Where I live pedestrians have the right of way so when they step into the street you must stop for them whether a crosswalk is painted there or not. Yes I hate the phone zombies as well - I always wonder what they seek as they look so intently into their behavior control erm, I mean, communication devices.

DOGE doesn't exist any longer - https://www.reuters.com/world/...

If you limit "AI" to mean a chatbot then who knows? There's plenty going on in lots of different teams but you'd have to be part of those teams to actually know and even then you'd only know a part of it. Apple has lots of algorithms that would qualify as AI in the current marketing terminology since any algorithm seems to be called AI these days. A few are the health algorithms that operate on the Apple Watch - some of those are neural net based and some are signal processing based algorithms. The most recent release of the hypertension detection is probably the largest neural based algorithm currently and it took a very long time to bring that to bear because you can't just grab any data from anywhere to make a model that will pass FDA muster as a consumer medical device - something most folks seem ignorant about and just assume any data will do. You have to run studies on humans and set those experiments up appropriately but I digress.

Electricians who do house level electrical work and those who work on things like data centers or industrial sites/fabs are not the same skill set. The industrial folks need to take engineering drawings and make them work according to code and reality and this requires engineering-level skill and experience to get right without blowing things up and killing people. Running Romex and 240V EV chargers isn't quite the same as working with 30KVA. So those electricians who work on the industrial stuff don't have a lot of those things going on all the time - it's rare they will have a job within driving distance of their family - it does depend on lots of external factors. For example my brother helped build the Intel Beaverton fabs and that was great while it lasted but projects of that scale and power consumption are uncommon and far between.

In his book, "The Inmates are Running the Asylum", Alan Cooper describes how nerds in high school don't learn the social graces that others do. Others do things in high school and are "taught" the error of their ways - maybe they duke it out behind the school, they dis someone and here in Oakland they're shot, whatever - the point being that nerds didn't get that social learning that helped others learn how to not be dicks to everyone else. Then the nerds grew up and (in Cooper's book) build UIs that SUCK because normal people don't think in terms of file system hierarchies, for example. These then become the bullies you see everywhere in tech - and believe me, they are everywhere. They grow up to then become manages who have no clue how to communicate and motivate people and teams but they know how to bully. They know how to belittle and tell people they are stupid and that's about it.

RE: personal savings. There is a huge percentage of the population just surviving paycheck to paycheck. In order for them to save anything at all they would have to make enough money to do so. This is not because they are lacking in some way but because there is such a wide distribution in pay for work and skill levels. They may or may not be capable of earning more money; they may or may not be capable of learning more to do so. Not everyone is like you - most are not. Those with any technical skills at all are already pretty far ahead of the median. That's not to say people aren't willing, motivation is a huge factor as well. But this gripe about "personal responsibility" is really short sighted. About the best you could do is round up folks like that and put them to work on farms so they at least have something to eat and a place to live but since we don't have healthcare or anything like that it's kinda 1900's at best. And that's the other aspect - healthcare - where the US is just plain stupid by saddling companies with healthcare responsibilities when that has nothing to do with their core competency. Why burden a startup with healthcare costs when it should be borne as a national resource; the republican mindset here has always baffled me but it's rooted in "us vs them" and who is seen as "deserving" of health care and obviously that should only go to caucasians anyway (that's sarcasm just in case). The current system is pretty stupid, I agree but you need to face the reality of the population and the idea that we don't put people on ice floes to die once they're no longer useful to society.

LOL and while youâ(TM)re revving up that huge reciprocating mass to launch off the start line the EV left you in the dust because it doesnâ(TM)t need to spin up the mass before applying power to move the load. But youâ(TM)ll have a lot of fun getting there and making a TON of noise. Been there done that many times over and have long moved on.

I also have a Tesla FSD car and it is terrible on country roads. It's awesome on freeways and most larger thoroughfares but it still gets fooled by deep shadows and cars parked on the shoulders of roads and especially on curves. The car will come to nearly a complete stop when a shadow is on the road in a specific location every- single- time. I can see there is nothing there but the Tesla would have traffic blocked. I've also had it attempt to "correct" my driving when it sees a concrete gutter extended into the roadway - it thinks the edge of the road is where the concrete/asphalt divide is instead of the actual fog line on the concrete. It's aggressively attempted to steer me into the other lane multiple times as a result. On the freeway, getting on and off the freeway - no problem except in heavy traffic where I've had it lock up all 4 wheels when I tapped the brake. I realize these are anecdotes but it underscores how it is not good enough for me to use it all the time and it drives like a drunken sailor half the time anyway...

Kinda makes sense in an idiotic sort of way - Fox News viewers don't seem to be able to understand that its not news but Op/Ed, so having an editorial section in a scientific journal might confuse people. You know those scientists have a hard time telling fact from fiction...

What federal laws is California trying to nullify in the state exactly?

Yes they are - all the damn time. I made the mistake of picking up my phone in my car in San Francisco once and a cop spotted me and instantly pulled me over to give me a ticket. The only place that probably WONT happen is in Oakland because the police are just too busy fucking prostitutes to be bothered.

This is exactly correct. And really what the goal seems to be is to remove as many impediments as possible between the idea and execution - who needs a pesky technologist group to implement your ideas that then turns on you because of some sense of shared morality? Such things have no place in a capitalist society so removing the technologists that are currently required to implement these ideas would be ideal.

Youâ(TM)re basing claims on a myth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... Bezos is a Trump bootlicker.

Despite the requests to stop doing that so folks aren't profiled from "out of the area". Stupid governments - oh wait; they're the ones looking for the "outsiders"...