There doesn't *need* to be a benefit - at this point, ani-vax is basically a religion. A kind of paranoid schizophrenia mixed with anti-government sentiment. It's become self sustaining.

That said, it started as a cash grab. Disgraced former doctor and un-indicted serial child abuser Andrew Wakefield pioneered the "research" associating the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccines and autism, and pushed that narrative hard, even though he himself was never anti-vax and openly advocated for separate vaccinations for those diseases. It was later discovered that he not only had a deal with an ambulance chasing lawyer named Richard Barr who was looking for any excuse to sue vaccine manufacturers (to the tune of nearly half a million GBP), but he also had a financial stake in a company that sold those separate vaccines he advocated for.

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"... saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight..."

And a gallon of av-gas is $7.84.

What about all the crashes and incursions and lack of staff?

Bread and circuses. Doesn't the LLM cost more in resources from the power grid? Does $627 per (number of seats * ticket price, which is ... more than 3 digits) flight seem like a "big" savings?

A dude with 3,000,000,000,000,000 spent 500,000,000. Aka, 1/6000. If you had $10, 1/6000 is 0.17 of a cent. Who cares? That's nothing.

> Copilot isn't working, either.

Well at least there's an upside to all this.

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Cool.

So, are you for or against being a catalyst for change which is known to be *DEVASTATING* for humans and other living creatures on this planet?

Seems like a rewrite of interfaces (and, everything), in Rust would be of large benefit.

How many more code-injection vectors do we tolerate? Especially, with automated fuzz testing (etc) of agentic connectomes.

Seems like the 20th century modality needs to go the way of DOS 1.0 EDLIN. It's bad for UI/UX, and is poor separation of concerns/security from the implementation/integration/maintenance side. :/

"I think a lot of us hoped for a much more balanced and measured approach."

I think a lot of R voters in '24 had a short memory to even hope for anything either balanced or measured from this administration, particularly since it had no incentive to deliver either. Though to be fair, a lot of D leadership also had a short memory in '24, in that coronating a Presidential candidate did not fare well when the candidate was well-qualified, so trying it again with a less qualified candidate was a bit eye watering. There was plenty of blame to go around for that snafu, but all of it landed squarely in-house.

Anyway, hopefully the new congress hits the ground running, a la Trump in '25, focusing on exercising their authority over the purse and passing legislation to deliver results and constraining the executive. If they're too timid to do that, it will be yet another bloodbath in '28. Impeachment is a red herring -- Vance would be just as bad, or worse (since he's actually competent), and the opportunity costs of focusing on impeachment are just too high right now. Draft censures and file lawsuits to set the stage for later criminal prosecutions once this administration is out of office, but above all, exercise the considerable legislative authority vested in congress, and put more checks on the executive -- through amendments if necessary. The time is now.

I know you are but what am I?

... get your boss arrested for robbery

AFAIK, gas turbines are mainly used as a temporary measure during times of high demand/price of electricity. A bit like emergency generators at hospitals, because generating Al slop is at least as important as keeping people alive. Also more important than keeping the planet habitable. I guess we won't need humans much longer, as Al replaces them as consumers of Al slop.

Are you sure? There's so much money tied up in circular loans and IOUs based on potential profits that I'm not sure they are.

For example: NVidia invests billions into OpenAI and Anthropic, who then use that money to buy NVidia products. Has NVidia actually made any money, or does the "demand" for the product simply drive up the speculative stock price?

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Why spend even more money on more equipment that you have to store and maintain, and buy increasingly expensive fuel for, when you can dual purpose what you already have?

That's assuming you can even get fuel of course. When Sandy hit (last big hurricane in this area) most of the gas stations around here were inoperable for the first day or two because - you'll never believe this - but fuel pumps ALSO need electricity and there weren't enough generators rentals to go around. The stations that were operating over the next few days quickly ran out because the depot infrastructure, located on the shoreline, was damaged.

So sure, all you need is a generator, and an entire evening to wait in line for your rationed fuel hoping they don't run out by the time you get to the pump. So easy and much more convenient than just running an extension cord to the EV in your garage, which also runs silently, indoors, all night if you want.

If you want to go full prepper mode buy some solar panels and lay them out in the driveway or lawn. Even a kw or two worth (about 4-7 panels) would be able to easily cover your daily emergency needs with an EV battery to store it in.
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The run time will obviously depend on the size of the battery, which will likely be available in at least two sizes. I'm willing to bet you can also set reserve limits so the truck doesn't completely discharge itself, and that further limits the run time.

Battery capacity has yet to be announced though.

All that said, I'd say at least 30kwh which will keep most homes running 2-3 days without any change in usage habits. With some very conscientious usage you can probably get a week out of it.
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... if you use any of my data for commercial purposes, without permission AND payment on each and every occasion, I not only entitled to take your scalp, but can take your employees' scalps, and at my own discretion, can cut up to 12 inches lower while doing so.

Yes ...

One ad and all your employees can lose their heads.

Take that, Google

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