Yeah, but it's also electrified. The most MPG a modern ICEV can get does still seem to be around the 55-60 mark, like a VW Lupo, but that's an extremely compromised vehicle. It's a perfectly adequate car for typical uses, but I wouldn't fit in it even if I weren't fat. Germans are tall people (and trending fatter) but they still seem to make cars quite snug. There's more room in a cheap Nissan than most Audis...

ahem, anyhoo what about a 330e? 30 mpg combined, around 3900lb so it's not exactly svelte but that's not bad for a modern kraut kan...

This betrays some really entry-level thinking about money, where you're believing what it says on the back of the software box. (Remember those?) The idea of trickle down economics was that the wealthy were supposed to spend and/or invest their money so that it went back into circulation. That's what happens when normal people get it. It gets spent about five times before it winds up in some rich person's pocket. When rich people get money, it only gets spent twice or so before they put it someplace where it's not employing anyone. They've got it in some kind of tax dodge like in some kind of account held by a trust their name isn't on (legal in at least four states) or just stuck into some kind of investment they can devalue intentionally. They used to use art for this, but that tax loophole has been tightened, so they have to use cars and whatnot again.

The idea that isn't enough money to take away from the billionaires is inherently falling for trickle down economics. It's buying the idea that they are the job creators, when they are the job murderers. They choke the air right out the system. When we get the money, we spend it.

We are the job creators.

We separate history into ages and eras in retrospect for convenience, but we do it along borders which measure real and tangible effects which affected real people's actual lives. These people are not imaginary because they are past. Their challenges were real. Industrialization built empires and killed people, sometimes directly and in numbers. It changed the way we did everything. In a very real way, it ended civilization as we know it.

The information age represents a paradigm shift as profound as the industrial revolution. A huge number of workers get paid simply for causing practical and desirable shifts in the contents of storage devices. Many of them are doing work which is frankly redundant or worse, which will be actively discarded. How are they getting paid without the whole system collapsing? They're not contributing anything to the actual function of society whatsoever, but many of them are receiving good salaries. In fact, they are putting load on the HVAC and burning fuel commuting and so on, they're a net negative in multiple ways. Why not pay them less to stay home? Then when the money you gave them gets spent five times before it trickles up to the wealthy, it will have done a bunch of work in the process instead of getting parked in a blind perpetual trust in South Dakota.

No, but they can be DoS'd by any asshole with a big radio. Around here there is nothing outside of UHF and VHF, and very little digital. Most small FDs seem to have two or three frequencies and use tones with tactical channels. At least they can go to a tac channel if someone floods their main, or vice versa...

Every modern keyboard speaks USB, and while that has "serial" in the name, it's not the same as the "serial" interface which is being controlled by this functionality. I'm told many or most of them don't even have PS/2 support any more, but I wouldn't know because it's been decades since it mattered. The keyboard cannot speak USB serial to my PC, it can only speak USB keyboard, mouse, and joystick. Also, nobody can reflash my keyboard unless I plug it in while holding down a certain key.

In my case I was using Chrome to run configurators for drones.

And what I was thinking is that it would be nice to have a web-based version of CHIRP.

It can't hardly cost anything to at least just render it down to static pages and leave it there.

Frankly, it shouldn't cost much to keep it running, either. What it does is very simple. They should be able to migrate that functionality to whatever new site paradigm they are using now trivially, because it is trivial.

What Ubuntu is really saying here is that they're incompetent, because even a hobbyist with a vanity site could do what they can't. Is some company that shit at the web one you want to trust with your business, when they do so much through the web? womp fucking womp.

There are several ways to get linux without systemd, though, and you still wind up with better software compatibility than BSD, which has all the no-systemd problems plus all the not-Linux problems.

I would rather use one OS so I have one way to do things. While in theory a heterogeneous network can be more secure, in practice it's a PITA because everyone has their own way to do everything.

With that said, I'd rather use Linux as my firewall or NAS than use BSD as my desktop. The world has moved on from UNIX to Linux. Maybe it'll move on to some other thing in a while, and then I'll move on again, but I doubt it will be to a BSD.

Newsom promised we wouldn't pay PGE for burning down Paradise, but here we are and... we are.

This same shit has been going on all along and some people are just now discovering it. Even the scale isn't really different. We're in a very specific tech bubble, so very specific sectors are hiring, and the others are firing as the air is sucked out of the room. When the bubble collapses, the sector which has done the crazy hiring will have mass layoffs, and the other sectors will hire again.

The truth is that no one in tech should ever feel secure, because some new development which can just be highly marketable bullshit can come along and fuck up all of the markets because nobody has to come up with a sustainable good idea to get rich any more because of the nature of the stock market. It's a game for rich people played with our money as the counters and they give zero fucks about the impact to anyone but themselves. That was always true, but as the stock market has become ever more divorced from reality, it does more damage to people who still have to live there, i.e. those of us who work for a living.

AI video technology is still nowhere even remotely near just "click a button and take what it spits out". I don't know how to break this to anyone here, but you're not just going to go to some video generation site and turn out Woodnuts without extensive skill about AI video tools themselves and a wide range of traditional video production tools, and without spending weeks to months and significant financial expense on the project.

Even if / when this changes, video production is still always going to be limited by the human at hand. Most people's movie ideas, plotting, scripting, directing, etc frankly will be terrible. The slop in this case is the human, not the tool.

The point is that they spend it. When money is spent, it doesn't evaporate. It induces work. That work produces value. Then the money is spent again, and again, until it winds up in the pockets of the rich. The rich are sitting on historically unprecedented cash reserves, and interest rates are high so people aren't borrowing it from the banks where the funds are held. Therefore the money is just sitting around doing nothing, and not inducing any work. The proposal is to pry this money out of the coffers of the rich and put it back into the economy where it induces more work to be done. Isn't that what you love? Why would you be against more work being done? The money will only get spent about five times before the rich get it back again, which is the other thing you seem to love, so you get everything you want.

What we observe will always be somewhere in the middle, because if it gets to the worst case, we won't be here to observe it.

If the numbers get too small, the species becomes genetically nonviable due to insufficient genetic base. And TPTB won't want to "spend enough" (allocate a large enough percentage of total resources) to prevent that from happening because it might interfere with the overwhelming economic superiority upon which their internal self-worth is based.

Or, they stripped out disregard to get their AI to not accept instructions to disregard prior instructions, but did it in the wrong place so it removed it from the search terms.

The government's job is to address the needs of the nation, which includes those of the citizens. If it insists that people should have to work if they want to live, then they should be preserving jobs for their citizenry first.