I think I may be in the minority here; my family uses phone tracking across the board, but I don't think I've ever used it because I was worried, or to make sure someone is where they said they'd be. The vast majority of the time I check, which is infrequent, it's to see how far away someone is and guess at travel time. Like, "let's see how much game time I have before they pull up" or "do I have time to start a new episode?"

It is nice to know its there for an emergency though, I guess.

Objectively, looking at what he says and what he does, Elon is one of the dumbest motherfuckers on the face of the planet.

Being born into apartheid money and using that influence to be near smart people doesn't make him smart.

This is the "you can't use OSHA safety yellow because I don't like the color" and the "you have to disable the forklift backup alarm because it's annoying" guy.

The "Nazi salute on the most public venue" guy.

The "completely erode the integrity and monetary value of a trusted social media network instead of just sitting back and letting it print money for me" guy.

The "call a legitimate child saving hero a pedophile publicly because my feelings are hurt because nobody liked my custom built submarine idea" guy.

I can't think of one objectively smart thing that he has done--not something he used the racist heritage money to simply be near--but the number of stupid fucking things just keeps coming.

One thing I adore about the souls games is how everyone has a unique and personal experience with bosses.

A boss that I got on my first try may take you a week of banging your head against it; but, that is no indication that I'm just better because two bosses later I will be banging my head against a different boss that you just breeze through.

I'm not sure why you think this is a conspiracy theory, it's already documented as happening and is common in some segments. It's not a secret.

Uber led the way on this years and years ago, with systems that would offer every driver a unique price for each ride based on their recent history. If you took every ride that came up you would get lower prices, but if you started declining rides you would get an increased rate to bait you back in... until you bit and took one where it would decrease the rate again.

Each driver being offered a different fare for the same customer is the kind of dynamic pricing that digital displays offer for grocery stores. Maybe at the busiest time of day prices are suddenly more expensive. Maybe when it's hot outside cold drinks go up 20%. Maybe you don't notice because you're too busy thinking about all the other stress of daily life.

I’m not an expert on this, but I have listened to people talk who are and claim that you can pretty clearly link cognitive decline with the introduction of technology effectively everywhere.

I’m sure it’s not as clear as “tech bad” but it does seem like screen time and deferring the manual parts of learning to computers is not great for us.

I’m guessing you didn’t actually read my comment at the start here.

You missed the beginning of this transaction, where Phillip sends Sparta a missive asking if he should come as friend or enemy, and the response he got was “neither”.