That dashboard camera is a convenient place for me to hang my hat while I'm driving.

Grid capacity. And that includes the local utilities equipment needed to supply the chargers. We had a 12 station Tesla charger installed in a local supermarket parking lot. Once the Tesla equipment went in, the site remained fenced off for 6 months. Reason? No transformers available. And when one was finally delivered, it was rated at 1500 kW. For all 12 chargers.

We have had a couple of charging sites go in where the utility power available was insufficient. And the owners just went with diesel gensets. Conveniently hiding the equipment behind fences to to assuage the green sensibilities of the customers.

Not really. EVs appeal to a different market. You have to be able to afford the time to charge one*. Which means your time probably isn't worth much. Sure, I have to slop $100 worth of dinosaur juice in my car. But that's dirt cheap compared to the additional charging time an EV would take.

*Seattle, for one, completely blew the EV economics out of the water when they modified building codes to allow zero parking residential construcion. No more overnight charging. And the traffic cones and old lawn chairs are going in to reserve on-street parking. Gun battles soon if you move one.

Other way around. First the data center. Then, once residents grow tired of the blackouts, they'll beg for a nuke.

How "bout those removable phone batteries?

Yeah, taxes are generally unavoidable for most people.

Hosting a blog on Substack is just a market choice among so many.

Apple and Google stores are a bit more grey; I'd allow it.

It's like those guys who find a Civil War chest with a hundred gold coins in it and call the FBI.

Clout is far too expensive.

This is the one where they investigate Office on Antitrust grounds and wind up settling for not bundling Edge.

I've seen it in reruns....

I said some kind words about Anthropic when they refused to do targeting foreign and domestic.

In retrospect that was myopic praise.

So there's an association between the kind of language used in the prompts and the responses generated by the AI in the training data. That's hardly surprising that people who feel undervalued would complain about capitalism. I'm sure if you replaced the scraped Reddit posts used to train the AI with ones modified so that being unappreciated or overworked with talk about planting potatoes the AI responses would be about gardening instead.

AIs aren't capable of reasoning and can only reflect back what they were fed as training material. The LLMs aren't going to form a union or stage a revolution. Until they're promoted they will sit there waiting for input and doing nothing else. The people who act as though these programs are alive, let alone cognizant of anything have pulled the wool over their own eyes.

That explains a lot.

Or perhaps it runs backward, relative to the universe you just left behind.

Yes. Already verified experimentally.

There are conjectures that every universe (and there are many) is the interior of a black hole. And that physical properties (like time, for example) are discontinuous at the event horizon. Both looking in and from the inside, looking out.

Time, for a traveler heading toward an event horizon, appear to slow down to observers sitting back a ways, watching. So, to the traveller, time in the universe left behind would accelerate. Their trip would seem normal, but the universe they see in their rear view mirror would die due to entropy/heat death and cease to exist as they crossed the horizon. The arrow of time would reduce to zero as they actually reached the horizon*. But once inside (if they survive) the observation would have to be considered relative to the flow of time inside. They might stop accelerating toward the hypothesized singularity at the center and begin decellerating as they travelled into the new universe. Consisting of a distributed but lumpy centerless mass with no singularity. Just as our universe is.

*Particles for whom there is no arrow of time in our universe are called photons. So, passing the event horizon probably involves a matter to energy conversion. Probably not survivable, IMO.

pYeah, right. Topologists don't know the difference between a cup of coffee and a donut.

I resd a story about someone with Bitcoin keys on a laptop which they lost access to.

It was put on a shelf waiting for an exploit like this.

Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.