Author admits smartphones are ubiquitous, and doesn’t at all consider, in a hypothetical situation where everyone unanimously agreed to stop using them, where all this e-waste will go?

Also, how do you disillusion the millions of people that use them religiously?

I get the sentiment, but only a significant technologically literate society would really appreciate the need for greater control over their devices and actually possess the skills needed to modify and configure them.

Greed isn’t limited to any one economic system, I fear.

““There is no point in building infrastructure we may or may not need for 30 years’ time,” Metrolinx deputy chief capital officer Richard Walker said in a November 2024 town hall.”

More like, we should have had this infrastructure 30 years ago, so then the 401 might have not been so fucking busy.

I do think that if a family member were to drop unconscious, I would drive regardless, but not having the potential legal trouble afterwards is a nice thing to have, in case the cops got involved or something.

thanks for the perspective. I think I will keep it. I just hate all the costs associated with driving, and I don’t even drive, and have to pay this and that.

And yeah, I have been in situations where I needed to drive, like helping a buddy drive a uhaul, or when another buddy passed out, I drove him to the hospital just in case he dropped behind the wheel.

Renewal, it expires after a certain time, I think 5 years where I live, Ontario.

Makes sense.

The vast majority of voters are complacent, unwilling to consider that their entire perspective needs to be updated with the times.

I’m more surprised that the green party has more say in government than the NDP right now.

Unionists versus the confederates all over again, history definitely repeats itself

sometimes, I can relate to the local government. They make mistake, after mistake, and years later, they figure it all out.

I’m currently in the figuring it out stage, but man, I guess it’s hard to think of them as just people, rather than this ideal organized group that’s super efficient and well formed. It’s all just people at the end of the day. Sure, I’m just joe shmoe, but have we ever proven that people of authority are immune to error?

oh damn, I’ve never seen one in person, but I don’t really care about judgment by others, so if I could get some prescription lenses on those, that’d be ideal.

A manual focus version would be cool too. I don’t like the idea of having yet another thing to charge.

Just imagine if the eloquent words of the founding fathers were the norm of the type of content you see on tik tok. If that were the case, I would have joined a long time ago.

I don’t regret not deleting all my comments. For me, It’s a mishmash of helpful/comedic/observational comments that I don’t care that they have sold off for use as training data.

But, I just got shadowbanned, because of my VPN or something, so they aren’t getting any more!

When I got my first car, since I hadn’t driven for many years before that moment, whenever I drove, I felt like I was moving at superhuman speeds. Like, walking is slow, cycling is around 15-25km/h on average, yet driving is 50km/h and higher, on most streets where I drove.

Having a human-scaled life, means not moving at such unusual speeds, that sure, are normal in the 21st century, but common, haven’t we proven that bigger isn’t always better, faster isn’t always beneficial?

not surprising, but certainly damning