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by standardUser 7mo ago
I've found that looking the person in the eye and giving a quick "hey, forget your headphones?" sometimes does the trick, and has yet to start a fight. Everyone has to act in ways they are comfortable with - but mass inaction
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by standardUser 7mo ago
They should be stripped of all citizenship and left to live out their life roaming the airport. But this is a start.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
In Europe there's a maybe 0.1% chance that any random adult is carrying a firearm. And the vast majority of those are going to be rifles for hunting. In the US, it's more like a 3% chance. And firearms in the US tend to have highe
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by standardUser 7mo ago
It's a balancing act. Build too much and developers make less money. Build too little and poverty and homelessness shoot up. Which side do you want to err on?
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Right, but the idea that Americans specifically should pay higher prices is beyond propaganda. It's Stockholm Syndrome-level delusion. Big Pharm has thrived for generations on our research universities (for the time being anyway) and h
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U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets(nytimes.com)
52 points by standardUser 7mo ago|28 comments
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by standardUser 7mo ago
China is a full blown superpower and it should surprise no one when they catch up to or surpass the West in technical feats.
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You Can't Waymo to Tahoe – Yet(sfstandard.com)
3 points by standardUser 7mo ago|1 comments
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by standardUser 7mo ago
People with severe allergies or at high risk would probably make the tradeoff even if side effects were a problem. If they're not a problem, I could see most people taking this regularly just to avoid the nuisance of respiratory infect
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by standardUser 7mo ago
This is one of likely many shocks that will reward those nations that are leading on cutting fossil fuel use - and punish the laggards.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Imagine running a company with any exposure to Trump's schizophrenic tariffs. I wouldn't hire either.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Ebb and flow. Would you prefer only ebb, when that ebb was decimating the health of millions of working people? Maybe some flow is justified and necessary.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
> The permitting and regulatory process is so extremely hostile that even when you want to and are able to do so safely and without emissions, it’s impossible. This didn't occur in a vacuum. Business interests and their aligned poli
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by standardUser 8mo ago
I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days. They've been left in the dust on autonomous driving, they've failed to update their successful car models, and their only new model was a spectacular failure.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
Idiocy and incompetency tend to share the same bed.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
> The issue seemed to completely drop from public discourse during the Biden presidency Biden signed into law the largest investment in clean energy in US history, dwarfing everything that came before. Half the economy was trying to get
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by standardUser 8mo ago
I guess your time isn't vlauable.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
Maybe the menace is the drivers. That's indisputable when you look at injuries per mile.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
Every car is more affordable when you don't have to pay a human being to operate it. The difference in labor costs dwarfs the difference in vehicle costs.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
It's tough in the US because the one thing we have already going for us is a massive and comprehensive road network. Waymo et al are leaning heavily into the existing infrastructure, which is the right move given the inability of the U
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by standardUser 8mo ago
They want the tourist dollars. They happily allow Americans to visit.
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by standardUser 8mo ago
You are right - I'm thinking of the package with internet. But TV alone was around $100 to get the good channels (not HBO, but Comedy Central and MTV etc) plus the absurd premium I paid for the privilege of watching MLB games for my ho
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by standardUser 8mo ago
I recall visiting Cuba during the second term of Obama (shortly after his visit) and seeing the various reforms that were taking place and feeling very optimistic about the island's future. We saw a lot of highly political art on displ
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by standardUser 8mo ago
A decent cable package was around $150/mo in the 90's, before streaming took hold. That's for scheduled programming only, and always with lots of ads. Do you really think we're worse off today? Is anyone paying close to
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by standardUser 8mo ago
Few people would bring an illegal firearm into NYC or other major US metros because a) the penalties in most of those cities and states can be brutal and b) it's not that difficult to acquire a legal firearm in most cities. If someone&
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by standardUser 8mo ago
China had fallen behind long before Mao, after being among the most powerful and advanced nations for most of recorded history. It appears to now be stepping back into that familiar role.
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Clear skies and autonomous Waymo rides at SFO(waymo.com)
3 points by standardUser 8mo ago|1 comments
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Waymo Year-End 2025 Status(eetimes.com)
1 points by standardUser 8mo ago|0 comments
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Maybe the Board of Peace can pick up the slack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Peace
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by standardUser 9mo ago
~30% of total energy consumption in Europe is from ICE vehicles. So selling more EVs and winding down ICE sales can resolve 1/3rd of the issue.

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