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jeremy parsons
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i’d like to be a helpful person
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turning and turning in the widening gyre, the desolate world of efficiency worshippers whose lust for power would reduce us all to dull unthinking human automatons
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jeremy parsons
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i’d like to be a helpful person
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jeremy parsons
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Ending that bullshit would (1) be cheaper, (2) have more popular support, and (3) be more effective at curbing greenhouse gas emissions than the current elite campaign to replace internal combustion engine vehicles with battery electric vehicles.
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www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
It’s amazing how much energy is used on computation and data storage for “artificial intelligence” projects, plus privacy violating commercial data collection.
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jeremy parsons
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as far as i can tell they oppose Biden actions just when they are simply partisan hobby horses (e.g., student loan forgiveness), and not potential stepping stones toward authoritarianism
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jeremy parsons
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why would you expect authoritarians to oppose consolidation of executive power?
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damn, that actually sounds worse than being normal
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jeremy parsons
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guess i have more in common with LLMs than i realized
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jeremy parsons
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sorry, misread your comment. yes, no disputing that greater speed means greater injury.
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cops just say that shit reflexively. the actual #1 is distracted driving — cell phone use. how about just punish people for accidents/collisions. that’s all that matters
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sure. but by the same token cars traveling above PSL is also not a real problem. so what
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uh, yeah, that’s my point, it’s arbitrary. my comment was directed against the “divine infallibility” school of thought on speed limits.
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jeremy parsons
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yeah cuz fuck management that’s why
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somebody likes this kind of thing. people who deserve defenestration.
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I live in NJ where state law sets max speed limits for defined categories, but municipal and county politicians control the actual posted speed limit on almost all roads in their jurisdiction (within “statutory limits”). The result is often PSLs well below what engineers say is appropriate.
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jeremy parsons
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wtf is goin on today, why so many posts in love with red light and speed enforcement cameras? y’all makin nazis on twitter look kinda chill by comparison
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jeremy parsons
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yes, publicly elected officials are surely qualified and set speed limits that are based their road engineering expertise and totally are not arbitrary at all 🙄
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jeremy parsons
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penalizing people according to arbitrary one-size-fits-all rules is absurd, given the enormous range of driver skill levels and vehicle performance characteristics.
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yes, posted speed limits are arbitrary. roads should have speed guidance based exclusively on the engineers’ determination of what the roads are designed for. penalties should only kick in when someone actually causes a collision.
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one person’s gut feeling is another’s irrational belief. how is rapid acceleration dangerous? some vehicles are more torquey than others, some drivers more leisurely than others. any definition of an “acceleration event” is inherently arbitrary.
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this system doesn’t penalize dangerous driving. it penalizes highly context dependent things like “hard braking” and “acceleration events.” meanwhile, it disregards distracted driving (arguably the most widespread dangerous driving issue) because that’s not so easily measured/quantified.
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jeremy parsons
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lol or learn how to turn your head and look through the rear window like an actual driver
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wtf this has nothing to do with safety
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misrepresentation, yes. but aside from that, the more fundamental problem is that “smarter” vehicles make dumber drivers. advanced driver-assistance systems (whatever they’re called) will always do more harm than good.
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the fried chicken thing doesn’t make sense — wouldn’t she have sold barbecue chicken?
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jeremy parsons
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is this about elon musk? no offense, but kinda tired of hearing about him
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jeremy parsons
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shit is fucked up and bullshit
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every time i see or hear “no more number 2 pencils,” i think to myself “great, i always hated writing in dookie”
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jeremy parsons
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forced-induction and hybrid powerplants wtf
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jeremy parsons
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equating anti-zionism with antisemitism is a great way to increase antisemitism
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peanut butter on a hard boiled egg kinda day
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do not buy a new vehicle
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da tuck u say
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jersey would be great if pineys outnumbered these clowns instead of the other way round
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i like to think of junk email as junkie mail
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it seems like “cognitive dissonance” is only used anymore to mean roughly the opposite of its original meaning. has the definition actually changed?
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so i’ve begun to think that anyone cheering the development of this technology 1) is a bad driver and 2) is unwilling to stop driving voluntarily and ask other people to drive them around
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jeremy parsons
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proponents of autonomous vehicles mostly talk as if the defining standard of good driving is merely navigating from one place to another without a collision. and i can’t imagine how anyone could be a good driver if that’s their whole notion of good driving.
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jeremy parsons
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damnit ya had me at jello
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jeremy parsons
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where the anti-tax libertarians when ya need em
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jeremy parsons
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if a slow driver is fuckin up the passing lane, it’s sure to be someone in a nice car playing terrible music. every. single. time.
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jeremy parsons
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i once believed in things — even thought i knew some things. now people like that just bewilder me.
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jeremy parsons
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so corn ethanol now has some competition for worst fuel additive, how nice
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jeremy parsons
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lol, sorry, didn’t realize u podcast, no offense intended
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jeremy parsons
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worse than hearing people sing is hearing people talk. i will never understand the success of podcasts.
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jeremy parsons
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eating sourkrout is suspicious, but spelling the word correctly is much worse
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jeremy parsons
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goll dang, this gonna be gnawing at me for days now
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jeremy parsons
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then u r finally ready for the glory of “strut” by steven seagal
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jeremy parsons
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kinda seems like all social media now is either too serious/boring on one hand or absurdly toxic/hostile on the other
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jeremy parsons
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“snitches get stitches” is generous, dunno why y’all kooks take it so negative
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