The AI tools are honestly so useful though…

Y’all left y’uns out of the map

I did recently discover you can turn off “Web and App Activity” for your Google account, which seems to disable Google saving most of your data (searches, viewed places, etc), for what that’s worth. It definitely cripples Google maps even more than I think it should, since now I can’t even search for labels I’ve added to Google maps myself.

I’ve been meaning to try Organic Maps as well, but haven’t even gotten around to installing it yet.

1. Android has motion photos, which i think is on by default and is more or less the same as live photos.
2. This is just a coincidence, I know Apple maps is good these days, but just the other day my friend was using Apple maps to guide us and it hallucinated a restaurant wholesale. Like, this location for this restaurant has never existed as far as we can tell.

The Android TV app isn’t great either. I just cast to the TV from the mobile app, which is still slightly buggy but generally works fine.

I assumed they misunderstood how a 4 1/2 year master’s program works, since the masters part is technically only half a year on paper. But I don’t think that necessarily makes sense in context…

For a person making $30,000 a year, a $1,000 fine could mean very significant impacts on their daily life.

For a person making $30,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000 fine may mean they can’t afford an extra Ferrari.

For a person “making” $30,000,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000,000 fine may mean they can’t… Buy another island? You still have $29,000,000,000 that you can do who knows what with. This is the entire GDP of some countries. I also don’t know if this one is a realistic example.

Anyway, proportional is nice, but really you need a progressive system to really match the weight of punishments, as far as impacting your daily life or happiness.

Yeah, my infection was 4-5 months after the last booster too, so there’s even a chance I still had a little bit of protection going in. No long term effects thankfully, though exercise was really rough for a month or two afterwards, which really worried me.

The vaccine gave me, at worst, a sore arm for a couple days. The actual infection knocked me completely out for 3 days. I had enough energy to microwave and eat food a couple times a day, and sleep.

I’m glad you never experienced this yourself, and hope you never will. It’s perfectly understandable that you don’t know something like this that you haven’t seen before, but I’m glad that now that you’re aware of the context, you’re willing to adjust your worldview to accommodate the new knowledge.

This entire conversation is honestly very Western centric, but I hope it can be useful to you in other ways as we continue adjusting the English terminology we use around technology going forward.

It was Indiana at the time, as far as getting cars and racism getting mixed together in one experience for me. These days I’m in Texas, but haven’t engaged too much with the car culture here yet.

Edit: btw, sorry for my tone in my previous comment, I was honestly getting pretty worked up going through the comments in this post.

Hi. Targeted minority here. I do not, and have not ever wanted to reclaim this term. I’d argue against calling it reclaimable at all, since to reclaim would require the term to have ever had a valid use to begin with before it became a racist perjorative.

I don’t want to see this used, because it hurts me to see it. This is due to the deep pain that racism has caused to me, even in my very blessed life. While I get that you have good intentions, I want to clarify that your actions will only lead to you causing me further pain.

Asian American here who’s into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.

Hi. Asian American here. I’m offended by this. Please stop deliberately choosing to use terms that are hurtful to me.

Asian American here. It’s racist. It offends me because it is racist, and has always been racist.

I would disagree that the racist meaning is forgotten. It’s still very alive in modern car culture, where I’ve also heard this term used far more than in linux communities anyway.

This term is still offensive to me as a part of the targeted minority. You do not get to dismiss the pain it causes me just because you were ignorant of it until now, and you do not get to tell me that it’s now non offensive just because you want to keep using it.

This word already had that racist meaning from the beginning of it’s use. Just because you were ignorant of it doesn’t make that untrue. And as part of the targeted minority, I will only be offended if you decide to try to force the use of this word on me. You don’t have the right to dismiss the pain that racist terms cause to me and decide to rehabilitate them by your pleasure.

I’m glad you had the privilege of never experiencing that.

A lot of goodhearted people also just seem to be completely ignorant of it too. Plenty of people will say something racist, say they’re not racist when you point it out, and immediately express deeply rooted racist opinions afterwards. But they’re nice to you right now, cause they’re too nice to be racist.

Literally anywhere outside of major cities. I’ve experienced in your face racism in most places under at least half a million in population.