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OP, make sure to get your thyroid levels checked, that can also lead to lethargy and depression.

Can you pick it up and deliver it to the new office in person?

Oh, cool. Do X next!

I can’t help but think he’s saying this now as an attempt to distract from the stories of "Musk has been talking to Putin since the spring when they were both faced with problems: Musk being forced to buy Xitter and Putin unable to steal Ukraine. Odd how Musk has been becoming more rabidly pro-Russian-interests, isn’t it?

The main issue I have with full self driving is that it’ll probably never actually be full self driving; there’ll always be use cases where people have to take over - ice, snow, slightly flooded roads, sand, whatever*. And humans will have to take over under conditions when it’s extremely helpful for them to have had extensive driving experience under a range of conditions - experience they’ll no longer have because the car’s been driving them everywhere.

* Yes, I know we’re not supposed to drive in some of these conditions, and yet sometimes we have to, even if it’s just to get to a safer place.

The best use cases I can think of for full self-driving are the elderly, the visually impaired, the drunk, the disabled, and the easily distracted.

I took Amtrak across the country once. The freight trains are supposed to give priority to the passenger trains so they leave and arrive (mostly) on time, but (outside the NEC) they mostly don’t bother and they’ve never been held to those requirements. Once again, prioritizing “stuff” over people.

Converting older office buildings - say, 1950’s and earlier - is often feasible, it’s the newer ones that can be problematic. Most people don’t want an apartment without a window (and often fire or occupancy codes require a window). This isn’t really an issue for older building stock, as they were constructed when air conditioning wasn’t as prevalent, windows provided ventilation, and window light was used to supplement office lights.

Modern office buildings don’t worry about windows for either ventilation or light, so each floor can take up a massive amount of space. If this happens to be a long, thin space, you could put in some apartments - but a lot of the buildings are more square.

How do you handle that? Do you make each apartment really long and thin? If so, do you put in a hallway on one side that eats up precious space and does nothing other than keeping you from going through each room in turn? Or do you make it so you have to pass through each room to get to the end?

If you have the pass-through-each-room style, then which room should be the end room? Traditionally the living room gets the big windows, so you can entertain guests, but that leaves you passing through bedrooms to get there. If you put a bedroom at the end, then only one person/couple gets the light, and you’re still potentially walking through the second or third bedroom.

You could make the apartments more square - but these are massive floors, sometimes taking up entire city blocks. And as I mentioned, often code requires windows, so what do you do with the massive space in the center? Do you make each apartment wide and long - those will be expensive and won’t help the affordability crisis. Do you build in common areas: say, put in resident storage units every 3 floors and a gym every 5 floors and toss in some community spaces? That’s great, but those common spaces will need housekeeping and maintenance, which raises ongoing costs. You can put in office space, but most people don’t feel comfortable having those on the same floor, and it raises security concerns for the residents. There are a couple places that have put in a giant light well in the center, but that’s expensive and makes the resulting apartments expensive too.

Conversion tends to work better with older building stock and while that works fine in some places, what do you do in cities that don’t really have a good supply of older buildings? The supply of 1950’s era office buildings is certainly limited in places like Los Angeles or Phoenix.

What pisses me off about this is that, in conditions of low visibility, the pedestrian can’t even hear the damned thing coming.

“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

Given how he constantly tries to insert himself and his opinions into everything he sees, it’s clear he has no idea about how consent works, nor why people don’t want him in their lives.

Oh, that’s really cool!

And the droplets can still be infectious after they fall, so wash your hands after touching anything as well.

And wash your hands after leaving the area as well, because some of those droplets will have landed on your hands.

If you use a public bathroom to wash your hands, assume the sick person was in there earlier and touched the faucets, soap dispenser, towel dispenser, and door handle: get towels first (plus one extra), get the soap on one hand, then turn on the water and wash your hands. Dry your hands and turn the water off with the paper towel, then use the spare paper towel to open the door.

Google free paper shredding and recycling events in your area?

I’m on fedia.io, but I still miss kbin.social. :/

The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.

The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.

Did you look at the internet archive?

Copying my reply to someone else:

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren’t really ads, because the company isn’t actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

What’s a good YouTube downloader these days?

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren’t really ads, because the company isn’t actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a “very light ad load,” providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.