I realize this is just marketing bullshit by Anthropic in what is very likely a lead up to an IPO but we should start treating them as the criminals they already are if we are to believe their "marketing" as the truth.

Otherwise, cut the crap already.

You are not being very imaginative here. You also must have a fairly decent life, as some people in this world already do what you suggest is unimaginable every day.

Parents must be an active participant in teaching their children to read. This starts with reading to them and then teaching them how to read. Pre-school helps here as well, but if the parents themselves are not readers, then its pretty likely the child won't really become one either. My mom use to take me to the library at least once a month but probably twice as I think the borrowing of book was only two or three weeks at a time. Of course, if you were actively reading you could get through a book a week.

I'm really glad I didn't have video games or cellphones before I learned to read. By the time I got my first nintendo, I was already fulling into reading. I even loved the RPG games because of all the reading.

I don't envy parents in this society at all. They have so many unnecessary distractions being pitted against them by our society. Society may be moving forward technologically but I'm not sure that's the same as progress.

If I had a home that allowed me to charge an EV, I would likely already have one. Some of us failed in life and are renters with cars parked no where near the apartment we live in.

The best I can hope for is public charging near my place of work, though there's always competition for those chargers. My coworker frequently is playing that game. Still, his EV is pretty efficient for dollars per mile. Almost as good as my hybrid. Outside of California, I'm sure EV ownership is much more affordable due to more affordable electric rates. Maybe if you can plug in at home in California, you change your plan to the EV overnight plan and it's affordable.

Wanna bet the poors are subsidizing the rich on electric prices? Yeah, I bet they are.

I feel like Carrington gets all the attention because he was English and it was the last major observable storm. Thing is, a Miyake event would be 10x worse and we've yet to deal with one in modern times.

https://www.esa-spaceweather.n...

Has a really good read up on both events, their differences and the potential damage. Maybe Miyake is ignored because we literally can't do fuck all about it because spending the money to actually have backup equipment is "inefficient".

As it is, we are lucky we dodged a massive coronal mass ejection in 2012 by sheer luck. Had it happened a week earlier, Earth would of taken a direct hit.

It's not just the leftist. Business is happy to turn a blind eye if it provides them with vulnerable desperate workers. Republicans just can't say that part out loud.

All our social systems require more people paying into the system then there are receiving from the system. Think of the entire population as a pyramid. Our pyramid is going from a wide base with a small crown to a more narrow base with a larger crown.

As our social systems completely rely on an ever growing base, we'll be screwed before long. This is one of the reasons social security is doomed without an increase in taxes and a decrease in spending. Hence the very unpopular political truth is we'll need to increase taxes on wage earners (I recommend lifting the cap on taxable income to fund social security) while reducing what the system pays out at some time in the future. As I said, it's politically unpopular so we might just let it all fall apart then point the finger across the aisle. It seems to work for everything else and we still reelect the same people. If we always reelect the same people that are doing such a horrible job, then are they really doing a horrible job?

Population decline would be fine if we didn't have our social systems. Since we do, population decline is going to be bad for the younger generations and we'll have to redesign how we do things sooner or later.

So with half the population past 65 at some point in the near future, we'll likely go bankrupt funding their healthcare. Then, after we go bankrupt buying grandma an extra year of life, we'll experience massive population collapse.

I'm once again WISHING I was already a senior because the shit show that gets left behind in 20-30 years is going to be horrible. Gen Z will really be SOL when they reach senior age, as they'll literally be no one to take care of them.

Good thing we got the sexbot..ahem robotic caretakers on the way.

We also had massive industry that we've since exported to Asia. If China decided to end all exports to us, we'd be screwed.

PS. And it was a Chevy Blazer EV.

My friend just a bought a used EV that was leased for two years someone. He had it a weak before the car threw an error message about his battery. The car had less then 30k on it. So after having the car a week, had to turn it back over, borrow a car from them for a few weeks, and wait for a replacement battery.

Sure, it was all covered by warranty and his new battery of course also has a brand new warranty separate from the car. But the real question is, why the fuck did he need to a battery replacement before 30k miles?

That makes me want nothing to do with America EVs even more. I'll just wait for the Japanese and in the mean time, I'll stick with my 50mpg Honda hybrid instead. Beats an $800 car payment for a domestic car that will just have issues by 50-60k miles.

Sometimes a team of 10 can accomplish a necessary mission where a nuclear weapon would just be a disaster.

But really, it's because it's a way to funnel tax payer money to private corporations. We call it the military industrial complex.

Then why the fuck does food cost so much? Oh right, it's not about feeding America. It's about financing a voting block. Food is just another global commodity and you've as much "right" to it as anyone else in the world. Same as oil.

And yet American Auto refuses to fucking produce efficient cars that don't cost a fortune. This is protectionism because they don't want to compete. At this point, I'll stick with the Japanese autos because at least they are offering what I want.

And yes, I'm mad enough about this issue that I'm swearing about it. Really, fuck America auto. They stopped competing years ago. Made in America? Big fucking deal. They still track you, sell your data, etc.

You know what I want? I want a 4 door sedan that gets 50mpg and isn't connected to the Internet. My Japanese car does the first two and I was able to fix the third issue with zero knock on effects afterward.

If America auto wants my dollars, they need to offer vehicles I want to drive. It's not a fashion accessory. It's a way to get to point a to point b as efficiently as possible. I get it, I'm not the target market. They want people that will take out a second mortgage just to buy a vehicle that will have heating issues at 60k. Fuck American Auto.

We aren't going to stop flying, we aren't going to setup a factories in every country to reduce global shipping, we're not going to stop eating meat and we're not going to all magically transition to an EV that's backed by 100% clean energy.

We could but that would cost rich folk money. So we won't.