There's a surge in e-bike-related injuries everywhere. The main problem is teenagers in the streets with motorized vehicles that can self-propel, making slowing down for dangerous situations or stopping at stop signs an inconvenience. The natural consequence is they don't slow down or stop, when they would do so if the bike was not self-propelled.

I wish you were joking. Alas, I tend to agree with you.

It would be stupid to move almost any business to the US to avoid tariffs. The tariffs change almost weekly and the next administration might abolish them entirely. You can't base major business decisions on the quicksand that is the current US tariff policy.

Study after study shows the rapid disappearance of the middle class. Good paying careers are being replaced by low paying gig economy jobs. The transitions to other careers that marked those other economic disruptions are not happening this time.

The most important contribution that most people make to the economy, labor, is about to become marginalized and become nearly worthless. And capital is correspondingly becoming more important as investment in AI and automation replaces that outmoded labor.

The problem with his reasoning is that only a very small and rich capitalist class will be making those investments. The vast majority of people who used to work for a living will be left out of the economy, with no useful role to play. If they have no money, then, obviously, they will not be making any investments. They'll be struggling to put food on their tables.

Youtube is not free. Ads or subscription, but not free.

There are various genres where this is happening, especially in sports history. They are full of errors, but from the comments it's obvious that not many people realize that, nor do they realize these are AI-generated. These videos are so easy to make that soon factual history on youtube will be lost in the noise.

We'll never know because mankind will be extinct if the climate change follows its current trajectory.

Hard? They are contributing a pittance at this point, and they won't change that until they are forced to. The only way to move the needle on fusion is with a large project, preferably funded by those who have created this problem. It's not going to be solved by two guys working in their garage.

There should be a tax imposed on these data centers and ML centers that are strangling our power grid. If they are going to create a major problem like this, then it should incumbent on them to fund research into a solution.

Well least we don't have cage fighting at the White House. Oh wait. Never mind.

"The era of software without embedded AI assistants is increasingly ending" is a really dumb way of saying that applications are increasingly using AI.

This predictable pedantry accompanies every single discussion of batteries on /.

Batteries can serve as a source of energy to feed into the grid in times of need. In a practical sense, for the purposes of this discussion, they are an energy source.

Not really, no. Last night PGE was paying a premium over the buy price for my battery surplus being sold back into the grid.

We should all fight the good fight to somehow fix our broken civilization, but in the mean time you can either sit in darkness during blackouts, or you can take action to make yourself self-reliant for home energy.