They had a book-'addiction'.
I myself spend 8 hours a day on my kindle because of my kindle-'addiction'.
Retired people have tons of 'addictions', Bingo-'addiction', gardening-'addiction', genealogy-'addiction', Netflix-'addiction'...
OMG I just saw, it's an epidemic!
Crocodile Dundee 1,2,3,4,5....
...an iPad with a keyboard cover?
"-The agent buys one thing despite Amazon search results trying to push a different option"
Exactly THIS!
I don't use an agent but I use AI to find the exact thing I want on Amazon and it gives me the link and I buy it, without having to wade to the crap that Amazon's "search" throws at me.
"they will force other manufacturers to up their game"
I'd like to know why they haven't already"
Those automakers helped make the Chinese ones what they are today.
Humanity survived one cold period by being reduced to perhaps 15k individuals.
Something to look forward to.
By grossly inefficient you mean twice as efficient as one of the most common ways we convert stored energy: burning gasoline in an otto cycle?
Irrelevant to the discussion at hand, where no otto cycle engines are involved.
Yes it is inefficient, around 40-50%. But it does have some benefits in that it actually scales quite well compared to say batteries.
It doesn't. That's why TCO on a HFCEV is far higher than a BEV.
Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers
These people are not hackers. They're extortionists.
Trump will pardon them in 3... 2... 1... then say, "I don't know who they are." (Then continue complaining about Biden using an Autopen.)
'No idea who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon CZ
Jimny engines would have to pass emissions acceptance and then the vehicle would have to pass crash testing. It's difficult for a small vehicle to survive the partial offset crash test and we actually make light trucks do that here. Finally, as a light truck it would be subject to the chicken tax. It's three major hurdles to cross and then no, I don't think they would sell "like crazy" here, though they certainly would sell. But Suzuki left the US market already so they would also have to implement a dealer and spares network again, so that's a fourth impediment.
So no, it's not as simple as "regulations bad". Suzuki was already making the post-Samurai Jimny for other countries when they left the US auto market in 2012, and if they thought it would have been a contender, they no doubt would have stuck around.
While i share the general sentiment of this post, may i suggest the elderly are supposed to do physical exercises like anyone else ? The are also much more at risk of losing their health fast if they don't move enough.
I didn't realize owning a gaming console and physical exercise was an either/or situation.
When small towns in America became homes to massive data centers, power and water costs often soared.
Data centers devour electricity, not just for running servers but for constant cooling, forcing utilities to expand grids and invest in transformers, lines, and substations.
Those infrastructure costs are spread across fewer local customers, so residential bills rise.
They also consume enormous quantities of water, both for cooling systems and indirectly through power generation.
In arid or rural areas, that strains wells and aquifers, prompting utilities to raise rates or restrict household use.
Some centers negotiate preferential industrial rates, meaning locals effectively subsidize them.
Towns like Mesa, AZ, and The Dalles, OR, have seen double-digit utility price jumps after large tech facilities arrived.
The result is a paradox: job creation is minimal, local taxes are often offset by incentives, and yet residents pay more for the basic resources data centers require most.
Sources: stpp.fordschool.umich.edu, lincolninst.edu, slowboring.com
It's not that, Ire-Land is Catholic, so small wonder Mary-Land wants a connection.
Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”
In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
