MrFagtron9000

Cruise and Waymo have self-driving cars, without safety drivers, driving around cities right now.

We know what hardware it takes - More than just cameras and some premapping is required.

I don't want to "study" or empathize with magats.

I want to belittle and (electorally) destroy them into irrelevance.

I grew up in a magat household. They're magats because they're fucking morons. I solved the mystery for you - no additional study is required.

I got in a debate once with my mom about the age of the Earth (of course she's a young Earth creationist). I brought up the speed of light - we see things that are farther than 6000 light years, so the Earth has to be more than 6000 years old. Her rebuttal: "What if the sky is like an Etch-a-Sketch that God is holding up for us to see?" How do you reason with someone that believes something like that? Do you really think I if brought up stellar parallax or spectroscopy or stellar evolution that would change her mind?

My grandma, I bought her an iPad 10 years ago so she could get on Facebook and watch YouTube and stuff. Big mistake! Now I have to hear stuff about how Hillary Clinton has been arrested and convicted by a military tribunal and is wearing an ankle bracelet and will be put in prison after the 2018 election. Adrenochrome. Comet Ping Pong. Democrats want to chop off elementary school age boys penises. Bamboo ballets. Mike Lindell. Ballots dumps. Obama controls everything. Porn in schools. Democrats are trying to make us eat bugs.

Prior to the iPad I had probably heard her mention politics like less than a handful of times in my entire life.

She wouldn't get the COVID vaccine... Even though she's 83 obese, arthritic, congestive heart failure, diabetic, and has had two previous heart attacks. Then she got COVID and almost died, was in the hospital for more than month, now on oxygen at home... STILL WON'T GET VACCINATED.

These are not people that reason or think about anything. The only way to get them on our side would be a propaganda network to compete with Sinclair, Fox, OAN, Newsmax, Hannity, Neck, Levin, Shapiro, PragerU, Crowder, Savage, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Project Veritas, The Blaze, WND, Candace, Jordan Peterson, The Washington Times, etc... And then pump that down their YouTube and Facebook feeds. Unfortunately I don't know any left wing billionaires that want to create competing institutions to these things.

Not to mention the right wing message of simple solutions, zero thinking, and your prejudices are actually a good thing is hard to compete with.

I thought after 2008 that we had finally gotten over our large car addiction.

They're so addicted to SUVs now that Ford doesn't even make a car other than the Mustang. Their entire lineup is SUVs.

If they weren't paid there would just be way more sponsorship deals and ad reads.

YouTube has some competitors...

Twitch - Not for general purpose video uploads and sort of stingy with how much you can upload. Twitch only saves highlights and YouTube saves everything you've ever uploaded.

Tiktok - Chinese spyware. Every video is vertical. Every video has stupid songs playing in the background and that TikTok logo. Not really for long form videos or anything serious.

Vimeo - You pay them to upload your video.

I'm glad they stopped recommending things to me with my history off. I just want to see my subscriptions I don't want to see what the algorithm thinks I want to see.

The Ian and Mickey story of US Shameless is only a tiny part of the overall show.

I also think it went on for way too many seasons.

That being said it was still good and I would give it a try. I sort of petered out at the later seasons and haven't watched them yet if I ever am.

How does this make you feel?

https://youtu.be/GiXONSITq_Y

This question makes me feel like a pedophile because I can think of tons of "sexy teenager", straight and gay, shows like Euphoria, Skins, those teen dramas on CW. In my defense I think the average age of the cast of Euphoria is like 23.

I'm having trouble thinking of the sexiest not "sexy teenager" show.

Nip/Tuck - that's the sexiest show. If only that show was on HBO we could have seen Dr. Troy's 10 inch dick. That shower scene with Mario Lopez... Good stuff.

Then maybe Californication and Sex/Life. Although it always felt weird watching Agent Mulder fuck so much.

I take all that back. The sexiest part of a TV show is the Ian and Mickey relationship on Shameless.

I've thought about doing that, but I don't know what it would accomplish other than destroying a friendship and making things really weird.

Wait a second so you're telling me at the top of a company is some sort of boss that controls everything and then he has underlings like VPs or managers and then there are people underneath them that do all the actual work?

I've never heard of this structure before.

This is sarcasm every business has some sort of CEO or president or owner at the top.

Housing is the thing most exploding in cost.

About half the population already owns a home so they're immune to this problem.

The other half is just moving to shittier and shittier conditions and living with roommates and family members.

Plus this is a very regional problem. Housing in shithole flyover places is still somewhat affordable.

If everything went up five times in price over the last 20 years then it might be a better argument for saying we're in a depression.