"the American rightâ(TM)s hostility to democracy" you say?
Do tell.

So if we're talking sides, which "side"
- invaded social media spaces, and then emplaced high level government agents within the relevant companies SPECIFICALLY to guide "public conversations" in the directions they prefer?
- pushed for vote-from-home, the most beautifully-crafted system if one wanted fraudulent voting?
- pushed for electronic voting, again simplifying and enabling large scale fraud?
- manipulated information, media, reporting and hid any information that called into question the mandated "It came from bats" COVID theory? And then worked hard to kill/hide the fact that the US actually funded gof work at the lab it seemed to come from?
- spent years telling us how far apart from each other we were allowed to stand?

I don't think Trump and his crew of morons is any better, but the idea that one side is better than the other is laughable.

Some would agree that yes, what was going on was inexcusable.

You "You used an AI"
(provides actual source)
You "I don't like that source"
Also you: I'm disingenuous as fuck.

While I'm sure we all appreciate the ä宣éf's opinion, lying about gross economic statistics and manipulating currency is fundamentally non-capitalist.

I'm not going to disagree with you that Western governments have done so themselves sometimes (for example, the US unstated policy for at least 50 years after WW2 was to keep the USD overly strong as an 'invisible subsidy' to our western economic partners, making their manufactured goods more price competitive; US consumers got cheap goods, foreign economies got to build their factories and economies), but China's economic manipulations are ceaseless and utterly one-sided.

I think everyone understands that fundamentally, dictatorships HAVE ALWAYS been potentially more nimble, more efficient, and more consistent.

At a longer view, the question is if the costs are worth those improvements.

...they're fucked.
Their inventory is insanely high. And worse, it's OLD.

They kept running production full tilt, forcing dealers to take new production AND FORBIDDING THEM offering deals to customers to clear old stocks. They kept trying to sell to the top of the market and nobody's interested.

So their dealers are closing left and right, going bankrupt because they can't service the sustain costs on their inventory (they don't precisely own the cars in their lots) and as few people that are willing to buy a new JEEP for $120k, there's even fewer willing to pay $120k for a "new" 2024 model that's been sitting on the lot for 3 years. Drive that off the lot and you don't lose 30% value, you lose 60% or more.

I'm not in that business, but from what I understand their collapse is a "when not if" proposition. Not shocked that when Carvana looked for someone willing to be their playground, Stellantis was willing and had dealerships that would take anything for some inflow of cash and maybe even customers.

No, it' isn't hard to look up. What's your malfunction?

https://tcf.org/content/report...

...if you can't disable your AI in 90 min that would seem like a problem.

It seems you're right - https://www.brown.edu/news/202...

https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

It's not a serious comment. If you look at the highest-rated comments in /. on this subject, they're more about dogmatic virtue-signaling than meaningful comments about technology, science, or even this fairly important issue to near space viability.

My observing this will immediately get this post downrated despite it being a factual observation because on slashdot now:

Post 1: Elon is a stupid poopyhead, +5 Insightful
Post 2: SpaceX has vastly decreased launch costs per kg (fact), Tesla more or less single-handedly made EVs commercially viable, both from their cars and their investment in chargers (fact), -1 troll

This isn't hard to look up: it's about 20% per grok.

Hebrew, wtf are you on?
0.07-0.08% of students speak Hebrew.

Dwarfed by Spanish (75% of ELs)
Arabic 2-2.5%
Chnese 2%
Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Urdu all also are higher than Hebrew

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Elon has personally shit on the "commons" of LEO orbit, it's hypocritical if you are bothered by someone else trashing his already-placed trash satellites.

Countries that welcome immigrants are able to increase the tax base, and supply critical labor that locals don't want to do, including taking care of the elderly.

But you take in too many, too fast, AND if you allow those that are diametrically opposed to your values and way of life.....YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY.

and that's what we're seeing now across EU and trying to combat in the US.

Nice try.
How many American students speak ANY second language?
Hell, how many can speak fundamental English ?

I rather suspect Chicago - where there are many WHOLE schools where NOBODY is reading, writing, or arithmatic'ing at grade level - probably has students who can't speak (nor especially read) english as well as those Japanese students.

Any idea why?

My kid teaches at a rural unified school district. 75% of the kids have whatever the "action" plan folder is called- Jimmy gets scared near windows; Janie can't sit near the door; Mary has trouble concentrating so needs extra time; etc.
About 10-20% of kids in every class have paras, essentially shit-paid workers that shadow billy because he likes to stab other kids when there are scissors.

I'm not kidding about that last; there was one kid who just liked stabing things. With pencils, with scissors, anything with an edge or point, he'd use to stab. Chairs, cushions, other kids. His last para quit because she took her attention off him for a second and he *almost* got her in the eyeball (nasty scar on her cheek tho). So without a para to mind him, the school in desperation made her seat him next to his best friend, the only kid in his class he hasn't tried to stab - I believe the "friends" parents might have objected...had anyone told them.

Are you kidding?
The Bakken Shale produces nearly the lightest sweetest crude there is.

You have it backward - US refineries are built to process shitty Venezuelan and Canadian crude, while ours needs nearly no processing at all.