Ugh. Stop shaming people for wanting to automate mundane tasks. No one’s playing a stupid game here, the problem isn’t robot vacuums. The problem is that manufacturers insist on holding features hostage on the basis that you connect said vacuum to the Internet, so they can harvest (and then sell) your data. Be mad at that, not at normal people wanting to make a boring chore less burdensome.

Traffic enforcement cameras are one of the worst ways I can think of to coordinate traffic.

If you understood how it’s disrespectful, it wouldn’t be hard to explain. Here’s an example:

Sexual assault is disrespectful because it violates a person’s bodily autonomy, which is a fundamental human right.

See? Easy. Now, try that for “people who dress wrong”.

It’s disrespectful to the people who set it up and to everyone else who is there to have a nice evening.

How

I mean if you don’t find dressing like that to a black tie event disrespectful that’s just a reflection on you

How

I’m begging you, explain how it’s disrespectful. I don’t think you can, because I think you agree with me that it isn’t actually disrespectful.

Did we?

Please explain how wearing a hoodie to a “black tie event” is disrespectful, and who it’s disrespectful to.

He wears what’s comfortable, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Adam Sandler is famous for shooting movies in exotic/fun locations so that it doubles as a vacation for him and the actors/crew. He’s beloved in the industry, and widely regarded as a good, friendly, loyal, down to earth person. Why on earth should someone like that be excluded from an awards show?

Which makes absolutely zero sense, and goes against the anime. Most of the Pokemon in the in-game world have already been caught by one of the various trainers, gym leaders, or elite four members you fight along the way. And in the anime, the Pokedex is used to identify some wild Pokemon before Ash or his friends capture it, not after.

Android is the way it is because Google is close sourcing more and more of what makes Android useful as a mobile OS. It would be infinitely harder for some megacorp to do the same thing for a desktop OS.

“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”

What a weird fucking tagline on an article that insinuates a robotic dystopian future.

Although there are some weird horny undertones, so I guess it checks out. Still, weird article all around

Back, and to the left…

Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.

I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

How is the dog shitting in the house the Roomba’s fault?

Alternative alternative perspective: imagine being lifted up, against your will, and manipulated until you can see nothing but a vast blackness dotted with occasional white pinpricks and glimmers. You’re put back down, but now you have the craziest story to tell Gary at the feeding trough in the morning.

Tell that to the couple dozen propagations I have currently living in various sized vessels of water

The kind of “AI advancement” that requires stripping away privacy rights is definitely done by technofascists.

Ah yes, correctly highlighting the megalopolises of Yuma and Mexicali, and excluding backwaters such as Los Angeles and Miami

It’s hard to rewrite the past if someone’s keeping receipts

That’s not true, there’s definitely ways to render the skin to the point where it’s all crisp, no slime, without burning it. It’s hard to do when oven roasting but possible, but it’s pretty easy to do when pan-searing.