Yeah, the frantic amateurishness could not have been better choreographed

Lol. The way both men trailed it makes it clear they were very much expecting this to happen

53% above average of my country.

Buying a house without signing up for a lifetime crippling dept is plain impossible in large cities.

To get into a cost range where my wife (same salary) and I feel comfortable to take on a loan requires us to move roughly one or two hours train travel out into the countryside.

I’m over 40 and could only buy a house somewhere in nowhere land with massive commute needs.

It’s not feasible and I earn way over average salary.

Just look at how many people are religious. So yea, people will believe anything for the oddest reasons.

That… Doesn’t sound good.

Facebook is not exactly a trustworthy thing and to have developing countries dependent on it the way you describe sounds dystopian. :/

But dystopian is sadly the theme of the 2020s

I hardly remember Facebook… Isn’t that these days a retirement platform?

That the death data tells clearly they should have laws like many EU countries have on gun ownership.

Those are not multi purpose tools. Guns are for killing.

It’s actually a useful tool… If it were not too often used for so very dystopian purposes.

But it’s not just AI. All services, systems, etc… So many are just money grabs, hate, opinion making or general manipulation… I have many things I hate more about “modern” society, than I do as to how LLMs are used.

I like the lemmy mindset far more than reddit and only on the AI topic people here are brainlessly focused on the tool instead of the people using the tool.

Yea, true. And sad. We’re fucked

Why is this world and timeline so hell bent on recreating dystopian sci fi novels from the 80s?

Or even better, lets change society and work to something that just fits well together and where work is not slavery with extra steps.

That I can easily agree on.

Though the reality is that the the e-scooter usage has not led to significantly less cars on the road. Instead they mostly replaced bikes, public transport and walking. Numbers vary from country to country and city to city of course so this is a generalized average.

This means though that they are not making anything better but instead making it all worse because I do not recall ever having had this much trouble with badly parked bikes in the past, even in a big and bike heavy city like mine.

So while the concept is great it fails because they don’t replace cars but instead just add another way of ruining public spaces ON TOP OF the fucking cars.

I regard it as a question of scale.

Cars are problematic due to how people use them. That they are used senselessly, agressively, carelessly.

Thats why there are so many rules and fines around cars. Fines that are nowhere near as strong as they should be.

And those same attitude people driving cars in bad ways also ride scooters.

I had a scooter with two on it plow through a tiny gap of elderly people at high speed just a few days ago.

I had a easily 8 meter wide pedestrian crossing in front of my office vlocked in a full line of e-scooters dumped there as parking space blocking it just as thoroughly as if two cars had parked there.

Now if I were to scale up the ratio of people using scooters to the same as cars then it would get very bad because they seem to think of e-scooters as being more free of rules.

Sure, a good solution would be to replace cars fully and use roads for bikes and scooters. Best possibility.

Sadly that’s not a thing and until then the people using scooters just as badly as car drivers are out there ruining that for everyone.

Uhm, are you one of those who park their e scooter wherever they want and are trying to deflect, or why are you so over the top triggered?

You think that’s a good and fruitful way to talk? Aha

Unless Trump starts ww3 we will have a few more painful years of transition and then the new normal will be normal and the better deals will win, which won’t be with America.

Though that’s only true for the first few years. Once alternatives are established and trade with America is reduced it will be less and less until America will be not interesting anymore

I hate cars and I equally hate escooter turds who carelessly leave the damn thing wherever they hopped off. Middle of pavement, right in the dead center of a bus stop where they clearly jumped from scooter into the bus door.

No, the little bit of space left getting fucked up by careless rental users is very close as bad as cars.

“hackers”…

Well, not quite.

There are plenty of jobs that require smart people which can be automated a lot.

Business analytics, legal stuff, etc.

They won’t kill the need for expert human minds yet, but the jobs will need significantly less people overall for the same work, which means less jobs in those areas, which then leads to less people being able to learn those jobs and we are headed towards elite humans VS most humans being struggling slave-consumers.

At least from a current perspective.

If universal income or such were a thing all those consumers could focus on creating and learning what they truly like, many turning into experts organically, most likely.

But no, society is too dumb and rigid to adapt to this reality without everything burning to the ground first