They could try maybe, I don't know, not automatically printing an AI answer on every web search where 99% of the time the person doesn't want and doesn't read the AI answer (which most of the time is "I don't understand what you're saying because you typed a search term not a question")? That should save some costs. It'd also improve the user experience considerably, since Bing results pages now suddenly change in size after you open them and the links you want move out of your reach.

Why would they choose somewhere with water, comfortable year-round temperatures, close to the businesses they own and people they employ? Why not go live in a desert a thousand miles away because it's cheaper? Because they're billionaires.

I never go when it's crowded, so I'm not taking a seat away from somebody who'd order concessions. If the theater makes 1 cent off my $5 Tuesdays ticket, that's 1 cent more than they would if I didn't come, and I've never damaged anything or caused any costs or disturbed another patron.

That's more than my average driving, I don't have a garage, and I live in sunny California. And since I live in an apartment with no home charging options, solar charging would be a huge selling point to me in an electric car. But since people like me only buy used, perhaps aftermarket solar add-ons would be more successful (eventually, once used EV sales are plentiful)..

Isn't charging from a generic battery with a generic plug going to be extremely slow, as in too slow to be useful unless you're stopping overnight? And if the extender battery were capable of discharging fast to the main battery, wouldn't that make it potentially dangerous?

You could use the old battery swapping stations idea, but modified so that they move your regular battery to your trunk when they swap in your temporary rental range extension battery. That would at least solve the issue of worrying about exchanging your extremely valuable battery for a random one that might have a shorter remaining lifespan.

A lot of people live in a family that owns multiple cars. If you have 2 cars, and you don't take road trip vacations separate from your spouse, then it should usually make sense to have one of your cars be a low range electric. If you both work then you'll still have one of you commuting in the gas guzzler, but it's better than both of you doing that.

EVERY state is "heavily gerrymandered".

What century are you living in? 21 US states are sanely-districted by a non-partisan or bi-partisan entity, while 29 US states still choose an unethical process where the winning party ignores the needs of the people in order to focus on their own job security and blocking the losing party from being able to participate in a fair democratic process in the future.

If Twitter has just laid off most of their staff and your company based a few miles away is building a Twitter competitor, of course you're going to try to hire lots of ex-Twitter employees and of course the employees will want to apply there. That's not evidence of wrongdoing, it's just evidence that Twitter wants to try to use NDAs as if they were non-compete agreements.

The notion that Twitter has any trade secrets worth anything in the first place is pretty hard to buy. It's not particularly innovative software, and if the advertising side was full of secrets then they sure weren't paying off. The "secret" of Twitter's success was being the platform where everybody else was already present thanks to some shrewd moves nearly 20 years ago.

Tire pressure lights are hardly the most essential ones to memorize. I've never owned a car that even had them.

There's no reason to see that as a contradiction or surprise. It's like finding an association between people who have a lot of headaches and people who take a lot of aspirin. Shouldn't you expect that your body would prompt you to do something that helps with the problems it's experiencing? If your brain is struggling to function, you'll take more naps to try to recharge it... but obviously that doesn't make you immortal or remove the Alzheimer's.

It's quite easy to use Facebook and Twitter without encountering any of that stuff either. All you have to do is stop following/friending people you don't like.

Starliner is a fixed price contract, so they're not getting it. The delays have been costing Boeing a fortune.

Russia's debt is about 13.5% of their GDP. The USA is about 130%. If you're expecting Russian "debt up to their eyeballs" to end the war, you're not living in reality.

The difference is, unlike plastics, that glass isn't particularly harmful to the environment. So who cares if it stays in the environment way longer?

Plus glass costs more so people are less likely to toss it away. Personally I'm still regularly reusing a "single use" plastic coke bottle from 2013, but since it's only worth a few cents a lot of people will just toss it.

Most of the nation-state paid trolls aren't being paid to post propaganda for their government anyway. Posts about how Putin is right aren't effective, so they gave up on that ages ago. It's far more likely that the people calling you a Russian troll are Russian trolls, because that's the sort of paranoia and disinformation they get paid to spread. Explanation: https://www.newyorker.com/news...