In a dire emergency, your car is the last place you should be, and the last thing you should try to hang onto. FEMA's official disaster preparedness communication calls for you to have a PORTABLE AM radio and to avoid travel unless absolutely necessary. "Let's get in the car and go to Disney" is not part of FEMA's official recommendations.

Also, to assume that AM radio will even work in an emergency or disaster is a stretch in the first place. Ancient broadcasting equipment living in swamps with hundreds of meter tall towers, seldom internet access, and nonredundant uplinks, are not reliable.

When Helene hit us in 2024, AM/FM radio was the first thing to go off the air, followed by the land-based Internet providers, followed by the cellular networks. We got by with local amateur radio operators who were able to communicate outside the zone on batteries and solar panels.

There is no "one thing" that is going to be universally reliable in a disaster. You have to have an "all of the above" mindset and prepare to communicate by different available means.

It's not about emergency preparedness.

Slave labor in the developing world helps keep prices down as well.

Please cite a time when any European country has held a CEO personally and criminally liable for something.

It won't be. Facebook will just cut a check for $79 million and go on with life.

This is exactly analogous to the power companies pushing people to "efficiency" programs at the cost of comfort just so they don't have to spend money to build out infrastructure.

"We'll provide a worse experience for you so the powers that be don't have to do anything substantive to solve the problem"

One model going down is happenstance, two — a coincidence, the third one — it's enemy action.

— James Bond

As long as I know how fast I'm going and how much fuel I have left, what do I care about engine speed and oil pressure and coolant temperature, and so on? I don't need to monitor all of the minutiae of my engine's operating point while I am driving. That is handled by the FADEC. The FADEC will tell me when and if there is a problem. I do not need to monitor these things myself. This emotional attachment to the past is just that, an emotional attachment.

A company of 33,000 has positions over seven layers deep and teams of only two people? At least they finally realized they have a problem.

If dark matter interacted with itself, you would expect to see its distribution change as the collisions cause it to clump together. Those clumps would tend to gather a bit inwards towards the core and you'd expect a distribution similar to that of visible matter (I.e. the stars, which underwent exactly that colliding and clumping process when the galaxy formed). We don't observe that: instead dark matter seems to form diffuse halos in galaxies, as you'd expect from something that interacts very weakly (or not at all). That said, some theories of dark matter do allow for stronger self-interactions, possibly creating an entire dark sector of physics invisible to normal matter. But those models tend to be considered more niche possibilities.

There are lots of businesses that are inexplicably still around.

Steak n Shake
Friendlys
Giordano's
Hooters
Many more

Why are you doing AI work with GPUs? For the cost of a pair of GPUs you can have a DGX Spark.

Tell me you've never used an AI coding tool, without telling me ...

I don't know about the rest of the peanut gallery, but I can say first hand that claude is excellent at commenting and documenting code and architecture, as well as keeping track of lessons learned.

Except you are accepting their stated reasoning as gospel. They don't want to free up RAM because of a RAM shortage. They want to free it up to run local AI models on the phone, mostly for data harvesting, behavior recognition, and surveillance.

... Into a trash can that's owned by law enforcement.