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This exists in the US too, it’s called Coors Light (4%). It just tastes like donkey piss.

I think there are more buyers than you think that don't want a Tesla.

It's only relevant insofar as fast charging stations have a huge impact on how long you have to wait. The fact that basically only the Tesla network offers this is a pretty big limiting factor.

The United States is a huge country and lots of people take road trips with 5-6hr drives. If you live in California you can easily do 5+ hours and not even leave the state.

Is this with a Tesla on their fast charging network? Most companies are standardizing on their plug type and so on, but I don’t want to buy a Tesla for a variety of reasons.

The problem isn’t needing to stop, it’s charge time and availability.

When I stop with an ICE car during a road trip it’s for 15 minutes max and I know I can do it basically whenever I want. With an EV, you have to carefully plan your road trip around fueling.

No, this was not a war at all by Wikipedia standards.

The deletion nomination was closed under an informal Wikipedia guideline called “WP:SNOW”, which is shorthand for saying that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that it was going to result in deletion, because the comments to keep the article were so overwhelming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Even more ironic here is reading criticism about economic model and ethics on Business Insider, a hive of scum and villany that regularly publishes sponsored content and outright lies from anonymous sources.

The definition that the Anthropocene Working Group voted for makes sense from a geological perspective, but the conclusion that the mid-20th century marks the start of humans significantly altering the natural world on a planetary scale is probably thousands of years off.

Key example: humans caused the extinction of 54%-67% of megafauna in the Americas and Australasia on our arrival during the late Pleistocene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event

Since we're just another animal that perceive time on a biological scale, not a geological one, the definition of these epochs is more academic than practically useful.

Tell that to someone when their kid dies because some chatbot hallucinated the wrong diagnosis or treatment.

Google is suggesting this should be used in poor countries without enough doctors because they know it is (or essentially will be, after the tidal wave of malpractice suits happens) illegal in the US.

There is no guarantee of severance if you are fired for documented performance issues under an “at will” employment contract, which most full time positions in tech are.

Correct. Eliminating plastic pollution will be a benefit not to us, but to our children's children. The same with reducing carbon emissions.

Plastic replacement isn’t like leaded gasoline or ozone-depleting substances where you had just a few applications to design alternatives for. It’s in fucking everything. Even just finding a realistic replacement for plastic in shoes is not being productized seriously.

It’s going to take generations for it to be fixed, and it probably won’t happen until humans and other animals get much much sicker.

Most people have microplastics in their body, and even babies in the womb are being exposed (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...). The most remote, otherwise pristine environments have microplastics due to atmospheric transport (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36868287/). It is too late.

Fascinating, I didn’t know that. Apparently it’s like crows mobbing an owl or an eagle.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10211-022-00394-1

Good luck halting all small craft boating in the Strait of Gibraltar.

“They seemed more aggressive/playful when we were sailing at speed. Once we slowed down they also started to be less aggressive in their attacks”

This is an interesting detail. It definitely supports the leading theories, that either they’re playing (chasing fast moving things is more fun) or reacting defensively after the pod experienced a ship collision.

Orcas are afraid of literally nothing. They can eat great white sharks and blue whale calves. The only solution here is probably to explore something as a nonlethal deterrent, like spikes on hulls/rudders or an underwater klaxon.

dang, can we please get a title edit on this one?

The barrier to this is dietary diversity. Brown bears are among the most omnivorous large mammals, whereas polar bears only eat plant matter in limited amounts / specific locales. A brown bear will get fat on food a polar bear starves on. You can’t reproduce if you’re not well fed.

I think if humans give up on the mistaken idea of species as a fixed concept rather than an evolutionary line, then it's fine. What matters is that a healthy ecology which supports the largest land predator on Earth persists.

The thing we're trying to avoid is a repeat of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, where afterwards Lystrosaurus composed 95% of land vertebrates for millions of years. Domesticated animals already compose a massive proportion of the bird and mammal biomass.

Yes. This is "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" but applied to climate crisis and mass extinction. Pakistan already feeling the train wreck, whereas US, Canada etc. are still somewhat insulated by wealth so they can ignore the obvious.

> no actually, some recent good news about a remote polar bear population came through

Source? Even with short term fluctuations, when the sea ice is gone, polar bears are fucked.

“On average, more than 50% of the increase in exposure projected for a species will occur in a single decade.”

In other words, expect extinction events to happen very abruptly and cascade across food chains.

Today people are generally not noticing the current global extinction event because of the way that your perception of “normal” diversity in species is set psychologically. If warming really causes rapid die offs on the order of decades however, the current mass extinction will suddenly feel very apocalyptic, by which time it will be too late to save any species that isn’t capable of radically shifting its own habitat range and food sources (i.e. raccoons will probably be okay, polar bears are toast).

There are a lot of unhinged people on any major Internet platform. In 2018, a YouTuber shot three people at HQ because she blamed the company for downranking her videos. It’s actually quite lucky this kind of thing hasn’t happened more.

This piece is begging for a followup that covers the rise in aesthetic elective procedures. The people who didn’t win the genetic lottery are paying to catch up.

It starts with the rise in dental braces (yes even among adults https://www.zocdoc.com/blog/the-adult-braces-boom-of-2021/) then goes to Botox or lip fillers and ends with the BBL.

The only recent year in which there was a decline in plastic surgery is when COVID cancelled elective surgeries, and then it shot right back up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886203/

I think the interesting question is: can you combine the benefits of in-office collaboration and social connection with the advantages of remote (lower real estate costs, larger hiring pool, and better focus time) with a hybrid model? The new default seems to be trending toward hybrid with 1-3 days in office per week and the rest remote for this reason. The other model that seems to work well is fully remote with quarterly offsites at the company and/or team level. It is most definitely my experience that being able to all stand around a whiteboard and socialize together creates better work. On the other hand, no company will ever pay enough to compensate for the lack of affordability and poor livability of the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC. The only people who love RTO are new grads with no life or execs who already cashed out.

We are also behind in having the minerals necessary to build batteries no matter where the factory is.

“given existing reserves, it is possible for the United States and its key partners to significantly friendshore production. However, given current production in democratic countries, it would require an unprecedented build-out of the mining industry to achieve 2030 clean energy targets.”

https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/05/03/friendshoring-criti...

Yes precisely. The common hand gesture for "stop" is different in the Middle East, it has nothing to do with use of military-specific gestures.