Was the house designed to keep her in? You're focusing on the wrong words.

Precisely zero people here claimed the stock market was designed to not allow insider trading. So what point were you making?

I mean other than you highlighted different words than the ones under discussion.

I assume we're talking about different things. I was under the impression we're talking about the government. Calling them the wall-e spaceship is way too kind.

Thanks for your comment. But were you trying to reply to a Slashdot post from 2016? Because you seem to be clueless to the state of charging infrastructure in 2026.

Errr no, they passed it on in full, but thanks for your attempted gaslighting.

I missed that, but he's an idiot.

I really don't understand what you were saying here. First you say it depends, then you say it's untrue, then you say there's always one thing that is low quality, which seems like a goalpost move which is strange since it seems you haven't decided where to put them in the first place.

They aren't claims, they are statistics. But also what's your point? Precisely zero people (other than you) have suggested that EVs should only go 50 miles. Also there's no single vehicle that is suitable for all situations, and no single vehicle that suits all people. The reality is that EVs have long been good enough for virtually everyone. People only need to actually apply a bit of thought to their use case.

It's like how twice I year I go off-roading in an SUV. But I don't own an SUV, I have a small city car. How does this work? I'll leave this as a through experiment to the reader. Suffice to say not owning an SUV is cheaper over the year than the rental costs.

There's no arrogance here, there's just your fucked up interpretation of what other people have written, and the lack of thought you seem to be putting in.

No what the US lacks is people who look into the current situation and instead repeat a trope that hasn't really been relevant for a long time. The great American roadtrip can very easily be done by EV at this point. Heck the first coast to coast coverage was provided by Tesla well over a decade ago and there are many orders of magnitude more charging options now than back then.

Unless you're taking a trip out to some true wilderness (as opposed to driving through on the highway) an EV is perfectly suitable even for long family vacations in the USA. But a lot of people seem to think they aren't.

How can I move the goalposts? I was replying to your point, I didn't change my point? Do you even know how the English language works?

Except it very much is. Within any locale the government dictates names. Now the US government is not the authoritative source for what something is called here where I am right now, which is why it still very much says Lake Ontario when I look at in on Google. Governments maintain databases of naming systems for all navigation. The USA government has multiple such, defer to states for some. In this case it's the GNIS managed by the USGS. They are the authoritative source for USA based landmark names. You may not like it (and yeah fuck authority and all that) but that's the way it is. The GNIS has changed the name so any map based in the USA not using the updated Lake America is objectively wrong.

Of course it is for it's locale. In fact half of the lake belongs to the USA. You seem to be stuck with the concept that one place can have multiple names from different authoritative bodies. That's a thing that can happen, and in this case does.

The GNIS lists it as Lake America. Any map used in the USA that doesn't say Lake America is wrong.
The GNBC lists it as Lake Ontario. Any map used in Canada that doesn't say Lake Ontario is wrong.

It's not that complicated, especially for a system like Google Maps where naming has been geofenced by locale since basically it's inception.

Really the only difficult thing is what do you call something in a locale that doesn't define it, and Google's response to that has been pragmatic by listing all options (thought it seems they've yet to update Lake Ontario to follow the same naming convention as they applied to the Gulf which recognises there are two different *official and authoritative* names. )

I agree. But we don't live in a world of "shoulds". We live in a world of laws. The president should not have the authority. But he objectively does have it. Also he can't change the name outside of America, the ruling only applies to what America calls these places. That is it. Cross the border to Canada and Google maps displays Lake Ontario. Governments have always maintained the authority to call things how they see fit in their own locale. Hell sometimes that name sticks internationally and evolves through the eons. The Germans didn't call their country Germany. They called it Deutschland. The English didn't call it Germany either, Julius Caesar in Rome called them Germania in Latin, and the term was adopted by the Roman Empire.

The only reason to adopt someone else's naming convention is politeness. Do you still call it Turkey in English or do you use their preferred name Türkiye? I'm guessing you don't even know how to write an umlaut on your keyboard.

You're forgetting the obvious: lack of dedicated VRAM. The graphics memory has a 256 or even 384 bit bus width which is significant for something like gaming. The MacMini doesn't have the same memory architecture as a PC, it's CPU is designed more like a GPU in that regard.

It's simply not possible to make integrated graphics perform similar to high end while also preserving the traditional PC architecture with DDR memory modules that the user gets to plug in to the motherboard.

We can do all sorts of things when we lock ourselves into a single nonstandard nonupgradable platform. That used to be why game consoles were so powerful for their price.

No where, I love living rent free in your head.

It depends on the area. If you live in a geologically stable area then burying lines is great. If you have frequent earthquakes, then it's foolish. There are a lot of flood prone areas in the US as well. Above ground is a lot easier to deal with in those areas as well.

NYC has all of it's power infrastructure underground. It was a nightmare after tropical storm Sandy flooded it.

Perhaps some individual components, but none of the finished hardware was fully manufactured or assembled there.

Not to mention, in order to be jingoist, I would have to be showing aggressive patriotism towards my own country, which I don't because I'm not. Viewing China with extreme suspicion does not make someone a jingoist, especially when their actions deserve every bit of suspicion thrown at them. And by "them", of course, I mean their government.

Great, which one? There are at least 3 different manufacturers and a handful of different models. I only clicked a couple of the popular ones and they all seemed, meh in one way or another.

Wow. What a radical assumption that has no basis in anything I said.

No, American products made primarily in China are usually even worse.

Fucking retard.

Shitty performance/build does not automatically mean failure altogether.