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    2 days ago

    I really wouldn’t make mind heavier traffic enforcement in residential areas. Seems like across the whole country, we have super low limits on highways, and a super high one in neighborhoods, where it actually matters. Not to mention the enforcement seems to only happens on highways as well; can’t remember ever seeing someone pulled over for speeding through a neighborhood, but I see it happen all the time.

    And on top of all that, even though more neighborhood enforcement would be nice… Flock is clearly not the way to do it



  • I’m torn between being jealous and annoyed because those things are basically motorcycles. There’s a bike/pedestrian path near me that I often use and one of its rules is “no motorized vehicles,” to the extent people get tickets for using those electric rent-a-scooter things on there. But apparently people zooming past at 40mph, 2 feet away from someone walking their dog, is fine, cuz technically it has pedals




  • Yeah, and I’m not sure that a drug that reverses the symptoms is a realistic target anyway. As far as I’m aware, Alzheimer’s ultimately kills neurons. They ain’t coming back without a time machine. A treatment that stops degeneration is as good a goal as we’re gonna get.

    Like, if I lose a limb in a car accident, is it really fair to say that the intervention required to let me live on as an amputee didn’t work, since it couldn’t grow my limb back?



  • Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins

    To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol




  • I think the price difference has more to do with scale than it does data. The main reason good, simple products can’t be cheaper is because the small companies who make them can’t put in the same gigantic bulk orders of raw materials, nor do they have the specialized manufacturing processes or assembly lines.

    The data is damn near an afterthought. Putting a touchscreen on a fridge is a great way to pretend a piece of shit is a premium product. If they can scrape your data too, then for sure they’ll go for it, but the main reason the screen is on there is because most people are still buying that shit.