bpt3

> But I don't want a cheaper car anyway, I want better public transport.

That's fine, but you're a small minority in most of the world. People want on-demand transportation.

Sounds like a stock EV is not for you, or the very close to 0% of the world's population with similar needs.

That's ok.

Succumb? They're going to be at the forefront of creating it, reducing their expenses and therefore increasing their profits.

If you're saying that people will just watch other variants of video slop posted on youtube or other free sites instead of paying for some sort of curated entertainment service, history indicates otherwise.

Right. The you (and I, elsewhere) are responding to about this obviously doesn't have any kids or meaningful interaction with their community.

There's nothing wrong with living that way, but their lack of perspective or understanding that most people don't get to decide what mode of communication a medium to large sized bureaucracy uses to inform its members/constituents about information it has to share is something.

While time-series forecasting models aren't well suited for this, I would argue that humans aren't either.

Obviously the best humans are better than average, but this isn't all that surprising to me?

> When there is a road closure it gets pushed to the systems that hook into google maps to reroute navigation.

Sure it does, everywhere. (/s in case that isn't clear, this doesn't always happen in my area which has several Google offices, let alone other less populated areas)

> And short of that, there are also detour signs that redirect you around the obstruction.

Sure, which you could have avoided entirely had you known about the issue.

> If something happened e.g. a snow day at school surely you could call the office and find that out. There is no way twitter is the sole source of that sort of information. I guarantee it is on their school website.

School closures for weather, yes, but not everything, and often they are slow to update, and people would rather not call (and the central office would rather not field those calls).

> You have to remember that the world has to work for the senile old person too.

And you have to remember that not everyone seems to be seeking out inconvenience as much as you.

No one is saying it's impossible to survive without push notifications about local events, they are saying that twitter became a de facto standard for that years ago because it was the best option for publishing small updates by local governments and other similar organizations, and now that twitter has devolved into its current state there is no good alternative and people are slow to change.

Road closures, youth sports/school schedule changes due to things like weather, etc.

Is it possible to live without this knowledge? Of course. But it's not unreasonable to me that people would want to receive this sort of information or that it is of some value to them, or that they'd rather have it pushed to them in an app on their phone than have to call friends or the school office to find out whether the status of some event has changed.

> Your utility will post a highly localized service outage that might only affect 1 block of a city or less to their world facing twitter feed? And not simply alert customers via their phone on file as they've done for me forever?

It doesn't match your very contrived example specifically, but yes essential services in my major metropolitan area provide more useful and timely information via twitter/X than other sources. People don't or can't register for updates from the city or county, so government organizations have no means of publishing information for public consumption other than social media, and twitter was the de facto standard.

Also, many local schools, clubs, etc. used it as their "official" source for updates for years.

You are definitely out of the loop if you can't access it, and places are glacially slow to change.

More money generally equals more freedom, even if you don't know what you want specifically, but you're ultimately talking about a bigger, unrelated issue.

Pay and money are why people work, so yeah they're pretty important.

Americans have the most disposable income on earth and a very high quality of life.

Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away to protest a man-baby who will be out of office in a little over 2 years if a cheeseburger doesn't get him first, and will probably be politically neutered in under 6 months?

> many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself

Citation needed

It looks like this is a poor attempt to argue for deregulation in the housing sector?

I agree that this is needed, but regulation would be required to compel neighborhoods to allow increased density as well...

If all the things you describe came to fruition, the current residents will have to live with the consequences of their decisions and suffer a lower quality of life (which they don't want to do), and the problem would resolve itself.

Or in reality, desirable locations remain desirable, and the current residents who had a hand in making it desirable have a right to prevent a reduction of their quality of life for the benefit of people who would prefer to live there but are unable to successfully compete with others in the housing market.