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Comment Re: What does this prove? (Score 1) 9

Perhaps it increases cancer rates? if it's only 2-3% it's within margin of error and we'll never confirm it. If it's 13% it'll take 30+ years because the industry is probably around as powerful as tobacco; although the USA is at it's most corrupt, other places could figure it out but they already avoided the problem so why would they invest in such efforts?

Comment Re:National security (Score 2) 70

You don't seem to realize that Chinese EVs are selling well in the EU which has at least if not better regulations than the USA has.

China can make compliant cars and probably have less recalls and flaws since the US car industry, which used protectionism not to catch up but to do nothing while everybody else evolved.

Tesla shouldn't have caught the US auto industry off guard but they did so in slow motion from within the USA; because the US industry banked on protectionism somehow preventing any threats, they didn't make as strong a push to stop Tesla probably because they didn't even do the minimum of homework to realize the growing threat.

Comment Re:bit late to start working on your fallout shelt (Score 1) 25

I only know from the comments some TV and video game thing is going on here; I rarely watch TV or video games. Instead I read about stuff like why the wealthy who decide to fund TV or games are interested in this imaginary situation where they are at the mercy of the masses they've been legally stealing from all this time.

In the past, you had serfs who believed somehow you deserved to rule over them and maybe are not as bad as the other evil pricks -- because one of them has to be their master. Not a lot of knowledge about other systems existed and at times nowhere on earth had a successful alternative to look at. Even now in the USA, we are not allowed to realize how great other nations have it, so we continue to think we are #1 when we lead on almost nothing anymore.

When order falls apart so far as to need a bunker as these wealthy people I read about were thinking-- bunker scenarios are way way out there and not like hiring security guards in today's situation.

Comment Re:Other tricks (Score 1) 162

NOPE! I'm in the USA, I've never seen busses or light rail trains get preference in my life.

Only freight trains; although, if we actually used freight like we should I'd bet a large portion of our fools would be bitching about those... resulting most likely in many more bridges and we have a lot of bridges already to avoid the few freight trains we still have. We have a huge long-haul trucking industry because of our lack of train infrastructure; it's also subsidized by the public...it's still raising our operating costs. Just another factor in China permanently beating the USA... which can't even maintain it's infrastructure let alone modernize it.

Comment Re:bit late to start working on your fallout shelt (Score 1) 25

Nah, this is a long time obsession with billionaires and likely the idea came from the top. I had a whole book long ago, before Trump was involved by an expert who consulted with the wealthy wanting to plan their survival ... maintenance of their wealth if everything collapses; and perhaps they were aware of the upcoming housing collapse which could have created a great depression... or other factors.

The problem with all their ideas as the expert pointed out; they needed staff to lord over which maintained their great wealth and power when there is no corrupt government to defend it (or to take it from them.) You see, the staff could turn on them when there isn't a robust system to protect property rights. They'd have to become partners while still agreeing to be bossed around and of lower status. A brutal control system which is reliable especially without suckers like of the "god save the king" variety.

I'm sure this is why Musk and some other billionaires are strongly into AI and robotics; which are your only reliable slaves to beat back and lord over the peasants. Musk was pretty open about his idiotic dreams of his Mars colony not being subject to any Earth laws and him being in charge etc. He's disclosed his inability to handle disagreement as well.

The Nerd Reich is currently growing now... They've got the VP of the USA already.

Comment Re:Other tricks (Score 1) 162

Add more busses!
Add bus lanes!
Add stop light preference! Why should only the police get to control the traffic signs? It would be a huge speed boost if the bus never stopped at a street light; we have a crazy amount of them.

When you get so many busses and start to consider creating a bus lane... create the bus lane while you spend a decade trying to get a train put in that spot. Also, don't have the train stop at the intersections (they do that too but at least the train has a higher speed limit.)

Comment YES! (Score 1) 50

thank you.
I'm sure they scraped most of Wikipedia already; anybody can go get an offline copy of wikipedia and have been able to do so for many years. It would be the 1st dataset I'd use to train something that large. I've already used it simply to get a list of the most commonly used english words. This is about new content, being hammered by bots, money, and legal issues.

Comment Re:So many untruths (Score 1) 35

Actually, for some tasks, in some ways the H200 performs better than their most advanced one.

You don't need to blow the money/power on the #1 product all the time; often the slightly lesser model is the better value... and in a short time #1 becomes #2... Unless there is a huge short term benefit going to the best doesn't pay for itself.

It's as honest to say it's only the #2 chip and insignificant as it is honest to say this supports US manufacturing. They really think Americans are morons. they are probably correct; at least for the majority.

Comment Re:I think we all know he went off the deep end (Score 1) 380

If his opinions do not become subtle propaganda, I see no reason to cancel him. If he is making racist cartoons which promote racism or frankly are more opinion and not at all funny then those individual things should be edited out; if it's a trend, then he's somewhat self-banning.

I have no problem censoring harmful content in a privately managed space; now monopolies, I'm against.

I'm not afraid that somebody is going to influence me by their art into becoming something I think is vile. I do think (based on experience and science) that a lot of people do not actually think for themselves so curating is necessary while universal bans are too dangerous. I won't promote harmful content and I will do my part to limit it....

1/3 of America is fine with killing the other 1/3 while the remaining 1/3 do nothing.

Comment Re:Well shit (Score 1) 42

Better to focus on the constant lying. Trump takes credit for anything he can that could look good which OTHER PEOPLE DO. He blames others for everything he does that looks bad. There sometimes is no connection to reality involved whatsoever.

He claims gas prices as going down over and over like his memory is going. Sometimes it's written clearly like he forgot; to which the only defense is that he's targeting the ignorant with a specific tone of lying... but more likely his mind has gone.

Comment Re:Pulled a Steve Jobs (Score 1) 380

You can overdose anything. Ivermectin works on COVID if you overdose it in the same way a headshot works on COVID.

The poetic justice of opposing Biden who gave cancer research a massive boost and supporting Dementia Don who undermined and now is gutting all medical research... and who has zero empathy (and at times appears to view it as a flaw) to ask for a special exception without a massive BRIBE also is an example of cognitive dissonance.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 380

You BELIEVE somehow people deserve respect upon death. Some don't believe what you do.

The dead can't get the hate they earned. In some cases, but more common in the USA, the haters do not know right from wrong so it reflects more upon them.

The living are the people who receive your comments. I THINK it is a time to prevent misinformation and gaslighting but the true believers and family are unlikely to be in a receptive mood - it's the moderates that should be the target audience. Emotional people will just dig in and be more emotional; if anybody is still repeating false things later on, that is when repeated corrections matter. Just look at how gaslit Americans have unleashed a delusional wave of morons who are now perfectly represented and wrecking the world.

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