Arnie be Arnie:

Get your ass to Mars.

Arnie being Arnie.

Get your ass to Mars.

Hey. Stop slut shaming normal pervs! Zuck is a cut above.

Nope.

How to control their products is not even something they ever consider. They just try to "make something cool" and then it somehow turns into anti-vaxers running government health agencies and measles outbreaks.

You think Zuck thought twice before he scraped every female student photo he could find at Havard to do a "hot or not" stunt?

So who knew? They sure didn't. They never do. Then they figure out how they can make money from it, where the control is how to control their audience, never their product.

Uninstall all of it. The people running Meta basically hate people unless they can exploit them for their own needs. They're like a virus.

So was BP

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

It is, thank you. No pearls before swine here, I really wasn't trolling.

I especially did not understand the efficiency issue where so much of ICE's energy is lost as low level heat. I thought they were more efficient than that. Burning fuel and bleeding it off as heat is very wasteful if you don't capture the heat and use it. It reminds me of the way we heat our homes. Run something off of that fuel, perhaps a generator to a battery, and capture the heat from that? Naw. We don't do thermodynamics in my country.

Due to the lack of charging infrastructure in my area, I drive a sub-compact car that gets 30-40 mpg, and that's about the best I can do right now. I'm trying to figure out how to go electric without tearing up my garage.

It will be much harder to roll out charging infrastructure in our very spacious country than it will in any European country, and right now, it appears we're trying to go back to all coal as because populism. Not really though. It's a lie.

It would also be helpful to have faster charging batteries, but my usage patterns would allow me to charge overnight if I had one installed at my home. My next vehicle will probably be a sub-compact EV, and by then maybe the charging times will be more optimal. I'd really appreciate if they told us the real range at 80% though. On the road, you're not charging that last 10-20%. Too slow.

Thanks for taking the time.

Oh, if that was the criteria, insurance companies would never cover them. Damn things think trucks turning left on an expressway is a billboard and attempt to drive under.

This, so much this. At least California's doing the right thing and electrifying its public railroads, so the acceleration time is considerably better than with the legacy and obsolete diesel-electric equipment. But even then, that's just... start a siding loop before regional trains have to slow down and end it after they're back up to speed if not just straight up quad-track it so regional trains can stay out of the way of the high speed trains. Everyone wins, the high speed trains are high speed and nonstop, meanwhile, Haversack, East Buttfuck and Nebrahoma City still get service.

GM: US lost $10 Billion.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fbusine...

Chrysler: US lost $1 billion.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F0...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: The government have not exited from them yet. Hard to tell whether it will be a profit or loss, particularly if Trump decides to sell them all to his son-in-law for $1 But if he puts them up for a reasonable price, these are likely to come out as a profit, the Mortgage Crisis was more of a temporary thing than the total failure of US car companies to make cars that non-americans will buy. Nothing wrong with a giant gas guzzler, but if the rest of the world wants smaller cars maybe make ONE model for them?

Government buy outs are a bad idea. The only time someone is too big to fail is when you let them have a monopoly.

I can guarantee that Google is not trying to stop Republican emails, that would be something only an idiot convicted of a felony would do, but instead has totally reasonable standards the Republicans fail to live up to.

I bet the emails from Democrats have words that attack Trump, and perhaps a request for an unspecified donation.

While the emails from 'Republicans" say things like "You must reply TODAY to get your free Maga Hat after paying $53 for shipping".

50 years later and 26mph slower than Italy's high speed rail,30 years later and 40mph slower than France, 15 years later and 20mph slower than Spain, in a country with an awful lot more money, greater access to modern technology, a larger engineering pool, and a lot of relatively flat land.

Still, one shouldn't complain. America is, at least, moving in a sensible direction on train travel, which is an improvement over how things were in 2000 when the Federal government weren't able to get a number of States to build train lines even if the Feds paid for everything.

What I observe is that computers gained the ability to say "maybe", as you say, but the vast majority of humans still view computers as infallible processors of information. Most people have learned the idea of "garbage in / garbage out" so they understand that if you put the wrong information into a computer, it'll produce the wrong output. But very few people understand that even after being trained on completely correct information, an LLM will often generate incorrect output. And the people pushing AI aren't doing a very good job of educating the masses. Companies like Google just plop an AI-generated response at the top of your search results as the de-facto answer to your query. Like all other societal changes, it will take *years* for this information to gradually be accepted by the majority of the public. Remember when cell phones became ubiquitous and we enduring a good 10 years of people taking phone calls in movie theatres until most people started silencing their phones? That's how long it'll take the public to adapt to the dangers of AI.

Cars don't work because you need shitloads of road if you want them to work in the city. They don't scale. This same problem is why PRT and the loop fail. You need roughly human size vehicles for individual humans, or enough room for everyone. Car size vehicles are farm equipment for rural life.

I work in a factory where the general laborers make a couple bucks above minimum wage, but we also have skilled trades doing some manufacturing work, such as CNC milling. Those skilled trades make about twice the hourly rate of the general laborer, and it takes about 2 years of extra school, and the math you do in the college courses isn't any more complicated than high school math. Anyone who graduated high school could do it. And skilled trade education here (Ontario, Canada) is so subsidized that your entire out-of-pocket expense is going to be less than $1000, and you have options where you can keep working during your schooling so you won't starve to death. And we're always trying to hire the skilled trades.

So why don't these general laborers see the writing on the wall and double their income in two years? Some people just lack all motivation, and aren't thinking past their plans for Saturday. One supervisor said to me, "look, most of these guys, if you gave them a dollar, would spend it in a vending machine two minutes later." Another supervisor said to me, "one of the guys came up to me and complained about the new pension plan..." This was a plan similar to a 401k where you put in up to 3% of your pay and the company matches that 100%, and it was completely voluntary. The supervisor said, "I told him this was like you give me a dollar and I give you back two dollars, and he said 'no, this is like I give you a dollar and you give me an apple tree. I don't want an apple tree. If I join, the company is taking my money, and if I don't join, they're stealing those matching dollars from me."

It's hard for me to relate to people with those kind of problems.