You really thought you had a mic drop moment there, didn't you? Holy fuck. STOP THE PRESS, BATTERIES HAVE TO BE CHARGED!

While you're in fact not entirely wrong regardless of winking, as I have personally encountered those people in passenger rail debates and they are irritating fucking idiots at best (literally nobody on the planet is more ableist or dismissive than bike nazis) I think the leftiest leftists want transport systems that work for everyone.

Destroy the death vans, for a start.

America is shit in many ways, yes, and some of them are the same as China. That doesn't make China not shitty. It just means there's no good guy.

Yep. A whole lot of Americans haven't read the 13th amendment, or didn't understand it (which is somehow even sadder.)

The USA has a shortage of tool and die manufacturing, we can't get the workers. Nobody wants to train for years for that field when they might get automated out of existence.

It did last time around, too! The Japanese didn't just make cars which were better for cheaper, they were cleaner too because they were more efficient. e.g. the Honda hatchback with the original CVCC engine was able to meet California's emissions standards without a catalyst (At the time, when they were world-leading) because it was so very good at burning fuel.

Sure, but the way to solve that is not to protect Ford from competition, but instead allow it so that they have to produce competitive vehicles to exist, so that they have the ability to manufacture those vehicles. Instead we have protectionism at every level of the auto industry, bought by the big consolidated automakers, so that you need many many billions to bring a new car to market even in very low volumes.

Each one has its own problems, but the former is obviously a bigger national security risk. You're putting a bunch of deadly robots with always-on control systems and internet connections in your country. Since China and the US both have empire building aspirations (China is more patient and less stupid about it, so it's a little less obvious if you don't pay close attention) it's reasonable to be concerned about this.

This is absolutely true. The people making the decisions don't give a fuck about the country either. They can afford to go somewhere else.

It obviously makes more sense to add sensors than to spend even more on a robot that's going to run around and look at gauges, getting in the way of any humans, who the gauges were actually designed for so they could just look at a thing and see what's going on with the thing. Using a robot to go look at something a human can reach is stupid, the plant is already a robot and you can make IT aware of the reading.

It makes sense to use robots to look for leaks in pipes or what have you, not to read pressures.

But that's not only the vision system being crap, that's them being crap. (Mostly it's Elon being crap, since he's the one who keeps insisting they do it his way in order to save a few hundred bucks per car, and also to try to prove his shit idea is genius.) They don't put sensors that every other automaker uses on the vehicles, sensors which would reveal the density of an object being approached and reveal that the vision system doesn't know what's happening.

So it's as smart as you!

In fact most of the effort recently has been put into creating unhealthy breeds with fucked up faces that can't breathe properly and/or can't give birth without surgery... we definitely cannot be trusted with Eugenics.

Racists don't do introspection, or they'd realize they're shit.

False. Kicking out the shitty minority in order to attract more paying customers means making more money.

You really can't figure that out?

They are dying for lack of customers.

I did and I do. The theaters can all die. They take up a lot of space in exchange for producing a few paltry minimum wage jobs and don't give a fuck about making the experience enjoyable for people who like to concentrate on things.

Yes, you can. I regularly use a webapp where most links are driven with javascript, and the back button works fine both on links where they are and those where they aren't. This is kind of amazing given the general incompetence of the web app in question, like how actually doing that will at times lead to the creation of duplicate data because they apparently don't track whether forms have been used already. But that's not because they don't use cookies, because they do. It's just made by Accenture and they are generally fuckups.

Yes, if you encode the session ID in the URL there is a risk of leakage, but you don't have to do it that way. It's just an option, which I mentioned because it exists.

Want to tell me you can't do anything else I see working all day every work day?