The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising

Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.

So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?

It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.

Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.

I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?

Yep, either way, your job is toast.

AI succeeds: AI takes your job.

AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.

But you won’t be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.

As for ac, it would be nice if there were more electric AC systems in traditional vehicles. Near instant heat/cool

Electric A/C, maybe. But in anything with a gas engine, it really just doesn’t make sense to have electric heat, since the engine is already such a prolific source of free waste heat. And waiting a minute or two for it to warm up is a small price to pay for the massive efficiency of having all your heating energy being basically ‘free’.

and could be enabled with the engine off with a suitable battery for extended stops like when parked

Would only make sense in hybrid vehicles, IMO, since they already have a large battery that could be used for this.

Hybrid vehicles already make much better use of engine start/stop anyway.

But electric A/C and heat are already becoming fairly common on hybrid vehicles, I think – especially on plug-in hybrids or ones with an ‘EV mode’ that can drive on electric only for a limited range.

Honestly, not that bad of an idea, really. Since a lot of people are out there habitually disabling the feature on every drive, it doesn’t necessarily reflect the real-world emissions the car will produce when operated by real-world people.

Though I bet this regime’s reasons are much less noble. More likely just considering stop/start to be ‘woke’ and discouraging it for that reason.

(And, yeah, I understand why people do it. It’s a bit annoying feeling the car turn on and off. Your air conditioning can stop working at stoplights or when stopped in traffic. And some cars – especially the worse implementations – have a noticeable jolt and delay when starting again from a stop.)

All that said, I bet it won’t really change much. Manufacturers will still keep including it – not to meet emissions requirements, but because it makes their EPA-rated fuel economy better, and rated fuel economy is something that helps them sell more cars.

Just an example. I’m sure they have 100 different ways to match your face to your name/identity.

Unless you’ve been living as a highly isolated hermit and you’ve been wearing a mask at all times when in public even since you were a child … pretty sure they’ve already got it.

They could already easily track your face because your aunt uploaded a picture of you to Facebook and tagged you in it.

What they’re trying to do here is connect your face/identity with your Discord account, so that they can more easily track down dissidents who say naughty things online through Discord.

Yep. Just like the fuckers walking around with $2500 sunglasses.

Those sunglasses don’t do anything that a $20 pair can’t do. And they don’t even look all that different.

The important part is that they enable absolutely disgusting consumerist snobbery, allowing some very vapid people to think that they’re better than other people because they have the expensive sunglasses.

In just about any kind of product you can think of, there are brands catering to this kind of conspicuous consumption.

A lot of it comes down to a mix of snobbishness, sunk cost fallacy, and tribalism.

You can’t admit that your $5,000 pair of headphones sound exactly the same as a $300 pair, because:

• You’d no longer be able to pretend that you’re better than the people who have $300 headphones.

• You’d have to admit to yourself that you completely wasted $4,700.

• You’d have to realize that the tight-knit community you’ve formed with other $10k headphone people isn’t really bettor or even really distinct from communities of people with $300 headphones.