There are now headlights that can be “high” but block out portions of the beam directed at light sources like oncoming headlights. Can’t have them in the US though.

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Notably, Phenylephrine was approved in pill form for decongestion, and is all over the place… but doesn’t do a damn thing. Trying to keep pseudoephedrine limited in the market to try to fight meth.

Wow, my local Waffle House has got some fierce competition here.

Well, at least Nissan and Mitsubishi aren’t doing exactly great.

I find Stellantis utterly confounding how they still exist as they are. So much mismanagement and yet somehow still alive.

I agree that Tesla does and should be considered to have deeper problems, as more new players crowd out Tesla as well as “legacy” automakers in many ways also competing.

I feel like TSLA is still way out of wack. You put GM, Ford, Toyota, and Honda together and still you are less than half the market cap of Tesla. This is utterly absurd, even the “not up to snuff today, but they’ll outgrow everyone” argument I don’t see happening.

But as to his adventures in “Dark MAGA”, he gets some people distracting him with shiny toys and telling him how smart he is and the world will largely forget that particular “contribution” in fairly short order. So long as it’s not letting him declare that all Tesla products henceforth will adopt the cybertruck design language and quality, Tesla can benefit from him just stepping the hell out of the spotlight again.

The sad thing is if he steps away from politics, I think the outrage will subside in a couple of months. The public doesn’t have that strong a memory in the best of times, with the pace of news nowadays, very few people will remember how much of problem he was being.

So yes, just locking him out of the spotlight would be enough. His leadership is not great, but distracting him could really save Tesla’s image.

From what I call, the advocates kept saying:

• OnLive was just too soon, the internet needed to be better
• Google had just so much more resources at their disposal they could make it happen

Of course, no one ever explained why I would want to pay full price for a game and also have to pay a monthly fee to access it once purchased, which was the most mind boggling facet of Google’s concept to me, even more boggling than trying to make games render server side when the cheapest end user device can just locally render PS3, maybe PS4 level graphics nowadays.

I remember some people very vehemently telling me that I was dumb to be skeptical of Stadia, that it really was going to just take over the industry…

More like the AI rationalized collapse of the industry.

The cuts largely have nothing at all to do with AI, but it makes for a very good narrative to spin at investors.

I referenced both parts of your comment. First that things were good without any segue as to why you think this contributes.

Then to your assertion that we now have these and didn’t have then before due to lack of community, and I find that to be odd to say about a currently isolated incident that had nearly zero precedent.

There’s not particularly good reason to stop doing it in that scenario either.

You have an offline technology stack in that elevator that has been doing the job correctly for 20 years. Why take on the expense and risk of changing things that aren’t currently broken?

It would be crazy if you are building new to resort to that stack, but for an established elevator, why bother?

Same for some old oscilloscopes at work. I’m not crazy about the choice but I can hardly suggest it would be practical to change it while the oscilloscopes still do their function.

I would say it’s a problem if the stack is online, but if it is self contained, the age of the software doesn’t make it a problem in and out itself.

This comment in the context of a guy bombing other people’s IVF attempts? It’s a valid choice to opt out for oneself, it’s certainly not valid to force others to opt out.

Somewhere in the middle are the folks that take any opportunity to talk about how they think anyone having a kid is highly irresponsible, standing in judgement of people who have even one kid.

I don’t care if you want to refrain from kids and stand by that decision. Closest I’ll come to not minding my own business is to mention that people can change their minds, so you may want to hedge your bets with something reversible like an IUD instead of a hysterectomy, but ultimately you may stand by the decision and that’s all your business.

Your theory is that things are so good it contributed to someone bombing a fertility clinic our of nihilism?

I’ll agree that the “good old days” perspective is wrong, that people have always managed to make each other miserable. I’ll extend that further to say that “characters like this” also aren’t new. Crazy murderous guys are throughout history. This one making global news kind of shows how very particular and rare this brand of character is.

I wonder if the overall thinking is that people need to feel progress to feel good about their lot in life but they can’t constantly deliver that, so they need the political “heels” to come by make things feel worse and then cede to people to make it “better” to make people feel like progress is made

Kind of like how the net result is increased tariffs but because they were temporarily more severe, the general reaction is “the tariffs are gone, what a relief”

Rolling that boulder up the hill requires it roll back downhill so people can cheer it being rolled up the hill again.

Even without Gemini, many of my searches are covered by the few word snippets from the top few results. Most of my searches are quick queries with quick answers, usually not me embarking on some huge research effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn_(TV_series)

Ironically, in Harley Quinn, Joker actually becomes mayor and he actually was a good mayor, much better than Trump as a president.

I was listening to another union leader talk on current situation and he transparently expressed how good the tariffs were that specifically applied to his specific industry but lamented how it was also impacting other goods making them unaffordable for the union members…

I suppose the question would be the alternative.

Note the devices actively discouraging offline save is a huge asset to schools, since kids screw up a lot, forget their devices and need loaners to get through a day and such. Extra bonus if the device can’t be too fun, to avoid them being overly used at home and get broken more.So Chromebook is desirable because they suck so much.

The good time to sell was December…

Suppose it’s now a “less bad” time than it’s probably going to get.