There's no way Chengdu has the cultural vibrancy of NYC.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/... ">80% all households own their homes (well above the rates for what have been defined as ownership socities in the West) (Clark, Huang, & Yi, 2019). If homeownership is an important indicator for the Chinese Dream, as it was for the American Dream, it is fair to say that most Chinese have achieved their Chinese Dream. This is a spectacular achievement especially given the fact that public rental was the dominant tenure in the 1980s in Chinese cities, and homeownership has recently declined in Western countries. Along with the growth of ownership there has been an expansion of multiple home ownership. More than 20% of urban households (16% of rural households) own multiple homes, which is also much higher than many developed nations (e.g. 3%–4% in Australia and Northern Ireland; 13% in the U.S. and about 10% in Britain (Resolution Foundation, August 2017; Paris, 2010; Choi, Hong, & Scheinkman, 2014). Residential property has made up >60% of household assets in China since 2008, while the same proportion is about 30% in U.S. (NAHB, 2013; Huang, 2013; Xie & Jin, 2015)."

It's the basis of how people get elected and promoted.

If a bunch of people are marketing a 747 as a vehicle like some alien ship that can pause in mid air, go side to side, and backwards and underwater and into space, then it's worth pointing out it's closer to being a mechanical bird than an alien ship.

No aspect of them is "car" ..they are electric helicopters, multi-rotor. Or eVTOL if you want to sound cool, but don't call them flying cars .. that's straight up lying.

A car can be driven on roads and fit in a parking spot.

The general model has been thoroughly trained on these types of problems. Then they tweaked it for the specific challenge. Then they ran it with tons of processing power, more than any normal person gets. And all of this was for very, very, very specific types of coding problems.

https://worldfinals.icpc.globa...

It's not intelligence. It's processing.

I use my touchscreen on my Dell for unchecking or checking many boxes, scrolling when leaned forward, drawing, signatures, etc. I may not use it every day, but I used it regularly. People who use touchscreen phones and tablets then shit on touchscreen laptops are being stupid. It's just habits.

Give it UI problems.

What do you believes controls the price of an item? I mean why don't they just double or triple the price of the widget? Also quit using the word widget if you aren't willing to apply it broadly. I mean is toilet paper proprietary? Orange juice? Strawberries? There's two things that can control the price of an item .. a competitor or customer's willingness/ability to pay. I find it hard to believe there is collusion for most consumer items. If it was some industry with a few players, like airlines or cars .. then yes. Maybe. There's a lot of consumer products that would require hundreds of vendors to agree to increase their prices. Are you saying restaurant owners are all colluding .. some to the point they go out of business?

AI is increasing jobs. Nobody is getting not hired or fired due to AI. The thing we're losing jobs to is inflation due to tariff bullshit. Inflation is reducing the number of people going to restaurants and things like that. If AI was taking jobs and doing things more efficient we'd see the price of goods collapsing.

Based on how I feel when I have to incur such a trip, I wouldn't be surprised if making those trips routinely would have long term bad effects on your health.

Given where the timezones are, certainly not 'most' people. Yes, you can cross a time zone in less than 25 miles if you happen to live within 25 miles, this doesn't support your stance of "most americans spend at least a day timezone shifted every year", since that's a pretty specific circumstance that doesn't apply to most people.

Even for them, I wonder what percentage of those trips introduce inconsistency in their schedule. If they work in one timezone, then they would consistently be living according to that schedule, even if they technically sleep in another.

Personally, if I am stuck with a trip that goes more than a time zone over, I just hate the shift.

Shifting the time is a PITA that is pretty jarring in a way most people don't enjoy and it seems like it may be outright unhealthy.

Something isn't over just because it has peaked. While I wish there was more, compared to when I was younger there are a lot more shows available.

What I do kinda dislike though is these mini-abbreviated seasons that have been adopted on new shows. I know its due to expense, but 10 episodes feels kinda short for a season when the shows I grew up with would have 20 to 26 episodes per season. And while I can deal with 10 - a lot of shows have been trying to get away with "seasons" of 6 episodes or less. 6 episodes of TV isn't a season - its a long movie chopped into pieces.

This is incorrect.

61 percent of the population does not take a "long distance" trip in a year.

Incidentally, this defines "long distance" as "50 miles". Of the "long trips", 58% of those are less than 125 miles away. So only 16% of people travel over 125 miles away in a given year. Less than 125 miles is relatively unlikely to cross a time zone. Growing up my family would regularly make 300 mile trips but still not cross a timezone.

I'll confess to not having pushed my luck performance wise, but at least feature wise I've been satisfied with KDE/Wayland with Fedora 42 and proprietary nVidia drivers. There were some hiccups before but I can't recall exactly when things seemed to get fine.