Just for solar you would need to cover an area equivalent to the size of Spain and that just meets the current needs if you want storage you need to increase that to fill the storage. Then what's the environment impact for all those batteries? The super conducting thing that doesn't exist won't be available before Fusion comes on line commercially. I'll put a long bet on that.

You can blame the Merkie government for their deference to Russian gas for the lack of nuclear power in Germany. Fukushima was just a convenient excuse. It's also a pipe dream to think we can run the world on solar and wind alone, the physical environment just won't allow it.

When this change was made many Slashdotters said it was ridiculous.

Cayenne8 said: "Yeah, my first thought was WTF would they ditch the very popular and VERY well known company name "HBO" for just Max? Seems like the latest round of marketing folks coming to businesses these days haven't a clue about the job they are trying to do, and how it all works."

Then we piled on from there...

An American dream for the very privileged: Getting paid generational wealth despite messing up so badly.

Will the typical person be able to tell the difference between a human and AI voice reading the stories?

Certainly the best-sellers will retain humans, even famous humans, to read their books. But for the rest, AI could save them a lot of time and money.

Hopefully this technology will spread fast and then every book will be available with narration on many platforms. That would lead to price competition and competition for quality. Let the free market decide if this is a good idea or not.

What prevents one or a handful of IDs from being used by millions of people?

An obvious solution for that problem would be for every ID verification to be cross-checked against governmental registries.

This is also very convenient for the government to 'protect the children' and 'fight terrorists' by knowing every 'sensitive' thing that your ID has been registered to have had accessed. Your personal liberty will certainly be secured by this enlightened system, and no dragnet will ever ruin your reputation and good standing.

Oh, and if things you have already accessed are later deemed to be 'sensitive' then could that blemish be added to your permanent record after the fact - long after you had a chance to decided to click the link?

Bring a sled! This slope looks slippery.

As long as the cost of labor goes up inovation and adoption of automation will also go up. They don't do much automation in China because labor is cheep and the idea that tariff are going to bring jobs back to America is idiotic on many levels. The fact that automation is cheeper than people is one of the reasons.

This seems like a distraction for the driver. Distractions cause accidents. Accidents cost money.

The lucky drivers of these vehicles will pay again in higher insurance rates.

Will this be a 'feature' in rental cars too? I do not want this feature.

Use AI to maximize productivity &out compete your peers: Get a job!

Use AI and lose your ability to handle irregular situations: Lose a job!

Everything will be fine as long as nothing goes wrong in a novel way.

I was actually looking forward to fact checkers pointing out that the Jews don't control all the banks and seed oils aren't actually bad for you. GMO's, Teflon and plastic bags aren't actually killing you, and chiropractic doctors are not medical doctors.

The Trump Amicus brief is mostly about letting him make the decision. The Biden administration has already made the decision with regard to TikTok and Trump does not want the law to be deemed unconstitutional because he wants the power. The party of the president is irrelevant the Democrats did not have to vote for the law that puts us in this situation. They care about government authority not party.

The ban is because the US government can't get data from or manipulate content on the TikTok platform. They have full access to see, lock down or manipulate anything on Instagram, Facebook, X etc. We saw that with the Covid censoring and Biden laptop issues. TikTok does not let them have that level of access into the backend. That level of control is reserved for CCP. That should be a concern but really can't justify shutting down the entire system

The whole point of the NZBA was to attempt to deny banking services to any org, or person, that didn't sign on with the UN policies that are mostly driven buy fringe US environmentalists that briefly held favor with the authoritarian Democratic administration. Now that the authoritarian in power has switched to the Republicans the banks are making appropriate changes. Ultimately we need to remove the authority that's resident in these large govermentmt institutions like the UN, US and others. If you want to cut off billionaire debank the politicians.

Just do the fat tax finally and move on already. The weight of the passenger and their shit is directly related to the cost of getting them there. Airlines need to stop dancing around this and just do it. Yea if you weigh 400 lb with a carry on you should pay just as much as the 120lb lady with 5 bags of outfits for the weekend.