Social media companies created algorithms to allow people to find content without having to look for it. This drove users and content creators to their sites and off the web.

For social media companies, a user’s value comes from having an account, so they have a vested interest in locking away content. For content creators, it is a lot easier to get noticed if an algorithm provides the advertising and some sites now allow for monetization within their walled garden. For users, they get content that never ends.

The first crash is going to get the cops called, so I doubt you are going to be able to crash dozens of cars unless you’re doing it all at once.

Better to get your CDL and park a tractor-trailer and kill the air brakes.

I don’t know. A lot of us here are autistic.

We’ve already see baseball start to respond to some of the problems you listed, but I see it continuing to be a major issue for most leagues as the teams have got caught up in the asset appreciation seen in other kinds of assets.

We don’t really know. I expect things to degrade until we hit a constitutional crisis of some form.

Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.

Some people like spreadsheet sims.

The game series also mixed in a lot of mafia movie vibes and satire.

Then Rockstar realized you can release a lot less content by pushing online gameplay, stopping the release of single player content.

There is a large amount of state propaganda using the conflict as justification for the state’s existence. I would imagine whether people believe to be true or not to be on a spectrum line other countries.

Maybe, but the DPRK government is on its third generation hereditary leader with a senior leadership consisting of children of previous senior leadership. It is functionally an absolute monarchy.

CB Radio was big in the 70’s.

I don’t see the shows contributing to world hunger.

Yes.

I don’t see that working today.

If it is a house, get good insurance on it that will pay out on the cost of the structure. If they demolish the house, keep the land undeveloped and invest the insurance payout rather than rebuild. Taxes will be low because the land will have dropped in price thanks to the local community. Continue as the town has to raise taxes because they are destroying rateable properties and insurance rates rise due to the increased likelihood of property damage. Hope for either pushing the locals out or getting a municipal bankruptcy to put the town under state control.

Likely not.

Am important part is that the local economy could be on board, but it is likely that some investor would see what is happening and buy the property.

I’ve taken a listening course taught by a former cop. It turns out there is an active curriculum for police on how to actively listen to diffuse situations; it just isn’t taught as default to all cops.

Going for three from Against Me!

Thrash Unreal

Borne in the FM Waves of the Heart

I Was a Teenage Anarchist

And one from Rise Against

Help is on the Way

One thing I’ve seen as a new hotness in high art is that the themed experience is crossing the threshold from low art to high art. What would have been considered a theme park ride is now bring presented as an interactive experience worthy of being in a museum. Of course, you will have to exit through the gift shop.

I think, as a general direction of art, we are in the middle of a synthesism of ideas instead of the deconstructionism of the early and mid 20th century.

I don’t know what we’re building, but we are building something.