I'm really excited for the blocks I'm cultivating. I'd rather be blocked than screamed at incoherently.

This is erasure of metaphors that are not like similes 😉

I don't understand why everyone is talking about airport lounges when LinusTechTips just explained to us that buying a private jet is an affordable, practically zero-cost travel option for getting two families to Cabo on a dime

I think there are some pretty great options for making AVs work for the benefit of cities:

Congestion pricing overall
Solo ride surcharge (waivable if you are using Waymo for first/last mile solution)
Convert some parking to designated ride hail pickup (but not along bus/light rail routes)

Some of the Bay area's typical orographic rainfall effects appear to be enhanced today.

The rain shadows downwind of the Santa Cruz mountains seem especially apparent on radar

Also seems like a bounce back effect enhancing rain over the Bay? #CAwx @nws.noaa.gov @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social

ANALOGY? Why do you hate metaphors and similes?

This didn't used to be especially rare for April. Truckee has historically averaged 18 inches of snowfall in April (this storm is expected to bring perhaps 1-3 in that area).

Even Downtown SF historically has received on average 1.6 inches of rain in April with ~7 precipitation days.

Oh don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I think that we are in a full blown moral panic over AI that is leading us away both from healthier responses to it and distracting us from bigger issues. But I just wanted to frame it in terms of where I think there is agreement.

What leads you to that conclusion? This could just as easily be a sign that the kid is self-motivated and an independent learner.

Even though I think the parent's reaction around AI is misguided, I don't necessarily see any evidence of neglect/disinterest in the post.

"I would rather she uses high quality primary sources or information vetted by experts for accuracy."

Sure... but that would probably also preclude her from using a traditional search engine or the self-help section at any given library/bookstore

Media literacy and critical thinking are essential

US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties Here lies darkness.

Love how Congress can't fix healthcare, education, renewable energy, climate change, freeway pollution, wildfire, housing costs, but HEY let's make it so that everyone needs a government ID to use a computer! What could possibly go wrong?

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I'm going to go with "The Man Who Lives Forever" by Lord Huron, I think

Oil and car companies are laughing all the way to the bank that the left has decided that data centers are the most important things to resist, even as the Trump administration cheats them out of cheap, clean energy and inexpensive electric vehicles

Lots of people making themselves useful idiots

Moral panic is a thought-terminating circumstance that renders you vulnerable to all sorts of misinformation, and can lead you to focus on the wrong things

I stand by contention that datacenter environmental impacts are being exaggerated to distract people from freeways, attacks on renewables, etc

I am going to scream. The places that lack access to clean drinking water are most often our *least* populated rural areas and farm communities because of lacking resources and ag/industrial pollution

And in many places we could nearly double our drinkable water supply by giving up private lawns

Unevenly heated take:

Cities are most attractive to people who fundamentally like and want to help other people and rural areas are most attractive to people who are most into just going it/being left alone

Yup! Keep the Bay Bridge, turn the upper deck into a train deck (cars get lower deck), tear down the elevated freeways, cut and cover new train lines along them, and help pay for it all by converting the reclaimed land to the tallest mass timber buildings in the world.

My dream. Sorry not sorry.

With @bart.gov bustling and the roadways of San Francisco unusually quiet and uncongested, I'm starting to think we should close the freeways every weekend. Or maybe just forever, I dunno ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

The capitalists you speak of are literally individual homeowners in neighborhoods across the country.

I have seen it first hand. It is not some nationwide Monopoly man who parachutes in to public meetings in Berkeley demanding low density single family zoning.

Anyway, this is a waste of time.

That's a lovely platitude. Zoning codes are still created and enforced by the government.

Nice try covering up the inherent incoherence of your statement.

Doctrinaire Socialists don't need new houses because they can simply live in a vacant ideology

Is this some sort of elaborate troll? You realize zoning codes are laws enacted by elected officials and enforced by the government, right?

*ahem*

Rugrats - Stock Market Crash YouTube video by AreaSixtyNine

If you want to understand what is currently going on with the stock market and the Strait of Hormuz, you could do much worse than this clip from a 1992 episode of Nickelodeon's 𝘙𝘶𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlY...

Loved Sam Shui Po when @chrishy.bsky.social wandered around there in 2018! After visiting the Ladies' Market, we randomly ended up there and Chris said it was basically the "Men's Market" All the random electronics and bathroom tiles and goodness knows what were fascinating

One of the negative aspects of a moral panic is that every problem is viewed through the distorted lens of that panic, whether or not that makes sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think the Downtown Berkeley YMCA just might be one of the most gender, age, and ethnically diverse spaces on the planet, and it's delightful

Who is this Don't Know and why don't I know about them?

Moral panics be like that