I have no doubts about electric cars being nice or “the future”, but the price of these things is still a problem.

A (reasonably) new one with the range I need (~400km+) costs way more than I care to spend. That is partly because batteries still cost too much, but also very much because they still have a tendancy to gatekeep larger range figures for use in luxury cars.

And getting older second hand is still too much a questionmark in terms of how much of a chance there be you’ll end up having to fork over big for a new battery or motor and/or write it off prematurely.

Another problem is that I also have no way to charge it at home and would be fully at the mercy of public charging infrastructure. And generally speaking as a taller man, I feel some of them can also be quite lacking in terms of interior space.

It is like a camera hidden in a shirt button and that’s exactly the problem.

I understand how creepy this is but why is this any different than the 1000s of cameras on poles literally everywhere these days. Neither of these should be acceptable

Camera’s on poles are obvious, they are mostly immobile apart from some pan tilt zoom, they are subject to privacy and data retention laws, they are announced with signage, they serve a specific public or private interest (like security), they are some auditable entity’s respontibility and they don’t have anywhere near the resolution you can get on the ground with a camera strapped to your face.

The guy with the meta glasses is a huge questionmark on all of that, including intentions and when they are actually recording.

People could do lots of things, but it really isn’t as trivial to secretly get eye level footage of what you’re looking at with a smartphone, as you’re making it out to be.

Things like phones peeking out of breastpockets with their camera stick out like a sore thumb and aren’t nearly as easily directed at whatever you intend to record without people realizing you’re recording something.

And the open prescence of a phone always has some implication of a possibility of recording. Glasses do (or rather did) not.

Also, this specific device is a Meta product. And those, by definition, deserve all the hate they can get on the count of them being a gigantic privacy problem due to the nature of the business Meta is ultimately in.

In my world there is a non-trivial difference between pointing your phone in someone’s general direction and just having inconspicuous looking glasses film everything implicitly.

Do none of these horrible cunts that yearn for that dystopia ever read history books?

It’s the whole entire point of these glasses so this surely cannot be a surprise.

I’m just waiting for bans on these glasses now, because that is inevitably where this is headed as the public at large simply cannot be trusted to handle this kind of technology responsibly.

And the harder these glasses become to spot, the broader the bans will be, undoubtedly right up the point where they’ll just straight up refuse anybody with any kind of thick framed glasses.

AI’s against AI’s. Apps against apps. I want to get off this planet at the next stop.

Fair retort. In hindsight I shouldn’t have used the word inflation, because i’m actually just referring to the cost of living of Joe Average which I incorrectly assumed would be contextually obvious.

But I love that you want a source for that bit, and not the whole entire premise of this topic.

People hear socialism and immediately think Stalin, that’s one problem. Another problem is thinking having a capitalistic system and socialist services are somehow necesarily mutually exclusive.

Capitalism works fine in some area’s. Socialism is needed where it won’t. Healthcare is a case in point. Everybody needs it when they need it, so there’s really no reason to leave that shit to any “market” and therefore chance. Investments in public transport, taking care of the livability at the bottom end of the economic ladder are other examples.

Capitalism is dogshit whenever you have deal with things you just can’t, or morally shouldn’t, attach an ROI to.

I get it but I highly doubt most people actually do these expensive lunches daily. This is also not strictly speaking what is the text of the OP, assuming the text is correct he’s questioning people getting a 28 dollar lunch full stop.

Also, food is 1/3rd of the things that keep you alive and healthy. Food taking up a large part of your money really isn’t that wild. Things like rent taxes and utilities taking up more than half, that is wild, and really the only reason why 28 dollar lunches could be considered questionable on that income.

The world is also just what it is, incomes have been trailing behind inflation for a long time now. Because of these same people. I’m a cheapskate but I can’t get my groceries under 150~200 a week for just myself and my wife. Not without sacrificing health at least, the only way to get cheaper is taking a deep dive into canned and/or highly processed food, but that just isn’t happening.

People that can impulse buy outragiously expensive watches and cars shouldn’t be lecturing the plebs on what to splurge on.

Especially not food. Food is one of last big joys of life for the commoners. Any splurge here is entirely valid.

These people need to stop getting platformed. If you’re in such a position, please just enjoy your privilege in silence and leave us the fuck alone.

I think there’s something beautiful about people getting from music what they look for in it, even if the lyrics litterally counter it.