Sadly no, we're simply exposing our existing latent stupidity. People like to argue. Ragebait makes arguing more likely. Arguing is considered "engagement".

Prove me wrong.

The amount of Trump dick sucking surprises me, too. It certainly felt more intelligent 20 years ago.

Speaking of Trump dick sucking, did you figure out yet if he sucked off a CEO, a president, or a horse yet?

He's just being a typical American MORE BIGGER FASTER tool. I drive an 08 Versa with a 1.8l with 122hp and I have absolutely no problem being one of the fastest people on the road, because even a slow ass car by modern standards can do all the things. I never have trouble getting up to speed on a ramp or whatever.

Putin is so smart he outsourced his destroy America plan to Trump

They are literally links to the cases. Jesus Christ I've met single celled organisms with more brains than you.

Nope. You can verify this yourself by looking at what gets loaded in the browser. The first page is loaded, then the bottom half of that page is cut-off. The entire article itself is never sent to you unless you're logged in.

Well I'm sure the fine article would have those details, except the entire article appears to be one line:
"This content is not available in your region"

Honestly if it gets Americans to stop driving oversized pedestrian murdermachines then it may actually be something positive to come out of his administration. I mean to be clear it won't happen, and even if it did this isn't the intention, but still wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where America's pedestrian accident rate was *not* increasing?

Why do you need power? How badly designed are your roads that a small 3 cylinder 1000cc engine car can't safely reach highway speeds on the onramp? You want a racing car fine, but don't pretend that power is something anyone actually *needs* to commute to work.

Also I knew someone with a Mirage back in the day. The fit and finish matched every other car in its price range and was perfectly adequate for the purposes of going from A-B. I recommend not living in it, and maybe not using it to ferry Saudi Princes around, but beyond that it was a fuckload better than the Tesla of the day.

There's no imagining here. There was a very specific action from the car companies lobbying to have exclusions for classes of vehicles from certain rules that resulted in a massive push to larger trucks becoming the standard.

Size matters, and by that I mean big things are often more expensive to produce. You complain about fit, finish, and price, but the Mirage given its size and engine in every way is much cheaper to put on the road than a large pickup or sedan. The fact that it isn't reflected in the price itself *IS THE CONSPIRACY*. You literally described it to us just now.

You contradict yourself. A product that isn't easy to use or setup in one or two clicks fails in the market. Hence cloud.

While I agree, see the whole ease of use thing. Enshitification and dumbing down of everything is done because quite frankly most people are frigging useless when it comes to technology. The more options you have, the more rope you gave idiots with which to hang themselves. Most products are unfortunately designed for the commoner, not the techie in mind.

Actually my bigger gripe than this is that products which *do* have this functionality are often locked down to "professional installers". Like wtf. I bought the device, give me the god damn service code so I can configure it myself.

I did. You know who didn't? Most people. Which meant the Internet was largely a source of information by a handful of nerds for a handful of nerds covering little more than a handful of nerd topics.

Yeah great you can find out how to compile a new Linux kernel. Whoope de fucking do. Where's a Dutch language video guide to how to replumb your shower? I could find great information to help my hobby of amateur radio, but how does it help the wife who has an interest in creating fancy cakes? It doesn't, because the content wasn't there.

The internet's usefulness has nothing to do with the protocol. The point is the content, and back in its infancy it was a niche product for niche audiences with niche topics. Today it's being shat on by AI slop. But around the early 2010s it was a world of information about everything and anything you could imagine which made it most useful.

If you ban SUVs people will drive converted full sized vans and large cab pickup trucks.

My suggestion is not ban SUVs entirely, but require additional permitting heavily discouraging of consumer use. Restrict who can drive them when and where at what speed, and what for purpose. You may need an expensive permit, And take additional training to certify to a higher class large vehicle driver's license, for example.

Full sized vans and large cab pickups for personal use outside licensed work trucks or delivery vehicles etc would carry same restrictions tied to vehicle size and risk levels.

Yeah, it's not even worth considering for something like 15-20kg. A full pallet in this case is 464kg :) Years worth of supply for me.

The current "AI" is a predictive engine.

And *you* are a predictive engine as well; prediction is where the error metric for learning comes from. (I removed the word "search" from both because neither work by "search". Neither you nor LLMs are databases)

It looks at something and analyzes what it thinks the result should be.

And that's not AI why?

AI is, and has always been, the field of tasks that are traditionally hard for computers but easy for humans. There is no question that these are a massive leap forward in AI, as it has always been defined.

It is absolutely crazy that we are all very very soon going to lose access to electricity

Calm down. Total AI power consumption (all forms of AL, both training and inference) for 2025 will be in the ballpark of 50-60TWh. Video gaming consumes about 350TWh/year, and growing. The world consumes ~25000 TWh/yr in electricity. And electricity is only 1/5th of global energy consumption.

AI datacentres are certainly a big deal to the local grid where they're located - in the same way that any major industry is a big deal where it's located. But "big at a local scale" is not the same thing as "big at a global scale." Just across the fjord from me there's an aluminum smelter that uses half a gigawatt of power. Such is industry.