6/21 was a Saturday, 6/30 was a Monday

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There seem to be quite a few already

St. Louis doesn’t have anything else going for it. All their eggs are in the Cardinals basket

I think you misunderstood that guy

Among the empires you just cited, let’s consider the wars, atrocities, assassinations, crises, and plagues they perpetuated and endured

You’re not wrong about all the things that have happened, but there are lots of countries around the world over that same timeline who have had a much worse go of things. The US has been the most powerful country in the world, so what happens here has an outsized impact, however this seems like just another facet of “American exceptionalism,” that the bad things that the US has done or had happen are somehow more special than all the bad things that have happened everywhere else.

Ok, 0 matches or striking out early

For real. Matches have much less to do with appearance or age than they do with bad profiles, poor chatting skills, or unpleasant personality traits

You want a GF to lock her emotionally away from the rest of your life?

Wow, that was a huge leap there. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to seek an intimate relationship with someone in your established circles. Like dating someone at work, this can come with significant social risk.

They’re not the best, but there isn’t a reason not to try if it interests you. A good friend of mine in his mid-40s was divorced from his wife and went on Bumble about a year and a half ago. He went on a handful of dates and only a couple months in met his new girlfriend. They’ve been together a year now, they’re doing well and she’s great. Point is there are lots of success stories.

We do live in a decent sized city, where there are a lot of fish in the sea.

I…I thought that was satire created for this article. That’s from actual court documents

It’s not much different from these:

All are visible indicators of culture and/or status

Here in Austin, both Waymo and Zoox have already hit the streets with very little fanfare and no incidents I’m aware of. Not only is Musk’s technology inferior, but even if it worked well, what would make his service any better than the two existing services?

He has made a serious mistake hyping “robotaxis” as the future of Tesla, because:

• He has direct competition that’s already more successful than his service.
• Those competitors are funded by Google and Amazon, who have diverse revenue streams and could undercut Tesla until Tesla breaks.
• He has created impossibly high expectations from investors with a hard cutoff that’s next week.
• He’s looking to operate this service in cities, where 90% of people hate him personally.
• He’s dependent on those cities to allow him to operate, and they’ll revoke his permits the second there’s an incident.
• Elon has demonstrated himself to be such an awful human being that his vehicles are likely to be subject to vandalism, dramatically increasing his costs.

I think Tesla is absolutely fucked as a company. If I had the money, I’d short Tesla stock like a motherfucker.

Night of the Lepus

Another option:

Tommy

(Yes, this is Ann Margaret in a pool of baked beans, about to get hit with chocolate syrup)

Blunt delivery, but I agree. We’ve been programmed by pop psychology to think our personality traits fit in neat categories, but in reality it’s all grey area

Musk has staked Tesla’s future on self-driving vehicles he has promised for a decade but hasn’t delivered, making Austin’s robotaxi launch closely watched as a potential milestone. Some analysts and investors attribute the majority of Tesla’s stock market value to hopes for robotaxis and humanoid robots it has yet to deliver.

We’ve had Waymo and Zoox operating in town for years. Waymo started road testing here almost 10 years ago now. Tesla is so far behind on this it’s not even funny. I expect their cars to be subject to vandalism, also.

Edit to add: All they’re saying they don’t want released are deployment patterns, like how many cars, where, and when. Whatever, that info is basically useless anyway. That they’re fighting so hard to conceal useless info demonstrates they already lack confidence in their service

Police departments in general have severe problems, but I encounter police often in my work and can honestly say I’ve never encountered an officer for my city’s dept who’d qualify as morbidly obese

I’m sick of being told that I’m non-confrontational and I avoid confrontation

Why are you sick of this? In the context of what you’re saying here, are those bad things?

Why don’t you think he’ll sign it? It was passed unanimously with no partisan objections. This is as big an issue for farmers as it is anyone else, because farm equipment companies are pulling the same shit tech companies and appliance companies are

If you read the entire article, it explains her family reached out to the police concerned about her safety after she had an abortion and they didn’t hear from her. That the term “abortion” was included in the reason for this search makes little difference to what actually happened, because the reason listed could be anything, this is just what her family reported.

The problem is this database exists at all, but the example listed here is not a good one to highlight the evil this sort of surveillance can perpetuate, because the outcome here is “woman found safe.”