No, it's the fact that EVs are a solution in search of a problem. For most normal people, an ICE car will do, especially when used ones are more economical.

Nobody but political ideologues and tech bros asked for EVs, and their recent success is entirely due to tax subsidies, rather than market competition: if anything EVs are more expensive and less practical than an ICE car: a toy for the affluent who can use them to signal their virtue.

Is it any wonder that the general public said "no thanks!"?

IN '21-'23 the NBT was the "Metaverse"...

To the extent that Facebook re-named itself "Meta" and they even released commercials on how the Oculus was the future of office work.
"Sure, we're making all our employees be physically sitting at a cubicle, in an office building, but these shitty goggles are the future of office work!"

Meta thus spent over 100 billion dollars on the "metaverse". a year later, after the release of ChatGPT, Meta threw the "metaverse" in the garbage and now the future of everything is LLMs, somehow.

So where was the EU when Spain and Greece needed them in 2009?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"There's a much stronger patriotic underpinning than I think people give Silicon Valley credit for," he said.

But also the money!

Everyone on 4chan is "Anonymous" and even with IP addresses you still have to go to an ISP to get identifying details, and they won't divulge anything without a search warrant.

Most software development is done by ultra-remote workers in India.
Good luck getting them to come in to your office 3 days a week!
But somehow execs are rewarded for using those remote workers?!

"Many Nuclear experts believe the radiation in the Soviet city of Chernobyl, originated naturally, possibly from underground sources, or a meteor impact recorded on the night of April 26. 1986".

-Hmm, wasn't there a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, could a man-made disaster there be the source of the radiation?

"That is a racist conspiracy theory touted by the anti-Soviet Regan administration!"

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And yet believing Chernobyl was a natural event requires the same level of credulity to think that Sars-COV-2 was a zoonotic event, notwithstanding the virology lab a few miles away with a documented grant proposal for testing the very type of virus that caused the pandemic.

Especially when you would need the mutation to take place in 2 separate animal species, and then several times within a human population all in the course of a few months

That's a complete misunderstanding of "AIs" (really language learning models). They don't "evolve". The engineers merely add more hardware and/or tweak the algorithms, often with other priorities than the strength of the model. The models are not responding to any kind of "evolutionary" pressure. If anything they develop in an opposite manner. AI companies introduce more artificial inefficiencies as they respond to market concerns, public pressure, publicity, etc.

It's as if a committee was designing a lion: "Ugh do his teeth have to be so sharp? Let's make him pink for Pride month!"

You get the idea.

Whereas mental illnesses in humans is due to an accumulation of genetic mistakes, environmental factors, etc.

Honestly, the compiler will make better optimizations 90 times out of 100.

"And we're no major entry point for criminals"

Wasn't an Isis member recently found living in Canada with Canadian citizenship? Not to mention the vast criminal car theft rings...

> It will be harder to engineer a crisis up here,

There are already at least 2 Canadian provinces that have a very real possibility of seceding from the "post-national" state in the near future: Quebec and Alberta.

Ironically much more than say California leaving the US.

But somehow it's "harder" to engineer a crisis there?

Add to these production deficiencies the fact that the content produced by these streaming studios is entirely divorced from the need to make money.
Amazon, Apple, Netflix, etc is perfectly happy to loose hundreds of millions of dollars on a franchise as long as the mid-level executives can point to some intangible rise in subscriptions or some positive insider reviews.

Oh my God, are you like, psychic?!

No. This requirement has the appearance of confirming eligibility but it's quite deceptive.
Anyone can come up with Venmo receipts totaling $1500 in the course of a year.
They'll accept a letter from a roommate stating that you lived there for however many months you need to be a "NYC Resident", etc, etc.

This is purposefully designed to make it easy for the type of people who are doordash drivers to get access to the program.
Again, just wait until these trade-in bikes are on ebay.

What if time exists because it is a necessary component of the simulation? They just need a way to stop everything from happening all at once, so it appears to us as if there is cause and effect but all the events in the universe have already been programmed.