I see it with ADAS.

It appears that the more Advanced Driver Assistance Systems a vehicle has, the less competent the driver is and the more likely it is that they will not react correctly (or at all) in an emergency situation.

ANCAP and ENCAP are realising this now and their ratings are no longer weighted so heavily on ADAS.

Don’t you mean that he has not control over his “Trump Strait”?

But it isn’t blocked so maybe this analogy might not be 💯.

Thank you for that clarification.

If you ask China, Nepal is already annexed, just like Taiwan.

“The only stupid question is the one that doesn’t get asked”

(or the one asked to the wrong person, or the one where you don’t listen to the answer, or any question asked to an LLM)

If you are planning on creating legal backups of physical media, you may be restricted in what drives are suitable.

BluRay drives may have copy protection that is not able to be bypassed without custom firmware, specialist software and decryption codes.

Some DVDs are also obfuscated so they can’t be read by a computer; to the point where they can’t even play on some DVD players.

Next thing they will be joining Trade Unions!

I think he needs an ice pack, deep pore cleanser lotion, water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then an herb-mint facial mask for 10 minutes. An after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

This is a Triumph.

We have three sinking our house and a dishwasher.

• if your dirty dish needs to be hand-washed, put it in the pantry sink.
• if your dirty dish is dishwasher safe, put it in the dishwasher
• if the dishwasher is full, turn it on and put your dish in the sink next to the dishwasher.
• if the dishwasher is clean, empty it, then refill it from the sink next to the dishwasher.

Cleaning the sink is the first step. You cant wash dishes in a dirty sink.

You will probably find most people in Lemmy are Atheist or agnostic, IMO, but you do need to find your own belief system.

While having your own belief system is unusual in our conformist society, it is not weird. What is weird is that so many people blindly follow someone else’s belief system.

If wiping my arse is gay, I don’t wanna be straight!

Favours need to be paid back. This story is about paying it forward.

The Truck guy receives no financial reimbursement for his time, fuel and wear-and-tear, but the helpers are not paying back someone for the help, they are paying forward.

Corruption is where someone is collecting financial gain without a commensurate amount of effort. A contract “Man with a Van” who gets paid to move goods is more able to abuse their role for extortion or corruption than a loose social group of “Bloke with a Ute”.

<Insert Terry #Pratchet Small Gods reference>.

#discworld

This is why I like shopping at Aldi rather than Woolworths or Coles (besides the corporate Duopsony screwing over suppliers and Duopoly screwing over customers).

I have the choice of queuing for a checkout, and chatting to the other customers (if I am in a social mood), or going straight to the automated checkouts which don’t treat you as a criminal for not having a loyalty card.

It should be called SED (de-optimisation).

This would be where you type in exactly what you want (including SKUs or product codes) and it suggests a million different things that are either tangentially related or not related at all, in an effort to distract you from buying what you want.

This has already been happening; before the GenBS search apocalypse, it was quicker to use a search engine query for “store product” to take you direct to the listing.

For example “M10 bolts Bunnings” would show me exactly what I asked for, instead of using the useless Bunnings search feature.

All the GenBS systems do is generate crap so their logos are quite appropriate.

The problem is that their generated crap is being published and then fed back into them.

I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.

Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.

Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.

Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.

If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.