I don’t know if it’s possible, since it’s exposed to the elements. Manufacturers have certainly tried.

It wasn’t all that long ago that a few car companies were selling their CVT transmissions as having lifetime transmission fluid, that didn’t need topping up or changing.

Even if it’s as minimal as having to change the brakes/tyres, there’s still going to be maintenance that needs to be done, if only to check that the car can go some period of time without needing further maintenance.

The way they’ve done the front/sides makes feel big/tall, in a way that a lot of other Ferraris don’t. Like someone took a crossover SUV, and flattened it a bit with a hydraulic press.

Like a car from the future e.g. “ghost in the shell” etc.

At the same time, it does feel like almost every EV/Hybrid tries to go for the futuristic styling, enough that it’s starting to become a bit bland, since a lot of EVs end up taking after that kind of look. It was neat the first few times, but it’s starting to wear out its welcome, imo.

Making it seem like a normal car that just so happens to be driven by an electric powertrain would give it a bit more appeal.

This doesn’t seem like a totalitarianism issue, though. The High or Supreme courts (other courts are available) could rule that replacement with AI is not a valid reason for termination of employment, and the result would be much the same.

It’s also an 8 gigaparameter model. That’s pretty tiny, even if they use it heaps.

Nobody would pay to use the private system if they could get their needs met for free in the public system.

They might, if they thought there was an advantage to it. Like being seen more quickly, or getting a discount for something else.

If the entire world had access to free healthcare, chances are research and development would grind to a halt unless they also funded research and development. Taxpayers would need to be willing to pay a company hundreds of millions of dollars if they discovered a useful product.

I don’t see why it would. A company would still invest in research if they thought they had a chance to sell it to the healthcare system, for example. It wouldn’t be the first nor last time something like that happened, and the latter case isn’t too different from how it works already.

Consider insulin, for example. Research into it and drugs for treatment of diabetes doesn’t happen exclusively in the US.

If they had done a Google and sold GPU-compute cloud services, they could probably have made quite a tidy sum. Everyone wants compute.

Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

It’s none too good for their lungs, either. Black Lung and all of that excitement.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

On a ship where the toilets don’t work properly. Little wonder that people are half-arsing it if they’re stuck on a small metal box for months longer than expected, the toilets don’t work properly, and now part of the ship has also caught fire.

They wouldn’t need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.

So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn’t keep up.

Do they account for changing economic factors as well? I would be curious about how many of the new diagnoses are from people who might have died from other causes, or been classified that say.

People also generally need support if they are to have kids.

If you have a cultural expectation that people need to move out when they are of age, they can’t rely on grandparents or extended family to look after the children, and if they are spending all their other time working, they’re just not going to have the time to find someone to have kids with, or be able to actually raise the children.

In the absence of other factors, like needing the kids to help out on the farm, people have no reason to have them. Especially in countries like the US, where healthcare and childcare are quite expensive. A childbirth alone is about $3000 - $30000 over there, to say nothing of health-care costs, complications, there being very little parental leave, or any of that.

For Toyota, it’s both. Both the hybrid and plug-in hybrids use the same drivetrain, except the PHEV/Prime versions have more powerful motors, so they can power the car at higher speeds than their hybrid counterparts are. Honda’s newer hybrid/plug-in hybrid drivetrain uses something similar.

You’re thinking of the one Nissan uses in their cars. They have a similar setup to a diesel-electric locomotive (engine drives generator, which powers the motor to drive the wheels).

With the Toyota kind, it’s both, but they have a special transmission/eCVT for it, rather than just bolting a motor to the driveshaft.

The motor’s also responsible for the engine gearing in that case.

The PHEV just uses a beefier motor, so it doesn’t need the engine to move the vehicle.

It is quite funny that Cuba, a small, relatively poor country that has been embargoed for decades, is considered an unusual and extraordinary threat to American national security, compared to countries with fission weapons.

Do they have antimatter or something?

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It’s like the Purple Heart all over again.

Though at the same time, it’s not really that much of a surprise, is it? The man loves gold-coloured things.

If enough of it is still around. A lot of the old spaces that used to exist aren’t around any more.

Plus things like YouTube and Discord aren’t banned, do chances are, they would end up there instead.

Github may be, strangely enough.