It's a generational problem. A lot of GenX latch-key kids thought they needed to do the opposite of what their parents did and it turns out that the lack of attention the Boomers paid to their GenX kids gave them self-reliance and a great sense of their own personal limitations because there was nobody there to rescue them if they went too far with something. So GenX learned how to avoid pissing off the volatile violent kids and how to have fun climbing and running and biking and skating and skateboarding and surfing and diving and every other incredibly dangerous thing you can think of because they had to pay attention or they could die. They grew up and realized "omg my parents let go out into the world alone and with dangerous people and things everywhere and I really can hardly believe I didn't get killed or kidnapped or worse!". So their next thought was "I better do things better than they did and 'protect' my kids from all of the dangers of childhood and affirm them in everything and convince them they're perfect little creatures and a gift to the world". Well, we see how that turned out...

This is so insane. I have a child going to college next month and so I know how incredibly hard it is to get into UMich. If they need to do this for incoming freshman, what does that tell us? It means they're still admitting a huge percentage of under-qualified students to diversify the student body. How can this still be happening? It's been abundantly clear for at least a decade that doing to much affirmative action for students harms more than helps them. No student should be invited in to a university where they are going to struggle and have a mental/emotional breakdown because they can't hack it. They could have gone somewhere else where they could have thrived, and someone else actually qualified to be there could have filled that seat. This is such an insane drag on society I honestly don't know how much more of this it can take before the system collapses. Wake up and grow up people of academia. Reality doesn't care about your feelings. You're going to ruin the excellent reputation of UMich while you also ruin a lot of kids lives.

This is complete BS because Waymo is so inferior to Tesla FSD that they're entire company is about to be worthless unless they can convince legislators to require specific sensor types like lidar (which they use and Tesla doesn't). Complete and utter trash. Tesla FSD is already 7x safer than a human driver and 9x safer on highways. Tesla has already won this race and they were 100% right that only cameras are needed. They're trying to use regulators to protect themselves by shutting out camera-only solutions like Tesla FSD because they simply can't compete with it. People that are impressed with Waymo are people who have never experienced Tesla FSD. Waymo is an algorithmic code solution for a problem that's not suited to algorithmic solutions and it shows. It really requires a primarily AI-based solution.

As consumers we must demand that Tesla FSD is allowed to launch Robotaxi at the same time or before the other players !!! It is the THE BEST and by far.

Disable the wifi on your smart TV and get a Roku. Never trust the TV brand to do things properly. I don't trust Roku completely but you can expect them will keep their OS updated and their app ecosystem cleaner than Samsung or LG or TCL etc.. Plus you easily take it with you when you travel, or upgrade the hardware when necessary without needing to upgrade the TV. You can also neuter the Roku's ability to listen in on you by using your older Roku remote that doesn't have a mic on your newer Roku device.

Given how cancers are able to hide themselves from the immune system, I guess it's not that big a surprise that they could survive in another individual.

The L3Harris Stingray product came out 25 years ago..! How is this anything new?

Unfortunately our fascist elites who hijacked our system well over 100 years ago have decided to co-opt the leftist movement and use it to implement a Chinese-style digital control system on the West and what's really scary is that they've successfully painted the _only_ opposition force (MAGA) as the fascists in the minds of even educated people on Slashdot. We could be doomed if people don't wake up soon.

You're absolutely right that it's about creating barriers to competition and cementing their dominance, but this has nothing to do with AI being a 'rich man's game' which is just Marxist non-sense. AI will get democratized and be running on everything in pretty short order. Go read some humanprogress.org and stop being a pawn for the power elite who are happy to use the leftist revolution to can take permanent digital control. Do some reading and you'll discover that the real revolution happened in 1776 and got hijacked in 1913. The counter-hijack is happening right now.

Anecdotal hand wringing in "interviews" does not mean we're going to get less useful scientists. Not all science funding is good science funding. We are decades overdue for a correction on this stuff and we all know it. You've just been taught to hate this administration by the MSM and anything they do must be bad. Stop being a pawn of the globalist elite. They don't care about you. They want you dead or shackled with debt, eating garbage food, taking daily pharma products, getting vaxxed every few months and voting for them so they can rewrite the Constitution, pack the SCOTUS and impose tyranny on the world, winding it down to 500 million people (that is literally what they are on record saying they must and will do to 'save' the world) by the end of the century. WAKE UP

If you don't see this and immediately think it's a project of Big Pharma to escape regulatory scrutiny and astroturf the desire for 'solutions' to the common cold and flu then you're just another NPC. They are trying to convince the public they need something they don't need and something that will without question do more harm than good. Vaccines don't work on things that mutate rapidly like the cold and flu. They know that. That's why they do this astroturf and NGO crap to pretend otherwise. WAKE UP, become a player character in this game.

Central bank digital currencies "have no real uses" !?! Are you trolling us? They have essentially only one benefit or use which is to surveil and control an individual's use of their own money and that means their ability to live in modern society. With the CBDC, the EU won't even have to arrest and jail dissidents any more, they'll simply be able to turn off their ability to do transactions. "Do you want to eat, travel, pay rent, etc.? ya? ok, then stop being a nuisance to us on social media..or going to AfD party meetings, etc."

How about instead we put the socialists' money where their mouth is? How about we do a 'one-time' tax on the DSA party's assets? How about we do a 'one-time' tax on the assets of all the Democrat legislators who have gotten us into this mess? That sounds like real "Equity" to me.

How about this.. let's do a 50% tax on all assets of the CA legislators who served during the period of the runaway budget? And for the current legislators, if they don't get the budget down to the 10 years ago budget inflation adjusted to today in 3 years, then they get 90% of their assets taxed away? How does that sound???

Something tells me that pretty quickly the socialists wouldn't be so happy to spend other peoples' money quite so freely anymore and they might start to notice the actual tyranny represented by taxing of their neighbors' fixed and unrealized assets.

Anthropic and their arrogant employees shouldn't have tried to dictate to the military how their models can be used. It's more tyrannical for some unaccountable private company to have this power than it is for the military to have it because the Commander in Chief is directly elected by the citizens of this country. The people have no power to replace Anthropic's leadership if we don't like what they're doing. Congress is utterly compromised by special interests and deep state (as evidenced by GOP inability to pass the Save America Act for example) so there's zero chance of getting those elected representatives to implement policy the people actually want (again, we have evidence they don't work for us... there are dozens of policies they imposed on the country that the citizenry is hard against with open borders at the top of that list). If you want an even clearer picture of what it looks like when the power elite implement policy directly against the will and interests of the people, just look at the EU and UK. It's the picture of what will happen here if the current preferred party of the power elite (the DNC, obviously) gets back into power -- open borders (which leads to their post-Nation-State utopia, right?), digital censorship and control, lawfare against their opponents, two-tier justice, inheritance taxes ("equity" and steal the farmland), etc.. In fact, it's the same globalists controlling the UK, European Commission (not the Parliament but by design it doesn't have the real power), the US deep state and 5-eyes mainstream media. If they get back into power in the US, the West is in serious jeopardy.

One of the best things about Roku was that it wasn't really a streamer itself which helped prevent the enshitification of the product because there were no real anti-competitive pressures there like there would be if for example, say Peacock/Hulu owned it, or Amazon or Paramount/Warner. So next year it'll be owned by FOX and then they'll be in competition with all the other free news outlets and apps and they'll need to drive viewers into their channels in order to monetize them and pay for this acquisition.

Charging times on trips is negligible. It's all about charging a little more often in the 30%-70% range which goes extremely fast and just making a couple more stops. Porsche proved it by making an LA to NY trip with less time spent charging vs filling gas. Don't believe the hype. Your Tesla will be done charging before you've even got your Starbucks order in when you stop to go pee.

And the cost for charging an EV is $0.25/kwh at home. At 4 mile per kwh, that's $1.25 per gallon for a 20 mpg car equivalent or $1.75/gallon for a 28 mpg car equivalent. I think I like EV over ICE at $5-7 per gallon! Even at $3/gallon you're saving significant money and there's essentially no service costs. You'll get tired of the car and want to upgrade before your battery range is even 70% of what it was when you bought it. And if you get the bigger battery and only charge to 70% most of the time, the degradation is pretty negligible. EV is clearly the way to go for AT LEAST ONE of your vehicles. Eventually battery prices and energy density will be so good that you'll even be able to justify an EV truck to tow your boat around. Hell, your boat may be EV in a few years, too (probably with an on-board emergency charging motor though which is fine).