Glad to see I didn't blow my cover ;)

First, the point was not that the room murder plausible, just that it was way more plausible than the truck murder.

Second, I never said shoot from across the room. Sneak in while he's sleeping. Though I agree pistol blow-back is an issue here, though maybe you have a second pistol with a silencer (not actually that effective) to stage a second shot while he's sleeping.

Meh, load up a class of whisky with sleeping pills, hold the gun to the side of his head, and say drink or die, most people will drink when faced with the prospect of immediate death.

Then you just hand around until you're sure he's dead.

Again, insanely risky, but kinda plausible unlike the truck in broad daylight.

It's /., if I'm going to give the pro-answer that's going to cost $$$$.

Hypothetically possible... but an incredibly risky way to get someone to kill themselves. I mean it's not the "take the bank manager's family hostage" gambit because the potential victims can never know what could have happened.

Yet, you still need to convince the person you're serious, and if you manage that, well then they might just go to the FBI and now you're in piles of trouble (especially if you follow through, which the person would realize).

And again, even under duress I suspect it's pretty hard to get a non-suicidal person to kill themselves. Especially if there's no real motive. Like did they think he was going to say something incredibly damaging on that 3rd day that he hadn't said in the 7 years since he first filed his complaint?

How about an alternate theory. The guy who had been under severe stress for years, possibly around the time of the trial he considered suicide but decided against it and in a moment of resolution that he would live he made a call where he declared he wouldn't kill himself.

Then, sometime later, the suicidal thoughts returned, and when faced with the prospect of more testimony he killed himself.

That's probably not exactly what happened, but it makes a lot more sense than the conspiracy theories.

The hotel staff literally heard the shot at 9:42 am.

And how do you imagine that hit worked? Can you even contrive a movie scene that doesn't sound ridiculous and needlessly depend on good luck? I mean just go stand in a hotel parking lot, just how sure are you that not only is no one is watching you at that moment, but no one is going to walk to a window or wander around a corner to see what was up with that gunshot they just heard?

Investigate for sure, but people suffering anxiety and PTSD, about to go into court for an extremely stressful deposition sometimes do kill themselves.

Boeing still bears a lot of responsibility for his death as they were literally trying to apply enough pressure to break his spirit so he wouldn't talk. But it's very unlikely they pulled the trigger.

Also, I'm not a professional hitman, but if I were to murder someone and stage it as a suicide, I'd do it at night. I'd fire the gun and slip out the door or window, or I'd maybe even spike their drink if I knew the pharmacology well enough.

I wouldn't shoot them at 9:42am in a hotel parking lot. There's a LOT of ways for someone to see you in that scenario.

Putin's Nuclear policy is very clear. Allow lower level politicians to make big nuclear threats. And even make slightly vague and indirect threats yourself.

But don't say anything that would clearly commit you to using Nukes as part of your conquest of Ukraine (and holding of currently occupied territories) so you don't have to backtrack if things go south.

There's already an app you can use to make consensual nude images, it's called a camera.

If you need generative AI to create the nude then it's non-consensual or a very weird edge case of people making their own fake nudes.

Possibly. But I expect I suspect they can convert existing plants to EV or plug-in hybrids, so this could instead be an indication that they expect sales to grow by 240k vehicles, and all that growth is to be represented by EVs.

In the short term it seems like plug-in hybrids will win the day. For city driving with home charging they're almost as good as an EV (you just need to plug in a bit more). And for highway driving they're as good as an ICE. The full scale EV transition will probably only come when range + charging speed + infrastructure is sufficient so ICE's no longer have a big highway advantage.

Based on what? Musk's tweets?

Waymo and Cruise delivered a self-driving taxi years ahead of Tesla. And among level 2 cars on the consumer market Tesla is only middle of the pack. As for level 3 self-driving consumer cars, there's only one and it isn't Tesla.

Tesla was the first to put it in vehicles, and it's arguably the most aggressive in pushing the tech, but I don't see evidence that they're the best. And honestly, I think the reason is Musk. He's a smart guy, but he doesn't know ML as much as he thinks he does. Basically every researcher in the field thinks LIDAR is the answer, but Elon Musk's liked the idea of CV so Telsa is going CV only. And because LLMs are so successful he thinks he can do the same with self-driving, but neural networks are fundamentally probabilistic, which is fine for writing suggestions but not self-driving.

Just watch this review from a Tesla fan, too close to the curb, too aggressive making a left turn in front of a bus, missed a turn signal, crossed centre line when it didn't need to, waffles coming up to turning lanes, risked getting stuck on the train tracks. And that's in just 7 minutes of driving! You think they're close to full autonomy?

It's far from clear that Musk isn't pushing Tesla into a self-driving dead end.

Tesla is a massive #1 in market cap and a dismal 14th in sales.

Traditional manufacturers have only started showing any interest in BEVs at all in the last couple of years. It's far from clear that Tesla could remain the #1 BEV brand when they start showing interest, it's also far from clear that even if Tesla maintains it's dominance that it justifies it's valuation.

It's more than 10 years ago that Elon Musk predicted that full self-driving was just around the corner. Now that multiple other companies have surpassed Tesla in self-driving tech he's onto Robots as his next pile of magic beans.

Car notorious for big gaps and other manufacturing flaws. Telsa's benefited from selling somewhat sloppy vehicles as luxury vehicles, but that won't sustain when other manufacturers jump into BEVs. And it certainly won't sustain when Musk insists on making himself into an alt-right icon.

As everyone has pointed out the article is click-bait. That "massive loss" is basically the cost of an unscaled R&D project selling only 10k vehicles, it's a completely meaningless number.

Or do you like the methodology and you think the Cybertruck should be evaluated by the same metric?

Citation?

If I lived in an apartment with no charging infrastructure and the need to recharge every 50k then that may be the case.

But if I use at home for commuting? I suspect I wouldn't have an issue plugging it in every couple of days and never worrying about the gas station.

Well damn, I was totally going to buy one before you said that!

I think it may be more the case of a longer transition.

If the hybrid runs on battery 95% of the time then it's more or less all the advantages of the EV but you don't have to worry about charging station availability on long trips.

As some point tech and infrastructure becomes good enough that you can drop the ICE component altogether, but it might be a more gradual transition.

Informative, though it still doesn't give me any faith that people could safely fill their own vehicles (or even rely on a high school kid to do so). You're going to need a responsible employee with some specific training.

Frankly, you've swallowed a fair amount of BS yourself.

They 'evacuated' because it wasn't really part of their vision of Biblical Israel, and it helped split the Palestinian Authority.

They're just removing ethnic Palestinians from their communities in the West Bank (not to mention some literal talk of ethnically cleansing Gaza from Israeli Ministers.

Hamas are definitely bad guys, but that's pretty much what any force does when fighting against a much stronger enemy.

Not anymore, though they might again soon.

Hence the folks complaining about an "open air prison".

You kinda are.

Now to be clear, if you look at things from the Israeli perspective the narrative isn't that bad. Jews were brutally persecuted everywhere they went, they were given a chance to relocate to their ancestral homeland, and they took that opportunity.

The problem is, if you look at things from the Palestinian perspective the narrative isn't that bad either. Palestinians were living as the majority as they had for almost 2000 years, having been promised self-rule for rebelling against the Turks in WWI. Instead Britain allowed a bunch of Jews to immigrate, buy land, and eventually gave them a big chunk of the country. When they fought back the new Jewish state took even more land and at this point seems very determined to eventualy take the whole of Mandatory Palestine.

Yeah, there's a bunch of legitimate grievances on both sides, but the underlying problem is that Western powers screwed up in early 1900s, started giving Jews a claim to someone elses land, and created a situation that is very difficult to deescalate.

True, though it also suggests that the technology is fairly complicated. Traditional gas stations don't have the requirement that you store the gas in ultra-low temperatures. Not only does that create more complicated storage requirements but more complicated mechanism to deal with that temperature gradient when refuelling.

Sure, it probably gets more reliable as the tech improves, but it definitely sounds like there's a safety issue that will require skilled personnel on an ongoing basis.