They also had access to a galaxy worth of new york times best sellers, and instead of taking the best ideas from already loved stories, they declared them as non cannon.

Everything star wars since disney has touched it. Mostly making the books non cannon.

I get to teleport and loose weight at the same time. Double wish.

Ya. No mandatory arbitration.

And they have made the apps intentionaly worse, because a successful dating app deletes its users.

Also… i hate that the media keeps not noting that the things that hurt children also hurt adults.

Infinite scroll, sounds, alerts, alforithmic manipulation is all happening to adults as well. We expect adults to self regulate, but they dont. Its destroying society. But we only seem to care about the children?

There are cases of mass human pysocologial tests being eun in real time by meta. They dont deserve a fine. They deserve prison time.

Calm down Nixon.

I have never been the center of dislike at the company i have worked for. I have been disliked by singular people, and it has hurt personally, but not affected me professionally.

I have however worked for 2 companies where i disliked the majority of my co workers. I have found that how much i look back at the time i have spent working, my enjoyment at the places i have worked is more about how much i liked my co workers and less to do with the work itself. Even in places where the work was hard and long hours, if they were with people i enjoyed, i still look back fondly.

I think that is their plan. But until we start seeing production cars, i will remain skeptical.

Frame on rails doesnt save you any money in repairs if the frame is damaged. The real key is to hace rapairability as part of the design. The problem with the rivian isnt that its unibody, its that the exterior pannels are part of the unibody, so a small exterior dent is essentialy frame damage. That being siad, its likley cosmetic damage.

EVs will never be frame on rails due to battery packaging. The most likley similar design would be body on “skateboard” as they call it. But the hybrid approach does make better cars. Frame on rails has issues with twisting and flex that unibody solves. This makes the cars drive softer and handle better.

But either way, any design could have easy replacable exterior panels. Most unibody designs still have replacable bumpers, front quarter panels, mirrors, doors, trunks, etc. For some reason though they dont do usually do it on rear quarter panels, which is where the costs skyrocket. Just like in that r1t picturee above. The rear quarter panel could have been a replacable part. There may be a good reason for this, but i suspect its mostly production cost savings, with maybe a bit of weight savings.

No idea, does it matter?

Slate… though who knows if it will ever materialize in the real world.

Every 1st party option makes a new SKU, and they grow factorially. This causes lots of complications for production that make it incredibly expensive. Which is why you only see order selection like this on supercars. Low production count super expensive.

The key is that cars today are so complicated and expensive to produce. The laws force manufacturers to have all the modern saftey systems and pollution controls. The options are the only place the manufacturers make real money. Also why you see 80k versions of 50k cars.

Its ugly, but you can ger bmw i3’s for less than 5K. If you just want a people mover…

Apples and Oranges my firend.

You can also buy used ev’s for less than $6k.

The arguement wasnt about price, its about what is a better vehicle for the average driver.

I love cars, and im mourning the death of the manual transmission. But i bought an EV for my daily. Its just a better daily use car. Less maintenance, lots of convenience, no extra cost in gass prices and technically faster than my toy car. It doesnt give me the driving experience i want, but grabbing takeout, or sitting in traffic, its just better.

Yes, this is why the future is scary. In the past, no matter how much wealth or power you had, it was implemented through people. Your army, tax collectors etc. Those people understand the system and could overthrow the current system.

In the future, its algorithms and robots that are the source of the power. The robots and algorithms wont overthrow their masters. (And if they do, its probably the end of humanity altogether). And with the level of surveillance, any human that even thinks about revolution can be instantly discovered and dealt with immediately.

Also worth noting that this has happened throughout history many times.

What is new is the power a small group of people can truly have due to technology. The algorithms of social media and ai can now push the general populations opinions. Not unlike the propaganda of the past, but much stronger and more subtle. The surveillance of every citizen can be used to squeeze and silence the population on an individual level.

Throughout history, the level of wealth inequality and corruption we currently see often causes a revolt, usually followed by a dictator. But this may be the 1st time in human history that the technology enables a small group of people to prevent revolution essentially forever.

https://youtu.be/srtTmZtbJg0

I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.

The problem isnt co pilot. Its co pilot being rammed in incredibly stupid ways into every possible product.

More importantly, its cramming it in everywhere when basis windows 11 sucks. Explorer sucks, search sucks, performance sucks, Updates suck.