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Actually, Canada is a leader in high speed rail studies.

I can't tell for BlueSky because I have not joined yet, but I did create a Mastodon account months ago and I'm not sure what to do with it or how to interact with others. I find it confusing.

On Twitter I was mostly following a bunch of like minded people, liking their stuff, and I could see what they liked too. But on Mastodon there's uuh, boosts and favorites?! I'm not sure of how it works or what I'm doing. I can't just "like" posts? I have to boost them?! I found the people I liked that were on Twitter, but on Mastodon I feel like there's nothing I can do aside from seeing posts and it's just not attractive.

I can't stand ads. It's even worse on TV when they yell them at you. So I actually stopped watching TV in 2009 because I couldn't stop the ads, and I was tired to have the TV trying to convince me to buy a car every 15 minutes.

If I want to watch something that was on TV, I download it from... * the internet *.

My parents still watch TV and just let the ads blast in the background, and we need to yell over them to talk. I hate it. Then they're like "oh it's just like in the ad". I don't know how they can tolerate this. I did when I was younger but when I realized that the TV was trying to sell me twice a car in 15 minutes, or about 8 times an hour, I couldn't help but notice and it's just really annoying.

It's obviously not "full self driving" because I don't have a driving license and cannot use a Tesla to drive me where I need to go. Same for people that can't drive, like the blind.

If they were truly autonomous cars, people wouldn't need a driving license to use FSD.

What? It's hard to hear anything with all that noise.

I'm so excited. I don't have a license and I've been waiting nearly a decade for those robotaxis, so I can finally go in the countryside and at national parks without the need to take an ordinary taxi.

I'm sure this tech is going to be ready soon and is not at all competing with public transit in order to continue to sell cars and keep their dominance on the transportation market.

No need for a bus system when you can have on demand taxibus! It's coming real soon. Very soon. In the meantime you can just use regular taxis... But guys, it's coming soon and going to revolutionize the transport industry!

/s just in case

EDIT: Coming soon since at least a decade now.

2014 : https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/14/tesla-model-sd-electric-car-driverless-autopilot/

2015: https://www.businesspost.ie/more-business/behold-teslas-self-driving-taxi/

2019 : https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/tech/tesla-robotaxis/index.html

2020 : https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-robotaxis-will-ready-2020-elon-musk-says/

Nice tool to help oppress minorities. They'll be faster on the scene to help fellow officers strangle an innocent person, or kill one of the 10 000 dogs they kill every year. Dangerous weed dealers have no chance!

I've been burned once. You open up to someone that says they want to help but then you learn that they use Windows and "don't care about which OS people use".

Meanwhile I've always been the one that takes the smallest possible meal at McDonald's, and would think that 5 nuggets with fries and drinks is just enough. In fact I hate going to restaurants in general because portions are always much too big for me. I can't usually take doggy bags, and I feel like I'm wasting most of what I'm served. I can't recall even finishing a plate in a (real) restaurant; there's always too much. I'm always like "oh it was really tasty but I can't eat much more!"

Why do you see it as targeting Trump voters? I'm in Canada and we also have people driving giant SUVs in McMansions whining about gas and energy prices. It's fair and legitimate to bitch about the price of food, however it's also easy to see that the average North American car is now more like a tank, and that people whining about gas prices don't seem to be able to look into a mirror.

Yes, most of the people owning monster trucks will also vote Conservative here, or for a conservative party, I guess it's a political statement on its own. But it's also very easy to find liberals (as in neo-liberals, not "the left") with gas guzzlers bitch about gas prices.

Or 71 stone.

No it's not. Not in my country. Here it's independent courriers like "Apple Express". Last time it was something called "eMile".

The regular post has access to my mailbox, knocks on my door for bigger packages, and leaves notes asking me to go get it at the post office if I'm not home. This is what happens with eBay. But every time I ordered from AliExpress, it was sent by some random "logistics company" and my packages end up "delivered" in places where I can't find them,. It's absolutely not the regular post for what I have ordered from them in the past.