This happens all the time.

I want a lightweight commuter vehicle. Something like an updated Geo Metro would be fine. I don't care what's under the hood, battery or ICE. I might be able to buy something like this in China, or maybe as a kei-class vehicle in Japan, but not in the West.

I want a phone with a QWERTY keyboard, removable storage and a proper headphone jack. Maybe not "impossible" to find, but I'd have to play kickstarter/aliexpress roulette to get one.

These two examples show that I am a minority. My needs are not unique, one only has to read the comments here on Slashdot to see many similar voices. But the market does not supply what we want.

I always thought they were two sides of the same coin. Jobs always struck me as a narcissist too. I've worked with people who behave like this - they make a cute presentation, then the only thing they know how to do in the real workplace is yell at people.

Well, there was the whole "hyperloop" thing.

This has been my experience too.

No, it was always shit. Closed source, terrible UI, poor searching. I have no idea how it gained so much traction, especially for collaborative projects that really should have just used a simple forum.

There was also that article a couple of days ago about how more than 50% of them don't read even a single book in a year. https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Yeah, we're screwed.

From all of the above it seems like the "basic" and "clear" solution is to build more power stations. It would be much, much cheaper to slap the SpaceX branding on some new nuclear power stations. Or to just buy Westinghouse and vertically integrate.

This. A thousand times this. Even the YT videos that are supposed to be a "how-to".

Not to mention they will sometimes explode for no reason. Remember that huge Takata recall?

You mean when the car pulls at the steering wheel and it feels like you have a flat tyre? I had a rental which did that. Felt dangerous as hell.

Decent article and mostly useful comments when this was written up on Hackaday last year: https://hackaday.com/2025/11/2...

Yeah, electricity production from nuclear fusion will be DOUBLED next year. The next year it will TRIPLE! Hell, why not increase it by a MILLION PERCENT!

This. Google owns search and Youtube. It's hardly surprising that their search site recommends their video site. What is surprising, and concerning, is that people give them any credibility.

The sand is really hot. Hundreds of degrees C. While the thermal battery in Finland is presently used for district heating, it absolutely can supply high-grade heat or steam for industrial purposes. Presumably you could use the steam to generate electricity too, but if it's electricity you want, you're probably better to charge a big battery or pump some water up a hill. https://www.iflscience.com/the...

I'm in .au and I agree with everything you say. There's one ironic safety perk, which is that the teenagers around here on the illegal ebikes (they are not even pretending to be legal, they have no pedals ) all wear full face helmets. Much safer in a crash, but I'm pretty sure they wear such helmets to make it harder to ID the riders.

As usual, the Betoota Advocate is pretty insightful: https://www.betootaadvocate.co...

As for the speed issue, you are dead right. Isaac Newton told us that kinetic energy goes up with the square of velocity.

Around here (Canberra) the kids aren't too bad. They do plenty of burnouts and sick jumps but they give the pedestrians, "normal" bike riders and toddlers plenty of space. If they stray onto grown-up roads the police and courts tend to stomp them pretty hard.