There's a lot of papers, many which appear here on /., talking up alternative non lithium battery chemistries because "they're cheaper". The assumption often is that lithium is somehow rare. It's really not, there's already lithium reserves for decade after decade of battery production at much larger scales than now. The thing is that's it's just not lithium cheaply accessible via today's mining and processing technologies, at least by those already in well established use. And we want lithium, lithium is inherently a very good battery material, being the lightest atomic weight metal there is. In theory it could be stretched to the same energy density as rocket and jet fuel (yes this means EV planes). But all that lithium stuck bound up to rocks needs to be cheap, and so that's why we research like in this article.

is in full swing. Give a pointless "Executive Order" over a hot button topic sure to get press coverage. Create a link in people's brains between the words "Executive Order", "California" and "Gavin Newsome". Come 2028 he'll "seem presidential" while Marco Rubio will still be "little Marco". Now excuse me while I see what words have the best payouts for Trumps next speech on Iran before I write that speech, need a second yacht.

-"do evil" and "blood for the blood god!" added to company values list. Stock jumps by 6%. A headline brought to you by the near future

People getting fired because the managers guarantee vibe coding works. Meanwhile I order coffee from an app that had worked fine for years and ended up waiting half an hour before needing to find an email proving I even paid at all, which the baffled store employees told me looked like an Uber Eats delivery that had been delivered. But hey the vibe recoded app gave my money to the company and that's the important thing!

-well on our way to riding eternal, shiny chrome!

"Indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate!" - Tech Company CEO's

If one ever wants to know just how old and out of touch national and supranational governments are just remember that Roblox has been profiting from child labor for years and years now and still gets away with it.

-is a useless scam funded by idiots with too much money. In other shocking news you are currently reading this headline."

Silver iodide barely affects anything, this has been around since the 70's and well studied. Adding "drones" does not make it new.

-to "dumb intern that did a thing" - a true breakthrough!

As long as we can still tax them less rich people on the roads means less crowded roads for everyone else, though I'd still prefer mass transit. Either way this seems more practical than flying cars that will grind birds into a paste, crash into random delivery drones, have no range as flying is way less energy efficient than ground travel, and etc.

Really these just seem like "helicopters that are less of a deathtrap than helicopters"

Security cameras can give evidence that anyone that walks by them was there on the timestamp, even if they had nothing to do with the crime. And in this day and age there can be half a dozen on any given street, showing everyone that walked by all day. They show you, what you look like, even what you have with you if they're somehow good. Everyone's fine with security cameras, if asked you'd answer "of course police should be able to look at them if a crime was committed nearby!" but change this to "a security camera but only showing someone's cellphone was in this rough location" and now it's bad?

Point being, these arguments seem pretty equivalent, just something to think about.

A positive sum game is a game where everyone can benefit by playing.
A zero sum game is a game where the total benefit is fixed, for someone to win someone else has to lose.
A negative sum game is where where playing it causes everyone to lose. I.E. "A game of global thermonuclear war".
AI investments are threatening to go into negative sum territory, if all these billions of dollars don't pay off all these people will have lost their jobs just to waste money. Great depression 2.0 here we gooooooo.

But he's supposed to defraud others, not get defrauded himself!

I'm utterly impressed by this new version of the classic pyramid scheme. Just keep making new companies by showing investors you were successful before so they should pony up all $ and only own say, 30% of the company. And then he has one of his older companies buy one of the newer companies, giving the newer company a "valuation" of some ridiculous amount of money the market would never actually give it, which will of course be an all stock deal with no cash so it doesn't actually cost him anything, in fact he gains more control of both companies! And this is a "deal" he can do at will since he owns both fucking companies. This gives the impression of yet more success because hey it was "worth" all that money right?

And now he's trying to put out to yet more investors his ultra mega unified company in an IPO, totally worth trillions of dollars because that's the new number someone managed to teach him. And in order to make it appear to have value he'll just buy yet another company! Most likely he'll buy this new company (companies?) with, an all SpaceX stock deal, which of course they should accept because after all, SpaceX is a company worth trillions of dollars!