headlines. Sure, the US’s “kill chain” is all kinds of fucked up right now, and its leadership is absolutely child-like, but surely Iran’s leadership can’t be forgiven and pronounced “better” that quickly and easily.

I assume you’re comparing US’s leadership to Iran’s leadership, not comparing their football teams.

Same here. There was a window of a couple of months when some NC background process wasn’t running reliably in Android, but that got fixed (a year ago?) and it’s been rock solid before and since.

Given the current rate of obesity, starvation will take a loooong time.

I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6

First time using AliExpress I got scammed. I got a refund, at least, but I haven’t been back since.

The current regulations do consider density (people, buildings) when designating flight restrictions. Heavier small aircraft have to avoid certain areas because of the extra risk. This kind of single-passenger aircraft is way lighter than a car and wouldn’t be allowed over urban and residential areas, for example. I agree that CHANGES to the existing regulations could potentially add risk, but currently we’re ok and those changes happen slowly and are evidence-based. FAA and EASA don’t use the public as a testing area. It’s not as dystopian as the media might make you think. HTH.

A passenger car crashed through the window of my local grocery store a few months ago. I think people see small aircraft as this great threat, but forget that cars have been quite capably killing people for over a century. They aren’t very safe, quiet, or efficient anyway, so I’m happy to see other technology getting taken seriously.

While your cynicism is well-deserved in the US, Urban Air Mobility is an area of regulatory development. EASA and FAA are both actively working in this area, and VTOL and eVTOL aircraft have their own existing pilot certifications for both manned and remote flights. Lobbying has had very limited success with FAA and EASA, and they remain some of the most heavily regulated organizations.

Just another celebrity talking about stuff they don’t really know that much about. Jimmy’s witty and all, but his “physics is real and everything else is just stamp collecting”… sigh.

Compromises on principles, not compromises with people.