So you're literally saying that doing that high-status men have been doing for thousands of years is worse than getting caught shagging a Chinese spy?

"OMG! I just discovered Rich Guy is having a fling with his secretary!" would have been met with a shrug until only a few years ago. No-one cared because they knew women often got jobs as secretaries in the hope that their boss would fall for them.

Now we're supposed to believe it's the end of the world and we must destroy successful companies over it.

What a sad, tired society we live in.

Men have never cared about this stuff unless their wife or daughter was involved because they know high-status men have harems.

It's only in the last few decades we're supposed to tut and twirl our bow-ties when men do what men do.

It's a consequence of the weakness of 20th century men. The only women who care are the ones who know they're not pretty enough to get banged by billionaires.

Yeah, great. So I just have to rent a proper car for that other 7%.

And some trips would become impossible without towing a diesel generator because there are no gas stations, let alone electric chargers. Even with a diesel truck, one of our friends has to carry a second diesel tank in the back because he works in places where there is literally no fuel to fill up otherwise.

This is why people who do real work don't take kindly to urban midwits telling them they could be forced to buy electric vehicles instead.

Yes. When I lived in the UK I drove from London to Edinburgh a few times and that was considered a long trip.

Here in Canada that's about the same distance as the drive from my house to the Mother-in-Law's house and I've sometimes driven there and back in a weekend. Using an EV would add at least a couple of hours to the trip, except I've never actually seen a charger along the way to charge at.

Britain also has some of the most expensive electricity in the world, so they're screwed either way.

I've read that a large percentage of new cars sold in the UK are funded by the government under some kind of 'disability' scheme and the government may be pushing those people to buy EVs . Of course it's the Internet so I don't know whether that's really true.

They can also buy cheap Chinese EVs so they probably offer better equipment for a lower price than an equivalent European petrol car.

SpaceX is ramping down Falcon-9 and moving everything to Starship. Since Falcon-9 is used to launch astronauts NASA will probably be relying on Boeing once SpaceX completes its current contract for astronaut launches.

Of course, SpaceX may be flying hundreds of tourists on Starship by then, but NASA won't put astronauts on board unless it's 'man-rated'.

The most likely interpretation of "reconfigurable flight controls" is that the aircraft can be made to handle like other aircraft through the fly-by-wire control system, so you can see how other aircraft would handle specific situations from the cockpit.

Its been done a few times - there was a Gulfstream II which was designed to handle like the Space Shuttle for training purposes.

As someone who lives in a country where every single vehicle on the road here is imported, I have no problems with BYD being subsidised if the price I pay is lower.

Well, firstly I had a “follow only” feed when I quit Twitter in 2022 - I just want that for Reddit.

There were short periods when Twitter tried to make the algorithmic feed the default, but they always switched back to your personal feed being the default after outcry. So Musk hasnt fixed anything there, it was always there.

Secondly, no, I wont be using Twitter ever again. Or whatever its called these days.

Their current feed on mobile is a mix of stuff you follow and stuff they think you are interested in based on posts you interact with.

Which basically means that you are shit scared to interact with anything that isnt from a group you have already joined, because once you do, your feed is filled with posts from subs that are minutely related to the topic you clicked on.

For example, if I click on a post which contains an interesting local event story without checking what sub its from, and its from a local town or county sub from the US I soend the next week tellingReddit I really dont want posts from every fucking state, county, town or village specific sub in the US.

Or I click on a story about an interesting car event without realising the story was posted in a car specific sub, for the next week Im getting rid of every car related sub in my feed.

Right now Im doing this for UK home improvement and DIY subs, because I dared look at a specific story. Im getting recommended shit like home made pizza oven subs

My biggest method of interaction with Reddit by far, is telling Reddit what I dont want. And one single accidental click can result in hours or days of shitty mildly related content being forced on you.

All I want is Twitters feed from before 2022 - the one which just shows posts from people or groups you follow, and thats it. Why cant I have that?

There have been some interesting threads on Twitter recently where they discovered that by flipping two bits in a local AI model they could convert it to full "KILL ALL HUMANS!" mode where everything it generates looks like posts from the deep, dark depths of Reddit.

I think we should rewrite everything in Rust and then sprinkle unsafe() around like it was glitter to get most things to work, and then claim it's more secure because "Hey, at least we put warning cones out around the dangerous bits!"...

Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.

Indeed. I heard on Twitter that Russia is losing two million men a day now.

Moderna spent years and years trying to get mRNA cancer treatment through clinical trials before 2020 and never managed to. They might have gone bust if governments around the world hadn't pushed mRNA Covid vaccine on billions of people around the world without having to pass safety trials.