Stand down soldier. It's not an attack on your precious Lord Musk, but simply a rhetorical technique to convey the cost in relatable terms, e.g. to emphasize that these missiles are within the means of affluent consumers. Reporters do this all the time, and yes, many such measurement analogies are arbitrary and silly.

Home appliances are dropping dead because of bullshit internet dependencies going dead. Do you really want your movie ticket logic applying to all of your personal possessions?

The consumer's personal responsibilities do not absolve the seller of their social responsibilities, and I'm tied of greedy actors (marketers, politicians, etc) telling us otherwise.

Political remedies aren't just for the rich. We the people can organize and demand political solutions for online privacy, algorithmic pricing, right to repair, Tivoization, DRM, right to root, pervasive surveillance, and all the other anti-user/anti-freedom ills born from modern technology.

The difference is people are willing to pay for one and not the other.

Now try looking at the rest of history. Genocide, slavery, war, corruption, oppression, and misogyny are the norm.

You ask for just one day where things were perfect. How tragic, I think, that you see no triumph in the day of July 4th, 1776, when the colonial elite declared that all men were equal and had rights government could not legitimately violate. And you see no triumph in the day that slavery was banished. And you see no triumph in the many separate days that American men elected to give their wives and sisters and daughters the right to vote. And you see no triumph in the day fascism was defeated in WW2. And you see no triumph in the day we passed the civil rights act. And I could go on...

But none of those days were perfect. And none of those movements won by screening their supporters for strict ideological purity. They struggled and fought and made their case for common humanity and after great sacrificed prevailed.

America is not perfect and never will be, just like you and I aren't perfect. But America is a place where the fight can be had and the good guys might, just might, prevail.

The car doesn't know that I just finished a workout and need it on the chill side. It doesn't know that I underdressed and need it a little warmer. It doesn't know that I need a blast of cold air to heighten my awareness when entering a hairy freeway interchange after a long monotonous drive.

There is no single right temperature, so while harping on the importance of HMI you might pause to remember its chief lesson: you are not the user.

You want meaningful human connection. To this,
AI is cheap, uncanny sugar. You may argue that it has its useless (and it does) or that it can be used cleverly to unlock new play experience (and it can), but overall AI will simply poison everything from your video games to your customer support experiences to your medical diagnoses.

Or like this situation, where the cops killed the kidnapped girl they were trying to rescue. Great job guys!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Sure, let's totally dispense justice based on mainstream media reporting of the alleged crime. No way that could go wrong!

> The article mentions seatbelts jammed in doors. Personally I think Tesla should make clear instructions to the passenger to ensure the door is fully closed before leaving.

You mean Waymo, not Tesla there, but they absolutely do yell at you to close it if you leave one open for even a minute or so. I know because we used one and got yelled at, though we were just unloading stuff at the time and closed it afterward.

Trump has long disdained wind farms for "sullying" the views from his golf course near Aberdeenshire. It's completely a personal vendetta.

Rust grew out of a Mozilla side project in 2006 and hit stable in 2015. Several years later, the White House and NSA promoted it because the huge number of memory CVE's are a problem for individuals, businesses, and national security alike. And they didn't promote just Rust, they promoted memory-safe languages in general.

If you're seeing shadowy evil agendas where there exist clear, objective, straightforward explanations then take a break and go touch grass.

Living in a fishbowl robs you of the ability to truly discover and become yourself. As such, public surveillance should be restricted to areas of high crime and critical infrastructure. Neither you nor the police are owed a 24/7 visual history of all locations in which a crime might occur.

It will always be factual and newsworthy to report what the president is saying (no matter how incorrect or malicious it is). News media doesn't need 230 protection to report this.

I'll add to that Africa's geography is fucked... the coastline is old, smooth, and shallow which means you don't get many ports. On top of that, the African escarpment means that interior rivers tend to have huge rapids that are basically unnavigable. All of this greatly complicates logistics and hampers internal trade... for instance, getting minerals from the east Congo to the Atlantic requires ~9 different transports (e.g., switching back and forth between water and land vehicles). Europe and North America, by contrast, have an embarrassment of riches... loads of glacier-carved deep water ports, extensively navigable interior rivers, and (at least in the U.S.) lots of inter-coastal waterways.

Geography isn't the only thing that hindered Africa. Tropical diseases and the Tsetse fly also fucked things up pretty well by devastating livestock populations. Cattle means you can farm more land with fewer people (and fertilize it too), plus they're a food source. I'm sure there are other factors too, but these are big ones that would inhibit any would-be society.

> If your debt is denominated in dollars how does depreciation in the dollar make it harder to pay back?

It doesn't, it just leaves the general public holding sacks of worthless paper money or pointless numbers in a bank's database when they want actual stuff, like food.

Inflation as long been used as a stealthy way to tax the public, they see their quality of life going to crap as each new generation comes along, but nobody wants to admit the problem lies with government spending The US had the advantage of pushing a lot of the inflation tax onto the rest of the world, but that's going away as so many other countries want to get free of the dollar.

If tomorrow the government hands out a trillion dollars to everyone, we won't all suddenly have a lot more stuff. We'll have a lot more paper and all the resources that were scarce yesterday will still be just as scarce. Probably even more so as there's a rush to consume more before prices can fully react to such a change.