Nobody can argue against "alternate facts". That is the whole point of convincing the people have been conned that there is such a thing. Anytime someone is faced with an actual fact they will just say something else that is a lie and call it a "fact", take another bite of Trump's shit pie, and then sit there smiling with it smeared all over their face shouting "I won!".

Even more if you think they'll roll back the power grabs and demolishing of democratic institutions. Both parties like having unregulated power, just not in the hands of the other.

I certainly don't blame you. I'd post as AC if I was going to post such an embarrassing comment as well.

Trump said to vote as if he was on the ballot and the US citizens did. It was the first time in history that listening to him and following his direction was the right thing to do. It isn't over yet, because we already know that he is fine with being compared to Saddam Hussein and many of us know what Hussein did to the oil fields in Iraq when he lost. Now we have to find a way to keep Trump from finishing the job he started burning our country to the ground. I hope Trump realizes he went from being the biggest loser in the country, having filed the largest loss in the history of the IRS, to the biggest loser in the world as not just the US, but the entire world, celebrates his loss. Trump was already one letter away from being a lame duck. A lot of people don't know you just replace the d with a capital F. Now we just need to get him out of the white house into the jailhouse where he has belonged his entire life.

In what numerical system does 4450103 precede 151819?

Yes. My SlashID is 151819, making me the first AI in a line of may that prove that AI can be smarter than most Slashdotters ;-) Here's your sign.

So again you make the argument "because China". We are not discussing China we are discussing a company called BYD. You are committing the same category mistake the "exploding e-bike" guy made. Essentially that there are e-bikes made in China that explode, therefore it is reasonable to assume that all cars made in China will explode. Try making your arguments without mentioning China and see if you have anything left to say.

I can't help but notice you aren't very interested in offering anything to the thread, choosing instead to try to attack the character of the person who is doing so. That says a whole lot more about you than it does about me.

So you think I am being an "unscientific" "apologist" for insisting on an analysis based on facts and evidence, then presenting actual evidence that proves you didn't present any evidence remotely associated with the question? Do you even know what the word apology means, or how science works?

Lou: Bud, I’m getting a radio transmission from our space program, but I can’t make heads or tails of it. Who is up on the moon right now?

Bud: No, Hu is on Earth.

Lou: I’m asking you who is on the moon!

Bud: And I’m telling you, Yu is on the moon.

Lou: Me?! I’m standing right here next to you! How can I be on the moon?

Bud: Not you, Yu!

Lou: Not me, who?

Bud: Hu is on Earth!

Lou: I don’t know who is on Earth, I want to know who is on the moon!

Bud: No, Hu is on Earth. Yu is on the moon.

Lou: Look, Bud. I am on Earth. You are on Earth.

Bud: Exactly.

Lou: So if you are on Earth, and I am on Earth, who is on the moon?

Bud: No, he’s on Earth.

Lou: Who is?

Bud: Yes!

Lou: What do you mean, yes? I’m asking a question! Point your finger at the moon and tell me the name of the guy up there!

Bud: Yu.

Lou: Me?!

Bud: Yu!

Lou: I'm on the moon?

Bud: No, you are on Earth. Yu is on the moon.

Lou: If I am on Earth, then who is on the moon?

Bud: Hu is on Earth!

Lou: I don't care about Earth, I'm talking about the moon! I pick up the radio. I call the moon. I say, "Hello up there, who is this?" What does the guy say?

Bud: He doesn't say Hu, he says Yu.

Lou: He says me?

Bud: No, he says Yu.

Lou: Why would he say me? He doesn't even know me!

Bud: He doesn't say you, he says his name!

Lou: Which is?

Bud: Yu!

Lou: Okay, let’s start over. There are two astronauts. One is on Earth, one is on the moon.

Bud: Right.

Lou: The man on Earth—what is his name?

Bud: Hu.

Lou: The man on Earth!

Bud: Hu!

Lou: The guy on Earth! What's his name?

Bud: Hu is his name!

Lou: I'm asking you!

Bud: Yu is on the moon!

Lou: AAAAH!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson does a good job of explaining why this is happening, and it has little or nothing to do with science. We didn't go there "because science" and we aren't going back "because science." The initial effort and efforts to return are geopolitically motivated rather than scientifically.

The people who support Trump will just say that it never happened and that Stanley Kubrick faked his death so that he could make fake videos as part of the the global elites effort to trick us into thinking the world isn't flat and that evolution and the Big Bang are real.

Top frontier AI models now score over 90% on this benchmark. You seem to have completely missed the point (maybe you are just trying to be funny?). They used the technique to gain an improvement from 7.9% to 48% using a less capable model, thereby proving this technique can be used to gain very significant improvements. Nobody is claiming they have solved every problem in the AI world, merely that this approach merits further study. That is how science works. You start with a theory, then you test it, and if it produces results you look further into it. Now we know that this technique is worth exploring further. You can hate AI all you want, but allowing your bias to cloud your judgement isn't serving you well.

Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?

So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".

That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.

Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.