If we could snap our fingers and convert every has engine to electric the country would grind to a halt. Imagine if there were 100x fewer gas stations (that's generous), and it took 10x as long to fill your tank.

Get a charging station at home right? What about the huge number of people that live in apts or otherwise rent and that's not an option? If you have station at your apt, you're still going to have the nightmare of shuffling your car around with every single other person at the complex.

Guaranteed, in 15 years your EV is a junker when the batteries need replacement and it costs more than the car is worth to replace (and dispose of) them. Most gas engines wear out in that time too, but they can be rebuilt in most cases for much less.

EVs are better for the environment, but it's not like they are clean either. Mining the materials for batteries is devastating. Like oil, the raw materials for batteries are often from conflict regions. Don't like wars over oil? Do you like wars over lithium? The electricity to charge isn't brought into existence by a magical fairy. Most likely it's coming from a coal-fired plant.

Of course all of this can be improved, but we aren't there yet, and it's going to be hard.

True, but class action lawsuits benefit the corporation. They end up paying much less than they would if they had to deal with each litigant separately.

There's no good answer it's just stacked against the little guy.

And she's going to make millions telling her story of racism on the speaker circuit. And she's going to make millions more writing a book. At the end of the day, they probably did her a favor by ousting her.

That seems bold. In 6 billion people (or 360 million Americans if that's what you're talking about), nobody has those characteristics? We can probably agree Trump nor Biden has them though.

Agreed. The fun is imagining some fraction of readers out there thinking "is this guy serious?!?".

PS you spelt "humor" wrong.

You starting to see that belittling people you're having a conversation with is counterproductive?

You didn't just have reveal some fact that nobody had thought of before. We can comprehend that the population of the earth is large, and the number of politicians traveling to Madrid is relatively small.

Oh yes, the only possible way. Huh. Zoom? It's not as good as in-person, but please, if folks actually wanted to make progress on the issues they could over video conference. The rest of the world did it for 2 years, but these folks are special where they need to travel on private jets to the most lavish metropolitan centers in the world and stay in the most posh hotels to be productive? Nope.

People don't like hypocrites. You aren't getting around that no matter how much of your "math" you throw at people.

Excellent point. By that logic there's certainly no reason for me to do anything at all in my life to curb carbon emissions, because my contribution is statistically zero when looking at global emissions as a whole.

Anyway, the issue is (also) perception. When you're trying to convince Joe Blow to take the bus instead of drive, and he sees these fat cats in top hats and monocles riding around on private jets smoking cigars and drinking their brandy, it's a hard sell.

Never miss the chance to follow up your argument with a smart ass comment!

And what's that got to do with the feature only being for the "literacy challenged" as you stated? You changed your argument in the middle of the discussion from "this is for stupid people" to "this is no good because google sucks".

You've successfully invoked the "yeah but still" method to win an argument.

You: only illiterate people need this feature.
Other person: it's used for things like images.
You: Yeah but still, but Google isn't good.

You're right, it's great.

Seriously though I, and I assume many others, use it every day many times for researching professional tasks and it works. If you search for "cute bunny slippers" yes expect to get product offerings. This is the compromise of capitalism. It's better than searching for "cute bunny slippers" and ending up in the Dear Leader's work camp.

Here you go:

It's pretty simple. She failed to denounce genocide against Jews. I wouldn't call that weak, but okay.

The board of Harvard unanimously voted support for her after the initial allegations.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12...

She's still a tenured professor, and she's going to make millions writing a book and giving talks about she was ousted from her position because of racism. She's a celebrity to the academic elite.

One did. All of the Harvard board of directors that supported her statements are just fine.

That's telling. Home feels like it's been on life support for many years now. This is probably the first step towards discontinuing the product. You'd think that Home would an excellent platform to sell their AI platform.

Like starting a stopwatch? How hard could it be? The list of removed features https://support.google.com/ass... includes several things I used.

They recently removed one of my most used features: the ability to turn on a controlled device for a limited amount of time ("ok google turn on the light for an hour"). My guess is that some lawyer didn't want them getting sued for leaving a toaster on and burning down the house. Who knows though. The magic comes from being able to speak normally to these devices and have them understand the task. Instead it's becoming "know the 10 secret incantations".

The feature set of home devices has been stagnant for 5 years. They haven't gotten better at answering queries. They haven't improved support for controlled devices. The voice recognition hasn't improved. Seems like the product line is on life support... but you'd really think with all the AI initiatives, Home would be an amazing way to sell it to people. However, no Bard / AI features have come to Home.