No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.

Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?

Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.

(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)

"From each according to his means, to each according to their need" is that ... pretty much what you're talking about?

What's your "fair share" of taxes, btw? Do you think someone earning $3/day in Mogadishu would agree that you're paying your "fair share"? Should we tax those unrealized 401k benefits you have sitting in an account somewhere? They're just as tangible 'wealth' as (most) of the $billion/$trillion class's 'wealth' you know? 20%? 25%? that should clean you out of that 'excess unjustifiable wealth' in a few years yeah?

And are we allowed to collectively decide on our priorities any more? My understanding that a fair number of things that are democratically unpopular have become law/reality "for our own good" per our betters in Washington DC? (Both GOP and Dems, to be clear)

"And as bad as the cold and flu can be, there are kids who are going into debt with their school over getting breakfast." The US govt spent something like $4.6trn on COVID. You're saying that should have been spent on school lunch programs instead? It certainly would be enough to feed those kids!

Indeed, solar and wind have taken great strides.

I'm not happy about much of that being driven by tax breaks and subsidies BUT I'd also very much like those tax breaks & subsidies to be pulled from fossil fuels as well (including the indirect subsidies they both get).
Let the systems genuinely compete.

Anyway: Solar and wind may be growing hugely but that's largely a factor of a tiny starting point. To see the IMPACT, we have to look at it the other direction:
In 1995, 77.1% of global energy was provided by fossil fuels.
The latest year I could find solid numbers for, 2024, that's down to....76.4%.

0.7 in three decades isn't meaningful; it's practically a rounding error.
I would be happy to embrace new nuke techs as it feels like it would be faster than waiting on solar/wind+batteries.

Notion is really only valuable as a memory/brain for Claude these days. It actually excels at that when used properly. I was also annoyed by their gmail/calendar inetgration though. It really wanted to take over the inbox and tag things how it wanted. I just didn't understand the point of it.

... I'm sure the executive that championed it has certainly been fired just as promptly without any sort of golden goodbye package.

Obviously?

Vs Android:

- The device is relevant (updated and secure) for 2+ years
- Things usually work, and what doesn't work, is predictable and consistent (total grabbag with Android, where nothing will get fixed)
- IPv6 support

Vs Windows:
- No mandatory online accounts
- Stable
- Performant
- It's not Windows

General:
- superior AI inference and memory bandwidth
- Able to play older games (unless they're old mac games, ironically)
- Able to use UNIX-like tools because it's UNIX
- Superior hardware (runs cool, good battery life)
- High performance graphically and otherwise for the cost

Micron started a new fab at their HQ in 2024 and it's barely halfway built. They have another one going up somewhere on the east coast also. They take years to build and many billions of dollars. They don't go up over night.

I worked at Micron for almost 9 years and have seen the fabs being built. Its not small feat.

You're mistaken. Those H4 headlights are absolutely visually assaulting, and some of the worst on the road.

It's mostly simply kept 'light trucks' out of the US market entirely - or did, for about 20 years, until federal legislation caught up and made them simply illegal for one reason or another (safety, fuel economy).

On the flip side, even most US vehicles are (Ford, GM) are made in Mexico and Canada.

"most people only need a small family size car"

Even in town, I will find myself using my truck's "truck" capabilities at least 2 times a week for things which would be awkward or impossible with a "small family sized car".

* Going to the grandparents' house with the kids and their bikes
* Helping a neighbor donate furniture
* Getting soil for the garden
* Getting plants for the garden
* Camping
* Moving equipment for work

Granted, I've got a Tacoma and not an F150, and I largely agree that large trucks are excessive (and they've been made to be so due to fuel use regulations not consumer desire). But, you can't buy "small family sized car" today with the capacity and capability of a 1980s family sedan.

You used to be able to get a family sedan that's big enough to take you and your family to do things, but 'efficiency' and 'safety' mandated features and capabilities which were no longer possible in smaller vehicles - so they pushed everyone to 'commercially exempt' vehicles, instead, because those have the capability to do the things people want to do. You can track the advent of the double cab pickup to the changes in government regulations exactly.

You realize how silly your cost comparison is, right?

You're evaluating a full sized truck to an 'economy' car. Entirely different capabilities.

I don't disagree with the gist of what you're saying, particularly with new vehicle prices getting insane in the past couple years and the increases in gas cost. Also, Dave Ramsey is a complete bumbling idiot who is out of touch with the economy, and has been for years.

This is almost as dubious as claims of baby car seats saving lives (which, if you look into it, isn't significantly supported by the data and tracks consistently with other vehicle safety changes - it tracks the general population decrease in vehicular deaths/injury).

Did they control for the following (just off the top of my head)?

* Changes in demographics of drivers
* Age and gender of those buying newer/ high-hooded cars and trucks
* General population mental injury (eg. from covid)
* Autonomous vehicles interfering with traffic
* General traffic pattern changes
* Cyclist density

As a counterpoint to their dubious rationalization: cars made 'around the turn of the century' had smaller A pillars and often obscured blind spots and made seeing everything from street signs to pedestrians and cross traffic almost impossible due to their length/horizontal view. They were horrible.

Perhaps they could take a clue from software from 40+ years ago and make top-posting a configurable option.

But Microsoft has pretty much completely given up on making their software configurable for user preferences.

Hey, I resemble that remark.