ChatGPT making up things and incorrectly following policy would merely be in line with the current editorial pool, who ignores policy when it suits them and fabricates material if an article has any kind of political content.

Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And if you're looking at these kinds of timelines, there are also other feedback loops driven by tectonics. Rock weathering, primarily.

Are you an LLM?

So let me rehash this: you found one unrelated fact from a completely separate field of study, quoted it wrongly, and then used that to imply that concern about global warming is merely "emotional attachment"? Yep, totally matches the behavior of dirtbag scammer trash.

We have statistical methods to distinguish noise from data.

Sigh. And do you remember what they say about the mating habits of spotted owls? Also, Earth is predicted to slow down on average, but can experience temporary glitches as the inner masses rearrange slightly.

Sigh. Why does it matter? Will an incorrect prediction (if it's indeed incorrect) in one spot on Earth somehow invalidate direct observations of _global_ sea rise?

Plate tectonics on average do not contribute to the global sea level rise. They are important locally (like in PNW) but not on the global scope.

Yup. But it _does_ cover a lot of road trip routes. There are still a few spots that require 300+ mile range, but they're going to be covered within the next 2-3 years.

Here's the Supercharger map: https://supercharge.info/map - if you live along the coasts, you're fine. If you click on a supercharger on the map, you can then click on "circle on", this will show the circle with a tunable radius. You can also look in Plugshare at other charging networks: https://www.plugshare.com/ As of 2025, there are only a few places in the US where you can get stranded with a vehicle with a 250-mile range.

Well, wouldn't it be nice if easy cancellation was mandatory? Perhaps the FTC should make a rule about it?

Pebble was acquired by Google and then it got killed internally. Google released the Pebble OS as Open Source last year, and a project to reboot Pebble started around that time. For now, any Pebble watch you see is at least 10 years old.

What everyone does not seem to realize, is that MNAY of the choices we are making to "save the climate" are equally stupid. They are just less obviously stupid.

If we're talking about long-haul semis, then you might have a point. But anything else? Easily replaceable at this point.

Hybrids are dead. A new platform takes 3-4 years to develop, and by that time the battery-powered EVs will be able to replace all the regular ICE niches.

I'm reading Slashdot through RSS, with the RSS-Bridge and FreshRSS. I only drop here to write comments.

Having a wimpy direct path that just goes from Airport - Downtown - Convention center is perfect for a huge number of cities.

So many places it can be really rough to get from the airport to the downtown area any time around rush hour (which in a lot of cities is around a 3-4 hour window).

Some places with rail kind of have this - like the train that goes from Midway into Chicago. But even THAT has a lot of stops and is not great for travelers, even if it's nice for residents.

I also have to say that a system where you are riding in smaller vehicles I am a big fan of because it eliminates the problem where homeless people are just handing up on the train which create danger, nasty messes, and of course awful smells. Though awful smells is not restricted to the homeless of course, that can be any other passengers also so nice to be removed from them too.