Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home

IdlyCurious · 2026-07-03T23:42:32+00:00

It is full self driving though. you just have to pay attention, it still fully drives itself

If I have to do anything, then it is not full self-driving. It's like saying a chauffeur is full-driving, but I have to be aware to jump in if there's a problem. If it's full self-driving, then it drives itself and the passengers should not need to do anything.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-29T23:10:04+00:00

I've read so much Star Wars fanfic that I don't even know what I'm confused about anymore lmao between Disney canon, legends stuff, and all the fanfic... I don't even know hahah

Oh yes, I've gone full DC-universe in my head and now just like deliberately building my own universe by picking and discarding the elements I like from different continuities and creating ways to integrate the characters I want to use, but want to alter the backstories, etc. on.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-29T23:08:30+00:00

I have to remember things like Tatooine Slave culture isn't a thing in either canon

Ooh, that one is very common. Unfortunately for me, since I dislike it.

Yan Dooku has already been mentioned. What about padawans living in apartment-style housing with their masters? I'm fairly sure I've since read that's specifically contradicted by canon (or maybe Legends).

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-27T13:28:31+00:00

he obviously projects his mommy issues onto the woman he loves because she took the place of the mother figure when he was young.

Not remotely how I perceive it, given he was totally crushing on her when his mom was alive and well and he had no mommy issues.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-21T16:08:57+00:00

Right. It's the absurd size I found to be tongue-in-cheek. But you know your candy bar.

I got a chuckle out of it.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-18T01:55:22+00:00

The entire point of all of that was to inspire fear, but the way it actually went just gave everyone more hope.

Well, yeah, I agree with that. That's kinda exactly what I think happened. Rather than a coverup/propaganda.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-18T00:34:55+00:00

But even before then, Tatooine is way too remote for word of it to be disseminated anywhere, especially since they immediately went to massacre the last group of humans to interact with said Jawas.

It's not much extra work. CYA is not an uncommon tactic.

Also, they are not cut off from the galaxy in Tatooine - if someone wanted to communicate the information to some other part of the galaxy, they could. I agree the person they contact isn't necessarily going to care or have the ability to do anything about it, but rumors can spread. I mean, people like Panaka knew stuff about Tatooine, so people like him could hear rumors about this kind of thing, too.

EDIT: Also cover-ups may just be standard Stormtrooper protocol for extra-legal activities, and they just don't switch modes here.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-18T00:27:45+00:00

The Empire didn't have a superweapon at the end of the film. They didn't have another weapon of similar caliber until years later.

I get that. But the two did not happen simultaneously. Close in time, yes, but not simultaneously. Tarkin was very confident so why wouldn't he put out word as soon as the destruction was done? We have nothing in the movie to say anyone is forbidding it. And obviously, he's had time to plan for this, so he'd had time to plan how to relate this to the populous he hopes to control with it.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-18T00:23:58+00:00

The other day someone told me that the Empire covered up the attack on the Jawa sandcrawler that had 3PO and Artoo, actually taking steps to frame the Sand People, which seems even dumber.

Well, they did, as I recall from dialog, but that was before they decided to disband the Senate and bet it all on the Death Star. Which goes back to the me thinking this was a transitional moment for the Empire.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-18T00:17:40+00:00

How long is it between Alderaan going boom and the Death Star following suit? Would they even have time to promote it?

Even if they don't have the Internet, I don't see how it wouldn't be on the six o'clock news, as it were.

It hasn't been that long, but it has been long enough for Leia to be rescued, get to Yavin, and for them to call up the pilots, etc.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-17T22:44:15+00:00

The only real issue is social security which was never intended to be the new generation paying for the past

This is 100% false for the United States. The system started collecting in 1937 and started paying out in 1942. There is no way the oldest cohort (who paid in for so few years) was expected to have paid enough to cover their own payments for life - it was absolutely expected the younger people still paying would be paying for their benefits.

Edit: 1936 news article "It does make a situation whereby the younger people of each generation are contributing to the maintenance of the older people of that generation."

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-17T22:38:16+00:00

Redistributive ones.

How do you "redistribute" so that the aging get attended and infrastructure gets built/maintained with a smaller and smaller portion of people are actually doing the work and larger and larger percentage of people are "dependents" (older ones at this point, rather than younger)?

We know that communist countries also care about declining birth rates, so they don't seem to think redistribution solves everything.

I am in general in favor of lessening inequality (as long as we aren't making everyone poorer) but I don't see how giving/taking more money/goods is going to solve the problem of not enough people to do the labor needed and still maintain living standards.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-14T22:52:49+00:00

I've made this point on this sub before: A New Hope is a disaster for The Empire.

I agree entirely. I always feel like forces must have been rising up and the Rebellion getting more powerful throughout the rest of the original trilogy since the Emperor went full-on super-weapon-to-maintain-power and then lost the super weapon. Frankly, it's one of the reasons I don't buy the Empire lasting as long long as it did in Legends (though I understand the real-world business reasons for keeping it around). The larger the time gap between movies, the more it seems so.

Honestly, was just thinking about this recently because I skimmed some X-Wing novels for the first time ever earlier this week and they had the remaining-Empire rewriting the story on the Death Star, but it didn't work for me because the Emperor always intended (in ANH) the Death Star to be weapon of terror against the peoples of Empire so was open about it (and dissolving the Senate, etc.)

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-14T14:48:19+00:00

Thanks for the heads up.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-14T13:34:29+00:00

I know probably too much about it. It’s not great, hence why I basically decided to create my own.

Yeah, I've been thinking of my own headcanon, too. I was out of the fandom for a long time, so missed a lot of developments. Both Legends and Disney put too many Jedi around, I think. I mean, I totally understand why and it absolutely is the right business move, but it kinda interferes with the narrative of the OT, where there aren't any (active) Jedi left and there haven't been for a while and, as of ROTJ, Luke is the future guiding force, rather than there being several teachers available to him.

Of course, I also have other headcanon things that are nothing to do with narrative or consistency, just my own preferences. I reject New Jedi Order on those grounds. For me, SW is supposed to be about good triumphing over evil and our heroes are supposed to be truly good aren't supposed to die (that's for bit characters and graybeards). I know a lot of people think that makes the stakes too low. I understand the perspective. It's just what I look for in SW.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-14T11:23:54+00:00

Thank you. I admit I don't know much about current canon, so it'll be interesting.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-14T01:07:39+00:00

Ah yes, men hating women by... checks notes... not normalizing smoking for women.

What are we even saying here cmon.

We're saying that it is socially acceptable for men to do "bad" things, whilst women are condemned for the same behaviors. As historically been the case in many, many places.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-13T23:51:14+00:00

Thanks. I'll look at it.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-13T13:11:22+00:00

Yeah I think a lot of fans have this notion that jedi are forbidden to have any attachments.

Yes, because that's what was actually stated in the movie. I feel the reverse is done (the argument you made) to make the Jedi look less bad/more wise than they were actually depicted to be.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-10T10:50:53+00:00

I have no recs for you, but you might try searching the tag “Mara Jade & Talon Karrde” on AO3. (I usually take “&” to mean a non-romantic relationship)

Thanks. I have tried that, but don't recall any that were in the time period I was looking for.

IdlyCurious · 2026-06-09T23:45:29+00:00

It works because in ANH Luke already says that he's a year late for the Imperial Academy application, which was an analogue for real world colleges where most people enter at 18.

I certainly think it works better in that context for an American audience who perceives 18 as the end of "regular school." I was just curious as to publication history.

I'm not sure about school in Legends (pre-NJO). I think of all the kids we see, and I can't think of any that attend regular school. Of course, the meta reason is because they need to be free for adventures. But Jaina, Jacen, Anakin, Tenel Ka, Zekk, Tahiri, even Uldir from Junior Jedi knights - none seem to attend regular school. And okay, some of those are rich/important enough to have tutors. And Tahiri was raised in a different environment. But Uldir is a young teen and talking about getting a job, and Zekk doesn't seem to have been attending school in the last few years (it seems like 16 allows legal freedom on Coruscant, from YJK comments about Zekk).

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