You still can. Just look at the Netherlands. In the 60s the Netherlands was a car mecca. It was following American style city design (including actually importing American city designers). They had grand plans to bulldoze poor neighbourhoods to build highways, heck at one point even the IJ in Amsterdam was proposed to be filled with concrete and turned into an inner city mega highway.

Well, there's no need to in the US.

The Netherlands is SMALL....and US is quite large and well, for the most part, if you want to live careless in a dense urban city, we have them and you can move there.

If you don't want this, and to date many if not most in the US do not want it....you can live in other cities were you don't share walls and have the independence of a private vehicle.

If more people in the US actually wanted less cars and "walkable cities"....we'd have them.

We have voters and if the voters wanted that, they'd elect people to help implement it.

Buit just face the facts,most people today do not want that car-less utopia many of you are promoting.

That's because your city is designed wrong.

Walkable cities have always been a thing. Only in America were cities designed around the car.

I can only guess that people like you can't undertake or fathom that a large majority of people out here, ENJOY our lifestyle and the city designs and types that support them....eh?

I do NOT want to ever live in a heavy urban city where I have to share walls, and depend on public transport and their schedules and shoehorn my life into someone else's timetable....

You do you.....in the US, at least, it is a large and diversified area....you can find cities that cater to your needs and likings and so can I.

One size does NOT fit all.

Almost all driving is pointless driving. You should be able to get everything you need on foot. After that there should be good public transit. Other than maybe for the disabled and emergency vehicles, cars should never be necessary.

I dunno...I LIKE driving....I was so happy to get my license finally as a teen....

I guess it's due to my always buying cars that were FUN to drive....performance oriented, good looking and well...FUN.

It's the same reason I own a motorcycle....fun.

And I don't care how well your public transport it, it will never be as quick and convenient. Door-to-door as I have with my private car on MY timetable.

Besides, I'd not like to try to schlub. My weekly shopping by hand on public transport....hell just a trip to Costco would be a nightmare hauling a 15lb brisket and 40lb bag of lump charcoal....and that doesn't even touch on the other things I generally buy on a Costco trip....

If you want that lifestyle, live somewhere extremely urban...more power to you but I and many others do NOT want that lifestyle....I like to drive and I like to NOT share walls with other people.

Clearly everyone wants to sit in an office where a dozen people are all talking to their PCs to write Word documents

Hell I can't stand having to be back in the office and having to listen to people yammer on in Teams meetings, or shoot the shit with a work friend near my desk....or just anything.

I dunno how I must have ignored in years back before I had to come back in, but I cannot fucking stand it and have great difficulty getting things done and keeping my concentration.

Are people louder today? Less considerate....or what?

Ugh...I gain absolutely NOTHING by coming into an office....and lose advantages I had. I got more done and FAR easier to eat on my proper diet since I was near my kitchen, that trying to haul all my food for the day to the office....

So many negatives to the office....and not a single positive can I think of....

> ads that pop up piped in directly from Microsoft.

When did Windows turn into a shitty mobile game?

But what if it was as good as on Star Trek?

MS' marketing is bull, but let's not pretend that being able to just tell a computer what to do hasn't been a long-term goal. It is something people want.

It is bad and has potential for REALLY bad.

You use Star Trek as you example...

I tend to think more towards HAL from 2001, or the Terminator movies (1-2...screw the rest of the crap).

No, I don't want to talk to machines AND...I don't want them turned loose to do things independently.

Clippy was just mildly annoying but I'd hate having to talk to my computer.

thank you!!

I was wondering if I was the ONLY person out here that didn't like talking to a fucking computer!!!

Hell I can't stand talking to the damned auto support numbers you get before you get a real person....I just tell it "Operator" over and over till I get a real person.

I hate that especially now that back in the office and everyone can hear what you're saying on the phone....I'd rather punch a damned number....but no they want a spoken prompt.

I don't want to talk to my regular computer or phone either....hell, I learned to fucking type for a reason....and again, at minimum, I'm not having to let the rest of the world listen in on my computer/internet queries.....my subject or thought processes....

And I don't want the computer doing shit independently of my commands....unless I tell it , don't just do shit.

> "Tea; earl grey; hot." and you wind up with a 3d print of the letter "T" painted earl grey and warmed to 100

LUL! That is a perfect example of voice UI being ambiguous. I've had these discussions for decades but never had a good example. I'm cribbing that.

> "Computer, fire torpedo bays 1 through 5!" takes a lot longer than me pressing the button

Yup, as much as I love ST:TNG I've had that criticism for decades. Voice UI is HORRIBLY SLOW, not to mention ambiguous.

Why the hell wouldn't the captain just press a button to raise shield instead of wasting time to say "Raise Shields", waiting for Worf to listen, and wait for them to actually execute it. That's at last 1 - 2 seconds of wasted time.

Also, wouldn't the computer monitor this and automatically raise shields? I'm sure its reaction time is helluva lot faster then humans!

To pay a fitting tribute to the man, I'd drop the coin into a dish of acid, but then instead of saving it while there was plenty of time left, I'd leave it to be slowly eaten away while occasionally dropping in healing herbs and drops of organic fruit juices, and then only try to rescue it once it was far too late

I'm pretty sure not one of these crypto companies could obtain, much less keep a banking license (at least, not in a proper country where you can't just buy your way in).

And you would be wrong. The first stablecoin bank, backed by billionaires who backed trump, was just approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after a rigorous two month review (that's sarcasm in case you missed it).

Supposedly this "bank" will have to adhere to money laundering rules, but as we've seen with other digital money, that goes out the window because who needs regulations.

That's just begging for a "yo momma" joke...

Most people are forced into relatively sedentary careers with long commutes

Because working from home would be completely different with the refrigerator only feet away or not having to do much more than roll out of bed.

Was it whitewashing to pull statues and rename schools?

Why would we want to honor traitors who wanted to keep slavery and who lost the battle?

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!