But also Chinese LIDAR companies made rapid advances, especially when it comes to cost reduction and software that mitigates the slightly less capable hardware. It's still not clear how LIDAR will feature in self driving cars, but it looks like the low cost systems will probably be part of the solution.

There used to be, then the EU rule came in, but with an exception for special purpose vacuums.

You don't fear the Soviets you love them. The Soviets are the friend of the right wing because the Soviets weren't Communists they were oligarchs and right wingers and you love them.

That's why you can have Daddy Trump fucking kids and doing whatever the fuck Putin says and just loving every moment of it.

The US Republican party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the KGB and Soviet Russia under a different brand name. You're not fooling anyone. Go back to worshiping your kiddy fucker.

Did it take to get that nonsense modded up to +4.

It's impossible to have conversations with the right wing because the right wing never does anything in good faith. The second you do anything in good faith on the right wing you stop being on the right wing.

The right wing is about obedience. You obey the people above you on the chain and you get obedience from the people below you. That's why it appeals to so many people. For some they are cowards that want order and want to feel like somebody is in charge and for a lot of them they are losers who desperately crave respect but are incapable of doing anything worthy of it.

And that's why the right wing will always support kiddy fuckers. So long as those pedophiles are above them on the chain they are unquestionable and can do no wrong. And Trump is at the absolute top of the right wing chain. So he can go around fucking kids and still get solid support from 1/3 of the country.

Meanwhile foreign nations are using the destructiveness of right-wing politics and economics to obliterate America.

Honestly I think those foreign nations are being stupid. They do not understand how crazy and dumb Americans are and they haven't realized that although we may be destroying our economy we aren't doing the same to our military. Sooner or later we're going to hand nuclear launch codes to religious lunatics and then it's game over.

But in the meantime you'll be able to say the n word in public and get away with it and people will tell you Merry Christmas and you won't have to look at trans girls except when you're masturbating.

I saw Google and Plus together and got momentarily excited. :-D

Oligarchs and billionaires do.

Getting worried about government is like getting worried about a hammer. I'm not worried about the hammer I'm worried about the psychopath bashing my head in with it.

What's funny is the same people who tell me gun control is bad also tell me that we should ban hammers.

For the depressingly large number of people who don't get the analogy see, government is the hammer here and conservatives demand we eliminate government without understanding that is both impossible and leaves a giant power vacuum that billionaires are very happy to exploit.

You've got Google you could leave your bubble anytime you want. You could for example use Google to find multiple news stories and lots of direct evidence of exactly what I described. You could find lots more direct evidence of right wing media being inorganic and billionaire backed too if you care to leave your bubble.

But golly gosh gee isn't it comfortable there?

I mean until it's not. The other thing the internet outside your bubble is full of is people who are just fucked eight ways from Sunday because of right-wing trickle down economics.

If you're old enough you will die before it hits you. Good luck.

Seen this sort of thing happen before. They will wait a few years and then release a new truck, that is a rebadged Chinese model.

When this bullshit crashes the economy. Unlike the 2008 market crash the upcoming grifter crash is going to have no floor because there's no actual assets behind it except your 401k.

There's only so much money laundering can do. A recent study found. Since 1975 80 trillion dollars has been moved to the top. So consumers are not going to be able to weather this. Especially with the collusion going on for rent that was just starting to get eliminated before the administrative change.

I think the problem is we have too many old people who think they are insulated from this. By the time they find out they aren't it'll be too late.

I think you're wrong. I think the U.S. government has too much incentive to bail them out again no matter how badly they tank.

But you're not wrong about Ford being the least likely to survive the next ten years without massive government bailouts. IMO, Ford has never made good cars by any reasonable standard, giving rise to jokes all the way back in the late 1980s of Ford standing for "Found On the Road Dead" or "Fell Off the Road Dead", and I've seen no evidence that they have gotten much better since.

By someone legitimate, or by someone looking to get page hits?

Oh, Consumer Reports... the same company that has pretty much been dumping on Tesla for many years, and whose criticisms have been widely ridiculed by actual Tesla owners.

You've never used it. The Roblox FUD has to stop. It's a simple gaming platform that makes it very easy for amateurs to clone and customize existing games. Most of the games suck, a few are fun, but it's mostly mindless fun teens and pre-teens. This was a simple power move to cut off American soft power. American teenagers make fun low-effort games that you get to play for free because you're Russian and broke. It's no more social media than Halo, Fortnite, or Steam. You can see your friends online and chat with them, but it's focused on simple games.

I think a difference between Roblox and everything else is 2-fold:

1. It's popular among girls and boys, whereas Fortnite, Call of Duty and Halo are sausagefests.
2. It's not designed to be a social media site, like Twitter or Facebook. It's not designed for politics, just playing obbys and various clones of about 5 game types. Most of the games the kids go nuts for have absolutely not point...I don't get it, but I'm old.

It's common sense when your dictator leader bans news and sharing platforms. When he goes after mindless children's games, it's kinda shitty and rubs you the wrong way. Yeah, you know you can't go on a site that bashes him...but one that lets you adopt pets and survive 99 nights in a deer infested forest? WTF? What are the rules now? You can get why Twitter is banned, but not why "Steal a Brainrot" is.

Twitter isn't fun. It's not entertainment. Roblox is. Part of a successful dictatorship is your subjects knowing the rules and being able to follow them. Most can tolerate an authoritarian if they know how to avoid his wrath....especially Russians who are very used to authoritarianism. But when your dictator is unpredictable, it's very scary.

When you suggested this cyber truck was better than literally any product. Those fake leather boots being sold on YouTube or a better product than the cybertruck.

The problem with electric trucks is the range when fully loaded. I think that they would be useful for municipalities that need a work truck that putts is around fixing a few things but if you're actually going to haul things in it the range drops to about 100 to 150 miles before you need to charge and the people I know that drive around a lot in a truck do about 300 in a day.

The cybertruck is too unreliable to be used for any of that though. It's the ultimate pavement princess.

I've heard that the rivian is okay but it's kind of expensive and it's a smaller truck than the F-150 lightning.

All that said most of the people I've seen online who own one bought it for a pavement princess. I haven't seen a lot of people buying electric trucks as work trucks. I think if they could get the rain shop another 30 or 40, maybe 50% then the electricity versus gas would bring people in.

When it comes to work trucks I can tell you that people are going to go have the best for their pocketbook

THE SYSTEM IS BORKED! You can't reform / repair a problem in a foobar system without it making worse

Disappointed there is no funny here. At least someone could have posted a link to their favorite video of a cat riding a Roomba. Or some story about the funniest thing their Roomba has eaten? Or maybe an AI joke about Grok hacking into and taking over all of the Internet-connected robot vacuum cleaners?