So, you believe anything el Bunko says? Are you mad? Have you been awake during the last 10 years at all? This is the same guy who claimed the U.S. received $19 Trillion from his tariffs. From https://www.politico.com/inter...

"Tariff revenues have been growing for months, and the latest data shows that the U.S. has collected $221.9 billion from them as of Oct. 27 — $141.1 billion more than the same time last year. But that’s still far short of the $2.4 trillion federal income taxes brought in last year."

The entire U.S. budget for 2024 was roughly $5.8 Trillion. The entire GDP of the U.S. for 2024 was roughly $29 Trillion.

Don't forget he even cheats....at golf. Anecdote paraphrased from a former Sports Illustrated editor's book: Lee Travino was being squired around the clubhouse by la Presidenta. At every new group, la Presidenta would announce what Lee Travino shot. And at every new group the number decreased a bit. Lee Travino commented that he had to leave before he set a new course record.

Yes, and unfortunately it gives the U.S. Junta ideas on how they can get rid of regulations governing ethics on animal testing in the U.S.

Slashdot needs a diversity program to bring in more non-white bigots.

scientists have created monkeys with schizophrenia, autism and sleep disorders.

The Mutant Wet Market will produce something 100x scarier than Covid.

> As people earn more money, you'll see more people wanting cars, air conditioning, etc.

But there can be incentives to keep using public transportation and car pooling.

> They're building up their industry *now*, in an era when it is possible for them to build it cleanly.

As I mentioned elsewhere, they have to rely on coal to a degree because they don't have many oil deposits. During a war or international emergency they could end up fuel starved without coal.

We'd do the same in their position.

"We're the chosen ones, everyone says so, believe me!

Janet Reno, the Enquirer said so!

Car companies forced it on us. Seriously no joke look at the history of car companies. They basically got us all to pay to build the roads needed to use their product while destroying public transportation making us completely dependent on their product.

We all grew up playing with toy cars and surrounded by cars has the most normal thing imaginable but they're one of the most bizarre and aberrant things humanity has ever come up with if you actually can step outside our society and look at them objectively as an outsider. We are literally all traveling in individual multi-ton vehicles that use enormous amounts of energy and fuel and cause a vast number of health, political and social issues that we wallpaper over with externalized costs.

And God help you if you point any of this out.

Why do you believe Waymo will reduce death rate at all?

Because, unlike most humans, they want to and are trying.

And what detrimental effects will that have on traffic?

I don't know, but if you or I were trying to solve the problem, I'm sure we would have plenty of opinions about which convenience-vs-safety tradeoffs are the rights ones.

We can fully eliminate traffic deaths by eliminating traffic

And that convenience-vs-safety tradeoff would have very few advocates, I suspect. Do you think it's a good one?

We know Waymo doesn't give a shit about improving safety, they are interested in getting rich.

Perhaps you or I should hang out with some insurance company nerds, and see what changes they advocate for liability law, to make those two things (safety & getting rich) correlate. I wouldn't be surprised if you already have some ideas, even without the insurance nerds.

billionaires have had it with us peon making decisions. You can have your moral panics and your Thanksgiving rants. Everything else is theirs.

There are so many anecdotes about stupid people taking LLM sentence-completion-predictions seriously that I've literally lost track of which anecdotes involve stupid kids vs which ones involve stupid adults.

Maybe kids aren't really a special case when it comes of memetic defense. Not that they don't need to learn it, but everyone does. There are plenty of 70-year-olds and 40-year-olds who might benefit from the same protections that 10-year-olds would benefit from.

What does the Document Object Model have to do with anything?

They're right.

Over a century ago, people accepted deaths caused by human drivers. If you reduce fatalities, many people will still appreciate that, even if you don't get it down to zero. Everything else is like that. What doesn't have a nonzero death rate?

No, they couldn't because that would make them unplayable. Anything like that goes into the Borked category. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong.