I think the reduction would be slight versus the reduction realised by improving the quality of existing human operated public transport like buses and trains. A mass transit system relying on individual automated cars is a tech bro brain fart.
Yeah it would be better still if we we had actual improved public transport systems for carry more people at once rather than automated personal vehicles, even if those automated personal vehicles are shared like taxis. The cost of automation and requirement for removing all other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and animals from the roads is immediately removed and the benefits obtained by reducing traffic is immediately realised just by using human driven buses and trains.
Why would it reduce traffic volume? The cars that are on the road are the ones that are currently in their hour of driving that day, it would more reduce the size of parking lots and parking space allocation, or at least move it to charging hubs away from where people congregate.
ELI5 does this even matter? The state legislators are elected by the people, why does it matter if those reps are electing the federal senators or the the people directly? Its not like you're going to get a bunch of lords nominated arbitrarily by the ~~King~~President?
Ahh so the idea would be that the upload wipes the original so there arent multiple copies kicking around.
Seems like making new people would be difficult unless you made everyone keep a bio body until they had reached mental maturity and made more humans ..
The digital immortality you want: living forever in a virtual paradise.
The digital immortality you get: you are recorded doing something stupid that ends any career or relationship potential and is never able to be removed from the internet.
In another aspect, what does uploading ones self look like and when is the upload taken? Do they kill the original body after taking the upload or is there a you living out their days stuck in the mortal husk while another you (possibly not the one you are) is off living it up in an immortal body or virtual paradise?
It's like trying to fix a knife wound by putting a sign next to the wound saying no infections allowed rather than doing something about the knife welding maniac ..
They are referred to as settlers, I assume that comes from the translation of what they call themselves in Hebrew? Do the Palestinians refer to the places the Israeli settlers move to as colonies or their own towns as colonies? Not sure the Palestinians can colonies something they've lived in for hundreds of years? Is this also a translation issue?
It never really occurred to me that Israel are calling their settlers settlers because they see themselves in the same way as American pioneers expanding out into the frontier. It really brings to mind what those pioneers actually were and what they did.
I noticed today at my local coffee shop that Australia's Murdoch owned national news paper is pushing hard on Iranian terrorism and spy shit so looks like they are priming our RWNJs to clutch their pearls real hard. I assume Murdoch's media empire is in lock step with that shit in preparation.
Is there anything peptides can't do?
Thanks! Given the system the US uses for party primaries and the current climate of public manipulation through captured mainstream and social media, aren't those things already problems? Would it be any worse than it already is?