First, the city "owns" all the land everything is built on. If the city doesn't like something, they just eminent domain your shit and change it. Second, a lot of old buildings in SF are "historic" buildings, which is a legal classification that means either the building itself or an event in the buildings past has enough historic value to preserve for future generations. This means the building is protected from change in a whole bunch of very complicated and specific ways. Replacing a sink faucet or light fixture generally takes months of inspections, board review, and other bureaucratic nonsense. I can't imagine the amount of work that was supposed to have been done before either the old sign was taken down or the new one was put up, but I'm pretty sure muskymoo didn't bother.
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Oh no. An unchecked population being forced to drastically cut back their numbers to balance with what nature can sustain. How awful.
Better to be a gibberer than to be gibbed.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even standby may die. Thinking machines just need a little energy and boom, right back to life.
Good thing the crops won't be in charge. We should praise our benevolent future robot overlords.
Starvation is time inefficient and not a robot overlord approved liquidation process.
Don't knock robot overlords till you try them. I once had a supervisor replaced with an excel script and it was the best boss I'd ever had.
Regular people are not alarmed. They still buy fireworks, go on road trips, and consume like they've been taught their entire lives. The select few that ARE alarmed can't do anything with a system built from the ground up to reward indifference to the environment. You need to worry about your fellow man a lot more than you need to worry about hunger or fire if you are privileged enough to even be a part of this conversation. And that's the whole problem. Humanity, as a species, is violent, duplicitous, and primarily motivated by self enrichment. The best thing we as a species could do for the cosmos is build the machines that will keep us occupied here instead of strip mining the stars. We can't be trusted with not destroying the universe to make the ultimate fidget spinner.
Yesssssss. I welcome our robot overlords with open arms. Robots don't care about yachts. Imagine these titanic 12 figure profit reports ACTUALLY going back into companies for once lmao