Sure, but they make big leaps every time they launch. It's not incremental like SpaceX, so it's hard to say how they compare.

They are putting fibre on the poles now. Not just BT, around here we have Cityfibre using the poles for their connections.

To be fair there are advantages to above ground lines. Japan got onto fibre very early because they opened up their above ground infrastructure so that other companies could use the poles for their own cables. It looks messy but they are a couple of decades ahead of the UK for internet access.

They are above ground around here. Had to get them to come and fix the neighbour's cable that was attached to a bracket on my house. The guy took a look at it and said it was too much hassle to get the cherry picker, but if I just cut it myself they would eventually send someone. So I did. And they did. With the cherry picker.

Dyson ran out of good ideas some time ago. Their vacuum cleaners are still good, but overpriced. Even there, they copied the dust detector laser thing from Japanese manufacturers. The stopped making washing machines because they weren't profitable enough, and abandoned their car. Their snot canon, the weird headphones that filter air and blow it in your face, sending respiratory diseases in all directions, never gained much traction in the market.

I doubt these things work very well. Water flossers are in general pretty useless. They dislodge large bits of food, but do little with plaque. You need actual floss to scrub it off.

As much as it pains me to say it, I don't think Blue Origin is that far behind. They just have a different methodology to SpaceX. Instead of failing fast and often while they iterate, Blue Origin does a lot of testing and then a successful launch. So it's very hard to say exactly where they are in comparison to SpaceX, but we will find out in the next few years when they are supposed to deliver the first crewed lunar lander to NASA.

You saw this crap with crypto too. They trying to trick the stock market into bumping their stock by jumping on buzzwords. It works because automated systems will see this and buy and that will trigger other people to buy and so on so on so forth. It's the kind of thing that a sane country would be regulating and preventing.

You know, Tim Apple's brother-in-law. Why haven't we heard anything about him?

I tried one of those smaller handheld flossers some time ago and they can't generate enough Force to actually function as a waterpik. The motor is too small and at some point you are dealing with the limits of physics such that I don't even think Dyson could overcome that.

At $500 though they must think it will work but I don't see how. I say that as somebody who uses a water pik. The ones that sit on your counter while you're using them work just fine because they are much larger and have a much larger motor driving the pump action. But otherwise I think your dentist is going to notice and tell you that it looks like you're not flossing...

It's not for the purpose of following rich people around. I'm saying that the ability to follow rich people around is both an accident and a problem that needed to be solved. I'm saying that the rich people who would normally be excluded from that extra law enforcement and harassment are potentially going to get pulled into it and that's not going to be allowed to happen.

What I'm saying is that putting the cameras everywhere means that the abuse could be applied to everyone instead of carefully applying it based on zip code. Which is how we have been enforcing laws going all the way back to the days of slavery

And they control where the security cameras point and who gets access to the footage.

now you could argue that they don't really control that footage because the cops will make deals to get it, except that the cops know not to fuck with people who are living in expensive gated communities...

also People are going to be less concerned about having a bunch of security cameras around where they live versus around the gay bars they might be frequenting.

The basic problem here is that putting cameras on the highways makes it much more difficult to do the kind of selective law enforcement our entire system is built from the ground up for.

And this has been going on for about 3 years now the people have known there would be severe supply shortages.

That's about 8 years. You can no longer make the argument that nobody is entering the ram market because they're worried the bubble will pop. Everyone knew from the get-go it wasn't going to pop anytime soon and that this would be a permanent increase in demand. Or at least long enough to build a successful business off of.

Given that you have to start asking why nobody bothered entering the market. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure that out.

You can get 15 minute pricing in the UK. With your own solar and battery you can do quite well out of it.

Wow you noticed. Yeah everything is class warfare. Warren Buffett said so. You would think that would have woke you up but you went right back to sleep.

From tracking Rich people. Everyone uses the highway system including the wealthy. Ordinarily the solution for things like surveillance cameras and red light cameras and speeding cameras is to put them in poor neighborhoods so that they become a defacto tax on anyone living there.

This is necessary and important because if you put them in wealthy neighborhoods people there have time out of their day they can take to organize petitions to get them banned and removed. Poor people can't do that because they're too busy working three jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment they share with five guys.

If the human race put the kind of effort into science and societal advancement that they put into screwing over the poor we would have faster than light travel by now.

Trump's overall approval rating is still floating around 37% which is roughly where he was at when he started the 2024 campaign. He is sitting on a 400 million dollar War chest on top of the billions of dollars of epstein-class money. He will inundate the public with propaganda and that'll get him back to 45 to 47%. From there just a little bit of voter suppression and he can easily win the third term if his health holds out.

The Democrats have to walk a tight water because their voters want things the Epstein class is violently opposed to and their voters are just as prone to being confused by an overwhelming propaganda blitz. So they have to balance keeping that propaganda blitz from crushing them and their voters being well Americans... With the need to undo the damage that the Republican party continuously is doing to the country because otherwise they will inexplicably be blamed for what the Republicans do.

Honestly it's a minor miracle the Democrat party is managed to hold the country together this long.