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Possibly related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757838

I have to use opus or it can't even do basic changes.

I can't tell if it's real or not - I don't have the data, but it certainly feels different using it.

I think you've captured it perfectly with "Maybe it's daily reminder that all the luxuries are right here, right under your fingers, if only you weren't so miserably poor?"

The enshitification of the car.

It’s possible they also see the storm coming and are too scared to do anything either.

That makes sense. Even in the Pullman book there were natural roadways for rolling.

Certainly brightened my day. “Bro, do you even friend?”

There are lizards or beetles that tumble down sand dunes.

Maybe cartwheeling humans could lead to some adaptation where the whole body becomes the wheel.

In one of Philip Pullmans His Dark Material novels there is a race of creatures that have a symbiosis with a tree whose huge perfectly round nut can be grasped by their fore and hind limbs and they roll around that way.

Am trying to see a silver lining here.

Dirtier air, sicker people. More profits for big polluters. Why vote for this?

“Insane” is probably a bit strong

Living in rural Spain service is chill. Am used to it by now. Went to an upmarket restaurant in France other day and it took me ages to realise the waiter was vibing me the whole meal for a tip. Such a weird transactional space. Person literally smiling and being agreeable for money. Insane.

It’s interesting how silent the world seems to be on this. Like it’s it’s just a big nothing burger.

Useful anymore, it’s not. We have education now which tells us how to society.

How did covid allow a respite?

Harrowing to think this is part of a drive to promote far right values through misinformation and where it’s coming from.

If big tech gets it’s way and the Digital Services Act goes away, Europe could answer that with a massive media literacy education drive.

It’s the kind of thing I think about before going to China or if I were to visit NKorea. But hasn’t this possibility of hardcore border harassment been a feature of visiting the land of the free (the US that is) for a while now? Phones confiscated and inspected etc..

@dang - why flagged?

Edit: no disagreement or flagging, just poof, gone. Likely someone knows how to make unwanted conversations go away on platforms like HN.

Suspicious that it’s not on the front page.

Blue Velvet. Twin Peaks. Lost Highway..

No words, just a feeling somewhere between waking and dreaming.