Gated communities and Homeowners Associations were originally invented to keep black and hispanic people out. Simple as that. They are still used as tools of segregation from a paranoid populace.
People who listen to Joe Rogan, are certifiably retarded, and could probably be safely culled from the population. I thought when Rush Limbaugh died, we'd finally see dipshits like this fall off the radar, but it just left a fatass power vacuum that even more power hungry morons rushed in to fill. Not only that, but they preach violence, violence, violence, and then are surprised when they get shot in the neck.
Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home...that's droll.
I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take... ~40 minutes.
That's great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.
You can't take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.
If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It's more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I'm a night owl.
Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn't care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren't exactly some great solution here.
I'd be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything. I'd love to see smaller cars on the road that were designed to only hold a single person and be as efficient at that task as possible.
Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings. And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.
You can set them up so that they don't do that. It's just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that's what people expect now.
The tradeoff is time waiting for the train, and destinations available to you. I hate people way more than I hate cars, so cars it is. Personally I drive 2 cars to work with my left butt cheek in one car, and my right butt cheek in the other car just to be extra inefficient.
Did you think I didn't know that or something? Trains are worse than cars. How do you not see so clearly the argument I'm making here?
Holy crap the world is in trouble with people like you around.
"hurr durrr I hate teh US" is not a valid argument against cars; it's a trite attempt at derailing the subject and attacking the person making the argument instead.
Because there are different "types" of AI, and some of them are genuinely impressive. I don't see AI as inherently stupid; I see that the way it's being implemented and abused as stupid.
Kinda the same way I see humans. MOST of them are pieces of trash, but there are some diamonds in the rough among them that are absolute treasures to be around.
This whole comparing AI to only the best and brightest humans at their absolute pinnacle is so tiring.
Humans are stupid, they're aggressive, they're ignorant, they're inattentive - so comparing only to the educated, civilized bits is just selective bias. Humans are wrong. Humans are bad drivers constantly. They think Vaccines cause 5G and that being gay is transmissible.
There's all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it's ignorant of the facts at hand.
At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you've decided to tax everyone because of "compute over a certain threshold".
They started with the mobile division only, and eventually bought the whole company out.