I dont care if the person field strips it in front of me, the first thing im doing after they hand it to me is clearing it myself.
This kind of attitude is the exact right way to do it when safety is involved. You make it automatic, not a decision. It's like wearing your seatbelt. It saves you time and energy while producing the best results.
Put another way: Crazy shit happens every day. You make it automatic not because you distrust the person unloading it in front of you. You do it because you shouldn't trust yourself to be perfectly flawless in life and death situations. You do it 100% of the times that you rationally know for certain that it's empty, so that you skip the check 0.00000% of the time that some crazy sequence of events quietly creates a dangerous situation.
No, not at all. I don't think there's any government regulation of family planning that does not end up somewhere dark.
It's more about how stupid the US approach is vs the big rival that actually seems to care about the future. That doesn't make any specific actions any more noble or less evil.
Though now that you got me thinking about this again, the US's current rulers would love to do the whole forced breeding thing too. But I think they only want white babies.
but you were using language of emotion (“Pay a living wage!”) rather than showing the math.
There's a key bit of bullshit buried in this line that I'd like to call out. This calls back to some old fashioned conservative propaganda from decades past.
It's the idea that the left thinks with their heart while the right thinks with their brain. It implies that emotionally stunted greedy assholes are actually smart and admirable, while things like empathy and giving half a shit about the lives of people outside your circle are weak and foolish and "giving in to emotion."
But giving in to greed and anger are just following God's plan or some shit.
I've posted a few times about how doubly shortsighted the US is with the immigration situation. The entire developed world is trending towards population stability and then decline, and our infinite growth economy is not going to like that. So, even if we didn't have horrible things being done to actual humans, it would still be a shit strategy.
There goes China actually planning for the future again...
Appliances with required accounts and connections, yeah it's all a corporate enshittification surveillance garbage.
But a smart light bulb that connects over Zigbee to a locally hosted setup so that I can easily dim the lights or set them on a timer or whatever I feel like doing? It's a convenience that nobody needs, but at least it isn't as severely compromised as the "ecosystem" wannabes.
I'm human and I enjoy these stories of pettiness just like anybody else.
But if I may please speak in my "old man who has seen things" capacity for a moment, this is not the way to live. You should endeavor to do positive things every day to make life better for people around you as well as yourself. And you don't do this because it gets you praise or rewards, you do it because of the internal rewards. It's good for your mind.
I take exception with the mixing of the stone cold fact that we're all stardust with all that other crap.
It is good to be able to vape some weed and watch beautiful videos about amazing mind-blowing shit that actually exists, and not automatically entertain whatever magical/religious/supernatural idea is making the rounds in your neck of the woods.
I can get on board for all this "you have become what you hated" fun poking.
But let's be real. And I won't be alone in this because Lemmy is loaded with tech folks who probably spent a lot of time sitting at a desktop computer in their younger years. I submit the following:
My parents staring at facebook on their phone all evening is an objectively worse activity than teens/20s me sitting at a desktop computer doing 20 different things all evening. One just might turn you into a software engineer or IT professional and the other just might turn you into a drooling nazi.
I don't keep up on the appliance world very much, but for many years I have been under the impression that when replacing one it's always a good call to NOT get the Samsung.
I have literally never seen reason to doubt that rule.
I'm actually pretty happy with my current appliances, but I don't stick all to one brand and I stick with the simpler cheaper designs. If paying for the next higher tier brings higher build quality or upgrades the core function's power/capacity, then I'll probably go for it.
From Wikipedia, here is the article snippet that originated the term.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
It sure sounds like it's time to check my 401k and get out of US stock based funds while there's still something left.
The current Shiller PE ratio is over 40. The only other time it was that high in recorded history was 1999 into 2000. And that uniquely crazy time was due to... lemme just check my notes... a massive tech bubble. Fantastic.
I'm right there with you but unfortunately I must report that Facebook is still firmly entrenched in many circles. Like if my kid's school posts some news on their website but not their facebook page, I've seen parents get riled up about that.
It amuses me to play Roblox with my son when he's on a tablet or console and I'm using the Sober app to run the Android client on my Linux desktop that was built to be a windows gaming PC several years ago when he was a little baby.
He has an old PC that he doesn't use much, but he's got a much fancier one on the way.
The entire developed world is on the path to the population stabilizing then gradually decreasing. I've pointed this out multiple times for exactly the reason you state. Policy in the US is horribly backwards even before we get to the immediate damage done to real humans.
Ah, yeah it's affected everything across the board. But with the US context and you talking about giant vehicles, $60K vehicles, and 3 rows, I thought we were focused on the larger end of the population as a whole.
I bet the crash safety design of the current honda civic was definitely influenced by the truck regulations and that whole market driving the large end even larger.
Funny enough, I am eagerly awaiting the official announcement of the 2026 MX-5 of all cars.
My eyes started in the upper left with a single glance focused on the first line, which looks right. I didn't notice the misspelled word on the second line, and I kinda saw the "Yes" off to the right. So my brain was primed to think that this was a normal flow chart, and the big shape in the middle was probably some funny thing about "of course you don't."
My eyes then immediately followed the arrow in this completely normal flow chart to read:
Is the tack
humasns
ceaptative?
with some messed up lines leading down from it.
It got me good. 🤣
Edit: I wonder if this image was actually created to illustrate how our real neurons can instantly pick up on what the toaster neurons were doing, but then once your conscious mind has more time to process what you're looking at it's clear how wrong such an initial impression can be. There are probably also some parallels with how inaccurate eyewitness testimony can be.
This kind of attitude is the exact right way to do it when safety is involved. You make it automatic, not a decision. It's like wearing your seatbelt. It saves you time and energy while producing the best results.
Put another way: Crazy shit happens every day. You make it automatic not because you distrust the person unloading it in front of you. You do it because you shouldn't trust yourself to be perfectly flawless in life and death situations. You do it 100% of the times that you rationally know for certain that it's empty, so that you skip the check 0.00000% of the time that some crazy sequence of events quietly creates a dangerous situation.