#wary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wary, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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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/
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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?
