If nothing else, it would be hard to do worse than the ‘90s version.

I’m gonna have to rewatch the 1999 movie now because I remember liking it a lot back then.

This may not fit perfectly into the that category but i think it’s cool how Lazarus Jones exists in the media in some capacity in most of the GTA games. One of the best threads of continuity throughout the series.

Can’t wait to waste 100 hours of my life trying to reach the top of this trackmania map

A message from the government of Alberta

Welp. It was nice to feel some hope for a couple of weeks. I’ll cherish the memories. I don’t think I’ll be feeling that emotion again for a very long time.

I’d rather have a New Deal 2

This is Danielle Smith we’re talking about. Corruption should be taken for granted. Attempting to use her position to install her husband as the province’s preeminent rail tycoon is pretty much exactly on brand.

Rauschenberg’s white painting was the OG placebo meme.

And the ones from China still cost less after the 100% tariff

The one on the left is definitely more haunted, though.

I kinda have to agree with Singh on this one. It’s hard to see this move as anything other than anti-worker

I don’t really have a problem with a certain amount of protectionism as a concept, but Canada has a long history of granting special privileges to specific companies in key industries, then sitting back while those powers are used to mercilessly abuse consumers. I’m not super confident this is going to be any different.

So probably not tomorrow.

Definitely the day after tomorrow.

Jeff Jackson was adored by oilers fans for all of 6 weeks. I hope he enjoyed it. Now he should probably consider wearing a disguise when he goes outside.

All he had to do was check social media 1 time. Just hold his breath and listen for 1 second and he would’ve heard the chorus of “NOT STAN BOWMAN” reverberating around oil country.

MF better not act surprised when a mountain of pig shit appears on his front lawn.

Probably have a few cards running the displays and the rest of them mining some sphere-themed memecoin

That’s an interesting comparison and something I’ve wondered about quite a bit. I would be surprised if machine drivers were not categorically safer than human ones, and if safety is (rightly) a priority in the cost-benefit analysis of driverless car adoption, then it’s hard to imagine not concluding that we ought to proceed in that direction.

But I think this specific incident illustrates very well that the human vs. machine driver debate is tragically myopic. If an infallible machine driver adhering perfectly to traffic laws is empowered to accelerate from a standstill directly into a violent collision with a pedestrian, then maybe it doesn’t matter how “safe” the driver is. I take it as evidence that car travel the way we have it set up is inherently unsafe. Our traffic laws emphasize the convenience of car traffic above everything else – including safety – and only really serve to shift blame when something goes wrong. Despite its certainty, there is very little builtin allowance for human error aside from the begrudging mercy of other parties.

To be fair, human drivers are an unmitigated disaster which we really need to do something about, but I think if we’re going to go through the messy process of reforming how we think about cars, we might as well go farther than a marginal improvement. We could solve the underlying problem and abolish the institution of car dependency altogether, for instance. Otherwise it just amounts to slapping a futuristic band-aid on a set of social and economic issues that will continue to cause unimaginable harm.

This doesn’t seem that complex to me. If there is a pedestrian in front of your car when the light turns green, you wait. Pretty fucking simple. This isn’t some offshoot of the trolley problem where an incident was unavoidable. The car made the active decision to proceed when it was not safe to do so.

Why have we programmed our self-driving cars to emulate the psychotic behaviour of a typical road ragin’ car-brained human? Isn’t that the problem these projects should be trying to solve?

What this story reveals is the stunning level of ignorance amongst Americans at large. This is a bona fide fascist manifesto, published by the handlers of the current leading presidential candidate, over a year ago. Nothing rattles me to my core quite like being confronted by the harsh reality that a lot of people out there are just going about their lives like everything is fine.

These are the people we need to organize with in order to ― at this point ― basically survive, so I’m very glad something was able to spur them into some level of action before election day.

That said, and please excuse the momentary lapse into doomerism, but if we have to rely on Hollywood and celebrity culture to bring something of this magnitude into public awareness, we might be more thoroughly cooked than it was previously thought to be possible.

I guess Florida ran out of Carl Hiaasen YA protagonists to keep that shit at bay.