theneverfox

What you're saying is more consistent, but I don't think it's more readable

I'm fine with let or var...if the compiler is going to infer the type thats all well and good. But it's a replacement for the type - why would you write both? It should be either or

And if the type is being inferred, the next thing I want to know is where it came from. That tells you the type and more, I don't want to have to see a type name that may or may not be there

Counter argument - putting the type first makes it easier to see where it is declared. Which is more important than the name or the type

The government job is to reign in out of control elements, like companies releasing products bad for mental health

This isn't about parenting because the goal is not about children. It's about surveillance and control, not even for the government but for a class of technocrats who found a way to subvert democracy

Good job boing

Don't worry, we can't bail them out this time. There's just not enough money, each bailout is exponentially bigger than the last one and this time the bubble is bigger than the rest of the global economy

We'll probably destroy the global economy buying them just a few more months anyways though

Not exactly secret or illegal, they are actively selling driving data to insurance companies already. Stuff like speeding, hard breaking, etc.

It's not widely advertised, but it's less secret and more "hidden in the fine print". It's right there in the open though

Cell companies can give those out for free if they want to... What they offer to consumers is absolutely not the same as what they might offer to a car company at bulk rates. They could even have the car store data and wait for low usage times to upload, it would cost cell providers almost nothing

They might even leverage it to use up bandwidth so they don't have to sell to secondary carriers if they wanted to one day...

One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before

But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism

There's a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately... The displaced workers aren't the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits

Not slightly. We're already having problems with food and water in even "first world" countries... Just little hiccups before a true systematic failure

The disasters will get worse and way more common, but those aren't where the true horrors will be. It'll be the disease, conflict, and mass starvation

We could certainly overcome it. Humans are very adaptable... But it's already starting, and we aren't doing anything. We can't even organize enough to agree we should do anything at all to save ourselves

So things will get horrific. It could take billions of dead to figure out a new way to live at this rate. Every lesson will be learned though desperation. And then one day, we'd reach that new worse normal

But if we got our act together and started actually preparing, it wouldn't be bad. Scary and hard, but we'd get hope back. We'd regain connection to each other, and be united against an outside enemy. We'd share a dream of bringing the green back. We

We could come together pretty quickly once we accepted the necessary sacrifice of the old ways of living... But each day it progresses and we do nothing. It's depressing and terrifying, but the truth can't be ignored anymore

It's slop. It's all slop.

Post non slop for me to check out below please