That doesn’t really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also “it will just go underground” is still kind of a win? The average person isn’t going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they’ll find a slick website with good SEO.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it’s hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Revoke their license. Scale fines with wealth. Mandate thousands of hours of community service for speeders. Don’t just do nothing and hope it sorts itself out.

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I’m not mad about this.

I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words

Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don’t care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.

Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.

The insurance companies want to make money.

There are no (enforced) laws prohibiting this behavior.

Very few insurance company decision makers are murdered in the street.

Change one or more of these, and you’ll get better results.

You guys fell for the ragebait embarrassingly easily

Microsoft should maybe evaluate why so many people read about the alleged horrible AI+Subscription model and went “yeah that sounds like something microsoft would do.” Their brand is in the shitter.

Pretty much every decision Microsoft has made for years has been bad. Why not one more?

If someone posted that Valve is moving to a subscription model, much of the response would probably contain “This seems out of character for them”

Surely we’ve all seen the relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1217/

I don’t know why someone down voted this.

I’ve had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could’ve been anything from napping to elden ring. It’s their time.

Though I think a lot of people don’t use a calendar for their personal life and I can’t relate to that level of chaos. I can’t remember my plans and everyone’s birthdays in my head.

Sure, being too picky can lead to loneliness. But that’s kind of off topic from “you’ll have more rolls of the dice in a place with more people”, which was my earlier argument.

I wouldn’t want to settle for someone with no shared interests and a not-my-type body just because they’re here. Everyone involved deserves better.

“you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument - if whoever is around happens to be good enough

Bit of a tautology there. My point is if there’s only 1 person of your age/gender(s) then it’s longer odds they’re going to be a good match. Sure, they might be “good enough” but wouldn’t you rather have “great”?

I’m don’t think “you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument.

Furthermore, there are few places where it’s actually like a rom-com and the waitress sets you up. There can’t be a lot of people in that situation because then there wouldn’t be so few people that they can be matched up. Most people live in cities or suburban wastelands.

Well, they can be unhappy about it but that doesn’t change how you’ll have more chances of meeting a partner where there’s more people doing more stuff.

Dating apps. They suck, but there’s a lot you can do (without paying money) to improve your odds.

Go to meetups. They exist for hobbies (board games, running, bird watching) and regions (North Brooklyn hangout). Don’t go cruising but go for the thing and meet people.

Join a rec sport league. There’s a bunch of soccer ones here.

If you live somewhere shitty, you’re going to have a worse time. I live in a big city so there’s a lot of people doing stuff. If I lived out in the sticks, there might be a dozen people of my desired age and gender(s) total.

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don’t deserve their huge paychecks.

They could’ve done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would’ve had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

There are many, many, people that could be granted good bus service without tearing down and rebuilding the world. The problem is political. Every day and every dollar we put into other lesser solutions comes with a large opportunity cost.

Imagine if we’d focused on buses for the past 22 years instead of waymo. How many people could be served by the $16 billion in funding waymo got?

I’d rather live somewhere with buses and trains. You can get places when old and/or drunk, you build a better world for everyone, and you don’t funnel money into shitty privately owned tech companies.