They think that because of how the bills are charged. Every electric utility fee on my bill is per usage. If they had a base ‘admin / maintenance’ cost based development size / type and then usage fee on top I think people would not think it so much.

Is ‘convenience pricing’ like ‘surge pricing’ for car services? i.e. prices go way up at peak hours?

says man who wants to own all the hardware

I think there was an early 80s crash as well.

I have read the inverter and related cooling equipment of the solar system can be noisy if poorly implemented or maintained, though I doubt it would rival the downsides of a data center.

no ‘Agent Orange’ or ‘Orange Julius’ yet?

oooh, nice. Universal abatoire. That’s a new one for me. Hopefully not being field tested near any schools.

Well, they have helmets and eye protection for paintball and airsoft, at least where I live, so I suppose it has already been banned.

Most of the titles seemed to be about pets or the objects that serve them. Such a full rich life.

Yikes, imagine having to learn to fly. Sounds rough. I’d be a different human that I would call Rex so I could go to the store without worrying about anyone recognizing me. I’d just rather not have to worry about seeing anyone I know when I’m not in the mood.

You could also selectively beam away important parts of a thing, or just dematerialize and never rematerialize.

That was so satisfying in the movie. I was sad that he didn’t spend the rest of the movie carrying around a bunch of them to use.

I’d be fine if they took him below 50% control. Companies that large should be required to be owned by many multiples of the number of people who currently own them and anyone seeking to remain on top of such a thing should be dancing for their many masters daily.

I would think a siginificant portion of the population doesn’t possesses this sort of nuance.

Haven’t heard anything new lately, but there is a push to eliminate physical currency for, what I presume, is a similar reason -> make everything trackable.

Reminds me of that video where people applied a full windshield-wide sticker to cars going down a bike/walking path or wrong way down a one-way road.

Yeah, it sucks when I get out of a taxi and the driver just gets out and leaves their car there.

It was incredibly courteous of her to allow it onto the sidewalk before stopping it.

But if the current batch of ‘AI’ had delicious meat, would we still eat them?

oh thank god. My brain has finally started automatically turning the symbol into ‘th’. That took forever.