Should we blame the government?
Or blame society?
Or should we blame the images on TV?
No, blame Canada, blame Canada
With all their beady little eyes
And flappin heads so full of lies
Blame Canada, blame Canada
We need to form a full assault
It's Canada's fault

This is the same line of thinking behind why the monument reflection pool was painted blue, despite actual experts saying it would only warm the water and make the algae problem worse without major infrastructure improvement to the water filtering. Well, they don’t believe in glowpool warming. Instead, it was a scam no-bid contract for massive profit to the same company who flooded mar-a-lago so the security footage couldn’t be used. Just assuming stupidity or contradiction of belief isn’t going to give the full picture when they don’t care about anything but money.

I know the images they scraped from the internet weren’t very high resolution, so the results of their revere image diffusion might not be too good but this is overkill.

If there really was a long term market for vastly more chips, the current manufacturing base would have spent the many billions to ramp up production. Instead, they just are selling to the big players for 3-4x the price+ and are neglecting the consumer market hoping they will just make short term money with nothing else changing. Jokes on them though, China is funding internally owned companies to spin up ram production to make up for demand and if it’s successful it will be a thorn in the established companies side forever even if companies find out what a Claude subscription is really going to cost and demand drops.

Same, I forgot to.

The percentage of the population that is susceptible to physical addiction of chemicals, when broken down and simplified to a number, is between 15-20%. For example, I smoked cigarettes for a short while in my youth, getting to between half a pack and a pack a day then quit cold turkey. My roommates even still smoked at the time, yet I didn’t find it that hard to quit and never had any real urge to start again. Clearly it was far far easier for me than someone susceptible whom I know several and it is extremely difficult for them.

The activities in the environment that are considered “addictive” is broad. Gambling is about 1-3% while things like social media can be 40-60%. And the truth is more complicated than a dice roll and binary result of true/false. However, all of these punish more than a hundred million people in the US alone for the susceptibility of some. Rather than blanket bans, focusing on scientific study, education, alerting individuals as soon as possible to their susceptibility, and treatment programs with social safety nets is more effective and maximizes freedom which is scary for some people but reality is scary and letting a government citizens have little say in dictate it is scarier still.

The reality is screen time in jobs and schooling contributes to many of us neglecting many of our physical needs and creates psychological stresses with the same general pattern. There is widespread pushback and campaigns to try and normalize it even though we don’t really have an equivalent saturation of similar activity for all human history before the Information Age to act as a guide. The percentage of the population that did equivalent reading was far far lower and it’s not 100% overlapping with screen time. Unfortunately people in charge tend to run on emotion and vibes rather than from a scientific basis, and worse still, science relies on money and monied interests fund corrupt studies to muddy the waters to suit their own ends.

Funny thing is from a very young age students are now spending hours per day in front of screens, and by the time you get to college, it’s nonstop for the rest of your life in many professions. Somehow the only bad screen time is that spent in enjoyment, but if it’s for work or school it’s healthy and builds character.

Well then, you must know better than most people that when you are on the right drugs it not only seems possible, but easy!

Funny you should mention that.

I’m in the US, and haven’t driven a car with the driver seat on the right, but have extensively drifted cars and motorcycles a few times. I also did quite a bit of downhill skiing, at least when I was younger, also skated both on pavement (rollerblades) and ice skates. I’m definitely right handed, but when it comes to turning in any of the above cases I don’t have a preference and both seem equally comfortable. Stopping on skis, or either kind of skates I also don’t have a preference I comfort though I may slightly favor turning them right all else equal (tips go right or in the case of rollerblades using the right skate to brake).

While that is correct, it’s also true that it’s the American people who have had their money diluted (they paid for it essentially) and the beneficiaries are American weapons manufacturers. So it’s throughly in line with the American tradition of socializing costs while privatizing the gains.

I don’t think that’s true. Do you have any idea of the power of suggestion?

Even if you are rural, the 5% of the time you need to have fast charge, it’s highly unlikely a fast charger isn’t available along your route. Even in the town of 1,200 people I regularly stay at there are fast chargers available at 50kW and 250/350kW chargers along major freeways in the surrounding area. This is true for the majority of America, and it’s only getting better coverage as time goes on.

It’s not very convenient for city people who can’t charge at home. They have to pay 4x as much per mile for electricity and it wastes their time at fast chargers.

I take it yours isn’t a plug in? You can use a 10ga extension cord to charge at up to 3.6kW off 240V and 100’ isn’t a problem. Even at 120V you can charge at 1.8kW. So if you are in a rural area, not only could you easily meet all your charging needs at home, but you are more likely to have 240V access.

Yep, I made a splitter cord for the dryer at my in laws house because the dryer plug is behind it. That way I can have both plugged in at the same time and outlets don’t get wear from inserting plugs, plus the dryer doesn’t have to be moved. That way the dryer stays plugged in, and the splitter cord reaches just past the dryer on the floor. They can both be used at the same time due to the circuit amperage and dryer amperage and not pop the fuse, though generally they aren’t even being used at the same time.