Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

Oh teh noes, not UK waging a proxy war on Iran and North Korea!

It’s 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don’t know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

The only purpose of NFTs is to raise sea levels by metres and inundate every coastal city. Owning NFTs is a crime against humanity. Anyone who has ever owned an NFT belongs in prison

We’re a century away from self-driving cars that can handle snowfall

Just this year farmers with self-driving tractors got screwed because a solar flare made GPS inaccurate and so tractors went wild because they were programmed with the assumption of GPS being 100% reliable and accurate with no way to override

Not sure if we’re agreeing and saying exactly the same thing here, but Uber’s business model is to get suckers who are bad at math to own the cars. Uber’s business model does not work if they have to own their own cars. Self-driving Uber doesn’t work because Uber would have to own the cars and therefore has to cover vehicle insurance, vehicle depreciation, and so on out of its own margin.

Abolish snowfall

“information”

Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate

How do you feel about “demonizing” or “dehumanizing”? Same concept, older lingo

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

What would I fold a Macbook Pro into? Quarters?

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

If you train your large language model on all the internet’s bullshit and don’t want bullshit to come out, there’s not a lot of good options. Garbage in, garbage out

The London thing does not apply to pedestrians

13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines

Why do you miss things being permanently broken and unfixable?

The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line “no making money on your creepy idiocy”, because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money