Oh man, this is synergy, AAL!

Future? I’m livin’ it right now. Right fucking now!

We sort of call that “now” in Vancouver.

So its basically about today? Feel like a lot of this stuff is almost certain unless we figure out what to do w/ AI and Automation.

FTFY

Does the game include Doordash policies like having your “independent contractors” waste half an hour driving five miles in heavy traffic to pick up food from a restaurant that is closed,(“Whoops! Sorry, Our bad! Thanks for your time and effort, though!”) and then compensating them....two dollars for their time and…

‘Bleak future’..... you mean ‘next week’?

This sounds entirely too depressingly like real life already. Looks pretty cool tho.

seen it already.

The jets of gas are not coming out of the black hole itself, i.e., they don’t cross the event horizon. The source of the matter is the accretion disk that surrounds the black hole. The exact mechanism that creates the jets isn’t known but there are several hypotheses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet

It’s gases that didn’t quite fall in (or else they would have been trapped), and instead got slingshotted away. They don’t actually enter the “surface” of the black hole, but they got close enough to get whipped around a little before escaping again, and that gives them a speed boost.

You have to think of it this way. Space is flexible. It wasn’t matter that exploded out. It was space itself, and space expanded from there.

It’s not just NY, SF, and Vancouver. It’s also doing the same thing in Texas cities.

It appears to not be enough for the Chinese and Russian elite to fund Billionaire’s Row on 57th street. They want as much of the island as they can gobble up. Much like Sri Lanka, and other countries within the orbit of the Chinese, our own rulers and landed gentry are more than happy to sell off valuable real estate,…

I keep wondering that, but people keep flocking there, and to other intown areas with rapidly rising prices. Apparently the solution is to make apartments that are fully priced but literally closet-sized and tell young people they can feel smug about living in them because because it’s “earth-friendly”.

Maybe if we just isolate the rich people in the cities they’ll all turn on each other like in High Rise (the book and the movie)

Borders was indeed pretty awesome. One opened not far from my college campus back in the mid 90's and a very typical Sunday night for me and the erstwhile roommate was to grab dinner and then spend a couple hours just browsing. I’d almost always leave with 3 or 4 titles in hand.

Your last sentence answers your first. Manhattan and SF residents could largely not give less of a damn if their janitors and cashiers have to commute from 100 miles away.

I was on a cruise a few years back and it had his burgers as a meal option. They were surprisingly pretty darn good. It hurts me to say it, but there it is.

Public housing isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s been implemented very poorly in the U.S. In the beginning of public housing the U.S. it was considered fairly successful—part of the issue was that as the U.S. govt starting offering housing incentives to white people, public housing resegregated. Another issue…