Well the “good news” is the Lone Star Tick is expanding its territory. If we keep treating our environment like shit, it may just bring down the hammer on beef and dairy

It not really a question of “how?” Anymore. We know how to get most of the way there. We already developed technology to get at least halfway. We just need to roll it out, the “easy” part.

• We know how to decarbonize at least 95% power generation
• we know how to make significant efficiency/weatherization gains
• we know how to electrify residential
• we know how to decarbonize most of transportation
• we have at least possibilities for aviation, shipping, industry, and at least some plastics

Of course we don’t yet have 100% of the answer, but it’s criminal how much of the answer is already in our hands and we refuse to use it, or keep dragging our feet

I don’t know, it could backfire. People don’t buy French wines for their low price but because of their reputation. Sometimes making a premium item more expensive just makes it seem more premium.

French wineries should lean into that. I bet they get huge profits

Do you not interact with your customer? As a software engineer, it’s part of my job to sell the project manager or customer on details they haven’t thought of or may not fully understand

their economic model is better than the West’s.

Policy. Their economic policy is better. Their government has some far-reaching strategies, creates comprehensive policies to develop them, and maintains those policies consistently across many years. They effectively guide competition and long term vision into their market, just like any competent government ought to do

That’s also the biggest place we’re failing. Lack of vision, lack of strategy, no consistency. Even worse when your administration enriches themselves, plays favorites, outright takes bribes, holds themselves above the law, rules out of spite and personal feelings, focuses only on short term

Maybe I’m continuing to be naively optimistic, but it’s hard to see military brass agreeing to attack nato troops

wtf I hope they let Don jr. put billions of dollars into this scam then nationalize as soon as Drump is out of office. Never in the US have people so blatantly abused policy for personal enrichment- and I’m including Hawaii

Yeah, it’s really good news and we should commend their efforts …. Well done …. But both are also still developing countries with vast populations needing huge additional energy for modernization. They deserve Benjamin more commendation BUT WE NEED TO DO OUR PART.

Define worse. I’m sure the developed countries will be much worse off in financial terms while developing will be far worse off in human misery.

Bangladesh already has its hands full with floods affecting millions, in addition to its other challenges. How could they cope about gets worse and more frequent every year? India already has serious water issues and huge population they already can’t handle well. Many hot areas risk regular temperatures above habitable levels. There’s no end to the serious impacts

Of course. I live in the us which isn’t afraid to spend ungodly amounts of money. I’m well above sea level and not in a flood plain. I have a well insulated house with air conditioning and can afford the electric bills. I may have to spend more money but I’ll get through without too much direct impact.

Then again, I’m not a sociopath. I see the impact of climate change right in front of my face and understand how it is getting worse. I also understand how it will affect the most those who can least afford it, both in my country and around the world

I also know we are historically the worst causer of climate change and are extremely deep in climate debt. Everyone trying to “what about China?” Is full of crap just making excuses for being a deplorable human being

Hey Greenland, JD Vance desperately wants you. this is an emergency: order slipcovers for all your sofas, now while you still can

No I don’t think Russia ever claimed to have principles to throw out. I don’t think anyone is surprised when they act imperialist and militarily aggressive.

Think of it like living next to a neighbor who is in the midst of a mental breakdown. All the gibberish isn’t something you should have to worry about but you really can’t predict. As an American who doesn’t believe that can ever happen, yes you need to take it seriously. You need to get protective services involved, jab a little Thorazine and get out the straitjackets

Mine does not act on pedestrians

I haven’t been in a situation to see if it reacts for bicycles. It seems to react to lights, rather than shapes so it’s possible

Yeah and I’ll counter-vote one of you.

I’m familiar with the use and the limitations of LLMs so I’m familiar with use cases where it adds value and where it should not be allowed

Realistically the biggest issue for consumers is privacy: most of the generally available LLMs hoover unprecedented quantities of personal data. But they don’t have to. There are choices that respect your data

There’s an underlying dystopian theme here that goes beyond LLMs and voice assistants where the technology for collecting personal data keeps getting more intrusive far beyond the nightmares of the general public. They have no idea how much they are losing and the harm it can do

Maybe. Not disagreeing but I’ve never seen data to support that, have you? Some people blame it on self-driving, some blame it on the higher performance, and yes the touch screen is plausible. But we need to know. That accident rate is too high to be guessing.

Unfortunately my experience supports all of the above

• self driving is continually improving. I trust it much more than previous iterations but I don’t trust it. In my latest test the only dangerous thing it did in two hours was to stop at a yellow light. Technically correct but the idiot behind me expected to drive through. I also took over four times when I wasn’t sure it was going to do the right thing
• in my first drives I had to see its acceleration - was surprised by it enough to experience fear
• there are shortcuts to the common screen controls but it’s not always easy to discover them. Voice control works well for me so far

We need to go even farther, not go back.

Brighter headlights are better for safety to allow drivers to see more …… but clearly humans can’t be trusted with them. Active matrix headlights are the best answer.

I find it fascinating to drive with high beams on, but watch a dark spot in my headlights follow oncoming cars so I don’t blind them. Everyone should have them

While I haven’t compared recently, just a year or two ago, I was comparing usefulness of voice assistants with a co-worker. I experienced very accurate responses, whereas he found them useless. As someone speaking English with a heavy accent, the voice assistants could not understand him.

Voice assistants can be useful but there are still too many people who can’t use them

I also object to the hazard light button in my Tesla. While it’s great that it’s a physical buttons, it’s not tactile - I can’t use it without taking my eyes off the road

I hope regulators pay attention to technology this time instead of just reacting.

My car has controls with no physical buttons but I can control with voice assistant. Technically that means I can do it without taking my eyes off the road but it’s physical buttons are much better