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  • Literally every person at some point in their life

    Indeed. But if they’re unable to walk or drive in a wheelchair for a block they will also be unable to do anything after travelling somewhere. Maybe they could enter a drive-thru? That’s pretty much it. A car doesn’t really change all that much.

    [Taxis need] roads and infrastructure for cars

    Obviously. Do you think buses and bicycles don’t need roads? When did I claim to demolish each and every street?

    [No storage]

    Yes storage. Most equipment is stored in the sport facility. Soccer teams store the footballs, hockey teams store the rackets etc.
    Everything else fits on your back or your bicycle’s rack in the back.
    In addition, don’t all sports teams usually stay at one facility for everything but competitions? If there is a competition guess what’s possible: Have a bus pick up the players and their equipment at their home stadium and drive towards where the competition is together.

    Ableist nonsense.

    Cars are ableist nonsense. Most people with disabilities earn significantly less money than those without and cannot afford a car accomodating them. Then there’s countless disabilities preventing you from driving altogether. Legally blind people, people with mental disabilities ranging from epilepsy to trisomy 21 or those with disabilities affecting their upper body’s mobility all cannot even get driver’s licenses. But sure, this is not ableist in the slightest.

    Cars should very much not be used for single digit mile trips. They are a colossal waste of resources, kill tens of thousands of people per year, pollute the air and water with smog and microplastics and are a major cause of climate change. EVs will only reduce the smog, all other issues will persist.


  • How many frail people unable to walk a block are there? Taxis absolutely suffice for your situation, if there is heavy rain or snow fall. In all other weather, they will be able to wheel themselves back home - if they’re unable to operate a wheelchair they probably don’t need much transport anywhere either.

    How are kids going to sport practice? Ever heard of bicycles? Heavy equipment is usually short at the sport facility, everything else fits in a bag. Sure, heavy rain absolutely sucks on a bicycle but wearing a jacket and rain resistant pants is enough for usual amounts of rain. Snow isn’t that bad either, as long as the roads are properly salted. And even then, you can drive on icy roads with your bicycle as long as you’re careful.

    Source: I frequently drove 5km to school and 6km to sports practice as a child. The worst thing was the difference in altitude, not the weather (there were two 12% inclines on either way).



  • AI and robotics companies don’t want this to happen. OpenAI, for example, has reportedly fought to “water down” safety regulations and reduce AI-quality requirements. According to an article in Time, it lobbied European Union officials against classifying models like ChatGPT as “high risk,” which would have brought “stringent legal requirements including transparency, traceability, and human oversight.” The reasoning was supposedly that OpenAI did not intend to put its products to high-risk use—a logical twist akin to the Titanic owners lobbying that the ship should not be inspected for lifeboats on the principle that it was a “general purpose” vessel that also could sail in warm waters where there were no icebergs and people could float for days.

    What would’ve been high risk? Well:

    In one section of the White Paper OpenAI shared with European officials at the time, the company pushed back against a proposed amendment to the AI Act that would have classified generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Dall-E as “high risk” if they generated text or imagery that could “falsely appear to a person to be human generated and authentic.”

    That does make sense, considering ELIZA from the 60s would fit this description. It pretty much repeated what you wrote to it in a different style.

    I don’t see how generative AI can be considered high risk when it’s literally just fancy keyboard autofill. If a doctor asks ChatGPT what the correct dose of medication for a patient is, it’s not ChatGPT which should be considered high risk but rather the doctor.




  • Yeah, me and my friends did that too, a decade later. We used something like shutdown -s -t [time] though.

    We used to put this file into the shared folder everyone could access, made it hidden, created a shortcut, changed the shortcut’s image to a folder and renamed it to something along the lines of “maths test solutions”.

    We also made some other .bat files which looked like this:

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