Sort of, not really.

The Fire Service hasn't had a ton of experience with these vehicles yet, as there aren't that many of them on the road, fewer that crash, and fewer that require extrication. There is training to force entry into lots of vehicles, as depending on the class and type, they will fail more easily in certain ways. And by "fail" I mean "succumb to the tools that the FD carries and lets us get into the passenger compartment". Vehicle-specific training is common.
I've had to force a door on exactly one Tesla so far, and it was no harder to force than any other passenger car. The Cybertruck wouldn't give me pause, either. Stainless steel skin vs. several dozen tons of force means it wrinkles up differently than a normal car. The Saturns were more of a pain in the ass.

Almost all of the modern cars are "harder" to get into than the cars a generation ago, and that's a good thing. The passenger compartments are stronger and less likely to have intrusion, making it more likely for the passengers to survive. Beat up, sure, but survive. Techniques we used 20 years ago just don't work as well, but other techniques work just fine. For instance: the glass. A generation ago, all of the side-windows were tempered glass, with only the windscreen being laminated glass. Tempered glass fails with a simple glass punch; laminated glass requires the use of a saw of some sort (a Sawzall with carbide teeth works fine. There are specialty tools, too). Nowadays, we're seeing laminated glass in side windows from all sorts of manufacturers (Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Tesla). Is it slower for emergency services to get though this? Yes. Is it a problem? No. Is it a problem for a car in the water and the occupant has to self-extricate and there's no mechanical system to unlach the door? Hell yes, that's a problem.

Comments like this are why some of us grit-eaters are still here. Nicely explained!

Not exactly the same thing, and I'll warn you that if you're squeamish, don't keep reading:

In preclinical pharmaceutical animal testing, there is a chemical fixation/preservation technique known as perfusion. There are a couple of ways of doing it. Common way: a mouse is put under a deep, deep, plane of anesthesia and held there. The chest is opened. A catheter of aldehyde fixative is introduced into one of the aorta's and the one of the major ventricles cut. The heart, still pumping away, pumps the fixative around the entire body before it,too, becomes chemically fixed. The animal is held under the plane of anesthesia the entire time and does not suffer. With the heart stopped beforehand there are ways to do this artificially (syringe pumps, gravity perfusion), but they vary in effectiveness.

Point being: you could do this with a human and some kind of biocompatable antifreeze (glycerine?) if you had the time to plan, the money, and....eh, the will?

I'm being lazy and you can pick this apart all you want, but the evidence is that it worked and was very well into statistical significance range:

Interpretation
Our results showed that US counties with higher proportions of persons 12 years of age fully vaccinated against COVID-19 had substantially lower rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths—a finding that showed dose response and persisted even in the period when Delta was predominant.

From:
https://www.thelancet.com/jour...
County-level vaccination coverage and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States: An ecological analysis

1 - Someone would figure out there was a SIM card in there. RF can't hide from a spectrum analyzer.
2 - Ground the antenna once we find it's in there. Ok, sure, you'll void the warranty, but if you're reading this, you don't care.

There's always a way.

i.e. the smaller estimates are based on assuming that people will act like people actually act

Rhesus Macaques are carriers of Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1, better known as B-Virus. In non-human primates, it's annoying, roughly the same as a cold sore in a human. In humans, however, it has something around an 80% case fatality rate with limited treatment options available.

The colonies are routinely tested for B-Virus by PCR, but it's possible that the virus is dormant in a given animal, resulting in a negative test. While that animal wouldn't be able to infect a human AT THAT MOMENT, they could start shedding virus at any time afteward. All Old-World Primates are assumed to be B-Virus carriers, with appropriate protection for the humans always exercised.

So, no, while they may not have been used in any procedures that would introduced a transmissible disease to them, they can be a threat to human health anyway.

"WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

There are many ways to interpret this line. I like to think in 4 years we can vote again.

Plenty of people can charge at home. So our day is, unplug, drive to work or whatever, drive home, plug in again overnight. For those people, EVs can be a useful option. If you're really lucky, your office might also have chargers available.

For people who lack ability to charge at home, it will be less convenient, at least right now. Maybe that will change later, but right now, it is what it is. EV people like to say that the vast majority of trips are commuting, and EV is good for that. However, that does not account for people who can't charge at home and such.

Right now, I have to say that if you have only one vehicle in your household, it probably shouldn't be EV. Hybrid would be a good option if you want to cut gas costs, but maybe your use cases are best for gas. In that case, that's what you should buy. The idea that people should not be able to choose is what I dislike. Drive what you want, doesn't bother me. Right now, EV can't replace everything you would use gas for. That doesn't make it bad, it's just something to be aware of. Maybe that makes it a poor choice for a specific person. That's a perfectly valid place to be.

I currently own one of each. A really old gas pickup truck I keep for occasional runs to move large items or sometimes one of the others isn't available. Hybrid mini-SUV (Highlander) for most driving. Leaf for the wife's commute and local driving when we want to. Works for me, in large part as I'm willing to maintain older vehicles so gas stuff is cheap for me to deal with.

It's possible to be the only option and still be shit....

I don't know that I would say CUPS is shit, but some people think so. I think it's generally good enough, which is why it's pre-installed on just about every distro, other nix-likes, OSX, etc.. Sure, it sucks that printer manufacturers refuse to use a standard driver, but if you skip inkjet, which I argue is more shitty than CUPS, things generally work fine.

I only buy Brother laser printers right now. They come with network support, postscript, and just work without me fussing with them all the time. Inkjet has uses and could be cool, but it's crippled by the manufacturers and their rent-seeking.

Not to excuse a security issue. That does suck and needs to be fixed.

Yup. They were deceived because they wanted to be. They wanted to think this would make their waste better. I can't even complain too much as I bought it initially too. But as I looked into it, I realized it was 99% BS. Some recycling happens, only the most profitable though. Metals often are, fair bit of paper, but plastic? Not so much. It could be, at least some of it, but it's too expensive to do compared to fresh material. I am required by my city to have and pay for a recycling bin, so I do try to at least put some things in there they can use. But I don't see any reason not to take them at their word when they say they want some of the other stuff and since I have to pay for hauling it off anyway, I guess they can have it. I have no doubt at least half of it winds up in the ocean or landfill though. More landfill here, but still..

As for the company, I have no idea. They could have been pushing it hard all over the place. I haven't looked into it. It wouldn't surprise me if they did, but it also wouldn't surprise me to see a Cali politician to lie about it and blame a business they dislike.

Illegals eating pets... There have been 911 calls, videos of cats on grills, etc.. Hyperbolic to say it's all of them, but I do think it's reasonable to say some of them. I'm not even really upset with them for it, they don't know. But it was irresponsible to send them into the country without telling them the expectations, which should be the same as anyone else. If they can't live under our system, they should be removed, like any other criminal, except we can send them home.

AGW: The constant manipulation of historical data makes me uncomfortable. Ignoring that, it's not some huge existential emergency that requires trashing the global economy. Particularly when we know that a number of hugely populated nations will not go along with it. So, really, it just disadvantages us while propping them up. That doesn't help anything on a global scale. Not to say we should pollute indiscriminately, but have a little perspective and reality. You aren't going to convince the entire planet. And telling people they should suffer while other people benefit, isn't going to go well.

Statistically, abortion is about a 50/50 split on a full ban, with close to 90% favoring some restrictions. Claiming Trump wants to ban them is retarded. He has always said he doesn't want that and only wanted to push it to the states so people can have more say in their local areas. There are a number of Republicans that would like to. What happened, was the supreme court ruled that the federal government does not have the power to regulate them at all. Which is true if you read the Constitution. As it stands, you need an Amendment if you want to regulate it at the federal level, which isn't going to happen right now, in either direction.

Inflation is defined as increasing the money supply without a change in GDP or other assets backing it up. So no, tariffs do not cause inflation. They DO increase prices at the consumer level, which is often used as a substitute for inflation. That said, it's impossible to compete with slave labor. So do you want to pay a little more or accept slave wages yourself? While imperfect, his policies created a huge economic boom while her's have driven it into the gutter.

Health care.. well, my options and coverage/price have gotten far worse under Obamacare. A lot of people report the same. Some seem to like it. I will say that stuffing government where it doesn't belong has caused huge price increases and waste. Look at education for example. As for Trump's suggestions, I watched the videos and it looked to me like he was trying to throw ideas out. That's how high level business people I've known think. And it wasn't just "shine a light on them" it was something more akin to Dialysis running blood through something to filter or kill the virus. Perhaps still unworkable for a number of reasons, but he's not an expert and didn't claim to be. Plenty to disagree with on the COVID response in every direction.

Trump threatened to nuke Putin, personally. Not Russia, Putin. I don't think that counts as "cuddling up". And since she is proposing Communist policies when she has a policy she hasn't stolen from someone else, I think it's fair to call her a Communist. And since she seems to be suggesting the same things other Communist regimes have done, I don't see any reason her version would have a different outcome from any other attempt at it.

For lots of Democrats, disagreeing with them is Fascism. I don't understand it either. I think both comments are funny. Laughing at either big party is worthwhile. Just don't take them too seriously when it comes to real life.

Forget? No. But a lot of people don't GAF about it or at least don't think it's a huge emergency that requires trashing the whole planet's economy. This would still be an improvement, but instead of accepting a marginal improvement, some people want to insist on perfection, which doesn't exist. Thermal depolymerization is available now, works well enough, and outputs far less garbage to the environment. Even incinerators don't just spew the result out, they filter at least some of the junk. Given that we can make coal plants not have visible exhaust, I think we can manage this.

If this new process works out and can be made into real plants, cool, glad to see it. Break down the plastics into feedstock for other industrial processes. It beats digging more up doesn't it? And this new process has no significant waste, all the plastic is broken down into gasses that can be captured and reacted into other material. It even solves the problem with plastic recycling causing breakdown of the polymer AND handles contaminated feedstock, which existing recycling can't do.

Just one example, use the excess heat to run generators. Now you have 24/7 power. Use solar during the day, excess goes to process plants like this. Night time, use the energy you stored in whatever way worked for the process. Depolymerization leaves you oil. You can burn some at night for power, use some for plastics, fuel, whatever. One thing we know how to use is oil. Could also make Hydrogen and use it later for energy or feed into another reaction. And yes, using it might well release some CO2 etc.. It's still less than digging up new material. We have picked the low hanging fruit on efficiency and similar ideas. Reducing consumption significantly from here is very expensive and will get significant pushback from people. They are already pissed that their electricity bills shot way up while using LESS. We are getting to the point that pushing harder will result in them just pushing harder. We are already seeing violence from both sides as a result. Or, we could try to compromise and come up with something we can live with. Remembering, that compromise means everyone leaves unhappy.

It doesn't exist. There is only tolerance and price. Lower tolerance == more money. And you have to specify things like temperature. You ok with your computer only being "valid" at 70F +/- 0.0001F?

If you want legal liability for bugs, you are asking for VERY expensive software. And it would require ditching most hardware as well. All the bugs in CPUs lately? And patches are not good enough, so not only is hardware going to be expensive, it's going to be SLOW. There's a reason space missions don't use the latest hardware, preferring ancient gear, by our standards. Almost all the CPU issues are performance enhancements. SMT is right out, most multi-processing and multi-core. ECC RAM is required, and must be proven correct. Maybe add some RAID style RAM? And you would have to really pay attention to those qualified hardware lists. Going outside of that is going to increase issues and may well cause crashes. You can't blame the software if the hardware isn't verified. Not to mention firmware. And we haven't even gotten to the OS yet! A modern application has to go through a dozen layers of code, libraries, firmware, microcode, etc. etc. etc.. I'm shocked that they work as well as they do.

You can have this sort of thing now. It's just very slow and very, very expensive. Every zero you take off the tolerance, you add two or more to the price. Same here. There's a reason NASA spends a million on a 286 class spacecraft computer. And it's not just wasteful spending. When every bit has to be correct, all the time, you can't go modern. At this level, you examine every solder joint and copper trace with a microscope and x-ray. Maybe even the bond wires inside the package. And one bad joint, you throw the whole board in the bin.