Yuuuuuuup. If this is an unforeseen, life-saving action for you, that’s a very, very bad sign.

I agree that she’s making a big deal out of nothing. Since she’s a Musk fan, no surprise she’d sing the praises of what her car did.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she were on her phone and didn’t notice until the car jerked over.

In her case, AutoPilot probably saves a life or two every time she gets behind the wheel. 

My thoughts exactly.

Does Tesla’s Autopilot recognize other vehicle’s turn signals? Legitimately asking, because that can make a huge difference.
But this is absolutely the system not performing anything life saving imo. Honestly, I probably would have taken over prior to the split to ensure the car went where I wanted and then re-engage.

That LinkedIn “training” doesn’t look like it would be meaningful or effective. Most white people don’t see the value in interethnic or anti-racist studies or programs. They are offended before they start because they believe the tables will be turned and they will be “othered”. That is, treated the way they treat…

“damage a lazy or sexist health professional can cause”

...yeah, uh, lets be clear: This is pretty much entirely awful, in a “What were you thinking?” kind of way, because it immediately does what these sorts of programs can absolutely not afford to do:

separated at birth?

It’s not all bad. I’ve been playing a lot of Star Wars games and you wouldn’t believe the money I’ve saved on my electric bill.

I’m old enough to remember Tipper Gore riding the video game paranoia craze back in the 90s. They thought Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were going to have my entire generation destroying cars with just punches and kicks. They thought we’d all be ripping people’s heads and spines off their bodies, or pulling off our…

It’s like saying you can’t have diabetes because you exercise. Yes, exercise can help control that disease but it’s not like having it means you can never ride a bike again.

No, this is accurate.

BioWare had made some of my favorite games of all time. They had such a good reputation that I would have bought any BioWare game sight unseen on the mere presumption that I would enjoy it.

“I know this will be disappointing to the community of Anthem players who have been excited to see the improvements we’ve been working on,”

I remember that letter! My first response was how much happier would this person have been if she’d been properly diagnosed instead of written off.

I remember a recent letter over at Slate where a woman described her lifelong battle with undiagnosed ADHD and how she, as a girl, never “caused trouble” in the stereotypical way, so she never got noticed. The one time she did see a doctor, he dismissed the idea because she had an advanced degree and thus “couldn’t”…

In one of the anecdotes in Reviving Ophelia, a teenage girl talked about how her male therapist wrote off her depression and didn’t think sexism and misogyny were relevant to her life. He wrote her off as lazy for not wanting to get out of bed and go to school instead of, you know, finding out why like a therapist is…

I’ve literally never heard of this book because I was raised evangelical and my parents only cared about Christian parenting resources, but this struck me: