I wonder if this means that future Roombas will insist that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.

this works easy with a car because you can just flag the license plate and mail the bill to the owner its registered to. But I'm kinda blanking how you'd do this without some kind of visual recognition tech for a cyclst.

the "fun" thing about studying the bible is finding out how much of this shit was just references to Jewish laws and legal rulings. And Matthew (which seems to have been written by a Jewish Christian rather than a gentile Christian) was all about that!

in the sense that there's a way to get people to stop being assholes, sure. but as far as laws and what not, I doubt you'll get anythng that yields what you want without just making ebikes and scooters illegal

it's the modding scene. Game series like Total War have it even more explicitly in their code. (iirc the character code for a lesbian princess was d*kewoman) But the modding scene around paradox games got to be orders of magnitude bigger so that segment of the playerbase is much more represented

people are going to squeeze in where they can. same deal with bicycles. tbh it doesn't really feel like the kind of thing there's a solution for.

"Build her. Fuck her. Delete her. Repeat." is the most horrifying thing I've read in a while and it's not even close lmao

I'm intermittently an accelerationist now as a bit

I hope this happens and that the Wayback Machine and Wikicommons end up getting nuked in the process.

that was just a regular Angel Hernandez game and they let him call the playoffs

i dunno why my brain kept trying to parse that as a tramp stamp

honestly? I don't even remember what old twitter was like at this point.

do we still want to be futurists? I keep getting mixed messages on this front. it's like people want to be tech-skeptical cynics, but also don't want to abandon futurism all the way.

nah it's totally possible that he did. Humanity living under the Culture are generally depicted as frivolous and incompetent. It's only because of the quasi godlike AIs running society that it hasn't all imploded. Pretty much every agent comes from outside the Culture for that reason.