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- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 13 hours ago:
That’s a good point
- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 17 hours ago:
They’re not synonyms, but they are close enough that when said quickly they can be homonyms
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- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 1 day ago:
Repeating what many have said, those rules are written in blood.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It is. Some of them are getting snapped up to help with powering factories.
I think this is car companies using the incoming battery packs from replacing worn out packs. Time to look it up…
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
Yes, more specialized robots for now. When it’s harder to build for a human to do the job, build for a robot to do the job.
At some point in the future, it makes sense to combine the features of different types of robots into one form that can step in to human jobs
- Comment on Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line 3 weeks ago:
So it’s more of a milestone to catch early battery degradation rather than a cutoff point below which the battery is labeled useless?
- Comment on Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line 3 weeks ago:
What’s so bad about 80% of the original capacity? Wouldn’t there be a lot of use cases for a car with 80% of the range?
I’m glad to see any second use for these batteries before recycling. Gotta combat the narrative that “an EV battery is trash after 5 years!”
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 weeks ago:
For home charging to keep up with a commute, a normal wall outlet all night long is fine. It just needs to be installed where the car is parked, and it should have some protection from weather while the car is plugged in.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve taken to telling people that she will learn martial arts and be her own gun, the problematic boys better look out for her!
But I don’t have people in my life who adamantly and repeatedly go back to the same comment. Might want to point out that it’s weird to think about your daughter dating and boys messing around with her while she’s still so small.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
And take it one step further so that whoever wants to check on it will see the ads playing even though no ads are playing.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 2 months ago:
It is ironic to run a manifesto against AI through an AI. Definitely not what the author intended
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 2 months ago:
Gemini simplified it to this:
“Algorithmic Sabotage” is a new idea about tech rebellion and fighting bad technology. It’s not against tech itself, but about people pushing back together. It wants to break down profit-driven power in the online world, help us do what’s right, and stop computer rules from controlling too much. This is a political stand, not just a tech one, rooted in fairness for everyone, everyone being treated the same, and people helping each other. It goes against how tech makes things unfair and gives some too much control. It’s all about groups of people managing bad tech and building a different, collective way of thinking through art and action. For example, it could mean making artificial intelligence act unexpectedly or looking at how tech is used to create misleading appearances or exert influence.
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 3 months ago:
I’ve been able to turn off notifications for anything on my phone. Only the few apps I choose to allow still give me notifications.
I am fortunate to have a job that does not require a cell phone, I can leave it behind for hours at a time without affecting my work. I know this is not the case for everyone, but it should be an option.
At the very least, a phone required for work should have a separate phone number and email account, and should turn off automatically after the employee clocks out for the day. Some countries already have laws about this stuff, we should do that more.
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 3 months ago:
Current smart phones will become e-waste either way. On that front, the benefit would be forcing all manufacturers to stop creating more e-waste for the future.
- Comment on 109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas 3 months ago:
Other trump supporters
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 months ago:
That would serve the same purpose without and extra light, I think they’re into something
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 months ago:
I think a secondary light that blinks quickly would be a good signal of emergency braking. Like some aftermarket motorcycle taillights that start with a blinking pattern before they stay on, but reverse the order.
So, standard brake light comes on at the standard time, at the first touch of the brake. For stronger braking, the second light comes on. Standard brake light stays lit while the second light begins blinking frantically for emergency braking.
- Comment on China stages first-ever humanoid robot kickboxing match - Asia Times 3 months ago:
Shudders* Yeah, humanoid robots that can do advanced human style fighting pale in comparison.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 4 months ago:
The load of getting this brick up to speed quickly so the driver can show off
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 months ago:
Thank you for taking it in good faith and for writing up a researched response, bravo to you!
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 months ago:
Why would good nutrients end up in poop?
It makes sense that growing a whole plant takes a lot of different things from the soil, and coating the area with a basic fertilizer that may or may not get washed away with the next rain doesn’t replenish all of what is taken makes sense.
But how would adding human poop to the soil help replenish things that humans need out of food?
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 4 months ago:
One job that we can happily hand over to robots
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 months ago:
That’s my next question. If things are bad enough that the Internet is gone, what reliable source of power would survive the unknown scenario that got things that bad?
That power source would also need to power a separate computer or smartphone that would also need to be kept protected from whatever happened.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 months ago:
Is it also hardened against EPM’s?
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 5 months ago:
Using some of the incoming power to run the AC seems reasonable. Especially when the battery is above 75% charged. It would be interesting if the AC would go harder for more minutes per hour as the charge level gets higher.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 5 months ago:
Has anyone found the places where the navigators work to see how it goes? Has a navigator shared their experience on the web somewhere?
I am very curious as to what they are asked to do and for how many cars And for how much money
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 5 months ago:
Packaging the job as a video game side quest is genius. Make so the gamer has to do several simulated runs before they connect to an actual car, and give in-game expensive consequences for messing it up
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Please get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, take a walk outside, then pick up a dictionary for reference and rewrite this post.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 6 months ago:
Power saving mode. The maximum power saving mode allows for just a few apps to run at all, so picking out the apps that are for communication gets the outcome you’re looking for, as long as you keep the phone on that maximum power saving mode.