Beamer92

You gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.

Is it really the responsibility of a journalist to hold the hand of people not well versed in the topic at the expense of technical correctness? I don't think so, I'd prefer we hold a standard of being correct and put the onus of education on the readers. They can Google what they don't understand. We can educate the public better to not be afraid of technical details. I agree with danarmak, this piece like so many others is just a bunch of sensationalized details. You should know what you're signing up for, nobody should be surprised by anything in there.

I can't be alone in thinking that the woman walking the bicycle didn't seem to be in a crosswalk...

Like, ok so autonomous driving isn't perfect, and yeah the backup driver maybe should've been paying attention to the road instead of whatever she was doing. Fine. But I can't be alone in thinking it looks at least partly the woman's own fault. Right? Walking your bike, in the dark, across a road without looking when you don't seem to have right of way is just not a great idea. Plenty of human drivers would've probably hit her too, albeit possibly slower while slamming on the brakes.

I don't mean to blame the victim here entirely, obviously I don't think she deserved to die, I just can't help but think that Uber isn't entirely at fault here. Maybe Uber can make a car that's statistically a safer driver than human drivers, but you can't out-engineer the human ability to invent ways to get around rules other humans put in place.

This is a huge issue I agree with. I'd never fly with my dog in cargo. However, one thing that I think gets overlooked is that in accommodating people's pet, are we being unaccommodating to others? What about those who have pet allergies? They would expect to be able to fly in peace as well. Or people with life experience that makes them afraid of dogs. You'd think the airline would be easy to work with but is that really on the person with allergies to make themselves comfortable when the argument for ESAs is that we should all be accommodating to these people and their animals/issues? Do we need to have pet friendly/no pet flight options? Or do we need the airlines to be pro-active in accommodating for people with their pets when they could just as easily say "No. Deal with it"? Good luck convincing the airlines that they need to accommodate for society. They won't even make planes someone over 6'5" can sit in comfortably.

Outside of Cats/Dogs, if somebody sits down next to me with their Emotional Support Snake there's gonna be some loud WTFs and GTFOs and just a problem overall. Could the airline talk to individual passengers about this snake being near them on their flight beforehand? Sure. Are they going to? Nope. Better to just say there will be no gosh darn snakes on this gosh darn plane.

Right but... was anybody unaware of that? There's plenty out there critiquing right-leaning beliefs that we didn't really need another. I think it was plenty fair in that it just presented a critical analysis of one side without necessarily supporting the other. You don't need to be fair to every side of an argument to point out a flaw.

I mostly got that there's parallels to draw between the idea of breaking down existing power structures while ignoring how you have to build new ones in their place. Instead of seeing a lack of critique of a side I already believe to be flawed, I see themes to be considered when I tell myself I've got the right of it.

Another way of seeing it: when attempting to knock someone else off their high horse, you don't need to be reassured that they deserved to be knocked off of their horse to be reminded not to climb up on your own afterwards.

I think its a great idea. If you're lifting weights you're probably not watching TV. I get that people on the treadmills probably wanna watch TV. That's cool. There's rows of TVs at my gyms for the rows of cardio machines.

The TV provides something to distract and look at. However, the news is stressful. I was on the treadmill last night and I'm just bombarded with MSNBC, CNN and Fox from all angles and I just could not focus on working out. It was stressful to look at, none of it was anything but politicized garbage. If I could've turned them all to cartoon network I'd have done it.

Put on local news, then put entertainment on the rest. I'm not at the gym to be more immersed in the ever-present war of buzzwords between political parties.

I... I want a Gothic castle covered in pink seashells... Lemme just... CC the governor.

I would hope there's more to the story but somehow I doubt it. It says they went in there to test the perception that they wouldn't be welcome simply for their political views. So it stands to reason they probably would make it a point to not make a fuss and see if they were approached. If that's really the case, I agree it was really poorly handled.

On the other hand, as bristly as I know young progressives/liberals can be (we can be) I also wouldn't put it past the other students to be a bit obnoxious and trying to draw attention to their hats in an effort to have their point proven. Regardless you're right, not the path forward.

Did anybody else find Waze super distracting? I tried it once around Seattle, on/off the freeway and there was just too much. Like, how can we add all the distraction of texting-and-driving, but into a navigation app. Bam! Here's Waze.

I couldn't help but think "Get all this stuff off my screen so I can see where I'm going" followed by "If I actually paid attention to or used this app it'd get me killed".

I'm sure if I'd stopped and played with the settings I could've got it to a manageable level but I really couldn't see the point. You're driving, the social aspect is a dangerous and unnecessary one. Just get me from Point A to B the best you can. Back to Google Maps.

Pick up a sport/hobby with a social aspect. Many cities (I'm assuming you live in a populated area) have City League sports you can simply sign up for, pay a fee, then get put on a team.

You can join a low level (or high level if you're competitive) dodgeball team, or soccer, or basically whatever strikes your fancy, then meet some new friends. It also gets you out of the house once a week or more with some new faces.

Or her. Though, it would be an interesting case study of how people really react to a Male Gordon Boss vs a Female one.