...hacked spaced-out RoboCop.

If something doesn't work in America, you sue the shit out of them.

If it doesn't work, the victims won't remember to sue.

...would gain if they cracked Alzheimers. It would be comparable to the Apollo landings.

Note I'm not disparaging it, USA needs a good kick in the science ego to help purge the Orange Brainworm Posse.

Well, your brain size qualifies you.

Mice also have flying cars and cold-fusion by now, researchers just can't scale it to human-level.

Can't tell with GOP.

No, Torax AI is not an LLM

https://github.com/google-deep...

So about a 50% chance we are screwed, eh.

There was a Superbowl ad in 2000 where an "up and coming" dot-com* had a monkey dance the entire ad, and at the end said something like, "We just wasted 2 million because we can".

This smells like the same kind of arrogance.

* Oddly I think the company somehow survived the crash.

not random boats.

Where did you even get the idea that solar capacity is what's being compared?

What's being compared is: electricity generation. (period).

It is not broken down by source.

You still can. Just look at the Netherlands. In the 60s the Netherlands was a car mecca. It was following American style city design (including actually importing American city designers). They had grand plans to bulldoze poor neighbourhoods to build highways, heck at one point even the IJ in Amsterdam was proposed to be filled with concrete and turned into an inner city mega highway.

Well, there's no need to in the US.

The Netherlands is SMALL....and US is quite large and well, for the most part, if you want to live careless in a dense urban city, we have them and you can move there.

If you don't want this, and to date many if not most in the US do not want it....you can live in other cities were you don't share walls and have the independence of a private vehicle.

If more people in the US actually wanted less cars and "walkable cities"....we'd have them.

We have voters and if the voters wanted that, they'd elect people to help implement it.

Buit just face the facts,most people today do not want that car-less utopia many of you are promoting.

That's because your city is designed wrong.

Walkable cities have always been a thing. Only in America were cities designed around the car.

I can only guess that people like you can't undertake or fathom that a large majority of people out here, ENJOY our lifestyle and the city designs and types that support them....eh?

I do NOT want to ever live in a heavy urban city where I have to share walls, and depend on public transport and their schedules and shoehorn my life into someone else's timetable....

You do you.....in the US, at least, it is a large and diversified area....you can find cities that cater to your needs and likings and so can I.

One size does NOT fit all.

Almost all driving is pointless driving. You should be able to get everything you need on foot. After that there should be good public transit. Other than maybe for the disabled and emergency vehicles, cars should never be necessary.

I dunno...I LIKE driving....I was so happy to get my license finally as a teen....

I guess it's due to my always buying cars that were FUN to drive....performance oriented, good looking and well...FUN.

It's the same reason I own a motorcycle....fun.

And I don't care how well your public transport it, it will never be as quick and convenient. Door-to-door as I have with my private car on MY timetable.

Besides, I'd not like to try to schlub. My weekly shopping by hand on public transport....hell just a trip to Costco would be a nightmare hauling a 15lb brisket and 40lb bag of lump charcoal....and that doesn't even touch on the other things I generally buy on a Costco trip....

If you want that lifestyle, live somewhere extremely urban...more power to you but I and many others do NOT want that lifestyle....I like to drive and I like to NOT share walls with other people.

Clearly everyone wants to sit in an office where a dozen people are all talking to their PCs to write Word documents

Hell I can't stand having to be back in the office and having to listen to people yammer on in Teams meetings, or shoot the shit with a work friend near my desk....or just anything.

I dunno how I must have ignored in years back before I had to come back in, but I cannot fucking stand it and have great difficulty getting things done and keeping my concentration.

Are people louder today? Less considerate....or what?

Ugh...I gain absolutely NOTHING by coming into an office....and lose advantages I had. I got more done and FAR easier to eat on my proper diet since I was near my kitchen, that trying to haul all my food for the day to the office....

So many negatives to the office....and not a single positive can I think of....