I'm glad I understood you correctly. There are some serious parallels between Putin and Hitler and both of their penchant for threatening and annexing places all in the name of Ein Volk! Putin and his clique have an amazing skill at keeping a straight face when they talk about de-nazifying Ukraine.
I bet the majority of the users nowadays hadn't even been born back when we were enjoying our hot grits.
We stayed somewhere eight years ago where the host complained and that they were disappointed we didn't put the recycling in some bins somewhere or put the rubbish out (we didn't know where nor whether the locality had rules about these), that we didn't do the dishes (we left them air drying), that we left the place dirty (we tidied up, swept the kitchen floor, but we had a toddler too). There was an enormous cleaning fee for that place too. Never mind I had to clean the ashes from the choked fireplace before I could use it, despite it being one of the big selling points of the cottage. We did far more than we needed to in cleaning. Years later, that host is no longer on AirBnB and other hosts tell us we're great guests and they don't understand that one bad review. It's annoying, we can't even see that review or know what was actually written about us.
I don't see any need to protect people from their own stupidity more then necessary. Credit ratings do serve that process, but anyone buying a 5 year corporate bond paying 15% when a 10 year treasury only yields 5% surely understands why the price is so low (hence yield so high).
Don't even need a ramp to fly either.
Overdesigned.
You can easily go airborne in an ICE car too. Poland had this tech in 2020.
> The extreme downforce fan will likely be road legal
Perhaps, but basically useless at road legal speeds
If you have the money, it's hard to beat a Veyron/Chiron as a drivable supercar that you can throw around corners at high speed without a lot of skill.
The styling seems totally misconceived. If you want an expensive car to park in central London, then it better look expensive, and a $50K deposit car presumably isn't going to retain for the multi-million price tag also needed to impress.
This car is borrowing styling from the Cybertruck, which was designed to appeal to a totally different audience.
This is basically just a trillionaire having fun - nothing wrong with that. but might have been better received if he disassociated it from Tesla and just presented it as a hobby project.
Inability to compete with Chinese EVs (Teslas cost 2-3x more at every price point) has nothing to do with salaries.
A Tesla model 3 only has 10-15 hours of human labor in it, IOW $1000 - $1500 at $100/hr. This does not even begin to explain the price difference.
Right - this is the Teslabot "man dancing in a spandex bodysuit" stage of demo, except all we get is a video not even a real-life fake.
6 years after spandex-man it seems Teslabot still can't actually do anything autonomously.
> Tesla's website says there will be three trims: Performance, Thrust, and Rocket. The Performance requires a $50,000 deposit. The Thrust, the one needed to hit the supposed sub-1-second 0-60 time, costs $250,000. The Rocket â" the one that can fly â" is a single-seat version of the car and is "Invite Only".
The Roadster is a "Halo Car" for the Tesla Brand and the Rocket Trim level is a Halo Trim of the Halo Car.
The purpose of the Rocket and the lower two trims of the Roadster are meant cast the entire brand as aspirational - that's what a Halo Car does, and nearly all the Automakers have brought out a Halo Car at various times, models like the Dodge Viper, The Ford GT, the Lexus LFA, the Ferrari F40 and so on. Expensive, Rare, often with major downsides, but they make people dream of owning one, and wind up on posters on bedroom walls.
There are all sorts of issues, regulatory and otherwise, with the Rocket Trim that get in the way of letting them out on regular roads (or even near them), and I am not sure that version ever will be. But it's not the first - right now brands like Ferrari and McClaren have special models which are not street legal, and considered "for track use only". And that's ok, because there are a number of people who are fine with that and do manage to get those cars out on the track.
I suspect there will be similar restrictions and limited areas where the Rocket version can be "driven" err.. "Flown", but there are going to be people who can not only afford it but want the unique thrill and novel experience it will provide. The Thrust Trim will likely be restricted to track use due to the rocket boost, leaving the Performance version the one you might actually encounter on the highway or more likely see parked in front some expensive restaurant. And when people see it, some will point and say "look, there's the car that can fly!"
Apparently not only did it take 7 humans, but it took 5 months, and the design of Anthroipic's Scion is an exact ripoff of a Meta source control system called Mononoke.
So, Anthopic's coding agents, even with a stolen (or should we say "distilled"?) specification of what to build, still needed help from 7 humans,. and still took 5 months...
As an non-American, I'm curious why the amount of screen time in schools is a matter for the FCC rather than the Department of Education?
Right - it's like you have explosive diarrhea, and rather than going to the doctor you just buy a bigger toilet.
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