Wait until you hear the real shenanigans. Remember the cards against humanity fricassee with elon musk’s company down near the border? It’s not all that uncommon. I lived in an area with less people than cows for a few years, and there was a famous (true) local legend of a construction company that had put heavy machinery (I think some sort of road roller) in front of a farmer’s front land/gate, then refused to move it when asked. The farmer stacked about 30-50 round bales of hay around said piece of equipment, and told them just what would happen if they tried to ‘steal’ his hay. 6 years later, that equipment was still sitting there, and I’m betting it still is.

I’ll do you better, and someone out there may know it’s me.

I once was in a river,

downstream from many givers,

and then began to shiver…

I felt a slide go past my liver.

There I was alone;

the house far, and across stone;

and my south began to groan;

from my lips I droned, “oh no.”

I tried to climb the rise,`

while tightly clamping thighs,

but as I soon surmised,

I couldn’t hold the surprise.

All the river floaters watched,

as my privacy I botched,

there right upon the stony swatch,

what horror flowed right from my crotch.

Worst experience of my shitting life was when I didn’t defecate prior to the monthly jog. Luckily I could squeeze through the fence of the golf club I was near, and it was early enough nobody was around to ‘report’ me, AND they had the course’s bathroom door unlocked. Now I just exercise at home where there’s a bathroom within safe jumping distance.

That’s the best answer.

I mean, I get it, but this is the same logic that is sometimes used for school shootings. It’s abhorrent to ignore a large increase compared to other places just because it is still a small chance, and therefore do nothing.

I have to think a bullet brick would be much more painful than a bullet point. I’m also curious if it would be more of a cannon than a gun, and thus safer to have in the hands of ‘the people’ because it wouldn’t really be a thing you could carry around on a whim. Would people put it in those little red wagons and walk it like a dog in a movie montage?

We’ll all be your friend here. We just have to avoid all things that could potentially cause strife, because we are on the .world server, after all. No real discussions, no delving into topics that unnerve cowardly mods. Everything is surface level and calm, just like any casual… friendship… without feeling…

You took the blue pill already, didn’t you?

Do you have to have the person in line-of-sight? Is awareness of them enough? Do they need to hear you? Do they need to see you? The “on command” bit is what makes me think they need to be able to be given a command, so at the very least have a speaker nearby. It’s a great bluff though. Who, after all, would actually question it once you’ve made them go several times.

The diarrhoea bit is an idea though. Can you make them poop in different ways? If you can make them have loose, watery stools could you also go the other direction and make them shit bricks? Take 100 men, make them shit bricks, and now you have an industry of adamantium-strength building material. Scale it up as business grows. The world would design around the piddling side effect that the hardest material in the universe is fecal matter. Masks with jasmine would become standard. People would wear skintight bodysuits that are easily removed and recycled in the intimate parts of their homes/offices that are made from non fecal material. Cleanliness would take over the world by necessity. You could be the start of a beautiful, shit-built world…

It’s our duty!

I think either keep your names as is

Uh… that was exactly what I said…

So why does the woman have to do it?

And that was exactly what I was saying I wouldn’t do…

The only reason I wouldn’t want to take my partner’s name, or have the partner take mine, is the same reason I wouldn’t want to blend. It’s just a headache to make sure everything is changed. It’s why you see a lot of people who published research before their marriage continue to publish under the same name even if they changed their name. It’s a major hassle.

but it’s actually not as bad or ghoulish as it sounds

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I think decisions made solely for making the company’s cost as low as possible while actively choosing to not care about issues just because their chance is low (we’ve all seen fight club, right? [If A > B where B=cost of paying out * chance of occurrence and A=cost of recall, no recall]) even if devastating are ghoulish.

The reason is likely to compete with Uber, 🤦

A few points of clarity, as I have a family member who’s pretty high up at waymo. First, they don’t want to compete with uber. Waymo isn’t really concerned with driverless cars that you or I would be owning/using, and they don’t want (at this point anyway) to try to start a new taxi service. Right now you order an uber and a waymo car might show up. . They want the commercial side of the equation. How much would uber pay to not have to pay drivers? How much would a shipping company fork over when they can jettison the $75k-150 drivers?

Second, I know for a fact that the upper management was pushing for the cars to drive like this. I can nearly quote said family member opining that if the cars followed all the rules of the road, they wouldn’t perform well, couching it in the language of ‘efficiency.’ It was something like, “being polite creates confusion in other drivers. They expect you to roll through the stop sign or turn right ahead of them even if they have right of way.” So now the waymo cars do the same thing. Yay, “social norms.”

A third point is that, as someone else mentioned, the cars are now trained, not ‘programmed’ with instructions to follow. Said family member spoke of when they switched to the machine learning model, and it was better than the highly complicated (and I’m dumbing down my description because I can’t describe it well) series of if-else statements. With that training comes the issue of the folks in charge of things not knowing exactly what is going on. An issue that was described to me was their cars driving right at the edge of the lane, rather than in the center of it, and they couldn’t figure out why or (at that point, anyway) how to fix it.

As an addendum to that third point, the training data is us, quite literally. They get and/or purchase people’s driving. I think at one time it was actual video, not sure now. So if 90% of drivers blast through at the moment of the red light change if they can, it’s likely you’ll hear about it eventually from waymo. It’s a weakness that ties right into that ‘social norm’ thing. We’re not really training safer driving by having machine drivers, we’re just removing some of the human factors like fatigue or attention deficits. Again, as I get frustrated with the language of said family member (and I’m paraphrasing), ‘how much do we really want to focus on low percentage occurrences? Improving the ‘miles per collision’ is best at the big things.’

HA! I made it to elder wizard status. Your memes have no power here! croak, die

Screams are right after the grunts in my opinion. They come uncalled.

Be a manly man and twist the container open by rotating your hands opposite of the seam’s direction. If you get in some real manly grunting and groaning you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that your manly courage won’t be questioned because everyone will focus on the body.

Maybe I’m just too immersed in the culture of my youth, but the only ones that don’t look ‘good’ are the horse and the deer. The horse could be fixed by styling the mane, and the deer might be better with a more vertical angle.

Fuck smoking and smokers, but yeah it looks ‘cool’ to me.

I’m guessing that’s the real context behind the picture, eh? Otherwise why would you bare your feet when it is apparently cold enough to be very well bundled up?

I didn’t know Torr was deprecated… For some reason that was always the number for STP I could remember in physics.

I mean, supposedly some lightsabers were built in a cave. They probably used whatever was on hand, and I’m thinking screws are more common in rubbish strewn pits and rankor caves than welding machines.