I really think those fictional immortals are as real as they get. They become the cruelest elite divorced from the rest of humanity. More isn’t enough.

Media or entertainment? Kinda different animals.

Pretty much any book-to-movie adaptation. 90% are awful. It’s a rare case when they’re better or equal adaptations.

General media? The spinelessness of our news organizations across the board. A free press doesn’t exist, they bend a knee to their corporate billionaire overlords. They don’t tell the whole truth, they hold back, they don’t call a spade a spade. They should be part of the apparatus protecting the common person from the bullshit the rich and government try to sweep under the rug. At best, they’re complicit in their silence, at worst they’re active participants aiding the rich.

Read my edit. Someone asked about lbs and I saw the large price and “2”, so my brain went to “absurdly large American candy bar for $6+”

My mistake.

Ah, I got confused thinking it was a 2lb bar, some absurd weight for the price. Def not. My mistake.

That’s then $1.25/oz which is definitely a very expensive bar.

2 lb bar @ 6.49 is 20¢/oz.

Snickers King Size is about $3 @ 3.29 oz.

The 2lb bar despite the sticker shock is a far cheaper candy bar by weight.

Edit: read the weight wrong. It’s $1.25/oz which is pretty expensive.

Lbs is a shortened version of the Greek word for measuring scales. So it actually doesn‘t mean a specific weight, but more like “weighed” or something.

I never cease being reminded that trying to pigeonhole ND people by their “condition” never works. That’s why it’s a spectrum.

Any other audhd people seeing these things and think they’re TIHI?

These birds have absolutely no sense of self-preservation.

“I’m Spartacus!”

This article is 2/3 fluff. The majority is about convenience features, not safety.

That said, I recently moved from a ~15 year old car to a modern one, and have driven several newer models with the features described.

Adaptive cruise: it‘s often poorly designed. It brakes far too rapidly and abruptly should traffic or a car ahead slow, and there‘s absolutely no reason to apply as much throttle as it does should it decide acceleration is appropriate. Also for uphill driving the cruise control often drops into far too low a gear in order to maintain speed. It‘s more of a nuisance than an aid, and it‘s even worse if traffic increases or you‘re in a lane with jackasses that can‘t maintain a steady speed. Adaptive cruise attracts idiots, too. The new versions will stay engaged and slow to a complete stop. If the driver has set the following distance to maximum the car will stop with a 4-5 car distance from the car ahead. They‘re treating it like some kind of autopilot that will run the car for them.

Lanekeeping: there‘s a huge span of quality here. Some are shit, some are far too aggressive, some are “jerky” following a segmented plotted line rather than a smoother curve. They can overcorrect and really make for an unstable drive attempting to counter intentional driver input. Some “give up” and disengage with little warning, the audible alerts are often weak. Some briefly follow merge, exit, or widening lines for an additional lane pointing you off the road before they get confused and disengage with the car pointed in an unsafe direction.

Auto braking: in my experience it has engaged every time when I was already braking, or engaged when there was no need to brake. The few times I thought it should have engaged, it didn’t. It’s a nuisance at best, ineffective at worst.

Reverse cameras don’t provide a full picture and are awful in developing driver proprioception about the dimensions of their car. They’re fine for what’s immediately behind you, but use of mirrors and looking around is far better for backing out and looking for approaching people or cars. That said, I love the “360°” view ones. Those are great for centering oneself in a parking space.

So I completely understand why drivers don’t use them. They’re often low-quality, inappropriate overcorrections for the situation, and make for a worse ride and potentially even detrimental to safety. That’s saying a lot considering the quality of a lot drivers on the road today.

I run 80% of the time with adaptive cruise and lanekeeping off. I can’t disable the autobrake, if I could I would.

Just goes to show you what’s important to people and the efficacy of echo chambers and propaganda of the right.

People often want the same thing. But the right is so effective at repetition and corralling their followers that they aren’t able to separate the rhetoric from the politics and assume anyone saying the “magic words” is automatically on “their team” until told otherwise.

Yes. The HTC TyTN. Full slide out keyboard. Windows CE. Decent memory. Decent battery life. I jailbroke it too so I had even more customizability.

Also the original iPhone 3g. Still have it. Still works.

Both of them represent the (mostly) pre-enshittified internet.

Reminds me of these guys.

Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing.

“We’ll stop putting our cameras where people don’t want them and just put then where our clients want them.”

Don’t loan your friend money.

Give it to them and never expect it back.

That old saying about loaning a friend money means you’ll probably lose the money and the friend both is pretty true.

Competition for membership and money. People changing from say christianity to islam or to buddhism is less likely, they’re outsiders and foreign, but not direct competitors. Making your version of Christianity more cult-ish by fomenting hatred of the similar competition to prevent people from leaving or losing church benefactors does the same thing.

Yeah who the hell is buying creeper glasses for kids to wear at schools. This is messed up.

Then the spin should have reduced gravitational effect, created a “lean” toward the equator of the spin, created a bulge at the equator where the water would be slung outward due to the spin…

There’s all kinds of problems with this planet assuming a slingshot effect to help reach escape velocity based on the fuel requirement differential in this hypothetical.