If thought were actually used, half of the very common problems would not be a problem at all.

Instead, the focus is on making new features and not fixing broken garbage.

And the software is so bloated now that what used to run fine on a 4th-gen i3 barely runs at all, now.

Enshittification already hit Discord and it hit it HARD, and that's why I quit paying for nitro.

"Here where I live they have some kind of "semi automatic" (no idea how it is called) where you switch gears "manually" but do not need a clutch,"

It's called a CVT.

"I choose knowledge."

Then read a fucking book.

Let's see AI redefine the power cord.

"Major cities are already mandating EV-ready installs in new builds and funding curbside and shared charging. You’re describing a temporary rollout delay like it’s divine prophecy. Spoiler: it’s not."

Where the fuck is that power going to come from if the power plants aren't being built?

Curbside charging? Have you ever met a fucking meth addict before? That station will be GONE.

"There isn’t?! Are you high, or just deeply incurious? Walmart. Target. Kroger. Whole Foods. Safeway. Meijer. Literally hundreds of grocery locations across the country have chargers."

Not a single one of those in my area has chargers - instead that space is for delivery pickup. This is southern California.

"The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $7.5 billion for EV charging. States are installing fast chargers right now. Companies like GM and Ford are building gigafactories, signing Lithium deals, and deploying networks. This isn’t hypothetical—it’s a national retooling effort in real time."

No it isn't, when the very first fucking thing you need to consider (and has not been when you read the plans) is baseload generation, which is not being built out for anything except AI bullshit.

" Infrastructure money is already flowing. Projects are already breaking ground. But I get it—it’s easier to predict failure than to acknowledge progress you haven’t bothered to Google."

Actually, as someone that does contract geology work - I've been to those ground breakings. Nothing's happened afterwards. Do you know how long it takes to actually prepare land to make a suitable building site? Hint: 6 months minimum, and that is under conditions so favorable as to basically not be able to be found since the 18th century, as any area with such conditions has already been settled upon. Now days, you're looking at a year minimum for settling after laying pipe and power, IF you're doing things right. See: Florida for plenty of abject sinkhole failures caused by neglectful rapid construction practice.

Don't get me started on the western Brightline track to Vegas - that's an abject failure in the making, and that's supposed to be HELPFUL distance transport.

"You “guarantee” it? That’s adorable."

Pay attention to the leaders in the market - Toyota. they started the Hybrid train - they're moving away from it. They came up with just in time lean manufacturing, they're moving away from it. When Toyota sees the writing on the wall, you should likely listen.

But i'd bet top fucking dollar you don't work in this industry in any capacity - I do. I design the lighting systems you find in modern ICE and EVs. I'm pretty knee-fucking-deep in the mess. Meanwhile, your ass is saying to Google shit. I tell you, sir, get your fucking ass in the industry and educate yourself before you spout off.

"there is quite a bit of footage of donkeys being used for logistics"

If you've ever done any mountainous terrain traveling, you'll notice pretty quickly four-legged animals tend to do far better than jeeps, unimogs, and urals.

"will I stop objecting to future deployment of uranium-fission nuclear reactors."

Good thing there are different reactor designs which are far safer and can't meltdown by design and don't even use Uranium!

But I'm sure you don't actually educate yourself beyond Uranium.

LOL no they didn't.

The people of both India and Pakistan both said "We aren't responsible for this shit, cut this shit out now before we riot" and Zardari and Modhi's bitch asses blinked.

"You're making the rest of us liberals look bad."

Yea, no, your votes for Trump clearly showed your true colors.

"and it's without question the best VR game in existence"

I can think of two VR games that on terms of sheer gameplay smash Alyx - SuperHot VR, and Moss.

"games were not $50"

The Guardian Legend retailed for $79 in 1988 at Toys R Us. I know because it was my birthday present and I got to pick ONE game no matter the cost - and that was the most expensive one at the time.

"The roadblocks are with EUV lithography equipment"

Nah, it's getting tougher and tougher to get sourced silicon pure enough to be worth spending the extra energy to get those few extra Ns to ensure you get a sufficient defect-free yield.

Get back to me when you can take raw beach sand and make a working processor at even ~100um node.

Different mindsets point to the same conclusion.

We can look at this geologically - check the pegmatites formed on earth. We have a few types, but one distinguishing feature tends to be WATER CONTENT. The quartz that is formed is HYDROTHERMAL in nature, and there are micro fluid inclusions that record the conditions that formed the pegmatite, and in those fluid inclusions can be micro crystals of deep magma minerals. Thus, this water was already deep inside the mantle, it is very likely that it had to be there, you couldn't just sink a massive body of water down into the magma.

We can look at this cosmologically - look at the Big Bang. Hydrogen is probably the first element to form en masse, and over roughly 600 million years after that, as gravitational fusion happens, oxygen will get created (it may be earlier but 600 million years is our current rough estimate.) These two elements love to combine with each other totally unprompted to form water. By the time our system has actually formed, there has been plenty of time to accrue oxygen and hydrogen-rich matter, and as the planetary disks turn into planets, all that is trapped in, and in turn becomes water in magma as the evolutionary processes of a planet happen.

Sure, some water has likely come from comets crashing into the planet. But not a lot. For all of our water to have originated from comets, we'd have needed quite a few large collisions with our planet to get that much. Large enough to screw the planet outright, most likely.

Well played you bastard, my coffee is all over my mousepad from the desk slap.

By and far that is the most likely source of the lead contamination. Those things are basically plastic-coated foil, and if it's recycled material, you can bet there's various metal types mixed in.