I wish folks had the same energy for mogging on Palantir as they do Starbucks, but who am I to deny the will of the people?

what is this and where can I get one?

me: i made mac n cheese but it's way too salty [20 posts later] bluesky: white people are afraid of flavor

The reason why I wanted to hone in on that point is that the most common jobs in the US — retail, food service, nursing, construction — can't be done remotely. Good transit + dense housing isn't being built not because of office buildings, but because of existing economic factors (eg, NIMBYism).

I was trying to steelman if anything, but fair enough.

let's not forgot the ethical implications of having robots do security or policing work... And the practical implications.

with them. If you've worked in a factory you'd also know robots tend to be dangerous — they're big heavy metal things that can crush, maim, and kill when they malfunction, or more often, when humans simply forget to keep out of their way. Some robots can be made safer, some cannot. And...

You can't be serious about the "everyone works from home thing," it's not physically possible. How do we get the guy behind the counter at 7-11 to work from home? He can't pass me some scratchers and a pack of Kools over a Zoom call. Before you say robots, we can't replace every job...

*for this particular residential area For somewhere higher density I could see this potentially working, but like I said, these are single family homes.

(I'm not against elevated bike lanes in concept, but for a residential area this doesn't seem or architecturally feasible.)