It sounds utopian…

I’m curious how old you were when Covid hit? I noticed a similar change somewhere in my early to mid 20s.

Seconding both of those - getting older and having kids both have independently made me more responsive to emotional scenes.

And Bluey and all the Pixar films are good!

Probably due to how I grew up, I don’t often feel like it’s… right? Reasonable? for me to cry for personal things. But I can cry for others, for whatever reason. Showed my kids Pixar’s Up for the first time the other day, and we got to the scene near the end where Carl finds some of the messages his wife left him. My kids are still fairly young, and were trying to figure out what was going on in that scene. They also didn’t understand at first why my voice sounded so weird…

I feel like there’s a term for it, but I can’t recall it now - it seems like after you have kids, emotional impacts in media can also start to hit a lot harder. I’m not sure if there’s some empathetic response that tends to get strengthened or what, but my wife and I both have things we either can’t watch anymore or don’t process the same way. Like, I decided to start rewatching Star Trek: DS9 a few years ago (a year or two into fatherhood) and got wrecked by the scenes in the first episode where the captain relives losing his wife.

It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

There will always be some jobs. That’s no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

Why is that the comparison, though? Sears developed mail-order catalogues in the 1800s. That’s what Amazon replaced.

…okay, I really want to know the story behind that picture!

Im sure you’re right, but… Couldn’t we just take, like, one knob from one of our billion dollar fighter jets, and pay for mental and social services that way?

Not even from every fighter of that type, just pick the one plane that’s always down for maintenance anyway and, like, lock the AC to one temperature or something. Surely that tiny bit of a multi billion dollar airframe could cover some worthwhile social services?

Why didn’t we ever reopen them?

I mean, I know why we don’t now, but we had a few decades since Reagan of occasionally reasonable administrations…

Reading through the article, it seems like one scenario is that a vehicle stopped at an intersection might be about to pull out, endangering another vehicle about to cross? It seems like the thinking is, if you notice a front/side brake light stops being lit as you approach the intersection, it might indicate they’re about to accelerate - be cautious!

I’m not fully convinced either, it seems like a lot of the benefit they’re projecting is based on analysis of historical collisions, rather than any kind of experimental results. It sounds like the study is to justify expanding research to that sort of simulated experimentation, though - I’m curious what that kind of testing would find.

The implied issue with that phrase is you risk your own glass house being pelted, correct? The glass house, in this case, being atrocities each government is implicated in?

I’m fine with all the atrocities being called out. Otherwise, how do we learn not to do them anymore?

Sounds like it can help oncoming traffic as well as traffic to either side of the vehicle

Honestly, even with an ulterior motive, I see no reason they shouldn’t.

Pretty confident that’s the intention of that name

Can you ask it for sources?

Why do they even make them with the clips? If someone trips on a cable or something, and there’s no clip, it’s a mild inconvenience to plug it back in. If it’s clipped, you can bring the whole computer crashing down!