Too bad some of the AI data center bubble money couldn't be spent on something with real applications, like chemistry like this.

Not if it is one of the few ways to get cash out of steambucks, then even selling for a loss can be worth it.

I'd assumed all the bets on these things were obfuscated insider trading fraud.

You could use artificial embryos to boost diversity in endangered species, it isn't hard to see the application. For any species that isn't critically endangered, putting all the money into habitat preservation is better (and you'd need habitat either way).

I think they're hoping for business fleet use for sales guys like I've seen using them, but they price them too high because none of the sales guys I've seen using one have had anything but bad things to say about its performance, so they must lean towards the lowest models.

More likely being around infected bats

Yeah the EREVs with a gasoline generator do seem like they'd be the best of both worlds vs PHEV that have a full on engine to need regular ICE levels of maintenance.

In most two car households it is hard to imagine needing both to be ICE or hybrid. We're going to look at BEVs this weekend and it is mildly depressing how many models got cancelled once the incentives got rolled back. But I have a garage so charging is a non issue even if they didn't have it at work, too. Could be a bigger employer perk in big cities to charge while you're in the office.

Last I learned anything about it, the universe's topology was something like a torus, so while it is expanding it doesn't have edges. But I am no physicist and this could be wrong.

I agree with the sentiment but when the encryption viruses were the hot new thing my understanding was that they were actually pretty professional about selling the decryption key to incentivize people to just pay up instead of figuring out how to restore everything. Since these are organized criminals these days they run it like a business. A script kiddie might leak it for lulz but some Russian gang wants to be sure that they get paid by the next company they hack, so they want them to get what they paid for.

That was my initial thought... I'd bet statistics would show laying on the beach in the Caribbean has oddly more benefit for non locals than for locals for similar reasons.

Maybe I should be looking at cars more like that, I have a CX-5 and the hybrids and PHEVs that Mazda has seem pretty meh but looking around they may be a bit behind the competition

"No one buys EVs anymore, all the charging stations are full" might make this more Yogi Berra-esque?

Yeah the car manufacturers seem to be hoping PHEVs will be exciting enough but they don't seem to have much range and don't seem like they'd have the benefits of low maintenance that you'd get with a EV or EREV. I really look forward to car maintenance being akin to maintaining my cordless drill or battery lawn tools e.g. negligible.

My kids have a Metaquest and it is kinda fun as a toy, but not really going to replace a desk setup for work. It'd be cool if there was a sculpting program for designing 3d models to print and so on, but I don't think that sort of stuff exists in an easy to use way yet.