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tree falls over onto your property, you fix the fence.

tree falls over and you clear it, illegal logging you get in trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_B_Meyer_Inc.

that sounds quite amazing, and it looks like something out of ghostbusters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Lamborgh...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/NextGenT...

(just personal preference)

Can't help but think of the not-a-flamethrower

(friend bought one for $500, now they seem to be worth $1500-$2000)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company#Merchandise

The corvette ZR-1 had a special key that would unlock all the performance. I don't think it met emissions when unlocked.

Lots of newer muscle cars have performance modes and dragstrip modes that you shouldn't use.

Even other teslas, like model 3 performance and model s plaid have have track mode and dragstrip mode that shouldn't be used on public streets.

nowadays selling your tesla involves the new owner identifying themselves and uploading their identity documents to tesla.

I called them for this, they point some people to the wireless carrier.

note even if your device is locked, they won't do anything there either.

I'm just putting this information out there - their policy might not be what you expect, so it would be good to know it going in.

When I was young and traveled, it was before phones became ubiquitous.

I had to take a travel clock with me as an alarm clock. You couldn't trust a hotel alarm clock. So I had small sized clocks to wake up for an interview or a conference or a tour or a return flight.

I just forgot about all of this with smart phones and watches that get you up in the right time zone at the right time.

But if it is unlocked, I don't think apple will do anything for you with the device. If it comes in for service they won't confiscate it, I think they'll work on it.

It is all on you. You should lock it, enable find my and do remote erase/etc.

- would you like to chat with an AI?

- would you like to have sex with an AI bot?

- would you like to read an AI generated story?

What do you find meaningful about your time on earth? If your experience is more AI-generated, is it still meaningful?

I just don't want to read AI articles/books/etc, it is a waste of my time on earth.

That doesn't mean I won't use AI, when I specifically ask, like finding answers.

the worst is calling into doctor - a mix of terrible music and all kinds of nonsense like flu season advice piped into your brain.

It is like the audio equivalent of "helpful" tip popups with no [X] don't remind me again or even (X) to dismiss

on one hand, ups guys are cool with it, but on the other I think the postal service workers don't like dealing with amazon packages.

On the other hand, "works with alexa" is such garbage.

I bought a garmin car GPS that had alexa built in. Why would you want alexa to be part of your car nav?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D5PW315

obviously to get better product placement on the site.

I remember being in a fast food restaurant. A lady left her purse on her table and went to the bathroom. 8 year old kids walk to school in the city (with backpacks almost as big as they are).

or another way of thinking of it: what will be done for you will be done to you

I think better reporting might present things in a neutral tone and let the reader decide for themselves.

Note that I think that goes for over the top positive sites too, that aren't skeptical enough.

I thought daring fireball/john gruber was too lenient wrt apple, but in the last couple years, he has become a little more skeptical, called out apple and generally done a better job of reporting.

But I could/would never do it, because I would lose important details and comprehension.

What is really strange is that in the age of AI I do what I would never have done years ago.

I just sort of scan the obvious title name, the obvious section names, and low-density inconsequential text and don't miss much and do not read.

I just sort of jump my eyes down the page and that's how I read (or absorb) AI text.

I don't really like it.

loosely related in personal reading, I used to read kindle books and I was just annoyed by the self-published books with typos. Now I've accepted it because it seems to me like it's a mark of something written by humans.

I read some AI written books and they seem to have this boring less dense quality, with a sort of structure including a summation of the story so far at the end of every chapter.

I don't really like that either.

party a did 10,000 things to party b

what about party b did 1 thing to party a

then try to argue that both parties did equivalent things.

apple has dark patterns for this, trying to get your phone number into their system. You have to do something like "other options" then "don't upgrade security" or something.

It used to report on tesla stuff pretty objectively all the time.

Now the tesla articles are uniformly negative biased, and it has lots and lots of cheapo-amazon-stuff articles that are thinly veiled advertisements-for-cash / affliliate links.

It is sort of amazing what california does. For example the power of california to tax people, even after they've left california. Or pay sales tax on a car ignoring a trade-in.

I think people get to a certain point, then make a decision and shut down.

In some cases this is ok, people resolve something in their mind and move on. In some cases, not so much.

Honestly I've made up my mind about a bunch of things. Like UFOs or homeopathy. I might be open if there was new evidence. I also qualify things - UFOs to me means aliens not from earth visiting with spaceships and quietly interacting with humans.