It turns out that most Lemmyites are actually pretty wealthy, and hate having that fact pointed out, hence your downvotes. You're totally right, though.
In America, they're basically the same thing at this point. I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who calls themselves a patriot. There's nothing to be proud of on the basis of which fake borders you were born within.
You didn't really respond to the core idea of my comment, which is that AI isn't doing anything to help us achieve the things that we would actually want it to. And what about the safety concerns around current-gen self-driving vehicles? It's easy to call everyone primitivists if you refuse to acknowledge their legitimate points.
I think the core issue here is that, so far, AI has only taken away jobs that people want. People want to be artists, writers, and even programmers, and those are the only industries to be disrupted by AI thus far. If AI were to reduce society's need for manual or emotional labor, I think you would see far less reluctance to accept it. Also, the self-diving car thing, from the outside, just looks to be a matter of public safety. I think most people would agree that cars will be able to safely drive themselves eventually, but the ones currently on the road feel underbaked and rushed along by a greedy cabal of tech industrialists.
For water, they're actually equivalent, just like grams and milliliters. As the old saying goes, "a pint's a pound the world around, but mainly in the U.S. and Liberia."
My girlfriend's house has sulfur-laden well water. I find it absolutely revolting, taking a shower feels like I'm in a pot of hard boiled eggs, but she swears she's used to it.
I think it's subconsciously the reason she's always dehydrated.
Sorry for the down votes, you're 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.
Unless they're keeping the managers around to run sales, it doesn't sound like they'll have the staff for clearance. Maybe you could do a little morally justified looting, though?
Most science communication YouTube channels engage in debunking (of flat feathers, young earth creationists, pseudoarcheologists, etc.), always with evidence. Just because a bunch of racist pngtubers co-opted the word skeptical 10-15 years ago doesn't change the meaning of the word itself.
As someone who has done this job, I promise you, there's always another task to accomplish. Normally the cart fetchers are also the store's defacto janitorial staff, and there's plenty of cleaning to be done at a grocery store. You are ignorant in this arena.
Sorry for the confusion, I was referring to restaurants with table service, where you buy the 1 size of soda and it comes in a glass. The small part was my personal judgement. But yeah, Seattle's expensive.
It's a modified tweet about vaccines and autism, unfortunately