AI is some sort of technology, whoever develops this technology better wins something supposedly. Governments have nothing to do with this, technology doesn't belong to the governments.

we are talking about different things. You are talking about class division, all of this, I am talking about a person who does not have to work and yet he does it because he wants to, yes, but personally for him there is nothing to be gained except more headache, it is not about earning more, it is about doing something with yourself.

I am saying that doing something is an important part of living, doing something useful, where you feel useful, this is what this example shows.

Certainly, if you worked as an office cleaner most of your life, probably you will not be missing that work if you were able to get a pension and stop working, but I think you will still be missing the entire aspect of being useful in a wider sense of the word.

I think what makes us people is desire to be useful, doesn't matter how much money you make. I think people who do not have that desire are actually less than developed people.

My point is that a guy with all the money still chooses to do it, shows that people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

Just shows that there is no amount of money that replaces some sort of meaning in one's life. Bezos will treat any business correctly, obviously he will be looking for maximum efficiency, which is not easy to do when you are a billionaire, after all, any issues that can be sold by throwing money at it he can really solve this way, which may be the wrong approach for a new business that needs to become useful by standing on its own 2 legs.

But it is just interesting to observe, a guy with all the money and access, he still wants to spend time working rather than enjoying yet another sunny day on one of his yachts.

Soap itself does a good enough job of killing not just bacteria, but any kind of germs really. No need even for alcohol.

People were not born voluntarily, once alive we mostly don't die voluntarily. We won't stop voluntarily because it would be akin to dying voluntarily. We have to accept the fact that we are not in fact the Borg, we don't have one hive mind.

And she chose to spend the money, as another put it, on Someone Else's BMW a.k.a. a charity/church.

Don't vote her in. She's the same as the one you have now, only she makes up in stupidity for what she lacks in malice.

How about you wake up now?

Justice or not, China is pretty much doing its homework and then some, on renewable energy and CO2 reduction.

"These people" are just anyone on a bad day. People make random mistakes when they do anything enough times.

I've had it happen. I was sitting weird and my foot just missed. You do these motions millions of times without thinking about it, so in that one-in-a-million case where something doesn't line up right, you get a very disorienting "why won't it slow down" feeling, and it's easy to panic. Your muscle memory instinctively pushes the "brake" harder to compensate, but it's actually the accelerator. It takes a moment for your brain to diagnose the situation and correct.

No harm done in my case: average car, open road, healthy and alert so I figured it out within a second. If I was in a Tesla Plaid, in a congested area, tired and distracted, I would have put it through a store window.

It was an eye-opening experience.

Right? :-) I had to double check I didn't accidentally land on Reddit...

Driving my car to someone else's to-do list also doesn't equal free time. Whether they'll offer latte or not is up to them. Reimbursement of vehicle expenses wpuld actually be nice & fittig, but I actually aleays imagined it would be part of the travel compensation. (Per-km or per hour... it's all this same as long as it comes out to cover what needs to b covered.)

And between you and me? It's not about the typing of numbers or the spreadsheet; a trained monkey can type numbers - in a spreadsheet too, if it's well trained.

It's about which numbers to type.

I sure as hell ain't cooking, sleeping, bringing my kids to soccer training, doing laundry, enjoying my hobbies or whatever "spare time" activities I'm into.

Ikea furniture was cheap when they hit the market. Today it's expensive, amd doesn't have any wood except for 2" x2" piece where the screws go in. I'm actually building my own kitchen right now, out of aluminum and full wood, cheaper than Ikea sells their cardboard ones.

Car quality, in.particular on ICEs, peaked 25 years ago. Except for US cars, they stayed crappy all along. Yet prices, compared to income, are now double that.

Planes have a lot more seats, less space now. Like A LOT.

It used to be that Siemens/Bosh appliance hold 10 years, Miele 20, nonames 5-10. Now Miele is down to about 10, and I haven't had a Bosch/Siemens dishwasher that survived 5 years in more than a decade (yes, I've had 3).

And don't het me started on food. I've actually started growing my own, or buying home.grown and maming my own pickles.

TFA is about EVs, and the discussion thread about (lack of) merit of European EVs opposed to Chinese ones.

Just a few points: Dacia Spring is a security nightmare, too.

And cars today are actually simpler to.build, in particular EVs. Technology is more complex, but it doesn't need to b more.complicated. It's just made that way by the manufacturer's attempt to monetize on the driver, not just the car sale.

Also hybrids are the worst of both worlds. They're terribly complex beasts, and if you agree that car manufacturers fucked their clients with ever crappier and defect prone cars the past 20 years, then you know why you absolutely want to avoid hybrids after the warranty time is over.