Possibly related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757838

I can't tell if it's real or not - I don't have the data, but it certainly feels different using it.

I have to use opus or it can't even do basic changes.

I think you've captured it perfectly with "Maybe it's daily reminder that all the luxuries are right here, right under your fingers, if only you weren't so miserably poor?"

The enshitification of the car.

It’s possible they also see the storm coming and are too scared to do anything either.

No. Many of them like Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos were all aboard.

Certainly brightened my day. “Bro, do you even friend?”

There are lizards or beetles that tumble down sand dunes.

Maybe cartwheeling humans could lead to some adaptation where the whole body becomes the wheel.

Wheels are not balls. Balls are common in nature. Wheels are not. The difference is that wheels need roads, which are not common nature and a large scale artificial objects.

That makes sense. Even in the Pullman book there were natural roadways for rolling.

In one of Philip Pullmans His Dark Material novels there is a race of creatures that have a symbiosis with a tree whose huge perfectly round nut can be grasped by their fore and hind limbs and they roll around that way.

One of the Animorphs spin offs had them too, it was meant to be specifically genetically engineered or something from distant memory.

Am trying to see a silver lining here.

Dirtier air, sicker people. More profits for big polluters. Why vote for this?

Right-wing agenda. Simple as that. Maybe they would say something like all that monitoring is a gross waste of resources, and it's being done by liars falsifying data and misleading the public.

Living in rural Spain service is chill. Am used to it by now. Went to an upmarket restaurant in France other day and it took me ages to realise the waiter was vibing me the whole meal for a tip. Such a weird transactional space. Person literally smiling and being agreeable for money. Insane.

>Person literally smiling and being agreeable for money. Insane.

And you think other hourly service workers aren't being that way to some degree? Lol.

> And you think other hourly service workers aren't being that way to some degree? Lol.

Like plumbers, electricians, mechanics, carpenters/framers?

“Insane” is probably a bit strong