Just wow.

not the same as most of us in the CS/IT industry, either they’re the worst possible hybridization of tech and crazy amts of money and honestly need to be taken out like all the oligarchs

Not to mention the very idea of putting an infant into a locked vehicle is a recipe for a horrifying disaster.

I'm just going to pretend he took the baby back out of the car after he took the picture for the internet points because WTAF?

that has to be a bit right right?

Moses' parents famously did the same and everything worked out fine.

I’m pretty sure that one was a joke

Some rural Americans sent their children via US Mail as parcels in the early years of the 20th century: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

cps would like to know your location

If someone puts a baby, hell any child, in a Waymo by itself child protective services should probably get a call.

What the absolute fuck. I cant leave my kid in the car to run in to the convenience store but sure. Toss that toddler in a waymo.

Expect a visit from Child Protection Servicrd😟.

Less child trafficking than unaccompanied children in traffic.

Absolutely not.

People still try to mail children

Theyre killing us

"Oops, I lost the baby again" Rated PG for extensive depictions of unfathomable stupidity

If I even thought about doing this my wife would murder me and she’d be right to do so

Sure, put your helpless baby into an unmanned car and send it off into traffic. What could go wrong?

Don't they have FedEx same day there?

Unreal... you wouldn't send your puppy in a Waymo.

😱

They are not. They're just the most recent iteration of the classic robber baron-- exploitive, unimaginitive, obsessed with accumulating wealth no matter what it takes or how much damage they leave behind.

OMG no way would I put a kid in one of those. My BIL is on that project No, NO, NO...

He makes clear later in the thread that he was joking. Not particularly hilarious.

Unsophisticated people are the ones who are both unlikely to grasp the humor and likely to consider Waymoing their baby. It's a recipe for disaster.

Also this is absolutely the Dickensian origin story for the future. Like “my parents put me in a Waymo to send home to the nanny and then were crushed by the giant X being pulled off of the Twitter building and I was raised by ChatGPT and now I fight white genocide.”

These are also the people who think that you should be put in jail if your child walks a block by themselves at 14.

Ah but these are rich white people so it’s different somehow.

Lady Bracknell: A Waymo?

Damn! You were much more concise.

youtu.be/x5uqe2M2jXY?...

"I wear the media history I forged in life." "This night you will be visited by three autonomous vehicles: the Amazon of Christmas past, the Waymo of Christmas present and probably not the Cybercab of the future because it crashed on the way. Nevermind, consult chatGPT for your Christmas future."

Like creating multiple The Penguin- style supervillains

On the other hand, this gives some options to caregivers for annoying Trumpist relatives.

Also I am aware this guy is not a tech mogul but Techbrah is cultural as much as hierarchical or economic; it refers to dudes who are the answer to “what if Google Glass and a ZeroHedge comment fucked”

😂

I am embarrassingly untechie. My kids hate when I begin any sentence mentioning my phone. 😂😂😂😂 I don’t even know what a Waymo is. I will have to look it up. 🥴

It’s a joke! As is very clear from his own replies to his tweet.

I had, prior to this comment, successfully forgotten about ZeroHedge.

I'm 2898 minutes deep into Waymo

"What if the dried semen on a memestonk buyer's keyboard gained sentience?"

“what if Google Glass and a ZeroHedge comment fucked” Kudos sir.

Actual photograph of said fucking

Holy shit. 🤣🤣😂

We need something more than a like button for comments like this. Something that captures more the energy of the Drill Sergeant moment in Forrest Gump, "You are gd gifted, Private Gump!"

Techbrah culture is rarely occupied by anyone with actual technical skills. They're just sociopaths who know how to pitch a platform.

As a person who made a living in sales for a time, hear me when I say it would be an enormous net positive if every salesman, past, present and future, were Thanos snapped out of existence. Sales is a blight on the species and salesmen are a pimple on the ass of humanity.

And these fuckers? THESE fuckers are salesmen. I can SMELL it on them.

Middle men and private equity are economic cancers.

Forget the economics, sales dweebs are walking humanitarian disasters. The fuckery I have witnessed them getting to trying to convince clients to make poor financial decisions that will fuck their lives is mind-blowing.

LinkedIn given physical form

I might not mind that kind of ending, but it must be someplace beautiful like Huntington Gardens.

It's a satire though.

Poe's Law is a cruel master.

Sounds more like Roald Dahl :)

You could go ERBian: Carzan of the Apps.

Oliver Twist 2.0: *in line for gruel, holds up phone with Kylo Ren "MOAR" meme*

The fuc

“X-AE32[€] Copperfield” does have a certain ring to it.

Can't help but read this in Dr Evil's voice

Roald Dahl is in his grave wishing he could write this story.

I’m fairly sure that will show up within the next 6 months as a Korean manhwa or k-novel. Looking forward to the new trope! Truck-nim will be driverless from now on, I guess… (if you know, you know).

Considers the driverless taxi to be their real mother.

I was thinking more Wildean: "You can hardly imagine that I and Lord XAE108 would dream of allowing our only daughter - an AI chatbot trained with the utmost care - to marry into a backseat, and form an alliance with a parcel?"

"Please, sir, can I have WayMo?"

“For sale: baby shoes. Never Waymoed.”

Is there a way in the story for no one to know who scheduled the Waymo? Like ... a baby being found in a Waymo, and it's impossible to tell whose it is, IS a pretty great inciting incident ...

Sounds more like Oscar Wilde to me. Horrified matriarch on discovering where her daughter’s suitor was found abandoned as a baby and then adopted: “A Waymo?”

I wouldn’t read that novel, but I might watch the movie. Depends on who’s in it.

gonna tweak it a little in the rewrite but who are you thinking for the lead?

In a country where black women get charged with child abandonment for watching them from 30 feet away at a mall food court.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Sounds like Idiocracy, Part Duh.

My mom and I have been trying to figure out exactly how Lady Bracknell, from The Importance of Being Ernest, would say "a Waymo????"

I played her in a HS production with a really overdone, plummy accent. Let me practice a bit and get back to you. *sips temperance beverage*

That's awesome!!!! I like the 1952 version because it's honestly impossible to overact that part! youtu.be/HvHYsK2XhKs?...

Omg, it’s a car seat???!! When I read it I was expecting a middle schooler

Trusting your baby to JohnnyCab from Total Recall.

Or instead you could just leave the baby at home. Probably safer!!

I'm actively angry this was deleted.

It was funny AF

*stares* Did you think a picture on the internet is ever truly gone?

That is grounds for divorce IMO

My children shrieked "Oh my God no!" in unison when I read the tweet to them.

I’m a nerd girl. I like nerd guys. And yet…there are some nerd dudes who should have been shoved in a locker in high school and left there. Just saying.

Same here. Nerd gal married to a nerd guy. Some nerds are the nicest people you'll ever meet. But some are close to the worst. And the worst ones tend to be poseurs. Not real eggheads.

They have no human empathy. They really are monsters.

Reminds me of an old Kingston Trio song about Charlie and the MTA.

Moses mother putting him a basket of reeds had a better chance of ending well

‘Why has our autonomous car been circling the block for hours?’ ‘Because it can.’

Teaching vibe coding

I will never take a Waymo,

@infinitescream.bsky.social

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

'just put your baby in a parcel and mail them safely to your partner in another town'

'when I need to keep pretending to work but my child may die of neglect I pop them in a bag and sling them out of the window to my partner across the street'

Do not do this, anyone

Oh I see, he thinks this is somehow comedic

Meanwhile I worry folks will judge me for running back into the house to grab something that my six-year-old forgot while she’s in the air conditioned car in my own driveway for two minutes while I solo parent.

Hmmm… NO! Hand your baby to a stranger?? N.O!

🤦‍♀️

I used to play rec league soccer with the CEO of Waymo in Ann Arbor. I think he was in grad school at Michigan at the time. Wild to think he went from passing the ball to me at Fuller Park to running over pedestrians with his robot Ubers.

*co-ceo

It was intended as a joke/bait.

How is that not child neglect (not that courts actually care about child neglect before the kiddo dies)

It is unquestionably negligence to leave an infant unattended in a car. You can't even do it when the car is parked with the engine off. CPS would be all over this.

Hundy!!!

If genuine question, this is the answer

True, if a mom had posted this they would have rightfully torn her apart in the comments 😅

This is definitely illegal in California

back in my day there used to be baby shops and they were proud to deliver you babies in their baby taxis

In the20’s people would occasionally mail their child. rarehistoricalphotos.com/mailing-babi...

Treading new ground in the worship of technology