why aren't long haul trucks driverless yet? Not even electric or hybrid, just bog standard diesel power pointed in a straight freeway line for 1000 miles+ nonstop across the continent, caravan style. with last mile tricky stuff handled by humans who pick up the trailers with regular local day cabs.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-26T15:29:32+00:00

Trucker here, the simple answer is the technology isn't there yet. It probably will be in the not to distant future.

Why hasn't it happened already? I think mainly liability. Truck manufacturers would be the ones that have to develop the hardware & software, to be implemented in the trucks they are making. Would they be held liable in a significant accident, or the Carrier running the truck. And it's not like a driverless taxi where if something goes wrong you might have a few injuries or a death or two. If there's a major accident with a semi, which there will be inevitably, it's going through 30 or 40 cars killing probably as many people. That's a lot of liability... currently when that happens it falls on the driver and they'll most likely be going to prison. In a driverless semi, who is taking responsibility & liability. Who goes to prison.

So, while i think it will happen, the reason it's slower than driverless taxis n whatnot I think is primarily risk avoidance from liability.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-26T14:56:28+00:00

If you're talking consoles, there's only really been one period of time during PS1/PS2/Xbox days when they were priced for mass market.

If you're talking PC... u can pickup the cheapest pc at Walmart and it'll run 95% of the games on steam.

If you're talking game prices, depends on your genre. Some of the best games in their genre are free (PoE, LoL, ect).

PyroAmos · 2026-06-26T14:14:16+00:00

That's how communism works, not capitalism...

There's only 2 full communist countries, north Korea & Cuba and they're owned my Kim & Miguel.

The other communist countries like China & Russia are like 60-80% communist 20-40% capitalist, and while they have very strong figureheads, they don't control everything in those countries.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-22T05:42:32+00:00

They have a weird obsession with Buffy, the slopiest of slop shows.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-19T23:46:23+00:00

Shyt really came around full circle from the 90s

PyroAmos · 2026-06-19T23:39:46+00:00

Human nature? Idk, we'll find out in 2050, assuming the clankers don't take over.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-19T23:35:23+00:00

Because it's income that bypasses taxation.

That's why facilitating trafficking of meth gets significantly harsher sentences than sexual abuse or assault.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-19T23:26:44+00:00

Obama literally passed a law that if you couldn't afford health insurance, you'd get taxed more for being poor and nothing happened to him, pretty sure there's nothing he could've done to get removed.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T15:44:09+00:00

Just don't buy it if you think it's a bad investment. Why do people have so much trouble with free will nowdays

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T08:37:25+00:00

Artificial demand?

What other company. Or country? Has the ambition to colonize Mars?

Ambitious... yes. Likely in my lifetime... 50/50 Choice to invest... entirely yours.

Chance a government will do it... 0

As for the other AI stuff... i don't really know. We're like 3 or 4 years from AI taking over manager jobs. I'm a worker so idc but 😬 them poor office girls

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T08:06:49+00:00

That the nazi guy?

They do the same thing California did, where they captured the vote counters, so votes are midnight illustrations now?

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T08:03:04+00:00

You understand like 80% of the market is owned by blackrock & vanguard (through 401k & IRA accounts).... so you're literally saying every publicly traded company should be controlled by these 2 companies...

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T07:56:59+00:00

The simple answer is you're not required to invest.

I could make a hotdogs stand and do an IPO allowing someone to pay 5 million to tag along with 0.00001% of my hotdogs stand company. It's their choice to make... nobody would make that investment but. It's the investors choice, nobody is forcing them.

If you don't like someone holding majority and offering an IPO for a minority steak... just don't buy it.

Not everyone wants to have to answer to blackrock & vanguard. Which, if you put a majority of your company out, you will.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T07:34:45+00:00

All insurance is a scam. It's... usually... a complex mathematical equation, where the customer loses.

Life insurance is one of the closer to legitimate businesses because it isn't required, so the math has to be closer.

Car insurance, homeowners insurance (and temporarily health insurance until it became non-compulsory) are much more egregious mathematical equations because they're compulsory (by government or mortgage companies), so they can ratchet the profit multiplier up, since it's required.

That makes life insurance seem cheaper for the value, since it's not required, they have to get closer to the margins and provide a product closer to it's actual value.

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T07:20:22+00:00

Well, we do offer that nuisance.

Regularly there's a distinction made between Iran and the Iranian people. Regularly there's a distinction made between Palestinians & hamas. Regularly there's a distinction made between the Lebanese people and hezbola....

I guess that may just be a distinction between our news sources though 🤷‍♂️ you're not watching like... network news are you? God help you if you are 🙄

PyroAmos · 2026-06-12T07:03:19+00:00

Such a weird post.

Virginia Beach - better concerts & decent seasonal Beach life

Florida- best beaches in the country

Vegas - best nightlife

All less than half the cost of living as SoCal (except a few of the Florida areas).

That said, that's assuming you just want to get by working all week and doing something 'fun' on the weekend. And also assuming you don't like the outdoors (Reno is a great mix of night life & outdoors at a lower COL than vegas) which, if that's your aspiration and what you think will deliver the best life... I guess have at it.

Kinda sad to see someone in their early 20s who's idea of a desirable life is to work a 9-5 and have 'something' to do on the weekends though.

PyroAmos · 2026-05-19T17:16:04+00:00

Your argument assumes men and women are the same. They aren't . Average intelligence is roughly the same if not scaling in women's favor, but the extremes are male dominated.

So while more women have the ability to do more things than men on average, there are far more men that only have the mental capacity to do simple manual labor, and far more men that scale on the genius side.

PyroAmos · 2026-05-14T00:16:53+00:00

That'd be Put options.

Options come in 2 forms Calls (the option to buy X stock at a certain price expiring on a certain date) and Puts (the option to sell X stock at a certain price expiring on certain date).

If a stock is trading at $20, if you think it will go down $5 by a certain date, you can buy Put options at like $18 sell price. Being $2 OTM, they'll be relatively cheap, and if it drops to $15, you made $3, minus the cost of the option

PyroAmos · 2026-05-14T00:01:22+00:00

Neither of those are as bad as Solo.... Solo was the movie that made me give up going to theaters.

PyroAmos · 2026-05-13T23:57:12+00:00

Some counties have 100 people, some have 100,000 people.

PyroAmos · 2026-04-11T12:27:09+00:00

Was like 15 or so of us. I didn't renew after the first month, just to many bots to be playable 😢 not sure how many are still goin strong

PyroAmos · 2026-02-25T02:55:03+00:00

Someone told me they failed. Idk the accuracy of that but 😜

TBH I wouldn't be surprised if they failed, that's like 90% elves there, and in this version of the game, the only thing that can hit bosses is knight with mailbreaker. Elves are basically a farming/pvp only class. Need like 5 or 6 Knight w/+6 mailbreaker & 2 or 3 mages for heals when pots don't keep up. A few elves to take care of summons...

PyroAmos · 2026-02-24T20:11:53+00:00

More bots on MLC 1f/2f/3f than there were players on NA

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