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Automatic transmissions are essentially hydraulic computers.

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I mostly agree with you, but protections aren’t the same thing as rights. Protections are a one way street, rights are a two way street.

If they’re as smart, communicatable and capable of social responsibilities, then yes. There are some species that may be “differently” smart as humans, but lack a common lanuage and can’t take on shared social responsibilities, so giving them rights is difficult to say the least.

Buy less, travel less, demand wfh.

No political will promote slowing the economy down even though that’s the simplest, most straightforward way to slow our pollution output. Our stockmarket and retirement plans are based on infinite growth, which is unfeasible even without climate change being a factor.

Also, as far as resource costs go, planting tree is more efficient at capturing carbon then any industrial scrubber. Research should still be done, but anyone trying to sell a scrubber plant is just fishing for VC funds.

They’re not really right wing. Very suburban, sheltered and privileged, but I’ve never heard them talk politics. I can say extra privileged because one of them wanted to put an Battlefield sound board in their car. Sure, that’s what you want. Making it easy to accidentally make the sounds of gunfire if you ever get pulled over by a cop because your taillight is out.

As far as star trek goes, they’re rather talk about the power output of the phasers then character arcs. They’re very basic.

“NFTs will protect artists!”

You can’t name a single court case where nft receipts won the case, but it’s very easy to find nft bros minting other people’s work.

I know a bunch of trekkies, a fandom around a post scarcity, pseudo communist utopia, embrace crypto despite it being an artificial scarcity concept that doesn’t really fix any of the issues of the preceding system. I make fun of them whenever nfts come up, including posting any negative nft news into the humor channel of their discord.

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.

Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

The Luddites would like to have a word with you.

Then post tech news from your country.

It does. Just not here.

The ones in the meme are natural. The SawPatrol thing is artificial. It’s being pushed by marketing people.

You’re chart is missing American’s Army, which was funded by the government.

And you wont get enough allies to get anything done. This is what Divide and Conquer looks like. It’s only a half measure if you stop at the first accomplish. Let the populist get a taste of a social safety net again and they’ll want to push for more the next time.

If I saw something clever…

Right wing vs left wing has always been relative to the status quo. Capitalism was left wing when feudalism was the norm. And now Regulated Capitalism is left wing compared the norm of Unregulated Capitalism.

The people who are bothered by OP are making imperfect the enemy of good. What they’re proposing is still progress.

I’ve never heard a right winger call for more regulation. They always blame their failures on too much regulation.