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> Before jaywalking was a thing

... jay driving was a thing first.

I would suspect safety had more to do with it than anything else. The closest I've ever personally come to hitting someone was because they jaywalked directly in front of my car, after walking between two parked vans so they were not visible until they strode right out in front of me. It was a near thing, but my reaction time is good and I am pretty attentive to what is in front of me. But physics is a harsh mistress, it is a dumb game to play.

We're not going to get rid of cars, much as some people think that would be a net improvement, so the sensible thing to do is make pedestrian crossings plentiful, obvious, and respected by both drivers and walkers. Public space is shared.

I'm reminded of how the head of Oregon's DMV once described the legalities of merging onto the highway. "Yielding is the law, merging is what we do." Technically the merging traffic has to yield to the traffic already on the highway, but this does not mean traffic on the highway can block them. In fact, in Oregon we have a law that would make that likely to count as speed racing, a class A infraction. I.e. something you do not want your insurance company to get wind of.

What about the recipient of the food, where do they factor in?

Did he tell her to move off the sidewalk? Or did he tell her to stay where she was and let the robot navigate around her?

> Personally, I don't think a bubble burst will be much fun, but hey.

Agreed, but if there is a bubble, then bursting sooner rather than later is probably the better outcome.

> Many people are tired of watching the world slowly getting worse

It does seem like in the past 10-15 years the timeline has gone pretty dark.

It sucked at first, I definitely got some wild responses from the AI helper at Google Search, but they seem to have bumped up the model capability over the last couple months. It's surprisingly pretty good now. Sometimes I'll use Claude instead, but for little things I've been pretty happy with the quick result from Googling.

I just want it to pop because I'm like six years out from my intended retirement date and sequence of returns risk will be high for me (retiring early). There are ways to mitigate that risk, obviously, but I'd feel better not sliding into retirement right at the moment the stock market is riding a pretty obvious bubble if I can avoid it.

> AI drastically reducing the barrier to game dev -> less users on Roblox

Is that really a thing? AI can make mediocre games for your own amusement, but Roblox is a social experience.

Stocks going up has been so normal for so long that it doesn't get much press. Any significant drop is way more newsworthy.

> Give it a few days and we'll be back where we were

Perhaps, though I think today is the lowest in 6 weeks.

> it was "ours" more so than the original series ever was

100% agree. I watched all the originals too, and enjoyed them, but they absolutely felt like an earlier generation, building on a culture that did not match how I felt. As you say, TNG was all ours. <fist bump>

Huh, I would have said Star Trek TNG (and the movies, frankly) was more of a Gen X thing, if we have to pick generations. TNG started when I was 12.

This is when being very senior can help, as long as nobody above you has been consumed by the psychosis.

> And of course you can't ask the submitter because they don't know either.

At that moment I abandon the ticket with a comment that they can reopen once they can explain what they found, why it is an issue and should be fixed, etc.

Medicare. It's too bad we can't all get it.

About 20 years ago I had a phone number that was one digit off from a local attorney who took medical malpractice cases. And despite not using it myself, that phone line had built-in fax detection and so it would accept any incoming fax and then email the results to me. I lost count of the number of times I got sent a good chunk of someone's private medical records. In many cases repeatedly from the same source, despite me calling them and politely explaining that they had just sent someone's medical records to a random stranger.

So ... perhaps more secure than email, but not necessarily as much as you'd think. Though maybe it isn't as common now to have phone lines with fax receiving included. I worked for a CLEC at the time and got my phone & internet through them too, so maybe I was just getting the special deluxe plan. Had my very own public class C, too, but that's a different problem.

Totally agree. About half the time, or more, that I send an actual email I get no reply because it got lost in the deluge of crap and I end up calling or texting the recipient so they know to search their inbox for my message.