It's not that life is improbable, it's that the first mover has too big of an advantage. Darwin famously said something about if new life emerged today from "primordial soup", it would just get eaten before it even had a chance.

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What happens when all car manufacturers are displaying ads?

It's spreading...I just read something or maybe I saw it reported on YouTube...about Jeep doing this very same type thing....advertising something, I forgot exactly what it was...but was very similar to this.

For some things you don't even need ChatGPT. If you're having the flu, it would be really nice if you just call the doctor to get the prescription instead of having to pay a visit where the doctors says "Yeah here is the prescription, bye and come back if it doesn't get better". Sometimes you really don't need a long diagnosis.

What meds for the flu?

I mean, there is Tamiflu (sp?)...but that's really only effective if you catch it at the beginning.....but the best diagnosis is generally, treat the symptoms, plenty of fluids, rest and let it run its course...

Flu is viral....so NO ANTI-BIOTICS....no matter how much the patient bitches and asks for them....

In the USA car companies are bribing politicians to keep fuel economy standards low because they do not want to spend money on R&D. Meanwhile the Chinese car makers are designing dark factories that crank out electric cars that are better and less expensive than anything made in the USA. Ten years from now there are going to be Chinese factories in the USA cranking out amazing cars. And it is going to be a bloodbath for the companies that want to keep living in the past.

Those cheap Chinese EVs aren't going to do a damned bit of good for the at least 1/3+ of US citizens that have no way to charge at home.

Unless you live on one of the extremes coasts, there just is not sufficient public charging infrastructure......hence, there's not likely to be much more EV demand in the US than there is now for the most part.

People largely don't want them....the ones that do, have them already.

Sure, low cost will win a lot of people over, BUT that hits a brick wall when you can't charge the damned things at home and they don't fit within your lifestyle .....

Why the fuck would you change his job title like that?

Just how many innocent mice were killed and autopsied for this "research", just so wags could make jokes on social media?

What are "wags"?

Hell, my thought was,...MAYBE, we'll see the same effects of blue and green hair dye....and pretty soon, all the wailing far leftist protesters and complainers on TikTok will just basically dye, pierce and tattoo themselves out of the gene pool and we can maybe get back to a bit more normal like the days I grew up in .....

They did this by restricting new house building to push the value of their homes up.

I don't get this where you and other post this......I see new houses and neighborhoods being built up ALL over the places I live and visit here in the US.

There is a fuck ton of land around and people are building houses in masses.....

the US is HUGE...maybe you need to get out a bit and travel outside your 20 mile circle you currently burrow down into.....?

just remember that fully one third of Americans do not have a license,

I have to seriously question this stat you put up....especially if you are talking about real American Citizens....

But even so, not having a license doesn't necessarily keep one from driving....

We have a LOT of folks in the US without a lot of proper documentation or licensing driving around these days....

This is a guess but it's based on how people were when I was in college. The market for these would be people who occasionally need a car for something where they cannot borrow one or where they cannot get a friend to provide a lift.

Strange...everyone I knew HAD their own cars in college.....??

I'm talking very much low to middle middle class folks.....and this was decades back too....

That's what it looks to boomers. Who knows what it looks like to zoomers?
Between 60 and 99 - I only want to see green faded-ass anchors aways and mermaids with titties out.
Between 50 and 60 - Chinese Symbols are ok, Anchors or titty mermaids are "Oh god, Dad!"
Between 40 and 50 - Full sleeves or blackouts are cool, Chinese Symbols are trying too hard
Between 30 and 40 - Full sleeves and blackouts are eww, gross. Full body snakes are TDF
Between 20 and 30 - I'm guessing the only acceptable tats are skibidi toiilets and minecraft.

For being a Bad Mother Fucker.

People are modding me flamebait for this comment, which is interesting. Maybe rightfully so, maybe pointing out death tolls is inconsiderate to people who would prefer to ignore them. Whether you're pro USAID cuts or against them though, you are simply lying to yourselves if you think there isn't a real human cost to this issue that's being measured in the millions of lives that are being lost and the even more that are being projected to be lost.

And Elon is the beating heart of that entire operation. It *will* reach 15M lives by 2050. Elon is the Anti-Bill Gates. He's seeking to do active harm.

And I cannot lie.

The USAID cut related death toll is already up to 500k+, mostly children. If Elon isn't losing sleep already then I can't even imagine what would give him pause.