I think that Biden’s involvement with the push for EVs has led to a number of people that wouldn’t use an EV even if they were given one. The stupid politicization of everything nowadays has made EVs toxic for the MAGA crowd.

While I expect that it’s really Iranian forces stationed in Yemen that are behind the launch, it’s still appalling that both parties look at the launch as a valuable use of resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

What, no love for Pete Best?

My alarm radio is not connected to the internet. It’s connecting to a radio signal, although I don’t know who is generating that signal. It can’t be that expensive to add that capability to anything that already has a radio frequency receiver. My alarm clock cost less than $20. So even though adding a receiver to…

It only takes one study to come out, whether valid or totally misleading, to say one specific ingredient is good or bad

Unless you’re in a big hurry, I find that a better technique for softening butter in to cut up the desired quantity into small cubes (about half an inch), and place the bowl in an elevated position in your home, where it’s several degrees warmer than on the counter top. I place my bowl on a high shelf in the laundry…

What throws people off is the exactitude that baking requires. You can play fast and loose with quantities, proportions, and time with most cooking, but baking demands greater precision.

Come before them with the exact question to which they’ve had a burning desire to answer for decades, and you’ve won the lottery

If an AI can use CGI programs to create actors on demand, it destroys an entire section of the workforce.

I know why they would want it. I don’t understand why they insist on it in the face of a protracted labor action that is costing them profits today.

Not enough stars

Xi Jinping and Viktor Orbán. A match made in Hell.

Fellow Boomer here. We can be serene in our stereotypes because we don’t have to struggle anymore (or have given up). Whenever I hear younger generations complaining about how awful we are, I want to point out what a jump we are from the Greatest Generation. We haven’t been the saviors that we thought we would be, but…

Around here, almost all of the Slingshots that I see are driven by middle-aged or younger black men.

This is the right answer. Any vehicle with an infotainment system can access the correct time wirelessly, just like the inexpensive alarm radio in my bedroom. I go to sleep and wake up to the correct time without any intervention. The real question is why don’t all electronic time pieces do this? Why do I have to…

I doubt that a completely AI generated performer could be turned into a major “star”. And, yes, producers would love to be able to own rights to every actor that ever worked for them, but even they should realize that is a bridge too far. To think that the producers of Thelma and Louise could use a scan of Brad Pitt…

It would still be necessary to pay the CGI techs to animate a scanned person. Creating the original “actor” is a one-time cost.

The point of ubiquitous AM radio in cars is so that people don’t have to think about being prepared. The means of communicating emergency info is omnipresent. But it no longer seems that requiring it in cars is that meaningful anymore. Between all of the other digital equipment around us anymore, and the fact that…

Engoron even said that if Trump kept fucking around, he would strike all the testimony from the record and assume the most negative inferences from every question