No, not for not being authoritarian. Among the President's Article II powers comes almost sole control (generally unless congress specifically passes new laws to override the President) over things like allowing foreign governments using US provided weapons to strike with them over their borders, etc. Also, as President, he had basically full authority to authorize haste in delivering all those weapons that took forever to arrive if they arrived at all. I mean, there's a very clear difference in how quickly equipment arrived for Ukraine's use versus how quickly it would have arrived if the US were conducting the war itself. Literally a couple of orders of magnitude difference in time. The US was not alone in that sort of slowness, but the point is, they could have done a better job, authorized weapons systems when they would have made a difference, before they became completely irrelevant (not to mention, a bit more operational security so that the Russians didn't have a year or more to know exactly what was coming so that they could prepare their tactics and move around resources in anticipation.

That said, whatever criticism Obama and Biden get from me over their response to Russia's imperialistic conquest, it is absolutely nothing compared to Trump's failures. If it were school, I might give Obama and Biden C's, but I would have Trump expelled.

It will take multiple administrations to undo all this damage too (assuming we even get that kind of leadership). These programs are losing all their talent, it will take quite a few years to rebuild that even if / when the money comes back.

Thanks for handing what was left of our technology lead to China, Trump!

Less work means the need for less employees which saves money. It's the reason companies are pushing for AI use here, it's to save money. Otherwise, what would be the point? We could already order drive through before AI.

To be fair it's hard to think of everything people will do when you open something to the general public. I worked in game QA after high school for a few years and one of the challenges was trying to think of everything the general public might do when playing a game. Taco Bell may have even done some testing on pranks customers might do, they just didn't think of these specific pranks. In the end it's kind of impossible to predict everything people will do once you release something like this out into the world.

In the US a debit card usually has an option where they can be run through one of our big credit carriers and they'll have their logo on the card so for instance a debit card might have a Visa logo on it and is able to run through their network. These cards all function as "credit cards" for stuff like this. Is it different in the UK?

This destruction of Federal research and funding across the board I predict is going to be delayed but have a very negative effect on the nation as the years go on. A lot of institutional knowledge and directives are simply going to fall apart.

We're supposed to be concerned with China and they are putting more and more into research directives and in response we have decided to do less because of political ideology, because political actors need to control facts and demand loyalty above results.

Are you saying they are the same? Federal grants publish their guidelines and are defined by laws. Are the corporations required to do the same?

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It's not about how well the cruise control drives it's about how predictably it drives.

Insurance companies like any business want predictability. They want to know XYZ is going to happen so they can plan for it and structure their pricing around it.

Taking squishy humans out of the equation and replacing them with unfeeling machines would be a huge leap for predictability Furthermore following all the rules will drastically reduce the scale and the damage from accidents. They don't care if there are more fender benders because those don't cost them very much if anything. The last fender bender I got in didn't even hit my deductible and I don't even have a high deductible.

And they won't specifically say we can't drive it will just price the insurance For non self-driving cars outside what you can afford. Aka the free market

that the "feminist" group that started this mess is run by right wing extremists who *successfully* got GTA III taken off the shelves in Australia.

They're coming for your video games. ALL your video games. They want you in church. Tithing.

I wonder, do you apply that logic everywhere and completely refuse to do any online transactions? You're not doing a cashier's job, the cashier's job by nature is a redundant extra step, one that may introduce error into the process causing your order to get fucked up.

But that said I do support shops having one cashier for you and others like you. We need options, and the options should be diverse because you and I have different desires. I don't want to stand in line because it's not financially viable to put as many cashiers in as it is kiosks causing a long queue at during the lunchtime peak. In fact if you want to impress me, just give me a damn app and skip the entire kiosk. Let me walk up and pick up my food by scanning a QR code. I'm not in a fast food restaurant to make friends.

There's not a single restaurant in the world where a fast food employee taking your order at a drive through isn't also working on a second task in parallel. This isn't eliminating any employees. If anything it's likely to free up an employee to focus on the other thing they are doing and reduce the number of times your order gets fucked up due to multitasking.

A software tester walks into a bar, runs into a bar, crawls into a bar, dances into a bar, orders a beer, 2 beers, 0 beers, 99999 beers, a lizard in a beer glass, -1 beers, qwerty beers. Testing complete.

A user walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.

The bar goes up in flames.

What makes you say that? No they wouldn't since it defeats what Steam is doing. Credit Cards are able to be used as a proxy for proof of age since the issuing bank needs to confirm that a person is over the age of 18 before issuing it. Debit cards on the other hand are issued to anyone over 11 years old.

The only thing weird is the American fetish for having them and this continued pursuance of forcing everyone to have devices that are under control of a duopoly.

It's not a case of get one, OP shouldn't need one! There's nothing about any Steam transaction which requires a feature specific to credit cards.

Most of what "people 20 years ago were wrong" I would chalk up to "predicting the future is hard," not lying. But Musk does lie. The name "full self driving" for one thing is a lie, and he kept saying everything would be fixed by the next version even when it was only weeks away and could not possibly fix everything.

That said, Tesla is making some progress. They have their small Robotaxi fleet in Austin, and are now increasing the number of vehicles. (From maybe 20 to 30). In Texas they do have a "safety monitor" employee onboard every car, although it has no steering wheel / pedals so they are not "driving" it per se. They have obtained a permit to operate without a safety monitor but are not operating that way yet.

So, I'm a bit less skeptical about Tesla "ever" making it than I used to be. I think only a small number of companies will make it to the finish line (NOT Stellanis - the Dodge/Ram people) but Tesla probably will be among them sooner or later.

Of course, the real leader - my a country mile - is Waymo.