If Mr Beast is peak YouTube, then bring on the AI already.
I should say that I watch plenty of content on YT, but most of it is small and mid-sized channels. The small ones do it as a hobby, the larger ones as a business, and I'd hate to see them disappear or lose their income. But it seems that this was already happening before the rise of AI slop, revenues getting squeezed or the algorithm playing them false.

Absolutely. P&R lots as well as parking near offices are great places to charge, during to day so you can take advantage of cheap excess solar power. It's also a great way to make EVs viable for those who do not have the opportunity to charge at home. But here in NL that has been slow in coming as well. Many offices installed a mere handful of chargers that are invariably all occupied. That is where we need to scale up... as well as bring down the price of public chargers. Here it usually is 50-100% more expensive than at home.

Wondering about possible consequences. The reason I don't use cloud services like Google for anything except transient stuff, is that they can pull my access in case they decide they don't like me anymore. What happens if MS pull my account or they have a screw-up in their data center?

I enjoy my Hyundai EV, get in, hit the Start button and Drive button and just take off: fast, quiet, smooth. I've owned my share of cars and that Hyundai is easily the most comfortable to drive, despite the sub-premium plasticy interior. We also own a few IC cars including a 996TT, which is a fun drive but serves a very different purpose. The Porsche SUVs are positioned in the same group as that Hyundai EV, not in the group of the 911s. Who cares that those SUVs are sold under the Porsche label? They sell well enough...

That's what various larger cities have been doing here in NL: building Park&Ride hubs on the periphery. People drive to the city and transfer to public transport there. Judging from how full those parking lots are, it's a popular option.

I proposed to socialize the costs but recoup them through corporate taxes. Effectively offering companies affordable insurance against worker injuries. Much more efficient than letting private insurance companies handle this, especially as they have a habit of gouging small companies.

The pendulum does swing too far the other way in the EU though, and often it helps protect large incumbents against small innovative firms. For instance in the Netherlands, if a worker is hurt for any reason, even outside working hours (snowboarding, skydiving, juggling chainsaws), the employer is on the hook to continue to pay him for up to 2 years. During that time the worker gets 70% of his contracted wage (but never less than minimum wage).

If you're employing 1000 people, you can self ensure this risk because the averages will work out in such a large group. But if you have only 5 employees, this is not a financial risk you can take so you have to take out costly insurance against this. The obvious solution is to make society pay for this safety net that society demands... for instance by upping corporate taxes.

Sorry, Evolution doesn't select for intelligence. That's Intelligent Design, two doors down on the right!

Julian or Gregorian? (thank you, I'll see myself out)

The iPhone existed in different forms far before him too.

I don't presume. Your preference function is by definition what describes your actions in the world as a rational economic agent. It is such that one cannot act in contradiction to one's preferences, tautologically.

From there you have two options remaining, once your stated preference turns out to be violated by your actions: 1) you are mistaken about your real preference function, or 2) you are not a rational economic agent.

I did not want to presume 2). Whereas 1) can happen to the best of us :)

Gaaah.

Whi did i tipe a whi?

TIMTOWTDY

Is countering with The Pussy Grabber.

So you're saying he's been playing 4D (spacetime) chess all along?

Whoa, that's some new kind of phreaky shit!

;-)