Not exactly secret or illegal, they are actively selling driving data to insurance companies already. Stuff like speeding, hard breaking, etc.
It’s not widely advertised, but it’s less secret and more “hidden in the fine print”. It’s right there in the open though
Cell companies can give those out for free if they want to… What they offer to consumers is absolutely not the same as what they might offer to a car company at bulk rates. They could even have the car store data and wait for low usage times to upload, it would cost cell providers almost nothing
They might even leverage it to use up bandwidth so they don’t have to sell to secondary carriers if they wanted to one day…
Nice! First bit of good news I’ve heard this week
Like on the ticket as a Democrat and everything? I thought it was too late, and an independent doesn’t have the time to build name recognition
If there’s a better way to salvage this I’m all for it… I’m just so sick of how politicians can shit into the fan and just slink off without consequences
He’s probably going to anyways, but there’s not time for a replacement… Why does he get to just slink off and leave the seat to a Republican by default?
He fucked it up for everyone… The least he could do is own up and open a slim path for someone else
What he should do is vow to resign if he wins so Maine can choose someone else
Do individuals have platforms?
Yes? Of course they do. It’s a collection of beliefs, goals, and promised actions presented when you’re rallying support from the people
Our government has certainly been chosen by a teams sports mentality, but that’s absolutely not the norm. They used to have long public debates and publish essays… What we’re going through is a heavily degraded democracy, none of this is normal
No, there’s lots of flavors of absurdism
If that doesn’t do it, there’s also copium and despair
The first scandal was basically that he’s a CHUD dumbass and an edge lord when he was younger… But who cares? That much was obvious, and his platform is on point. The media just presented it as more than it was, because the billionaires own the media and are terrified of progressives
This is the first serious scandal. Unfortunately it’s too late to replace him, and supposedly there’s something much worse that hasn’t been released yet…a depressing day of news all around
This one makes a lot of sense though. You have a built in way to clean the panels through the trains, the panels are protected by the rails, and theoretically nothing should be putting weight on them (in practice the weight of a human or maybe a cow - at most)
Plus railroads last a very long time. Basically until we rip them up
We don’t need a solution to transition away from fossil fuels, we need lots of solutions. We really should be putting up solar panels anywhere and everywhere they will survive for at least a few years. Even if it’s 70% as productive as a properly angled panel, so what? We don’t need to min max here
We need production ramped up and capacity online as fast as possible. If solar railways become a new source of demand, that means more investment in both
It’s like solar roadways, except once again trains are the natural evolutionary end point
Not really. Hyper reality is where you hallucinate patterns in reality where none exist
Introspection leads down a different path. The equivalent would be finding patterns in yourself that don’t exist… But that’s just the human condition. And dispelling your self illusions is a big part of truly understanding yourself
One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before
But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism
There’s a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately… The displaced workers aren’t the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits
Exactly. We don’t need “socialism”. It’s just a word, one that has been deeply tainted through generations of propoganda. We can discard the label if it doesn’t help good outcomes… Material conditions are what matter, no matter what you call them
I love to fight someone forced to directly defend unaffordable housing and medical care. Please, tell me more about how you hate the common people and want us all to die. Speak up for the camera
Not slightly. We’re already having problems with food and water in even “first world” countries… Just little hiccups before a true systematic failure
The disasters will get worse and way more common, but those aren’t where the true horrors will be. It’ll be the disease, conflict, and mass starvation
We could certainly overcome it. Humans are very adaptable… But it’s already starting, and we aren’t doing anything. We can’t even organize enough to agree we should do anything at all to save ourselves
So things will get horrific. It could take billions of dead to figure out a new way to live at this rate. Every lesson will be learned though desperation. And then one day, we’d reach that new worse normal
But if we got our act together and started actually preparing, it wouldn’t be bad. Scary and hard, but we’d get hope back. We’d regain connection to each other, and be united against an outside enemy. We’d share a dream of bringing the green back. We
We could come together pretty quickly once we accepted the necessary sacrifice of the old ways of living… But each day it progresses and we do nothing. It’s depressing and terrifying, but the truth can’t be ignored anymore
Sometimes ballots are binding, sometimes they introduce a bill automatically, sometimes they’re basically just a poll
For California, they’re binding - if it passes, there’s a law that goes into effect
The cracks were always there, but it’s like global warming. Decades and decades of people ringing the alarm bell and warning signs before things come to the natural conclusion
We’re getting real close to the find out part of both issues
Both things can be true. But it was definitely hacked
And by that I mean the democracy part has been manipulated over a long period so a minority has more power than the majority. That’s why religious extremists are able to achieve things like this - they’re a small group of the population, but the fascist technocrats behind it all like to use their heraldry
But without voter suppression, breaking norms, and stacking the courts, this never would have flown
Our democracy got hacked. You just can’t have billionaires and democracy long term
Stopwatches also play a large roll, so I say we call it “egg time”