Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
Past few years it seems that I’ve heard good things about Hyundai’s EVs, as opposed to the years of problems with their gas cars. I think I got the last generation that they build well, after was when the problems started hitting the fan.
Republican voters voted for this. Congrats. Don’t ever use the “think of the children” line again, you’ve shown you don’t care.
Indeed. We might have gone that way. Lots of larger cities had rail for their public transit, but the car industry got that removed for obvious reasons.
Random drunk walk is sometimes successful in the results. The bonus is that it also prevents some malevolent actions from succeeding.
Been with several companies that have the first part in their policy. It makes sense to avoid, or at best minimize an external influencing factor in company activities. Basically they don’t want to mess with lawsuits. That’s what company policy is for, protect the company.
The rest is owner greed. He doesn’t want the gifts to stop, he wants them all without doing anything to get them. Either enforce a ‘no gifts, period’ policy or let people do what they will.
Your points illustrate why other means besides cameras should be also used, as well as why the human brain’s ability to filter or even ignore things is a bonus to our driving ability. Or a detriment. People who power through bad weather or sun glare or any other obstacles that obscure them seeing well and manage to get through aren’t greater than the computer driver, they’re just lucky. Same can be said for all the people driving while on the phone, they aren’t skilled in multitasking while moving hundreds of feet per second, they just happen to have it clear 99% of the time so think they’re that good.
The main point was that computers need all the information they can get to compete with humans, but they also have the ability to get data we cannot, and it’s stupid to not give them that ability because of some desire to simulate the full (read that as limited) human experience. Humans deal with less info all the time, but that doesn’t make them better.
Benevolent dictators almost always happen only in fiction, and they don’t last. I guess you can get some that do a few good things while being bad overall.
I think we should have billionaires.
Because they wouldn’t miss a 90% tax on their highest bracket, and they aren’t going away, so why not turn them into the resource they should have stayed.
I mean there’s lots of other problems that have gotten far worse in the past decades to make the wealth inequality ridiculous, but a good starting point is MAGA. Bring back the high taxes on those who can afford it, to fund helping those in need.
When Autopilot started I would hear people joke about how it couldn’t drive in bad weather where people could. They seem to miss the point that when the computer begins to lose information needed to navigate, it’s going to stop driving. People lose information and they keep going. One of these is safer.
Of course if Elon had thrown everything at the car to make it have information even in terrible or odd conditions, there’d be more merit in claiming those cars are safer than humans. But between genius brain (however much there is) and narcissist, the latter won out in doing it his way because others were doing it the obvious way.
The safest roads would be fully automated and tapped into each other. We wouldn’t even need lights at intersections. A hybrid mix of human/computer traffic is always going to be dangerous.
Whenever I see the 1% or 99% numbers when discussing wealth inequality, this fact is the first thing that comes to mind. We need to use decimal points to get to the real ones in power. 1% contains a lot of people who have money, but are still out of the loop as the rest of us, or as Carlin said, “not in the Club”. They are millionaires, but like they say, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.
And that’s US - many Americans are in the 1% in worldwide numbers, with rough income numbers being around half a million income. Again, they may or may not be comfortable depending on their expenses, but having money doesn’t mean you have power. It’s the .1 that is the beginning of that, and the .01 is moving the pieces for everyone.
(The numbers are just estimates, there’s gray areas everywhere, the point is the top people want us to be yelling at the top middle and ignore what they do.)
My spirit animal. I’d rather be blamed for disrupting things than deal with the drama.
“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” - Fred Rogers (mother)
Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more “I didn’t vote for this”. Yes, you did. You just weren’t listening.
The twist - AI was originally trained on human input, so it’s human even with 99% bots, from a certain point of view.
For military stuff, I go to RadarBox.
Thankfully, there hasn’t been any reason recently to look up military activity. 🙄
Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.
Like so many other things, this could be a motivation for Trump to undo things, regardless of understanding any of it. It’s why he ran for President the first time, out of spite.
Better than applying the money to socialist programs back home, for sure. (the ones still around)
The ONLY good point to this would be that it would draw the US public into action. A base in the Middle East got hit? People shrug it off, it’s nothing new and doesn’t affect them. A naval or army base on the East Coast gets a missile hit? At least if there was disagreement on what to do, we’d be arguing about it. Assuming that Iran can even get that far…
And to be clear, it’s only a good point in that it would wake people up that shit isn’t right, and maybe they’d feel threatened enough for their own welfare to do something.
Doing anything more would likely get more strikes from a war-hungry US administration looking for any reason to flex. At least a passive response might get some sympathy from the rest of the world…not that they’ll jump up to do much even if the US does something else.
150 alone for a range isn’t terrible for certain markets (local use), but you better have fast recharge and everything else great. You’re right though that at this point most everyone is offering higher.