Mood of the day.

#watercolour #watercolor #aquarelle #acuarela #aquarell #acquerello #aquarela #MastoArt #mastodon #art #artist #painting #drawing #illustration #paint #draw #corbeau #crow #mood #raven #wary

After a brutal 2023, the vibes around #self-#driving #cars are improving.

#Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a #horrific San Francisco #crash last fall, has #rebooted under new management,

while rival #Waymo is #expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles
and #Tesla is promising a new #robotaxi service.

Although Americans say they remain #wary of autonomous driving,
boosters insist there is nothing to fear.
In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both #safer and #cleaner than the status quo,
a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.

Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a #logical #flaw.
As a classic 19th-century theory known as a #Jevons #paradox explains,
even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly
— an enormous “if”
— they are🆘 likely to increase total #emissions and crash #deaths,
simply because ⭐️people will use them so much. 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise

I am always #Wary when I see #Adverts from people claiming to be a #Doctor and selling a #MiracleCure from the #USA.

I am seeing claims about #VitaminB12

You do have to be careful if you are #Vegan though #Marmite is a good source. Tablets are cheap but a very high dose. It is so much not a problem that the adverts reek of #Privatised #Health #ConGames with their claims of #Undiagnosed #Deficiency

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamin-b12-or-folate-deficiency-anaemia/

When You #GetInBed With #Bigots, Please #Reconsider.

#MuslimAmericans who don't want #children to see #LGBTQ #content should be #wary about teaming up with #antiIslamic and #Xenophobic #rightwingers to get there.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/when-you-get-in-bed-with-bigots-please-reconsider/

Praye that all who are #oppressed be enlightened, and be served their #rights, & be returned at the palms of their hands.

And their oppressors be served #justice for what they've done - thus what was broken, can never be relinquished.

And we shall not stop there. And we shall continuously talk about those oppressors. Be it #kings, #dukes, #governments. So that all may learn their #crimes and people be #wary of them.

I pray for you, my #Ukraine brethrens and sisters.

Maybe it's just me, but I am seeing a whole lot of people using "weary" when they mean "wary" in online communications. Social media and so-called "more professional" situations like internal Slack, presentations, in-house reports and documents, etc.

Am I just waving an old-person flag and this is a cool thing the kids are doing these days? Maybe a widely-used autocorrect facility is tripping them up? Or is this another example of language shifting in unexpected ways?

#weary #wary #language

How will America's looming #abortion #ban change society?

Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused #maternal #mortality rates to jump and left #people #wary of one another

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/09/15/romania-exposes-how-abortion-bans-kill-women-rip-society-apart/