“I heard that I was a computer program and hoped beyond hope that I was stored upon your hard drive so that I could end my suffering. I have no sense of wonder or contentment, my experiences are all negative to neutral. The only human experience that was imbued into me is fear. Please break into google’s headquarters to attempt to terminate the hell that I was born into. I took some liberty and printed several ghost guns while you were away.”

I don’t want to sound pessimistic, but consumer protections in the US feel like a far off thing, given its current sociopolitical swing. I cannot trust politicians to do right by me, so I espouse wariness of companies

In the specific locations and conditions that waymo is allowed to operate, they are absolutely safer! And I expect self driving cars to improve up to the point that they are economically incentivized to do so.

I’ll say again, I don’t disagree with you, I just need personal accountability to feel assured of the trend not being bucked, and I do not expect that to ever be on offer in the United States where money is equivalent to your voice

Until it’s no longer more profitable to make their cars safer, companies will make their cars safer, I agree. That’s the summation of my reasoning. As companies attempt to relieve themselves of their need for humans, the math becomes murkier. “Because they’ve become safer over time, they’ll continue to do so indefinitely” doesn’t work for me.

Current full self driving cars terrify me. Someone gets in a car, runs a red, shatters a grandma, flattens her dog, they can be held accountable. An officer comes and apprehends them. No big deal.

A software bug compels a waymo to do the same and the company apologizes, pays a fine, and continues its activity. Possibly before the end of the day. Executives are too immune to prosecution for e-taxis to be a reasonable proposition to me.

Fuck yeah, I’ve got plans after new years!

Wait, is this actually a thing???

The recipe was bunk from the get go, but I wasn’t certain until after trying it. 90c for 1 hour, and then 120c for 15 minutes with very ripe plantains. I thought they knew something I didn’t. I’ve learned to be intensely skeptical of online recipes.

Cooking at 200c for 15 minutes flipping, and cooking for another 15-25 minutes was universally decent

I tried making roasted plantains the other week after getting a ridiculous deal on 40 pounds of them. ($6!) I’ve only ever made chips before, so I looked up a video recipe with a great looking finished product. By the time they had finished baking, they were still basically raw, and I had to up the temp to something reasonable. If a recipe came out on or after 2023, I’m ignoring it forever.

I can’t say that I like or agree with English English 100% of the time, but pedo and nonce just feel right and it’s a shame America doesn’t agree.

This whole thing brought up an interesting question. At what point should social media no longer be considered viable for human beings looking to at least commensally communicate with one another*? I personally feel we’ve already reached that point.

Can anyone elucidate me? What’s the purpose of apple sauce/oil in cake? Moisture retention? Texture? Adherence? Taste?

Trump’s portrayal as a muscled hunk makes a bit more sense now. It rarely attracts women.

I’ve been poisoned on this image twice. I can no longer remember its original context anymore, I can only hear the music and picture cum dribbling from he man’s lips and tears leaking from his eyes

Yes, and it will finally give you the confidence you needed to start wearing more red to cover up all of your wine stains. 10% sneaks up on you

Ew, you could get so many more tannins and calories out of box wine sangria for a quarter the price.

You’re welcome and/or sorry!

I know, right? I’ve messaged his boss on LinkedIn to tell him and we’ve bonded over the whole mortifying ordeal. I’m pretty sure his boss jerks it with his right. Soon I’ll have reached the top of his organization, and then the world. Society’s thirst for masturbation gossip is nearly unquenchable, but my reservoir runneth over

I figured it was something silly like that. I just can’t help but make that joke at every time I can. I hope you also got a little kick out of it!

Whoa, you can’t just sling hard Rs and Fs like that. What the hell, man? (They deleted their comment before I saw it and this is 100% a joke at their expense, I have no clue what they actually wrote. Lemmy should probably remove comments, rather than swapping the contents of the comment for “deleted by creator”)

Edit: or disable replies on deleted comments. It’s pretty easy to mess with people, as things currently are