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Do any of these converted van mods consider weight or crash testing? There's a bunch of tile (maybe they're fake?) above the sink. That seems like a nice touch aesthetically but probably unnecessary weight. Also, pieces of wood or other facades on the wall could become projectiles in a crash. Perhaps nobody should be sitting anywhere besides the front two seats while the van is moving, but that means the van can only carry 2 people safely.

Like so many nice things, it's a wonder that they even exist at all in the US. Nothing like a library could be built today. The country has become so corrupt and the only solutions that anyone seems to believe could ever work are free market services that commoditize every part of life. The enshittification of the entire country will probably be complete in the next 20 years, as even the most basic infrastructure like roads crumbles, never mind nice things like libraries or trains or clean drinking water.

As long as our global society puts this much carbon in the atmosphere for "defence" purposes, we have no chance of maintaining a human-friendly climate on Earth in 20-30 years.

You're replying to someone who thinks a marketing account for fucking Microsoft Excel is "the only good twitter account" so the bar for good taste in this thread is already subterranean.

I'm not sure you understand what rhetoric means...

This guy really is not that smart and I don't understand why people keep defending him or pretend that he's playing multi-dimensional chess or something. He acts like a gambler who keeps doubling down on previously risky bets that didn't pay off. It's worked for him for a long time, but I think his luck might run out finally, at least with the Twitter deal.

He seems to have bought the company because he felt legally compelled after running his mouth. Now he's not paying lawyers and rent and the consequences of this are likely going to be even worse financially for his failing social media company which might struggle to attract any advertisers besides erection pills and fitness supplements (the small niche of brands that wants to associate with right-leaning single men).

He'll find a way out of this fight with Zuckerberg because he's not legally compelled to stick to his word :)

Who is this hypothetical person who is upset with some types of surveillance and not others? I would imagine many Germans feel (like I do) equally uncomfortable with Street View, satellite image databases, widespread CCTV cameras in cities, etc.

I feel the exact opposite and have been a Twitter user for about as long, starting when it was SMS-based.

Most posts I see now are flooded with replies from Only Fans girls. There are constantly tweets in my feed from guys I don't follow with greek or roman statue profile pics, posting about how western civilisation is in decline with 20-photo threads of European architecture or other really silly examples. Half of the promoted tweets I see (a significant portion of my feed now) are for "10 ways you need to us AI or be left behind!" or similar.

It's really low signal to noise for me, but I guess if you're looking for listicles on why western culture has been ruined by "cultural marxism" it's never been a better time to be on Twitter.

Examples:

- I encounter numerous account like this per day on my "For you" tab: https://twitter.com/aitoolreport/status/1671606160313696256

- this sort of thing is constantly in my feed (I don't follow these sort of meme accounts, but I can see why the algorithm might boost them now ): https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/167623162488173773...

None of this makes sense to me. The US is deflecting from evidence that they blew up the pipelines by claiming Ukraine is behind the attack. Ukraine who also received hundreds of billions of dollars in aid from the US. Is the attack repayment for the military aid?

Smart phone makers do not support this in their software (i.e. iOS does not provide some police spy dashboard), but there are many spyware-as-a-service providers like NSO Group (maker of the Pegasus spyware) that buy exploits and build a turnkey surveillance product. This bill simply provides a legal framework for LE to use such tools against French citizens.

The "relive your memories" is maybe less dystopian than commenters are thinking because you can presumably also view footage from other 360 cameras, like action cams used during sports, or simply placed more discretely in a room (yes, porn is the obvious use case that Apple won't say).

Nothing in the article seems to support the claim in the title; how is this incredible piece of hardware (assuming it works well in all the ways they describe) not a wonder of good design?

Interesting to see Apollo mentioned in Apple's WWDC Keynote yesterday.

For everyone wondering why Vision Pro will succeed where the others have failed, I think this is your answer. Apple will provide a nice set of UI primitives that make building apps easy enough, but more importantly will give a consistent user experience and ease people into this brave new world.

The US illegally invaded Iraq under fraudulent pretences and killed million of people. Many parts of Iraq are littered with depleted uranium that will poison generations to come. The US spent $300 million per day in Afghanistan for 20 years, enriching defence contractors and building little in the way of useful infrastructure. And many other smaller conflicts that got essentially no coverage in the media.

How are these a few minor fuckups? These are the actions of an imperial power that lies about enforcing a "rules based order" and whose agents face no repercussions for war crimes.

Whenever there's coverage of this in US/western media (a relatively rare phenomenon considering the hundreds of cases like this in just the past decade), the reaction is usually minimal. At best, a few outraged centre-left will say it's a shame that the people responsible were never prosecuted. But this sidesteps the fact that this issue is systemic, the US culture and legal system allows this to happen over and over, and the entire government is criminal.

There are certainly similarities. Google has built quite a moat in most of their businesses that operate like monopolies. They don't seem to be able to make a cohesive strategy for devices or services that connect these devices, but they still have massive market share.

Why do posts like this get flagged? Are Americans not allowed to talk about their violent culture on HN?

Siri will listen when music is playing; this is quite handy actually because you can say things like "make it louder" or "stop playing music".

Nobody is upset because nobody is aware (this is hyperbole; obviously some people are aware and upset). But from my time in the states, it is very clear how effective US propaganda is. Working Americans don't realise they are paying a huge amount in taxes, and believe they can't have nice things like healthcare and retirement.

"Massively funded by billionaires" in this case means that the spoils of this research will be privately owned, yes. But the taxpayer is still paying for about 80% of each rocket that explodes. SpaceX's true innovation is in achieving massive subsidies on collecting this data.

It's kind of funny that Jack Dorsey sold Twitter to someone who he probably knew might tank the site, only to turn around and rebuild the same thing :)

It's been said a hundred times already, but putting unenforceable laws on the books still serves to oppress because these can be used to intimidate or convict "criminals" that have otherwise done nothing wrong. Unequal enforcement of the law reinforces existing class and other social inequalities.

I'm skeptical that these stores weren't failing already. Media did the same thing with Walgreens in SF a few years ago: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-major-plot-holes-in-the-o...

Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were non-FDIC insured investment banks.

Savings and loan crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

Maybe this will end in a more peaceful world order where the US no longer bombs and burns anyone who won't "open up" to their corporations, but they won't go down without a fight. The US will start WWIII before relinquishing their "exorbitant privilege".

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

All of the rules put in place after 2008 are being ignored; the number of banks in the US pre-2008 financial crisis was about 31k. Now there are close to 3000. After this wave of mergers, there might be around 1000!

And a few will be so large that they can make insane bets, betting on risky and novel new investment vehicles that will (maybe initially) pay off handsomely before ultimately failing dramatically. This will make "too big to fail" look quaint by comparison and the banks will end up owning everything.

It's really not that hard of a line to draw. Can you enjoy all of the opportunities of city life without a car? Do most people not own a car? There's one city in the US where those answers are "yes".

NY built this bike system in about 10 years: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-bike-map-2022.... It's pretty impressive and works well.

But yes, the Subway is criminally underfunded (it's ran by the State of NY actually). Nonetheless, despite how bad NY is, it's still the best in the US.