Again, is this a European thing? I've never heard of a shed dedicated to storing bikes....I can see this is brewing used as an analogy for something else, but the shed/bike concept itself is foreign to me.
"Well...it seemed like a good idea at the time...."
Never heard of one or seen one before...is this a European thing?
What is left to change besides oven and microwave times?
One...the most IMPORTANT one....my internal clock....
That really takes close to a week to get fixed every time.....it throws all of us humans off to some degree.
Oh...and my dog....I have to adjust her schedule twice a year too....
JUST PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT....
I want to quit the damned changing in my lifetime.
Mod parent derivative funny, but I wish the thread had continued with the other funny comment about Sam Altman leading the way as recipient of the bad things.
The joke I was actually looking for would involve the conflict of interest more directly, but it's still early and maybe something will show up. I wish I could help, but my capacity to write jokes is limited.
Hmm... Would it count as a bad thing happening if I asked the AIs for help in writing jokes for Slashdot? Some of the things they say are pretty funny, but usually unintentionally.
(Just had another funny-not-funny encounter with the google's AI today. This one involved a special case of traveling salesman problems. I had noticed that the google was having difficulties and that many of the answers were terrible, but yesterday I, the lowly human, managed to find a better solution for one of main routing bottlenecks. This must mean something about how the google is approaching the problem incorrectly... All I can guess so far is that there's an arbitrary limit in the AI's planning that is blocking it from finding this path. Or maybe the bus companies have their own AIs that are at war with the google's AI?)
... about 50 times lower in frequency than AM broadcast.
Sorry, that should have been 50 times lower than FM broadcast.
It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.
Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.
I feel obligated to mention the Wall of Voodoo song "Mexican Radio": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The only reason EVs want to ditch AM radio is because their electronics interfere with AM reception and they want to save the $5 of metal to shield components.
Entirely agree with your overall sentiment, but humbly submit that your "$5 worth of metal" may be a massive underestimate. The electronics that drive such powerful motors produce HUGE quantities of RFI, which is usually pretty broad in spectrum and therefore overlaps the AM band. I suspect that to make an AM radio work decently in such a vehicle there would be changes needed to the drive electronics, the wiring, and possibly the motors themselves - as well as the radio.
What I'm about to say is a totally a finger-in-the-wind wild-assed-guess: I wouldn't be surprised if the all-in COST of making an AM radio work decently in an EV was at least into the hundreds of dollars.
I drive an EV - a Seic MG4 and my car radio can do DAB and FM (we've ditched AM here but the UK is rather smaller than the US) with no problem. No idea why you think the motors would be an issue.
The switching electronics in EVs produce huge amounts of broad-spectrum "hash" well into the AM broadcast band, which is about 50 times lower in frequency than AM broadcast. This can overwhelm even the best-designed AM radios.
Also, Amplitude Modulation is much more sensitive to interference than the Frequency Modulation which is used in FM broadcasting and DAB. So not only are FM and DAB frequencies much farther away from the emissions that EVs generate, they are also inherently much more immune to that interference than AM is.
It's probably worth pointing out that if you turn your EV off, an AM radio will probably work just fine in it. So even in EVs, AM would still be good to have in an emergency situation.
... AM spectrum would probably be better repurposed for something else.
As others here have explained, AM broadcasting is the best way to disseminate information over large geographic areas when modern comms infrastructure fails. The simplest receievers consist of very few components and don't even require a battery. Even (low-power) transmitters - useful at the neighbourhood level - are remarkably easy to build and can be cobbled together almost out of junk junk by a decent electronics hobbyist.
AM spectrum should remain available for unencrypted over-the-air transmission. Its commercial content should be made relevant and interesting as an incentive to keep people listening and broadcasters broadcasting. This would ensure that it remains available in emergencies when more complex tech with many more moving parts throws in the towel.
I applaud the AM Radio for Every Vehicle act and wish it success. I would like to see it pushed farther, to support a renaissance of commercial AM broadcasting and listening. The cost of a full-blown continent-wide AM radio revival probably wouldn't be much more than a rounding error in the utterly stupid amount of resources and electrical power we're now spending on AI and other data centres.
We've seen how well it has worked out for us here in the US...[rolls eyes].
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