Sounds like narcissistic tendencies, when you stop feeding them they come back.
Had an ex like this too, the moment I called her bluff and said I was going to grab boxes to move out she changed her tune since the power dynamic shifted. Then she wrapped the conversation around how we should try again and it wasn't that big of a deal what I'd done, etc.
Most of them just don't want to admit anything they've ever said was wrong so the perspective changes and gaslighting starts to creep in.
Land. Value. Tax.
Value.
Tax.
Blade Runner absolutely brought cyberpunk to the big screen, it was absolutely genre defining for a lot of people. Prior it was just Neuromancer that imagined it.
Plus they had "Metropolis" from 1927, did you read the whole list? Lol
See my problem is that even if it's not sexual it'll become sexual due to the large breasts on my face.
An entire generation of people was convinced this would make them shredded cause of Dragonball lol
Trust me, I used to do a lot of calisthenics. You can build endurance that way, but it's difficult to cultivate strength and size when you are theoretically limited to whatever your bodyweight is. Eventually you just feel like you have to do a thousand push ups to get a good chest workout when you could just go hit the bench or cable fly machine and get similar results in a fraction of the time.
This article says virtually nothing, giving examples of how automated systems have human backups (no shit) and mostly focusing on two fiction novels where those backup solutions are hidden to the public. It doesn't really make any kind of a statement about how automated transportation solutions are inherently bad, it just pretends that having a human operator backing up the system somehow changes or reduces the value of it, and insinuates that we shouldn't make any kind of attempt at technological innovation because fiction novelists were able to show how it could look dystopian if you construct the narrative in such a way as to make that happen. As if black mirror hasn't already illustrated that it's possible to do that with virtually any technology.
The conceptually simple possibility that better transit options could be provided by government, as a collective undertaking for the public good—and that this might be preferable to developing a radically new technology—is treated as an obvious non-starter.
Ah, here we go. The whole article could have just been this one sentence, as it's the obvious focus of the message.
The government doesn't do anything. When it has a need for say... Construction of a new transportation system, they hire a private company that does such a thing and uses taxpayer money to accomplish this. We refer to it as "public" due to the source of the funding being from the taxpayer, but the government doesn't usually do that work themselves, they simply contract it out.
Once more with this idea that alternatives to vehicles are somehow "simple" or "preferable" to developing new technology, as if that's ever a question someone asks when they try and create something for the consumer. "Does this fulfill a need that the government could do for us instead?" Absolute nonsense. Refer to point #1, all government projects are just private industry operating on taxpayer money. Even if you asked the government to accomplish this task, there's no telling what the solution would be. It could be that it's cheaper to develop self driving cars than it is to construct a national high speed rail network, or alter city design to accommodate a light rail system where it wasn't included initially.
No one asks if developing any given technology is good/bad, we just do it and then let society decide if it has value or not. To ask why we attempted to create self driving cars instead of something else is to completely misunderstand how and why new technology gets created in the first place. We do it because we can, and because there's an obvious use-case.
Apple: "Sorry but your hardware seems to be out of date with our OS! Please buy another 3000 dollar laptop that's only worth 1000!"
Me: "But it still runs?"
Apple: "Does it, though?"
Me: "Well not anymore... Thanks."
Hey Farva, what's that conspiracy you love again? With the complete lack of physics knowledge and the mechanical engineering?
Drink idiots hit things in cars all the time.
Make the test to acquire your license actually difficult to the skill level required instead of the "you can take two left turns and park shitty, here's your license" level of difficulty that most states use for road vehicles.
Doesn't Japan have a system like that? The difference in the lowest and highest paid employee can only be so many thousands different?
Cardboard and paper bags went out of style because of the "save the rainforest" narrative. Even though most paper products are made from trees specifically grown to be harvested for their wood.
That's why we started using plastic bags at grocery stores, remember?