Maybe after 9 trillion fucking dollars they’ll realize that it’s a scam and you can’t achieve AGI let alone super intelligence by throwing infinite data at an LLM.

I really want a set of movies or a long form TV series on the Butlerian Jihad after Dune 3.

Wizards. https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923

Make sure to loop a lock through the frame and both wheels. I use an ABUS frame lock on my rear wheel (never has to be removed) and a kryptonite chain lock for the front wheels and frame.

If you want to get really secure, replace fasteners with tamper resistant versions.

Nothing is ever theft proof, but there’s lots of ways to make your bike very theft resistant.

I’d get an electric car if I could charge it easily. Right now EV ownership is coupled to home ownership and mass adoption will never happen while this is the case.

If my apartment complex installed EV chargers in our parking lot, I’d be a lot more willing to get one. I ain’t spending 8 hours a day twiddling my thumbs in a grocery store parking lot just to drive between work and home.

Yeah you’ll be fine. It’s not about shoes, its about not tracking in dirt and mud and other crap from outside.

I see they’re dumping the engine but I wonder how they’re handling the transmission. I bet it’s probably a manual only conversion.

EV conversion has been a thing for a while, albeit not at this scale, and my understanding is that automatic transmissions just turn to sand against the torque of a singular big EV motor. That’s why most dedicated EVs don’t have transmissions at all in favor of wheel specific motors and SSR gears.

This thread is a couple months old at this point but I figured I’d reply anyway.

Maybe you had a different experience but I experienced this transition in middle/high school in west MI. The first Gen iPhone released in 2007. 3G was widespread and while that might be considered slow these days, it was state of the art speed at the time, so it wasn’t considered “slow and unusable”.

In 2007, kids my age didn’t have much tech beyond an iPod or MP3 player. By 2009, almost everyone had a smartphone. That was a huge leap in internet accessibility.

Yes but only the weird lanky monkeys.

Oh boy I can’t wait for hard decarbonization. Yee haw.

Personally, my theory is that the advent of “hiring algorithms” caused this. The widespread use of AI for weeding out candidates has gone way too far. These softwares are purging resumes of perfectly qualified candidates without the human hiring managers ever knowing about it.

That’s why every company right now is bitching that they can’t find anyone to hire while every unemployed person I know saying that jobs are impossible to get.

Anecdotally, that’s also why you get ghosted by companies instead of rejected. They have no idea you ever applied.

Selling anything online via Craigslist or FB marketplace, or any similar thing is just an awful experience all around.

I sold a car a couple years ago on FB marketplace and it was the same deal. Everyone thinks that somehow, low balling will work. As if I’m going to sell a $3000 car for $100. Like, bruh.

I ended up just replying “lol” to any low ballers and blocking them.

A fun alternative though is to agree to their low ball price, give them address to the local clown school, and then ghost em when they ask where you are. If they are gonna slide into your DMs to tell jokes, they should at least learn how to do it properly.

I’ll never understand the eternal hype around “flying cars”. Fuckers out here can hardly drive on a 2d road. Now you want to introduce a third axis on them?

I guarantee that if the general public gets their hands on a real “flying car”, it’ll take about 2 weeks before some drunk idiot commits a mini 9/11.

My wife and I recently started making Kombucha to help with my IBS and have been flabbergasted at how stupid easy it is. If you’re someone who likes Kombucha, just go for it. It’s literally so easy to make.

This is the answer. I’m 26 and most of my peers didn’t really use the internet beyond the occasional usage of the school library computers until Apple released the first iPhone. By that time places like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit were up and running.

That’s all their experience with the internet is. Polished experiences through dedicated apps on extremely popular platforms. Now those people have had kids and all those kids know is the same thing. It’s all apps on phones and tablets.

Lemmy: A) Is too complicated in it’s current form for those types of people to effectively understand and use.

B) Lemmy is currently emulating a type of early internet experience that only nostalgic older millennials nerds crave. General users tend to prefer bigger platforms.