Some is. And some is spot on. Quite a few Indian professionals came here (or Britain) because they couldn't put up with the racist caste system back home. Perhaps they were not Brahmins and therefore destined for a career of mediocraty. Or they didn't want to spent their lives pushing past the Paperwork Wallahs that are the remains of an ex-Socialist system.

Others came because they _were_ the big shots in Indian society. And they looked over here and saw that many Americans were squandering excellent opportunities. They figured that we are the Dalits, in need of leadership. I see a lot of immigrants from cultures like this. The motivated people that got out of their shithole countries because they figured they were better than their neighbors. And also better than us.

Yeah. Like that's going to get done correctly.

My only experience with a red light camera involved the local police sending me a ticket for running a light in a late model car. In spite of the fact that the vehicle description based on the plate number was my 45 year-old FJ40. Not even close. They mistakenly entered a 'Q' instead of an 'O' and never even bothered to look at the DMV record their system retrieved.

Fixed with a phone call. But other stuff will undoubtedly slip through.

Perhaps now we can get all that bounce and bad focus out of movies like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield.

I didn't even know they had operations in Massachusetts.

(try "en masse")

Sunny spring days are not terribly hot. So not much air conditioning demand. The supply and demand curves are a better fit during sunny summer days. When everyone wants AC.

Looks like a cool car. LS Swap when?

Lime is what they sprinkle on corpses before they close the mass graves. How appropriate.

Communism maintains its zero unemployment reputation.

In controlled airspace you would be right... but these things are being pitched as suburban/urban commute options operating at low altitude where there's no ATC. That means they have to deal with birds, the GPS-shielding effects of tall buildings, wind tunnels created by the same tall structures and a whole lot more.

The automation of air-transport at 30,000 feet is a whole lot different to transport at a few hundred feet over a busy metropolis and where there may be buildings higher than t he craft itself.

You nailed it!

We've had VTOL passenger transport for decades now, in the form of tried and proven technology: helicopters.

Right now a bunch of startups are trying to reinvent the industry by claiming "carbon zero" and "autonomous" when we know:

1. the market is *very* limited (ie: where are all the helicopter-based flying taxi services?)
2. the tech isn't ready (current battery tech isn't up to the task)
3. we don't trust autonomous sytems on the road so why would be trust them in the air?
4. regulators are still many years away from approving such things in Western nations
5. there is zero mitigation available for GPS failure (or malicious attack) and eVTOL craft don't autorotate in the event of power faulure.

Call me in 10 years time and we'll reconsider.

Yeah. I was afraid of that. The only sorts of solar power projects that could conceivably affect interstate commerce are the really big ones. Not the little "put panels on my roof or the roof of a small business" subsidy stuff. Which are typically the bailiwick of state and local utilities and regulators. Because that's all the farther the electricity is likely to go.

Another "gibs" for the big boys.

Wait! What? You must have some real slow pokes using your gas pumps. It's about 5 minutes to fill my truck. Which includes the time to swipe my credit card and request a receipt. For you EV enthusiasts, that's a charge rate of about 3000 mph (Mach 4).

Or sold off to the AI operators. I guess the poor crypto miners will just have to live off of hand-outs.

That's only 1.4 mother-in-laws.

... a new particle. To carry the property of mass across space. And bend space-time to produce the emergent field which we call gravity. One with a very long, but not infinite lifetime. So that its decay across space produces the non uniformity that we observe.

Sorry, but the Higgs boson cannot be responsible for mass directly. It has too short a lifetime to even be directly observable in the LHC. Never mind moving across galaxies or the universe like photons do.

But we shouldn't do anything different about this one then we did with the last.