EVs do not fast charge in neighbourhood corners. You're applying gasoline vehicle level thinking to a car that doesn't depend on being filled with gasoline. EVs have fast charging and destination charging. Your neighbourhood falls under the latter, slow L2 chargers. Fast chargers will only ever exist in arterials because no one actually would use an EV fast charger in a neighbourhood when they can plug into a normal charger for 1/4 of the cost.

The only douchebag factor for EVs was the people who considered EV drivers douchebags for daring to not have interests in the same luddite approach as them.

The average car spends 12 minutes on a petrol station forecourt. (I was part of a team which analysed the behaviour of some >2000 highway service stations based on camera footage. We tracked the time a license plate was at a stop. 7 minute is a irrelevant target by people who have not looked at actual human behaviour. There's no need to charge that fast. Road trips are not about filling up as fast as possible and racing back on the highway to set travel speed records. They are about filling up, getting out, going and getting some chips and a coffee, taking a piss, and then slowly going about your way.

I have a car that is well and truly generations behind in charging speed. Yet I can already fill up from 20-80% in the time it takes to go buy and drink a coffee (people who eat and drink in their cars are gross and a danger to others on the highway). The current generation of EVs already both charge 20-80% faster than needed for a typical highway stop, AND are able to drive longer distances than safe to do so between highway stops (if you think you're not impaired after 2 hours of continuous driving then I've got a wonderful theory for you to read about over estimating your capability, you are probably one of those 95% of drivers who think they are above average).

We are spending way too much time addressing unrealistic irrelevant concerns.

Most of the deaths are explainable.

• Amy Catherine Eskridge died by suicide in 2022. The cause of death was a single gunshot to the head. Her activities leading up to her death are suggestive of mental health struggles, though they're used by some people as evidence of a conspiracy leading to her death.
• Michael David Hicks died in June 2023, age 59. He worked at JPL on comet and asteroid missions. No cause of death was released.
• Frank Maiwald died in July 2024, age 61. He worked at JPL on planetary missions. No cause of death was released.
• Anthony Chavez has been missing since May 2025. He was 78 when he disappeared. He left his wallet, keys, and cigarettes on a table at home, a common action right before a suicide.
• Melissa Casias has been missing since June 2025. She was an administrative worker at Los Alamos and held no security clearance. She was last seen walking down a street. She had left her keys, wallet, purse, and both work and personal phones at home after telling colleagues that she was going to work from home. Shoes similar to those she was wearing were recently found in a nearby forest. This also lines up with a possible suicide.
• Monica Reza has been missing since June 2025. She worked at JPL in California, and went missing during a hiking trip. Her hiking companion said she was there one minute and gone the next. A fall is a much more likely event than an abduction.
• Steven Garcia has been missing since August 2025. He worked at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque. He was last seen walking away from his phone carrying a gun and had left behind his wallet, phone, and keys. As with others above, this is a common behavior of suicidal people.
• Nuno Lureiro was killed on his doorstep by the Brown University shooter in December 2025. Motive hasn't been established, but the shooter left a recording that he had planned both shootings for years.
• Jason Thomas went missing in December 2025 for three months before his body was found in March 2026. He was last seen walking along railroad tracks, another frequent precursor for suicides. A cause of death doesn't seem to have been released so far, but law enforcement said that they don't suspect foul play.
• Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland has been missing since February 2026. He was last seen on a neighborhood surveillance camera with hiking boots and a .38 revolver. He had left behind his wallet, phone, and wearable devices. Many suicides start the same way.
• Carl Johann Grillmair was killed at his home in February 2026. He was a prominent astronomer and astrophysicist. A suspect has been arrested and has been charged in his murder, which may have happened after an argument.

One suicide (Eskridge), one likely suicide (McCasland), four possible suicides (Chavez, Casias, Garcia, and Thomas), two murders (Lureiro and Grillmair), two other deaths (Hicks and Maiwald), and one missing (Reza). Neither of the murders are linked. Reza may have simply fallen while hiking and been severely injured or killed. The two other deaths were both in the age range where sudden deaths start to become unfortunately common.

Applying the court outcomes from a published fixed text, to the use of a tool (especially one which has been repeatedly been treated differently by the courts) is nonsensical. As dumb as the idea is that corporations are people, hammers are not. Why would the first amendment apply to a hammer?

That is just a load of rubbish. There's a world of smart people building on the work of others at all times in all technological developments. The companies like OpenAI aren't just feeding a 10 year old equation endless data, they literally employ hundreds of the brightest minds in the field, have more PhDs on floor than the Nobel prize convention, and spend in some cases 7 figure salaries on having smart people modifying and building upon the base that you built.

Just because one engineer invented cement doesn't mean that they are solely responsible for the infrastructure of the world.

Well, first of all, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and carbon makes up something like 0.5% of the total observed mass of the universe (it's the fourth most common element), so along with other trace elements like sodium, phosphorus and the like, we're simply looking for places where there is sufficient energy to create the necessary reactions to produce organic compounds. No lack of energetic sources, in particular stellar system formation. Indeed many comets and asteroids host a lot of precursors, indicating that some fairly sophisticated organic chemistry was going on early in the solar system's development.

Panspermia would require that life itself was raining down on the terrestrial planets. Precursors would simply indicate there were a lot of strange and complex organic compounds falling on to the surfaces of planets like Earth, Mars and Venus, and were also likely constituents of bodies like Europa and Titan (well, we know Titan is covered in a literal hydrocarbon stew). What this discovery indicates, at the very least, is there was indeed a lot of organic compound in the early solar system and these organic compounds, at least on Earth, led to abiogenesis. Panspermia would advocate abiogenesis happened at some undetermined point further back.

If we find other life in the solar system, such as in Europa's or Ganymede's oceans, and it has DNA or some very close relative, with similar translation and transcription systems as we find in archaea and bacteria on Earth, then that would be a very strong argument that life in the solar system had a common origin. If however, there is no clear relationship between the two populations; say, they use something similar to DNA, but the genetic codes are different (all extant life on Earth uses the same canonical genetic code mapping codons to amino acids, strongly suggested the canonical code evolved prior to the Last Universal Common Ancestor), then we're very likely looking at an example of convergent evolution, and not in fact at two related populations.

It's remarkable how far behind the US has fallen on renewable tech. There was some movement with solar a decade ago, but now China and Europe are years ahead for solar and wind and battery storage.

Tobacco companies would argue that tobacco products existed before cigarettes and people got lung cancer back then too. Criminal liability doesn't work that way. It's based on the accused not taking reasonable steps to prevent something foreseeable happening.

OpenAI know how ChatGPT is used. They know that young people are talking to it. They know that it sometimes gives very, very bad advice, or is too keen to agree rather than to tell someone they are wrong when they talk about suicidal thoughts or crimes they are contemplating committing. They didn't do enough to stop it.

It's more like cases where cars had deadly faults that the manufacturer knew about and failed to take seriously enough to do anything about.

Taking an encyclopedia as an example, they typically do not give enough detail on certain topics to be criminally negligent. They might describe an explosive, but not how to make it. They might talk about suicide, but not details of methods or how to make them more effective.

Doing so could be criminally negligent if someone used that knowledge to hurt someone or themselves. It is foreseeable that such information is not something that should be given out freely in a book that is likely to be in people's homes, around children.

Same principle as leaving a loaded gun lying around.

Maybe they could turn it on optimizing performance and fixing compatibility issues next.

They seem to want AI in the browser, so here's an idea for free. Have an AI agent that launches when you click a "site is broken" button, and it figures out why it is broken and fixes it in the browser. Bonus points if it can handle privacy enhancing add-ons breaking sites too.

Are you sure? Ask you favourite AI Chatbot to draw you a naked woman. I bet you its answer is that it is specifically programmed to deny your request.

This is the Section 230 immunity vs moderation/curation argument all over again.

Stage 3 smog alerts were year-round when I was a kid in the 1980s. They were more common in the summer, but they could happen any time the temperatures rose, and they were a fact of life at school in the spring and fall. I spent a lot of recess and PE time indoors for Stage 2 and 3 alerts. This page shows the number of days at different air qualities for Los Angeles going back to 1980. The highest number of good air quality days was 11 in 1983. For all but two of the remaining years, it was in single digits. The combined number of unhealthy, very unhealthy, and dangerous days usually covered a cumulative six months or so out of the year.

You can see the numbers shifting to the left starting in 1989. Both Republicans and Democrats in the state government (which was run by Republicans at the time) had authorized various government agencies to make changes that would affect smog levels. Since 2002, the number of moderate or good air days has covered at least half of the year, a huge reversal from the 1980s. The number of very unhealthy or dangerous air days has been in the single digits every year (bar one) since 2007, even reaching zero in 2010 and 2013 and only one in six of the other years.

Well your idea of parenting is not letting kids on chat okay - so don't sign them up or get them to verify their age. You're not impacted by this.

On the other hand if your idea of parenting is that you are going to monitor and curate your kid's chat experience, then their privacy from Sony is the least of their concerns, they are already going to grow up under your authoritarian regime (and will hate you for it).

There was nothing "real" about the last moon missions. The last moon missions recorded film on a colour cast fujifilm intended for creative qualities which accentuated contrast and blue saturation . By comparison the digital sensor on the iphone is far more real.

Also what's a "real objective"? I assume you mean lenses. Last I checked the iPhone had a lens on it too and apparently its so real you can even touch it.