I think I will cancel a few streaming service and Amazon prime to compensate.

The amount of Trump dick sucking surprises me, too. It certainly felt more intelligent 20 years ago.

Speaking of Trump dick sucking, did you figure out yet if he sucked off a CEO, a president, or a horse yet?

He's just being a typical American MORE BIGGER FASTER tool. I drive an 08 Versa with a 1.8l with 122hp and I have absolutely no problem being one of the fastest people on the road, because even a slow ass car by modern standards can do all the things. I never have trouble getting up to speed on a ramp or whatever.

Putin is so smart he outsourced his destroy America plan to Trump

If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.

I think you’re limited here in that your frame of reference is only what was offered on the US market. Lots of the rest of the world has always had access to fantastic smaller cars, and still does. In the UK, for example, just this last year we’ve had launches of the R5, the Inster, the eC3, the Epiq, with plenty more to come, like the Twingo.

I’d argue that this has less to do with unsuccessful messaging from Biden and more to do with horrendously successful messaging from an unholy alliance of anti-vaxxers, MAGA types, right wing media, etc. Amoral people decided to sow doubt, and it’s a lot easier to break than it is to fix

There is absolutely *no* Alzheimer's medication that can halt a patient's progression in a clinically meaningful way. I love the idea of him clinging to false hope, though, as his mind erodes.

(The best drugs for Alzheimer's are capable of slowing the progression of a single symptom, memory loss, by six months. So if he started on them at 78, then by age 83, he'll have the memory he would otherwise have had at age 82.5. The effect is so small it can only be detected in population studies. There's lots of trials, but there's also lots of grandiose claims that never go anywhere)

The article doesn't say anything about heat absorption. I wonder if the fabric traps most of the heat associated with the light as well? I'm assuming it would.

Well, the energy absorbed by the fabric has to go somewhere - typically it's converted to heat. Granted, it could be highly reflective elsewhere in the spectrum - like it could take that energy and convert it to IR light so it doesn't get hot.

The bigger issue is physical releases. Netflix has a policy of no physical releases of their content. It's why many directors have stopped working for Netflix - they don't want to see their work "locked up" and unable to be enjoyed by people without a subscription. Maybe the odd director can enjoy a theatrical release but only because it's required for award consideration.

Also means that no movie is static and can be edited freely, like Amazon has with the James Bond movies. (Admittedly they are a product of their time, and if you didn't take that to account, they play completely differently now without the historical context. But still offensive or not, it's needed to study the historical context of the movie, not some cleaned up version that you can only get on physical media).

Radiology, like other medical specialties is more akin to a medieval guild.
If it really was a free market, we'd already be sending all our scan off to India for reading, instead of importing their doctors.
A radiology nurse can go into business using AI to read scans.

Who controls the market? Who grants entry? The radiologist guild. They have incredible political power.
OTOH, the future does not look so bright for Uber drivers.

Long ago when Quicktime was dying because Apple abandoned it in the 2000s; the developer list had an email asking opinions about open sourcing quicktime. Apple should have open sourced most of it. MKV didn't need to happen. I certainly liked the ability to have reference movies that just worked and took no space.

MKV did need to happen. MKV is a free and open container format, made in a way that ensures it tramples on no one's rights (e.g., the lack of FourCC codes for identifiers).

MOV is still wildly popular in industry, and subsets of it are part of the MPEG4 standard - the MP4 file format is a subset (basically limiting what an MP4 file can contain since it's only really for h.264 video and a few audio formats).

We should ensure his fat ass is hauled in one in the not soon enough state funeral

Of course, users have no assurance that an LLM is "confessing" to every lie or hallucination. But it will 'fess up often enough to foster habitual and reflexive trust. That misplaced trust is already a big problem for society, and having more of it is a very bad idea.

I predict that increased trust will make users even less critical of AI than they are of social media content. AI will become a bigger, more effective propaganda generator. It will be used to shape public opinion, convincing citizens to vote against their own best interests.

Rolling back emissions standards one day and then calling for small fuel efficient cars the next doesn't make much sense.