On the plus side, trans fats might be finally banned for good.

No, it just highlights how ridiculously clownish Musk and his ilk are. The most ridiculous example is basically a rounding error in the budget. And fixing it likely will result in more money spent than saved.

Toyota is not a serious player in the solid-state battery market.

As I understand, it's less than $50m a year in budget? Sure, fixing it would be nice and everything, but hardly something grandiose.

And I doubt that they _are_ going to fix it. Likely they'll just digitize the paper, and retain the same workflow. Except now it will be slower.

Which ones? The biggest questionable item was the retirement processing. And it's notoriously hard to get right.

Not really? Solid-state batteries are going to be the next generation of batteries, but they're at best 3-4 years away from mass production. Realistically, we can expect them to become a factor for cheap EVs only around 2030. Meanwhile, the LFP technology is available right now.

Another interesting technology is sodium-ion batteries. They are even cheaper, so they're really well-suited for energy storage and very cheap EVs.

Yup, brainectomy, as I said. It's not that the government does not want to automate it, it's because the retirement processing is complicated. I wonder how many billions in claims are going to be lost once lawsuits from retirees hit the government.

Does becoming a government hater require a brain amputation? Because it seems like it. Anti-government types seem to eat all kinds of crap without a basic fact-checking.

Heck, would you believe that Musk eats children for breakfast?

If it's a serious question, then the answer is: NOT in a safe deposit box. Because they are not particularly safe. Read your agreement, the bank's liability is limited to 1 year of subscription fees. So around $1000.

If you want to store valuables, there are safe storage companies that can provide insurance up to $1m. The Seattle area has only 2 of them, and they are expensive.

If you want to store documents, then leave them with an estate lawyer.

The daily withdrawals from a typical bank branch are now less than $10k (not counting the ATM transactions). If you want a larger amount, you actually need to order it in advance. A lot of branches are now not even bothering to build the vaults and safe deposit box rooms altogether.

That's because pretty much nobody is doing large transactions in cash. Even drug dealers switched to Bitcoin these days.

I don't get it. HP has robust competition in the printing area: Epson, Brother, and tons of no-name Chinese makers. What the heck are they thinking?

Why do you need vaults and cash? Are you living in the 18-th century?

Serves them right! Jail them for disclosing the Top Secret information!

Raw polypropylene and polyethylene, especially high-density ones? Sure. They're probably safe. However, flexible plastic containers are _not_ made of just raw PET or PEX, they have plasticizers that make them more, well, plasticy. These plasticizers themselves can leach (see: BPA), and they make plastics less mechanically stable.

Lie. It fell around 2x: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/mo... - from 2.5 to 1.3