Like many of us he's enamored with the fictional tech from Star Trek that portrays talking to an intelligent computer and seems like a great idea on screen at least. So futuristic. Computer, please reconfigure my warp core for more power. Done. Best idea ever.

That and touch panels everywhere! Works so well on a star ship, why not put them in our cars?

Never mind that copilot, like all LLMs, confidently lies. And "super smart" really means it reads rubbish posted on the internet and pretends it is accurate and truth. There's no way it can be super smart because it was trained on all our data! At best it's average smart. And we want copilot actually in control of our computers? No thank you. I find it mind blowing he would think giving copilot agents physical control over a PC is a good idea.

Anyway, Star Trek has a lot to answer for!

It depends on the precise definition. But teleportation of sizeable objects is probably impossible. In the use of the term in quantum experiments it means something like "moving the state of one particle to the state of another without determining what the state is that you moved". And it's "moved" rather than communicating because the residual state has been changed. I.e., for a macroscopic analogy, if I "communicate" something to you, it doesn't make me forget it, but if I teleport (say a book) to you, I no longer have it.

Yeah, the word was chosen because it sounded catchy, but it *does* describe a legitimate effect that has no macroscopic counterpart.

Sigh. Nevermind. Nothing to see here. Move along Stupid Google keyboard fails yet again.

Yet another Obama executive order. So wrong. Oh wait, what's that? It's out guy? Never mind. Carry on. States rights? Never heard of them.

Open a porn site in Florida or Alabama, this is already and always has been happening. If we want to upend that precedent I'm not opposed but it is precedent already.

Nope. European long haul truckers driver every bit as far as American ones do. Thousands of km. Do you understand how vast Europe really is? Watch s few of electric trucker's videos. He did a 5000 km trip recently.

Federally managed mean "Congress passes laws" not an Executive Order.

Your representatives are there to represent the interests of the states in the Federal government.

Online vendors already have to work in that type of framework, different states have different taxes, different warranty laws, different regulations. Also making AI harder to sell is half the argument, maybe theres a good reason to make it harder

I'm sorry which party cut Medicare this year? Which party voted against school lunches? Which party is suing Tylenol? Which party decided on Biden's arrival in 2021 that the shots Trump (to his and Pences credit which Biden gave them in Dec 2020 and afterwards many times) were not bad?

Come on guy there's no way to both sides this, you don't have to do this.

It could, that's on you to make that argument not just speculate. It's not as though these countries don't also have vaccination schedules if you're born in Mexico you get a similar set of shots as you would in America. The entire world has access to these. Also if this was the case why wouldn't we be seeing similar outbreaks inside all these countries if everyone is just walking around unvaccinated. Why is it so concentrated in US/Ca/UK?

Quick to assume other nations are the savages but what if we actually are in our privileged hubris to second guess things other folks with less means would look at as an actual obvious thing. It's a position of wealth to say "fuck it, maybe diseases arent real after all"

Oh, of course how could i possibly forget, there's always a way for the liberals to be at fault. The President has no independent agency, we can, nay must, only judge him through the lens of his opposition (since we've already preloaded the idea they are just nutters to not be taken seriously). That whole measles thing in Samoa? Wasn't measles it was TDS!

Andrew Wakefield, the demon himself said Trump was "on our side" back in 2016.

Eh, I don't buy this was some inevitable thing or one regard as president means we have to discard the very good concept.

The first precedent on if vaccination could be compelled was 1905 and unofficially even before then. It has never been an issue until this guy, we just might have to learn a hard lesson for it to sink in again.

Without "government dictate" smallpox would still be a thing.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another." --Malcolm Reynolds

(Ironically applies well to Joss Whedon himself. Kind of wonder if one of the show writers was thinking about Joss when they wrote that...)

The only single-source point of failure is me.

Oh and I should add the electric trucks he's driving are the equivalent of our north American class 8 trucks. 40 tonnes GVW (with a few extra tonnes allowed for batteries), so the same as most long-haul box trailer trucks. His trucks are 400-600 kwh depending on the model, and he averages around or just under 1 kwh/km. Charging takes 45 minutes or more, which he does during his mandatory breaks. And often charges overnight. Lots of things I'd never think of such as the fact the fuller the battery the less regen it can do. So it's better to have larger batteries that have less usable watt hours so they can soak up the extra during braking.

The article did not say what types of trucks they were talking about in China. I imagine it's everything from single-axle delivery vans to articulated lorries as they say. Some companies are talking about megawatt charging, so that's a lot of electricity to deliver to the various charging stations. One short-term way to address this problem is to deploy charging stations with built-in batteries which can be charged slowly when the charger is not in use, and then deliver power more rapidly to the trucks or cars. Would be ideal for North America to bring chargers to more places.

If you want a picture of how electric trucks can work when there's some infrastructure, watch some of YouTuber "Electric Trucker" videos. He's doing long haul trucking with electric. All across Europe and up to the UK and even to central Turkey. Fascinating. To head off the comments about how the US is so vast compared to Europe I should say this guy drives up to 800 km a day and one of his longest trips was 5000km. So definitely comparable to the longest distances trucks drive in the US. Obviously a difference is the population is more dense so there's more infrastructure. But very interesting and as someone with a commercial license I'm a little jealous of those trucks. Smooth constant power with Regen makes for a great experience.

It's interesting to see how this will work out for lots of places in China.