Libertarians want a government just large enough to protect them to do what they want while screwing over everyone else in society.

Fuck that, country run like a HOA. That is like a worst nightmare.

Your worst case scenario is likely the best case scenario, and your better case scenario is basically a pipe dream. 

Have you looked at apartments lately? My town more than an hour outside of Atlanta is about $1,500 minimum for an old 1BR. $1,400 for new construction would be an absolute steal since most of those go for over $2,000.

You can store a car elsewhere. But also, aside from people who don’t own a car, you can be a person who is too old to drive or someone with a disability. Or oh wait none of that really matters to you because fuck those people.

I used to “depend” on cars, and couldn’t imagine a life without mine. As much as I love cars, time has shown me car-dependence is just unsustainable. And it really makes life harder, not easier.

Part of the purpose of the zone is specifically to discourage crossing lower Manhattan. There are no expressways down there (look up the LOMEX debacle sometime, and fuck Robert Moses), it’s all surface streets – Canal Street is home to some of the worst traffic I have ever seen anywhere on Earth. It simply isn’t…

This is a really dishonest post. You don’t pay the congestion charge if driving on the West side highway or FDR so you can still use most the bridges and tunnels without a fee.

Welcome to what average means.

Yeah but they’re also a way for skeptics to live firsthand with a partially-electric solution and learn for themselves that the BEV use case is almost certainly fine for their needs.

2) Much of New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas

1. The US average price of a new car is $48k.

A split-fuel market isn’t a bad thing. It gives more flexibility.

This one is also Korean-made, FWIW.

But the AI didn’t create sequenve on its own, unprompted, right? Unless they are lying (which is possible), there was a creative decision made to use AI, in order to get a very specific result. They even say a team tweaked the AI output to get exactly the result they wanted.

AIs are not creative, you’re just throwing real art into a blender and telling them “make me something like that”

Some guy who clicks his mouse 12 times in Adobe thinks generative AI is a dangrous technology sucking the soul out of human art.

I agree that AI shouldn’t be used to emulate the styles of existing artists or to avoid paying human artists for designs, but I don’t see this use as problematic. They’re using an AI generator here because the characteristic fucked-up way that it tends to render human subjects is artistically appropriate to the themes…

That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying at the time they weren’t able to get the vocal quality they desired from the demo recording so George didn’t want to go forward. But with AI, they can isolate Lennon’s vocals and reinterpret it to sound like he was recorded in a studio.  If George could have gotten the…

AI is definitely not the right term here. More like advanced Fourier transforms... But it’s really nothing different than cleaning up other old media; we just now have the tech to do it.