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The percent of the US population that is foreign-born is about the same as it was before 1920.

To use your vocabulary, it is a pernicious lie to pretend that America's success from WWI through the WWII recoveries was due to immigration policies, rather than other major countries having their infrastructure destroyed and being forced to use the US as a key supplier due to rather large wars.

(and that's ignoring that US population had booms in there that meant that even though immigration was persisting, there was just a big increase in domestic births).

Though if we're going to adopt those immigration policies, perhaps we should also adopt the tax strategies, corporate regulation, and worker unions that accompanied that growth.

Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world.

There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.

I still have a personal Touch Bar MBP, and I find it annoying.

My problem is that I lightly rest my hands on the keyboard (including the f keys), and this habit is harmless on most Macs, but inadvertently activates the Touch Bar functions.

I actually like the idea a lot, and would probably love it if it required a little more pressure to activate.

Obviously so.

You're either responding to an LLM or a badly malfunctioning human.

China already bans crypto. If America and Europe followed suit, the market for crypto would quickly collapse

Oakland California has about 200,000 cameras if we include public and private cameras, substantially more than other cities.

It also has substantially more robberies than the average city.

What evidence do you have that these cameras are preventing crime? Why would you mistake these cameras for a solution?

It seems to me that you've tacitly acknowledged that the thing you refer to as a "solution" is ineffective at best, and does nothing at all for the specific crime you called out (mugging).

those groups have a lot in common, when you look at historical implementation.

Both create an unaccountable set of elites who control the populace.

Your statement is not only false, it's nonsensical.

Good.

Flock cameras appeal to weak communist attitudes, where there is a desire for a "good" authoritarian government that tracks everyone... for "their own good".

It's very much on purpose. To do it with a modern diesel truck you need to remove the DPF, and reprogram the ECU to run rich and to ignore the missing DPF.

I don't think it's so much aggression as it is really really terrible infrastructure.

These are separate issues. Both are real.

"I won't sell at any price" reads as an invitation to make a much higher bid.

It seems silly at best to take that as a literal statement.

This article might catch you up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

China would probably be very confused that you're asserting they're not on par with Taiwan.

Yes.

Obviously.

Your response is _almost_ funny.

I asserted that there is very little left-wing media today, because it is far more profitable to make media intended to enrich specific individuals.

And your counter-argument was that... there is very little left-wing media today, because it has been hijacked by specific individuals who want to be enriched.

Cool.

Side note: your decision to claim that trump attacking something means it is left-wing shows both that you are completely detached from any sort of reality, and that you lack even the tiniest hint of thought.

right-wing ideologies are meant to augment concentrated wealth and power, which means there are incentives for the rich and powerful to create right-wing propaganda machines.

left-wing ideologies are meant to create diffuse wealth and power, which means there's no incentive for individuals to create such propaganda machines.

This is why there are enormous amounts of right-wing media, and almost no left-wing media in America.

America's right-wing has never wanted competitive free markets, and has never been represented by Adam Smith, the man who said:

"the disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."

America's right-wing has always been about enriching the connected and the already powerful. Nothing more.

BYD is, by far, the largest EV manufacturer in the world. And they've been making semis for ages.

It is not newsworthy that BYD shipped another one. They do that every 15 minutes.

So not only do I repeat that this article is not newsworthy -- but your proposed article about the company making the most electric cars in the world shipping one would _also_ not be newsworthy.

They have ADAS systems. And Volvo is already working with Aurora which is doing live tests of actual self driving, similar to Waymo.

There's no news here.

Self-driving is no longer the future of Tesla. That stock pump has largely run its course, and is being replaced by AI and the robot army.

Once SpaceX goes public, SpaceX will acquire Tesla (solving Musk's control issues with Tesla stock), and that'll be the end of Musk pretending to care about cars.

It's not newsworthy. There are more than a dozen companies shipping electric semis in low quantities, and at least three who have been shipping and supporting them for years. Anybody who thinks this the Tesla Semi is notable should go learn about the existing market.

Tesla announced this thing a decade ago and they rolled one off of a theoretical line. Who cares?

There's nothing new here. There's no new information about this late-landing product. There's no story of huge guaranteed bookings, or new unexpected capabilities. It's a non-story.

As for your demand that I provide an accurate product comparison -- driver reviews routinely indicate that the 'driver at the center' seating position makes it harder for truckers to actually do their work, because they can't easily reach out their window to access terminals, perform document exchanges, etc.

So, I'll augment my position: not only is this a non-story... it's a non-story about a vehicle with a notable design flaw.

meanwhile Freightliner, Volvo, and BYD already have active fleets.

Tesla historically focused on what marketers refer to as "earned media" rather than "paid media", but it was still marketing. Those Musk and Tesla headlines that happened around the world didn't occur by accident.

That said, they've also been buying ads for the last few years as their growth has sputtered in the face of competition.

I've had to give up drinking trenta-sized Starbucks entirely.

It's a little odd to think that 100 kWh battery packs would have the lifecycle as integrated .01 kWh components. The value prop for recycling is, obviously, incomparable.

My 992.2 has AA/CarPlay, and an outstanding user interface, with a nice mix of configurable displays and physical buttons. Fairly certain it is a top 100 product in it's market.

It is bizarre that you are citing a project that was planned in the 90s, broke ground in 2006 and ended in 2015 as a recent development.

Sri Lanka has only one coal power plant (construction began 2006), and the later coal project was canceled.

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

It's easier to understand if you live in America.

Your reference to Democrat "elites" shows you have a hint of it... in this country that term never applies to a Republican -- even if they were born rich, went to Ivy League schools, and were handed a career and a professional network on a platter.

It is almost _exclusively_ used to denigrate women, minorities, or men who support progressive causes.

There's the whole "billionaire bubble" thing, where they get surrounded by folks who have an economic interest in keeping the billionaire happy... but I'd posit there's another big change -- tech billionaires didn't used to have any cultural or political juice. This meant that even if they had some weird / bad takes, they kept them quiet.

Media consolidation has really helped weird billionaires move the Overton window, so that their weird/bad takes become "acceptable", and then they start admitting them publicly.