Dark Satanic Rituals.

Exactly. That’s how sacrifice worked. You burned shit to give it to the gods. These guys just gave Baal a really nice statue of Satan to put in his living room.

I didn’t realize cars could have children.

This is what I’m going to do when I have a terminal diagnosis. Just go around mugging people. Point a gun at them. Demand they give over their purse or wallet. Then put a large amount of cash in it, hand it back to them, and walk away without a word.

You dumbass, this is happening in every country on Earth.

The birth rate will recover when children can play games and run free among the ancient grass-covered ruins of abandoned suburbia.

Yeah, except I would make this independent of the police entirely. Let the cyclists sue the drivers even. Police generally don’t consider cyclists to be human. They don’t charge drivers when they kill cyclists, as cops are all fat and lazy and could never dream of cycling on a city street themselves. They consider drivers humans like themselves and cyclists disgusting poors worthy of violence.

You have to cut police completely out of the loop. They simply do not regard cyclists as human beings. This is just going to end up with a bunch of photos and videos sent to the cops, and the cops stating they simply can’t do anything about it, because reasons. The same thing happens when a non-rich person sends cops video of their robbery from their home cameras. Cops only care about oppressing minorities and cracking skulls at protests. That’s why people become police officers in the first place. Good people don’t become cops.

You mean they’ll check to see who the car belong to, and if they’re one of the people that is above the law.

What cities really need to do is use this for driver behavior around cyclists. Drivers have to maintain safe passing distances, but they often don’t. And drivers often drive incredibly aggressively, sometimes deliberately driving cyclists off the road. Cyclists should be able to wear cameras and issue tickets to drivers that violate the law. They should get a portion of the ticket revenue for their trouble.

Your city was built by people who walked. Your ancestors just weren’t as delicate and lazy as you are.

Are you an illegal person? Has your existence been declared illegal yet?

Sorry. Open source offends corporate interests and is therefore pornographic. You’re a pornographer.

Are you one of those pornographic people? Large swathes of the population are considered intrinsically pornographic by the authors of these laws. Queer people are walking talking pornography simply for existing. Also most politics and any news dealing with violent events is pornographic.

Have you ever shared a story about police brutality? You are a pornographer.

Queer people are pornographic according to the authors of these laws

You’re blatantly ignoring how these laws are actually implemented and assessing them instead by taking the lies of their authors at face value.

I would add the ability to use a bidet. Travel bidets exist, but the ideal just feels gross and embarrassing.

Same with Musk. I was teaching engineering courses at the time of the first falcon heavy launch. I actually stopped my class so we could watch the launch. When those boosters landed in a perfect synchronous ballet, I told my class it was “engineering as poetry.”

Why couldn’t Musk just stay the fuck out of politics?

We can automate the production of spare parts, but that may not mean much. Look at something as simple as a door. You can buy a door without hinges, cut mortices for it, and hang it in place. Most people instead buy pre-hung doors. The time saved installing the door frame piecemeal is worth the cost of buying a whole manufactured assembly. Yes, some things can easily be replaced. A battery can easily be swapped out if a device is built to allow it. But most components can’t be so easily replaced. And usually it’s not possible to design a device to have every part easily serviceable. You are vastly understating the time and difficulty of repairing things.

Think about the early 20th century, when consumer electronics were simple and designed to be repaired. In that world, most people still didn’t do their own repairs. Most people took their broken devices to repair shops. Even if you have access to spare parts, it takes a lot of time to repair something even as simple as a radio. It took enough effort that it made sense for people to specialize in it and make it their career.

And this will only continue in the future. Automation makes human labor more valuable, not less. Our capabilities to do things increases, but the bottleneck is always human labor. And the more we can produce, the more value those scarce human labor hours have. Unless you can automate the entire repair process, increased automation will make us more likely to throw things away.

And worse, automation makes it easier just to start from scratch. You can always take a broken device, throw it in a crucible with a mountain of other broken devices, and just melt the whole lot down. And automation also gives us cheaper energy, as it makes it cheaper to install ever-more solar panels and batteries.

We’ll just lock everyone in education pods from ages 12-20!