I mean it kinda is but the reality is people aren’t going to go backwards. However, that doesn’t mean we need to make the problem dramatically worse. I seriously doubt we’ll all be traveling this way but if we are it’s because we decided to value our convenience over the lives of the young and the poor.

Then they should study that directly rather than how to better waste huge amounts of fuel making the lives of the rich more convenient at the expense of everyone else’s survival.

More efficient than standard air travel? I seriously doubt that’s possible but I guess it would be less bad then.

I don’t really see how this could be used for anything else but even then it’s hard to see how the benefits would outweigh the harms of enabling climate arson.

This should be considered terrorism against the climate. There’s absolutely no need for this technology beyond convenience for the rich and privileged.

lol it’s true. My mom sends me screenshots of AI chats every fucking day.

All the more reason not to put these in residential areas…

Is there a way to not require a Microsoft account? That’s why I haven’t upgraded.

Harder maybe but it’s clearly doable. We have a number of options now. And it’s not like they’ve had to make them hyper-aerodynamic or anything. Just took a little more advanced battery tech.

Yeah the electric pickup is such a no brainer for the US market and it was one of the first.

But what if it was horribly ugly and made everyone hate you? Surely it will sell even better then!

Really? I see chuds driving them all over my town unfortunately. Admittedly far less popular than other Tesla vehicles though which are absolutely everywhere here in CA. Seems like most people forgot Musk is a nazi already.

The work eventually could lead to drones that monitor wildlife, survey the environment and inspect infrastructure with less visual disruption.

Ah yes these are the reasons people would want drones that are hard to see, and there are absolutely no others.

Absolutely. The reaction of workers to automation underlines the exploitation going on here. If you knew nothing about the economy you would be baffled that people would be upset to have robots doing hard work instead of them. But we all know we’ll be sent to the trash heap as soon as our owners find a tool they don’t have to feed and shelter.

I was referencing that my local schools got rid of buses several rounds of austerity ago in favor of free public bus fares for students. And in a more recent round of austerity they also got rid of those. So now it’s drive or get fucked I guess. Gotta teach those kids to support themselves I suppose.

You guys are getting buses?

All good points. I was just thinking I probably would not be willing to do any camera-based captcha.

At a certain point if they force me to stop being online maybe that’s not so bad.

I don’t see how any captcha will remain viable for long at this point. The bots are going to win eventually.

I’m 100% sure this is a joke dunking on truck bros.

Fair I agree it’s overhyped. But to be honest the amount I think it’s overhyped continues to decline as its capabilities continue to advance. And we’re at a point now where it is clearly useful for many tasks, even if it’s not appropriate for everything.

Bad look for Claude after their vigorous insistence their model can’t be used this way.

Also bad look for the 50 people I get in my inbox telling me AI is completely useless every time I talk about it. These arguments were worthy of entertainment a few years ago but not in 2026.