World Famous W posted:

they're tools in the hands of the worst people, not some sort of monster

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/1660678781265215489?t=tCerXMio8qmWJiJYlpCCjA&s=19

Bummer

Fister Roboto posted:

Yeah, this is the problem with the cartoon. It's the exact same shallow "what if AI.... is bad???" critique we've all seen a zillion times already.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/1660678781265215489?t=tCerXMio8qmWJiJYlpCCjA&s=19

Bummer

Trapezium Dave posted:

Pope:

NSW police used a taser on a 95 year-old aged care resident with dementia because she was approaching with a knife, also a walking frame. She is now in hospital on end-of-life care.

Adenoid Dan posted:

They were 21 feet from death!

Cloud Potato posted:

Sunday Telegraph:

Volodymyr Zelensky’s historic G7 trip sends ‘powerful message’ against Russian brutality

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

3

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

3

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7pz7CqWTMs

Skios posted:

Tom Stiglich

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

1

Skios posted:

Tom Stiglich

Selachian posted:

10

Pants Donkey posted:

This one needs some context. I was going to make an effort post earlier, but I got busy with stuff.

So back before the car, the streets belonged to pedestrians. Horses top out around 30 MPH, and that’s assuming a single rider and not a wagon or anything else hitched to them. Even the earliest cars weren’t much faster if faster at all, and they were a luxury so not all that common on streets. So mixed traffic on the street was very common: a mix of pedestrians, horses, and cars. It was not uncommon to have kids playing or people chatting in the streets. It was a public place, and the impetus was upon the rider/driver to avoid pedestrians.

That changes after the turn of the century: cars get significantly faster. Whereas the Model T topped out at around 40mph, you had newer models getting faster and faster.

And people loving hated them.

They were loud, produced pollution, and disrupted street traffic, often lethally. People were not fans of these new, speedy vehicles, and that was a problem for the auto makers. How do you change public perception of these noisy death machines?

The answer was to portray the pedestrian as the enemy. The pedestrian is an invader of the street, which was a subtle implication that the street belonged to cars. Automakers had aggressive lobbying, ad campaigns, and even offered to write news articles for the papers about any auto accident which obviously were slanted to make it the fault of the pedestrian.

It worked: laws designed to limit car speeds or other common-sense regulation were quashed and jaywalking became a new crime. While jaywalking wasn’t all that respected at first, the media blitz did its work of demonizing the pedestrian.

And that’s how we lost our streets to cars. Emboldened, automakers would continue to use their influence to shape our infrastructure around their product, make cars a necessity to live, undermine public transportation, and loosen regulations to unleash the unholy creation that is the SUV.

While I can’t say for sure if cartoonist were outright paid to produce jaywalking propaganda or just bought into the lies themselves, there are a decent amount of jaywalking cartoons around that period.

Selachian posted:

2

Pants Donkey posted:

the_steve posted:

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's just something incredibly satisfying about the impotent hate Stiglich has for Fetterman.

Pants Donkey posted:

This one needs some context. I was going to make an effort post earlier, but I got busy with stuff.

So back before the car, the streets belonged to pedestrians. Horses top out around 30 MPH, and that’s assuming a single rider and not a wagon or anything else hitched to them. Even the earliest cars weren’t much faster if faster at all, and they were a luxury so not all that common on streets. So mixed traffic on the street was very common: a mix of pedestrians, horses, and cars. It was not uncommon to have kids playing or people chatting in the streets. It was a public place, and the impetus was upon the rider/driver to avoid pedestrians.

That changes after the turn of the century: cars get significantly faster. Whereas the Model T topped out at around 40mph, you had newer models getting faster and faster.

And people loving hated them.

They were loud, produced pollution, and disrupted street traffic, often lethally. People were not fans of these new, speedy vehicles, and that was a problem for the auto makers. How do you change public perception of these noisy death machines?

The answer was to portray the pedestrian as the enemy. The pedestrian is an invader of the street, which was a subtle implication that the street belonged to cars. Automakers had aggressive lobbying, ad campaigns, and even offered to write news articles for the papers about any auto accident which obviously were slanted to make it the fault of the pedestrian.

It worked: laws designed to limit car speeds or other common-sense regulation were quashed and jaywalking became a new crime. While jaywalking wasn’t all that respected at first, the media blitz did its work of demonizing the pedestrian.

And that’s how we lost our streets to cars. Emboldened, automakers would continue to use their influence to shape our infrastructure around their product, make cars a necessity to live, undermine public transportation, and loosen regulations to unleash the unholy creation that is the SUV.

While I can’t say for sure if cartoonist were outright paid to produce jaywalking propaganda or just bought into the lies themselves, there are a decent amount of jaywalking cartoons around that period.

Pants Donkey posted:

[excellent car content]

the_steve posted:

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's just something incredibly satisfying about the impotent hate Stiglich has for Fetterman.

Pants Donkey posted:

This one needs some context. I was going to make an effort post earlier, but I got busy with stuff.

So back before the car, the streets belonged to pedestrians. Horses top out around 30 MPH, and that’s assuming a single rider and not a wagon or anything else hitched to them. Even the earliest cars weren’t much faster if faster at all, and they were a luxury so not all that common on streets. So mixed traffic on the street was very common: a mix of pedestrians, horses, and cars. It was not uncommon to have kids playing or people chatting in the streets. It was a public place, and the impetus was upon the rider/driver to avoid pedestrians.

That changes after the turn of the century: cars get significantly faster. Whereas the Model T topped out at around 40mph, you had newer models getting faster and faster.

And people loving hated them.

They were loud, produced pollution, and disrupted street traffic, often lethally. People were not fans of these new, speedy vehicles, and that was a problem for the auto makers. How do you change public perception of these noisy death machines?

The answer was to portray the pedestrian as the enemy. The pedestrian is an invader of the street, which was a subtle implication that the street belonged to cars. Automakers had aggressive lobbying, ad campaigns, and even offered to write news articles for the papers about any auto accident which obviously were slanted to make it the fault of the pedestrian.

It worked: laws designed to limit car speeds or other common-sense regulation were quashed and jaywalking became a new crime. While jaywalking wasn’t all that respected at first, the media blitz did its work of demonizing the pedestrian.

And that’s how we lost our streets to cars. Emboldened, automakers would continue to use their influence to shape our infrastructure around their product, make cars a necessity to live, undermine public transportation, and loosen regulations to unleash the unholy creation that is the SUV.

While I can’t say for sure if cartoonist were outright paid to produce jaywalking propaganda or just bought into the lies themselves, there are a decent amount of jaywalking cartoons around that period.