And is it really a conspiracy when it’s true?

Or come across as a weirdo, conspiracy theory, antisocial, tech obsessive nerd.

I mean, it’s not inaccurate, but not maybe how to present initially when you meet someone.

Which is the point of the requirement we’re talking about, lol!

As a non car owner, I’d love to agree. Banning car spots and cars is not yet feasible for most people. So, not having those spots available would make those kind of developments harmful for the rest of the community, further marginalizing them.

What is more likely to work is to make the regulation more flexible. So community cars count as 2 or 3 private cars. Then the complex needs less spaces.

Yeah, I’d agree with that. However, they are also creative or adventurous with graphics and art direction.

I know it’s common in my city, Sydney, for apartment complexes to build enough car spaces for the occupants. Part of the issue is that of they didn’t have that requirement, none would be built, I steady putting extra pressure on street parking and public parking facilities. Residents of those complexes also have no entitlement to a parking permit, which older houses without spots do have.

Nowadays, in inner city with less car need, the spaces required is reduced, with some spots reserved for car share schemes instead.

So, like everything, blanket rules aren’t great but rules are needed for a reason.

Yeah, even look at Sony. Recent franchises include a genetically modified clone orphan living in a land of sentient machines with vivid colours.

A father daughter love story told in the time of a zombie apocalypse. (Recent is doing a lot of lifting, lol,)

A samurai warrior, believed dead in a beautiful version of Japan, who sues the wind for direction. Here it’s more the art direction.

Older hits, instead of using cars, used floating race pods. Some told stories using forward and back through time to allow a player and their inner soul/ghost explore areas differently. Others has you play as a set of androids staring to become sentient and making decisions for or against their programming, for their or others benefit.

The quirkiness has always been there. There is also lots of generic stuff and copied stuff. Wherever art and business collide, that’s always the case.

I suppose it will depend on how the law is worded, however, when someone is being impersonated, that would be a pretty clear case.

But they’ll have some AI machines instead, so the shareholders will be happy. The shareholders of a different company, but still…

Wear and tear is specifically not allowed to be charged for home rentals in Australia. Damage that is not wear and tear can be I would assume it would also apply for car rentals but I haven’t checked.

The alternative, where a government can restrict the actions of companies in other jurisdictions is more scary.

I don’t know about NYC specifically, but that’s pretty common. Not only were there a set amount, there are set fees and minimum standards and requirements for people with disabilities and police checks for drivers etc.

Uber circumvented a lot of those rules. The taxi industry was due for an update and vested interests were preventing that. However, we’ve exchanged one monopoly for another. And now, instead of lots of small business owners, we have one large business andots of wage slaves and surge pricing.

Yes, in principle. However, uber have a well known history of skirting labour laws, skirting taxi laws and doing so to undermine competition and then jack up prices. Risesharing is better than owning a car, but monopolies in how that works are not good for anyone except uber.

No, it’s totally free. No ads. It just uses your data to serve ads elsewhere.

Oh, we told you 2 years ago, it would stay that way and you’ve had irreversible brain surgery now. Well, the servers cost a lot to keep running and so, it was inevitable really. We can’t continue to provide the service without charging something. Oh, and there’s ads now.

Oh, you’ve been happily paying. Well, now we have analysed your data and determined you can afford to pay more. Totally a choice. You can cancel anytime. But once the chop is switched off, some people experience a deterioration in executive functioning. And now that it’s common, you can’t travel or drive without an activated chip. And of course Tesla still hasn’t got self driving cars, despite calling their latest package ‘its totally self driving now pinky promise’.