Meh. Boeing's recent safety record is worse than Airbus's, but flying with either of them is still significantly safer than driving a car, which nobody thinks twice about doing.

there's a lot of that in politics especially when it comes to war. perhaps that can be a good thing?
but I recall Obama laying down a series of "red lines" in the Syrian civil war that were crossed without repercussions so Trump is not alone

He'll finally ban Tiktok the same day that Elon delivers Fully Self Driving & the next-gen hardcore ICE smackdown Roadster

right?

smdh

The interesting part is the human psychology behind it, i.e. what causes (allegedly) intelligent people to perform a necessary test, and then simply ignore the results of that test when the results aren't what they had hoped for? Were they imagining that the ocean would just give them a pass because they had made an effort?

what I know about cell biology can be coded in much less than that creature's genome

I don't think the Chinese government has a whole lot of motivation to make life easier for gullible Americans at the moment.

With Pelosi gone cleaning up the Democratic party has become easier; if Schumer goes soon, they're a much better chance of reforming it.
Lots of people have been listening to Sanders & AOC but the Dems need the midterms to swing heavily in their favor - and then to follow through

"Is that something you're striving to be?"
America is well down that path in many respects and declining even more rapidly.
It hasn't been #1 in anything except most powerful military in several decades

Yes, how can we tell the difference between a true random number generator, and a device that is simply reading the next entry from a very long one-time-pad that our mortal enemies also have a copy of, and therefore can trivially "predict" future results from, no matter how perfectly random they are?

The original implementation of a working battery swap had been done by Better Place with an average swap time of about 5 min
Tesla later had a demo that was about the same with a side by side of a car being refueled. IIRC the Tesla swap was much quicker.
Tesla built ONE station at Harris Ranch and after about 2 years called the project a failure.
I assume they kept on collecting the extra CARB credits but i also assume that's only for Model S & X as rapid pack swapping on all their other cars isn't feasible

so why is this making news only now?

"how a battery swap system failed for Tesla when they tried it"
Elon had ZERO intention of actually building a swap network - it's was a smart ploy to qualify for more carbon credits as CARB had a tier for "quick refueling" that benefited technologies like hydrogen. I don't recall the exact details but the "refueling" time was impractical for EVs at the time if only using chargers hence the battery swap scheme.

all your points were considered by Better Place 20 years ago. you don't own the battery, you lease it.
they had 20 swap stations, mostly in Israel that kept operating for a couple years after the company officially went bankrupt.
they tried too hard, too soon & in the wrong market but they had a working solution