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While I do that daily, it is never rushed.

I was posting the reply above while in a drive thru.

I was responding to LotR first and just added the Hobbit to the end of the sentence because I didn’t have time to start the sentence over.

Didn’t know ‘as well as’ implied an order.

He finished LotR as well as the Hobbit while he was alive.

He didn’t finish all of his other stories in the same setting before he died though.

Proper pressure = quicker showers and replacing the showerhead less often because the hard water buildup doesn’t turn the lazy river pressure into a trickle. Needing to double flush a low flow toilet sucks too.

Agriculture in the wrong areas and useless lawns are the real water wasters.

But shittier!

I have been looking but haven’t found one yet.

Does matrix handle livestreaming with a half dozen friends as easily as discord? Chatting and sharing with a few friends is all I have ever used it for and would hate to lose that ability.

Discord is dogshit for larger communities for sure, and I stopped trying to access game specific ones after trying a few out.

Till we get to a mythical stage of agi that can actually decide globally if it thinks a company should exist or not and what purpose it should have, this is more or less same as the status quo.

This will never happen because why would the humans in power let an agi exist that is beneficial towards the general public? The idea that agi will ever be a beneficial replacement for humans certainly is a myth.

AI CEOs would be trained on human CEOs so they absolutely would.

I assume it was because the story involved everyone around Trinity and Neo being different/recast.

This is the only federated software that I use because it is the only one in a format I enjoy using. I liked reddit for the threaded forum kinda format, so lemmy was an easy transition.

Never liked facebook/twitter/instagram or those formats so no interest in a federated version of them. There could be something out there I would also like, but thst would require trying more things and I gave up after bouncing off a few.

Better slap a “safety” on there to show the administration is thinking about children.

…thinking about children’s safety. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

You completely glossed over the small, agile part.

A drone can do a fucking barrel roll with zero impact on its flight capabilities or passengers. Have fun with passengers when an automated passenger drone needs to quickly change thrust direction because of wind shear.

Drone swarms are groups of small, agile devices with no passengers.

That is one of the many problems, yes.

So yeah, if you ignore the parts that make it more complicated it seems easier!

If it is windy, it is far more complicated than driving on the road, especially in cities with taller buildings. Like not crashing into buildings is far harder than applying the brakes when there is ever changing wind shear that you can’t see. This applies to most days in most cities.

If you ignore take off and landing, birds, weather conditions, and everything else that makes flying more complex and dangerous than driving on the ground, sure.

You would have a point if the flying car didn’t have to take into account the wind, updrafts, downdrafts, wind sheer off buildings, and a ton of other flying related stuff that helicopter pilots need to take into account which are barely noticeable to cars the majority of the time.

Then there is landing, the most dangerous part of flying. Imagine if the emergency braking in a csr needed to stop the car without spilling a liquid from an open cup.

Being on the ground is far less complex than flying, otherwise getting a pilot’s license would be easier than a driver’s permit.

With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do, and the locations of every stationary object based on maps and lidar on the vehicle, you can keep collisions far less likely.

This magically perfect AI would work on the ground too. I mean, it knows what birds are going do, why not people?

The alternative is autonomous AI trafficked flying cars that is networked with all commercial drone traffic, but that is 5-10 years away from being reliable and possible.

50-100 years is more likely. The complexity of automated low altitude flight is exponentially more complex than driving on the ground.

You are 100% correct that helicopters and their issues are the exact reason why flying cars are a terrible idea for the general population. I even like to point them out as the same thing when people talk about flying cars. There are some technical differences between people’s image of a flying car, which is closer to a drone with the multiple lift producing drives than a singular giant spinning blade, although the little ones would be comparably dangerous in a crash.

That said, helicopters aren’t flying cars because you can’t drive them around on the ground. Which means this product is a helicopter, not a flying car.