Drivers are supposed to use horns for emergency signalling such as imminent collision. I always thought it was a failing not to include a bell or something for non-emergency signalling.
There is the problem of escalation, where people might simply ignore the bell, but its availability as an alternative to horn would clarify horn use is an expression of aggression, and willful contribution to noise pollution.
That said, I still think autonomous cars can’t come too soon, even if we should be looking to vastly reduce car traffic with public transit and urban archipelagos.
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
I think the damage done to Reddit is not from protests but the bad management decisions – enshittification as Corey Doctorow put it – in order to hasten Reddit’s IPO. The attitude by upper management, taking user content for granted, is going to continue to serve to chase users away, or drive them to deprioritize engagement with Reddit.
I’m missing only a couple of communities here on Lemmy but otherwise it serves me as a daily feed. And reddit still can be searched for troubleshooting.
So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....
Antitrust regulations have been neutered in the US since the Reagan administration, which is how we have not only unfettered tech monopolies, but telecommunications regional monopolies and a national oligopoly (that is, an organized cartel, but legal)
Since most federal regulatory departments are captured, and serve their industries rather than the public. Mileage may vary re: state regulations.
It was scary stuff, but radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn’t work, but…it gave us ideas, took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have never…All my work was based on it. – Miles Dyson, Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Meh. I have really smart genes, but am also a product of childhood neglect and family dysfunction, hence a lifelong diagnosis of major depression and a recent diagnosis os ASD with symptoms showing when I was ten years old.
My mom’s whole family is both smart and crazy. Is this a matter of pure genetics? That’s one common hypothesis. Another one recognizes we shifted over a few generations from extended family homesteads in an agrarian economy to nuclear families in an industrial economy, and our kids grow up bright but need a lot of engagement, what is not afforded to kids when both parents have to work.
Since the 1950s forward dysfunction due to poverty, precarity and underdeveloped family models were common contributors to childhood trauma. We might not know if a given kid might have grown up functional in a better environment because toxic environments are normal. Commonplace. So much so, we often fail to see the toxicity, and we fail to recognize the mental health issues that they commonly cause.
Complexity and the chaos caused by complexity are certainly factors that cause disasters and require damage control. It also provides renegades more opportunities to disrupt normal operations when law fails to serve the public rather the plutocratic elite.
But this doesn’t mean theres a direct causal relationship between complexity and societal failure.
Think of Isla Nublar and the cloned dinosaurs that were able to reproduce, migrate off the island and survive outside containment despite the systems that were emplaced to prevent them from doing so.
If you smoke one or two cigarettes a day, it’s not too terrible.
The probem came from people smoking a pack a day or more, and yes, it’s the kind of habit that tends to grow.
When big tobacco made the stuff plentiful enough that people could support pack-a-day (or even case-a-day) habits, the money was just too good not to defend by surpressing science.
As the fossil fuel revelations have shown, billionaires get desperat for money, and can’t imagine deciding they have enough or sharing substantial portions of their wealth to change the world for the better.
If your business depends on underpaid labor to profit (including slave labor or bonded servitude) then your business model sucks, and your business should fail.
And if you think you should be allowed to underpay your workers to keep your business afloat, then you’re an immoral capitalist and you should be ashamed.
196 currently does not have a banner, and that just feels wrong. I have decided that the solution to this is to host a community contest! Link your submissions in the comments as embedded images, and the most upvoted one will become the community banner! Creating original content is encouraged, but not required.
I hate horns, so I made this (lemmy.emphisia.nl)
This is a repost of my post from r/fuckcars
Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy?
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
rule (lemmy.world)
what's up with this whole "X" rebranding?
Is Musk competing with Zuck for the worst branding ever?
Rule. (i.imgur.com)
Rule (lemmy.world)
In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? (www.ftc.gov)
So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....
Comsumption Junction, whats rule function? (lemmy.tf)
🔥 rule 🔥 (i.imgur.com)
Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding (newatlas.com)
Schizophrulia (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Now imagine Frank Langella saying this rule (media.kbin.social)
Smoking rules (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Reddit refugees complaining that there's too much NSFW content and communism in their Lemmy feeds (lemmy.world)
capitalism ruins everything around me (lemmy.world)
Cream get the money Dolla Dolla bill yall
What obscure tips do you have for new and old players alike? Here's mine: If you hit all the bulbs on these glow trees, they'll stay brightly lit forever. (lemmy.world)
Great source of light if you’re in the right biome!
COMMUNITY CONTEST: WHAT SHOULD OUR BANNER BE? YOU DECIDE!!!!
196 currently does not have a banner, and that just feels wrong. I have decided that the solution to this is to host a community contest! Link your submissions in the comments as embedded images, and the most upvoted one will become the community banner! Creating original content is encouraged, but not required.