Right, because everyone in IT knows how to write windows/linux device drivers and all have unlogged admin/root access.

... and the damn things head straight for me completely bypassing my wife so there's probably not as much female bias this gives the impression of. IMO, YMMV.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

A motor doesnt have anywhere near the rotating mass of a useful kinetic energy storage flywheel. HTH.

Dunno about bikes, but theres little difference in driving feel (not sound) between an ICE car with an auto box and an EV. Unless you think shifting into D is some kind of at one with the machine experience.

I'm pretty sure new riders can learn more throttle = go faster. There was a big fuss in F1 back in the day about getting rid of manual shifters. How many of today's drivers would go back to them now?

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

Revolutions require a substantial proportion of a group/population to act together at the same time as one. A few people here or there trying it just get bulldozed.

Theyre working for a company founded by a thieving sociopath that treats its users as monetisable assets. Why did they think theyd get special treatment when push came to shove?

And more importantly - their money.

That of course assumes there isnt a shortcut involving physics we're not even close to discovering.

Harris was a continuation of the previous administration which a lot of people had had enough of. I'd have thought that was pretty obvious. Also collective memory fades fast.