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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • I work in transportation regulation. I understand your fear and frustration. What is happening with self driving cars is probably as stupid as you believe. However regulations are pretty reactive and in some ways good regulations should be. You can’t regulate what you don’t understand and you can’t understand what has never been done before.

    The best approach is to start small and work directly with a regulator to create an initial trial and evolve the regulatory framework that ensures safety for the trial period. Then that framework can be used for future trials by other companies before being finessed into an official regulation. Then you have something which you know CAN be successfully implemented by companies AND does produce good safety outcomes.

    Is that what’s happening? It probably was, initially. But as you said the public service is gutted and now corpos are having a wild west free run at this AI car thing. Good luck on the streets, we’re soon all gonna need it.



  • You have the planner and the nucleus. The nucleus is the person that everyone wants to hang out with, usually an extrovert with no planning skills. The planner and the nucleus are natural allies because they meet eachother’s needs. So figure out who the nucleus of your group is, be good buds, and plan things out with them first so you know they can make it before you send out the invite.

    Then when you send out the invite they’ll reply all to say they’re coming and everyone else will come. Some groups have multiple nuclei so that’s a thing too.

    Planner nucleus followers arrangement might make you feel unloved as the planner… But it’s just normal human social structures. Even Nazis had the same setup with Hitler and Goebel, Trump and Miller. Any group you look at has this structure! Secretly without the planner nobody gets to hang out at all so they’re the real OG imo. A group with only nucleus-followers is a bunch of people who rarely meet and say “we should do this more often” and then don’t.



  • Extroverts don’t gain energy from social interactions. They just have a MUCH HIGHER need for social interaction. So they feel like shit anytime they don’t socialize. They also tend to get drained by social interactions much slower.

    It’s like if someone who was eating only chips for months finally eats healthy. They seem energized because they finally have their nutritional needs met. You’d think “wow salad really energizes them, I usually need more calories to feel energy like that”, but it’s actually the chips making them feel like shit.



  • It’s because stress is an immune system suppressant, like allergy medicine. When you’re mildly sick and stressed your body suppresses your immune response so you can keep doing what you need to survive, even though you’d be better off convalescing.

    When you take a vacation suddenly you relax and your body says “oh now that you’re not stressed, you were actually sort of sick… But now we can turn all the symptoms back on”



  • This chart is good for hookups. In long term relationships you can negotiate things like asleep and inebriated while sober or through long term safe sane and consensual escalation. Then you get to enjoy things that are hard to enjoy ethically with a stranger. Hell in most kinky contexts most of these are yes and are replaced with a safeword for “no” but you need more trust for that than you can muster with most strangers.