It's remarkable how far behind the US has fallen on renewable tech. There was some movement with solar a decade ago, but now China and Europe are years ahead for solar and wind and battery storage.

Tobacco companies would argue that tobacco products existed before cigarettes and people got lung cancer back then too. Criminal liability doesn't work that way. It's based on the accused not taking reasonable steps to prevent something foreseeable happening.

OpenAI know how ChatGPT is used. They know that young people are talking to it. They know that it sometimes gives very, very bad advice, or is too keen to agree rather than to tell someone they are wrong when they talk about suicidal thoughts or crimes they are contemplating committing. They didn't do enough to stop it.

It's more like cases where cars had deadly faults that the manufacturer knew about and failed to take seriously enough to do anything about.

Taking an encyclopedia as an example, they typically do not give enough detail on certain topics to be criminally negligent. They might describe an explosive, but not how to make it. They might talk about suicide, but not details of methods or how to make them more effective.

Doing so could be criminally negligent if someone used that knowledge to hurt someone or themselves. It is foreseeable that such information is not something that should be given out freely in a book that is likely to be in people's homes, around children.

Same principle as leaving a loaded gun lying around.

Maybe they could turn it on optimizing performance and fixing compatibility issues next.

They seem to want AI in the browser, so here's an idea for free. Have an AI agent that launches when you click a "site is broken" button, and it figures out why it is broken and fixes it in the browser. Bonus points if it can handle privacy enhancing add-ons breaking sites too.

That's why when Israel bombs an apartment building, everyone in it is automatically enrolled in Hamas/Hezbollah first.

This is perhaps the biggest transfer of wealth in American history. Most of those companies will just pocket the refund and no pass any of it on to the consumer. If prices go down at all, they won't be back to pre-tariff levels.

You paid the tariffs, but you ain't getting the refund.

You can do maintenance on EVs too. Lots of people work on older ones themselves. They aren't super complicated, and the level of lockdown is about the same as a fossil - it varies by manufacturer, and generally the more you pay for the car the worse it is.

There is much less maintenance you need to do on an EV anyway. Brake pads last forever, and some need a motor oil change once every 5 years or so. Batteries are good for at least 250k miles, more than even a well maintained petrol engine.

The market for working on them is more mature in some countries, particularly Norway. Even in the US though, it's very doable. Rich Rebuilds on YouTube makes videos about the ones he works on.

Norway has got that way already. It's a pain to go find fuel in a lot of places. Most of the petrol stations have been converted to charging stations.

I see that a lot, e.g. people saying Ukraine should not have given up its weapons. What would Ukraine have done with them? Nuke Moscow, get nuked back, and now everyone is dead and their country is a radioactive wasteland? And that's the best case scenario, where they don't start WW3 and get everywhere nuked.

It would have been the same conventional war that they got without nuclear weapons. You can safely ignore Putin's threats to use them too.

There are two seater sport EVs, you just aren't allowed to buy them.

Maybe Hyundai will do one eventually. Like their sport version of the Ioniq 5, with fake gears and everything. That's not really what I'd call a family car anyway.

I was going to say, they are stretching the definition of "delivered" in that second video. Lobbed on the driveway where it is highly likely to be stolen, perhaps.

Doesn't it screw Amazon? In the UK, it's their problem until you have it in your hands. If it gets stolen, they have to refund or replace it.

That's why I was surprised that eBay started offering a delivery service here. I've had a couple of things arrived damaged with it, and they refunded both me and the seller, and presumably claimed from the courier. But of course, the seller could have just shipped a broken item in the first place.

The current plan is to use SLS and Orion to get to lunar orbit, then transfer to the lander which will make its own way there. Then on the return, go back to to Orion in lunar orbit and head for Earth.

Not so much in the south because it rarely snows enough to be worth it, but up north they do clear footpaths as well.

Japan seems to have a good system where the local government just leaves bags of salt and grit around for local residents and business owners to spread as needed, but of course they wouldn't last 5 minutes here.

Studies have shown that driving ability drops off after so many hours without a break, so for commercial drivers there are strict limits. Many larger commercial vehicles have a device that actually enforces it too, preventing the vehicle being restarted until the driver has had their mandatory break.

We have fewer traffic accidents here.

5 hours motorway is possible in the UK, no problem. Traffic depends on the time of day. At night you can usually cruise uninterrupted. You get cheaper charging too, e.g. Tesla have off-peak rates that I sometimes make use of on the way home.