Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it’s wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That’s what I’m talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.

It’s a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can’t imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I’m next to (let alone touching)

They have to believe in meritocracy, that wealth isn’t intrinsically tied to exploitation and a long history of classism.

Some of us never left.

Our whole-ass society is structured around Christian norms. Holidays, liquor laws, businesses closing on Sunday, loads of idioms and turns-of-phrase, it is pervasive and so normalized that any deviance is seen as shocking. (At least we aren’t one of the countries where heresy is still an actual crime)

Dude’s a Christian Zionist.

Or. Or. And hear me out on this: participate in society.

Off power grid maybe, imagine the nightmare of urban well-digging or apartment septic tanks.

What, and take any responsibility for the Commons?

You should never expect privacy in someone else’s car.

Grain is also fruit, botanically speaking.

Racism.

As it should be but not how it is.

Did you invoke the magic phrase? You must say “these edibles ain’t shit” to activate their power.

This is a web forum, not an academic journal. Fuck off with the grammar policing.

And while we’re at it, get fucked Pearson and other scummy textbook publishers!

How is that meaningfully different from “the camera generated”? Both result in a full image from a single input.

Thay does nothing for the Ram 3500 behind me blasting pure sunlight into every mirror. Sucks for bikes amd pedestrians too.

People are just too afraid of the dark.

Neither storage “solution” is currently adequate for fossil fuel replacement and may never be for high-density populations. Nuclear is less impactful than burning hydrocarbons or damming rivers and fearmongering about radioactive waste products isn’t helpful because, again, every nuclear accident or leak to date has been less harmful than normal exhaust from coal-burning plants and riparian habitat destruction.

If we had kept investing in an actual energy solution we would have gen-IV reactors already and the waste concerns would be even lower.

Taping off the radio didn’t kill the music industry, neither did Napster. Adobe did perfectly fine while small artists were using pirated copies of Photoshop. Sharing DRM-free software isn’t going to bring about the apocalypse. It’s already been happening for decades.

Providing a convenient storefront and launcher is enough for most customers if they think the price is fair. Gating multi-player, or achievements, or even hats behind some kind of proof of payment is going to catch a lot of people who might otherwise get a free copy.