One of the first rules of robotics was always about not harming humans.

The first, in fact.

My granddad rocked the mustache til his death. Helps that he had much lighter hair.

What's the relevance? There were also cannons...

I can't believe face eating leopards eat faces...

better for PDFs

Sumatra!

Also, limitless consumption is unsustainable. Maybe we need to get used to the idea of deflation, learn to live with it...

Imagine your dollar would be worth more tomorrow if you didn't spend it today.

That's basically what happens with technology. Plenty of people still buy the latest TV even when there will be a better and cheaper one in a year or two.

In fact driving is the single most dangerous thing many people do in their whole lives, and they do it every day...

I have one in Arizona - trade?

I have one in Arizona - trade?

runs in a web browser.

Or its an electron app.

Something something something history repeating

All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs...

But then big companies wouldn't be able to keep milking the consumer via planned obsolescence. Won't somebody think of the shareholders?

Yes.

Don't even need to not look like a bum, I've gone on a few test drives looking like a bum.

This. I didn't know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?

It's kind of Bostonian too, but then it's pronounced "suppah".

Yeah, but at least he didn't have autism!

So someone enters the country illegally, commits a crime, you want to just send them back? To do it all again? Rather than, you know, put them in jail for the crime?

it's tied in with how US citizens feel about being "different."

I want to be different, just like everybody else I want to be like. I want to be just like all of the different people.

-John S Hall, 1992