With potentially billions of 20-somethings on Earth to choose from for such a trip there's likely enough of them willing to volunteer to make this trip happen. What might be a selection criteria is some medical condition which makes having children impossible, or perhaps having some genetic anomaly where they'd pass on some undesirable condition if they did have children. A quick look at Wikipedia tells me that as many as 15% of couples are infertile, that sounds high but even if its only 1% then that's a lot of people that might want a means to leave a legacy as children aren't an option for that, such as a trip to some far off place where there's little to no chance to return alive.

While that may be the case, the diesel was only as a backup for otherwise chargers with solar panels on them. The reality is when you're not only out of the city, but in the middle of fucking nowhere away from any form of civilisation no one will give a hoot about being green if you're stuck without power in an emergency.

In the country without a grid, diesel backup has been the norm for many decades, as has solar power (though back in the day people had entire rooms full of led acid batteries to keep the lights on). Heck 30 years ago I designed and built a switch that load-shed a portion of my friend's house if the solar / batteries dropped too low so that he'd save on fuel.

No, this was a publicity photo. The original photo was for evidence but someone thought by sharing it there could be some good publicity. But so as to have some kind of "ownership" of the photo they wanted the department patch shown. The means they used to do that did more than add the patch, and this was apparently unintentional.

I'm with the other commenters that this is incompetence on the part of some PR people, and not likely any reflection on the chain of custody for evidence that would be used in court. But then the parent post did recognize this...

As I recall from previous articles highlighted on Slashdot evidence photos are altered before public release on a fairly routine basis. This can be to leave something out so they can know who was seeing public information only or had some inside knowledge. Alterations can also be to protect minors, victims, or something else I'm forgetting. The problem wasn't that the photo was altered, the problem was the alteration wasn't revealed from the beginning. But then, again, there could be a reason to keep alterations to photos a secret for some legal reason that I might not understand as I am not a lawyer.

You didn't ask him if he had an electric jetski. Also if he commutes daily to work on his jetski you may have a point, but since that's unlikely to be the case I don't know what point you think you were making. I doubt he bought the EV to make the area near the lake quieter and to offset the emissions of driving a single stretch of road a few weekends a year.

Depends, do you want people with EVs to not be able to get to the the *checks notes*, place where the activity they do is normally done?

Indeed. It would be perfectly normal to see only white people in many parts of the USA. But your sorry comparison fails in that there are certain parts of America where black people are the norm.

No a jetski being towed is very much just wind resistance. As are the whole 25kg of bicycles I add to my car. If you think I'm talking about both then you need to go back and read my post again.

There's nothing hand edited in that photo. Literally every part of it was regenerated with AI, not a single item is original. There would also be zero reason to remove the stickers. This is just AI fucking up.

You better tell that to news and media for the past 80 years. God knows this has been the standard practice since the camera and printing press were invented. No the picture you get shown wasn't the certified original used in the court case. Never has been. Then only problem here is that someone used a different tool to add the department logo to the post and fucked it up.

If this is enough to outrage you I think you may need some Xanax

Is it Americans choosing this? Or the political parties?

I used to get a lot of political polling calls, and they'd rarely ask me about anything I cared about. They'd ask about same sex marriage, abortion, and other "moral panics" that you call "nonsense". I don't know what made the political calls stop but it may have been me screaming at the pollster that I didn't care about abortion laws. He was confused at first, thinking that meant I didn't care if abortion was available on demand. I corrected him, I had no opinion on abortion because I had far greater concerns on my mind. What concerned me more was the cost of food and fuel, the sad state of medical care in the USA, and so much else that impacted my ability to get food, clothing, shelter, and such other basic needs to live.

Maybe there's some sanity coming to American politics with mentions of the price of eggs. I like eggs, and I eat plenty of them. If the politicians are talking about eggs then maybe we can get them to talk about coffee and bacon next.

I've been seeing the major political parties avoid many key issues by bringing up the same bullshit distractions again and again. It got to a point I was screaming at some poor dude that was likely making barely above minimum wage to call me and run a poll.

But this is a story about a potentially doctored photo from a drug bust, and I'm not sure I much care about that either. I don't want any drug bans, it seems to me that there should have been lessons learned from when the sale of alcohol was prohibited. Make something illegal that people want and people will be more willing to break the law. Where's the respect for law when I need a physician's prescription, show ID, and sign some ledger just to get something to effectively treat a common cold? We've seen stories lately that the cold medicine that's over the counter is no better than a placebo. We can thank the "war on (some) drugs" for these bullshit laws that are feeding crime than preventing it.

There's still a federal prohibition on the possession and use of marijuana but Congress put in some law to no longer fund enforcement. So, we have laws where breaking it is considered a felony, but the government isn't funding enforcement? So is it even a law any more? Reschedule marijuana already. Maybe don't make it recreational but something to be had by prescription. Or maybe do make it recreational and have it fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF like alcohol and tobacco, as opposed to the DEA that loves civil forfeiture laws to take people's cars, homes, and cash. Keep the stuff behind the counter and require an ID that shows they are an adult before any sale.

I'm sick of the "moral panics" too. We can thank the political parties for that because they don't want to touch on anything that is truly controversial, like the federal budget. We can also thank the Jurassic media for not asking the right questions of politicians when interviewed on the evening TV news or drive-time radio.

So much is made of a manipulated photo of what was found in a drug bust. I'd rather we discuss why the police are in the business of busting people for drugs if they can't prove harm to some innocent person. What adults do on private property in their free time, and with other consenting adults, is not my business. If they are selling drugs to children then lock them up and lose the key. I'm looking at you Buffalo. It sounds like some school administrators are on paid leave for giving children under their care some THC gummies. Must be nice to be able to commit a felony and then get a vacation for it.

Their default position is that some social media person didn't know what they fuck they are talking about. This isn't the courtroom. This is dumb marketing, and they literally updated their post within hours.

Layers? Watermarks? Overlays? What are you talking about? The clueless admin assistant at the department who thinks "Photoshop" is where you go to get pictures from your vacation printed wants to know.

Errr no. This has nothing to do with the courtroom in the slightest. This was a social media post. Originals are never edited which is why they all look so rubbish. Calm the heck down.

You invented the jump to conclusions mat didn't you.

Define solid fundamentals. There's no point in teaching someone to write "leal 0x33333333, %edx" if the tool they are using is going to expect a natural language prompt.

And knowing how to work with AI is in fact a skill. College is there to teach us how to use the tools of our career. Yeah programming will remain important, but any degree that right now isn't teaching people the ins and outs of AI, the benefits, the limitations, how to structure prompts, etc isn't fit for purpose in the modern world. People with graduate without being able to meet any of the job careers.

Colleges always chase The Next Big Thing. By necessity. It's their job to prepare a workforce that can use The Next Big Thing.

That's sort of the point isn't it? Universities have a dual purpose in teaching people as well as developing the latest and greatest. Is it perfect? No. It will never be, university is an initial development stage in any professional career. By the time you get into the working world things may change and it's up to you to figure out how to deal with that.

Perfect and relevant are two different things. The Z80 doesn't tech anything, it's an architecture. What should be taught it the basics using a common sense approach on an architecture that is currently in use.

BASIC is architecture independent and does a wonderful job as an introduction to procedural programming. But even then there's little reason to not switch to C which in its simplest form can also be incredibly basic.

My language does reflect the new reality. By your own admission EVs are a minority. I'm a big fan of EVs and have one myself. But people like you got to stop being gatekeepers and shitting on everything regardless of how irrelevant. You're giving all of us a bad name.

Well yes it will, weight is an issue. I didn't say it wasn't. We're not talking weight, we're talking wind resistance. My experience is my Polestar's range drops by half. Saloomy's other reply shows his experience is towing a jetski drops his range by half. Stop being a gaslighting arsehole. You're giving all of us a bad name.