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Not_mikey

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  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • Unifying the system might actually hurt it more then help. MUNI the bus and light rail system within the city is relatively cheap, $2.75 fare to ride any where. That's because it's funded mostly by the city because people in the city use and value it more. BART, the metro that's posted in the picture is funded by all the suburban and urban municipalities that it serves in the metro area, and since the suburban cities don't use/ value it as much it's hard to get funding for it passed through taxes so they rely more on fares.

    If they unified it then the minority of people in the city wouldn't be able to pass taxes to improve, or at this point maintain, service and we'd get stuck with high fares and low service.

    For example in the last election a majority of people voted to tax rideshares to pay for the bus in the city, it didn't pass because another ballot measure that passed had some fine print nullified it, but that kind of measure would never have passed throughout the whole bay area.

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • Yeah, payed $30 to get from the airport to downtown sf a couple days ago, so probably closer to $50 to get all the way to oakland.

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • Newsom is term limited, he ain't coming back. That's also the reason he's turning right IMO, gearing up for a presidential run and thinks hariss' biggest mistake wasn't going on right wing podcasts.

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • The current toll to cross the bay bridge by car from Oakland to sf is $8, and like someone mentioned it's only $4.25 from Oakland to sf without the airport charge, so you are still saving by using bart, just not as much as you probably should.

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  • How is this argument different than the "video games cause violence" argument?

  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • It keeps you on there site. Same reason Twitter banned links and has grok now, the longer you stay on the site the more likely you are to look at or even click on an ad on that site. If you google something, then quickly scroll past the first couple ad links and click on the first non ad link you are maybe only staying on Google for 1 or 2 seconds. If you get an "ai overview" at the top and start reading through that then you're maybe spending 10-30 seconds reading through that. That's another 10 seconds that the ad was displayed that Google can go to there ad customers and say people were looking at it longer.

    Another reason more motivated by user experience is also that the AI has a better "understanding" of meaning compared to typical search algorithms. Say you search "Starbucks price at closing" when you meant "Starbucks stock price at time of market closing" an AI would be more able to discern that meaning as opposed to a traditional algorithm which may show you the closing time of the nearest Starbucks, or the price of one of there drinks etc.

  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • That may be true for small or mid size startups that are reliant on VC money, but we're talking about Google and Microsoft here, they already have there money printers going and don't need VC money.

  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • They had just as much control with the old search algorithm, though. They could still pick and choose what you see on the search results with their opaque algorithm. The only difference would be that instead of only showing some regime captured media outlet they could generate there own narrative on the fly, but it's not like there's a shortage of sycophantic media written by actual people they could pull from.

  • UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

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  • Careful there keir, this is the exact kind of "anti-semitism" that ya'll kicked Jeremy Corbyn out of the party for.

  • Conservatives block Trump agenda bill from advancing in major setback for GOP leaders

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  • lack of sanely sized options

    I don't get this, like they still make sedans. Go to a toyota or honda dealership and there are still plenty of small affordable efficient cars.

    I agree we should definitely tax them but that'll only go so far. Even if we tax them people have shown there willing to spend a lot more money for an suv . People view them as a status symbol and cultural signifier and will pay a lot since a part of there identity is based off it.

    Strict regulation making it so a majority of people just can't buy one would be the only way, but thats unpopular and fox News would have a field day about "the liberals are coming for your truck"

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  • Still cheaper then the extra car payment for getting a car twice as big as you need for rare occasions.

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  • I think the bottom right one is supposed to be sympathetic and more making fun of the catch 22 of the car arms race caused by all the other panels.

  • PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT!!

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  • Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests

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  • while consumers constantly say "where's my small car?"

    On a Honda or Toyota lot, there are still plenty of small affordable, fuel efficient cars to be bought in the US, people just aren't buying them and are choosing to pay twice as much for an SUV

    meat so cheap it's the best option for consumers vs plant protein

    It's not, the cheapest diet there is is rice and beans, and you can buy those at literally any store that sells food. Beans are half the price per grams of protein compared to chicken, way less compared to beef and pork. .

    People aren't driving big cars and eating meat because there are no other options or it's too expensive. There are plenty of other options, and its more expensive to buy an SUV or eat meat, they choose to because they like it and don't know or care about the climate costs.

  • Dems finally did something!

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  • Time to go back to shiting on Bernie for being a straight white man

  • Map of the average homicide rate per year in 2013-2023 in Canada and the USA

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  • Nah that's New Orleans, and you would've known that if you studied your Lil Wayne.

  • Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

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  • So do you have to basically ai spam applications if you want a job now? Cause it seems like companies are using ai to filter out 99% of applications so there's no use into putting manual effort to adjust resumes and write cover letters if a human isn't going to read it.

  • Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests

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  • corporations producing the vast vast majority

    Care to give some citations? Cause a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions can be chalked up to individual choices. Eating meat (14% of ghg ) and driving (16% of ghg in us) being the top two. I guess you could argue it's the auto corporations fault for lobbying congress against investing in public transport, but no one is forcing you to eat meat.

    I understand corporations are the biggest problem for the planet but you can't just put it all on them and not look at the ways your lifestyle is also contributing to climate change. Even if we nationalized every major polluting company and somehow got them to net zero we'd still have a problem if everyone is driving a huge pickup truck everywhere and eating beef everyday.