Translation - they were not expecting this announcement. Soon, Trump will order them to conduct test explosions just because.
Trump is going to build a modern Vasa at some point. And all his supporters will claim the ship is perfect even as it sinks.
The brake in my wife’s ICE car takes that long to disengage after I take my foot off the pedal at red lights. Incredibly distracting for me, as someone who is apparently very “in tune” with the car I’m driving. I didn’t notice it during the test drive, but we didn’t stop at many red lights that day. When I first noticed it, it caused a brief moment of panic - “What’s wrong with the car?!” I’m kind of used to it now, but it still takes me out of any good mood I was in about driving that car. When I take my foot off the pedal, I expect the brakes to release at that moment, not a bit later.
And this isn’t the brake hold feature that lets you remove your foot from the brake pedal. I rarely use that. It’s just a lag between taking my foot off the pedal, and the brakes releasing. Most people never notice it, I’m sure, but it bugs me.
In general that car feels like there’s a computer between you and the road. Everything is so muted, then it does things like the brake lag to remind you that it’s in control and you’re just making suggestions.
When I worked for the federal government, it meant outreach to minority communities, trying to get more to apply. Once they applied, they were on the same playing field as everyone else.
On a related note: Every time I see a video on Facebook of a crash caused by a tractor trailer, I see racist comments, guessing who the driver was, as though no white guy has ever wrecked a truck. It’s insane. It’s so deep in their heads that rational thought is gone.
Saw her on Colbert the other night. She seemed rather… devoted to her belief that Biden was great and never had a misstep. It was kind of disturbing actually.
This from the guy that wants the Nobel peace prize.
I’m reminded of the praying hands emoji people always post in response to an announcement of a vehicle crash on Facebook. If that shit worked, why don’t they pray for God to keep the crash from happening at all?
In other words, she had no intention of answering truthfully and forthrightly.
Maybe not fraudulent, since it’s not asking for money, but I see where you’re coming from. I’m not sure if there’s any recourse for the employees affected - did they lose money (for example) because of that message?
Not that laws matter, but it’s a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.
I just saw this video clip while watching last night’s Kimmel. Trump was furious - look at his expression in that picture…because an escalator stopped. The smallest of setbacks drives him to a crazy level of fury.
Like Kimmel said, “If only that had happened 10 years ago.”
I had to turn off the lane assist in our Mazda for that reason. It was constantly steering me back toward obstacles I was trying to avoid. I cursed it many times.
Other false alarms are frequent enough that I’m starting to ignore the alarm, so when it actually catches me in a mistake, I’ll probably ignore it then, too, and be in a crash.
DC might be an extreme example, but I assume many cities have restrictions on flights above them.
Oh yes. I can think of several houses with them.
I know one that has the US flag at the top, then a Trump flag right below it. Every time I go by the house it’s there.
But aren’t some of the stories and responses AI generated?
If you take a dataset and fit a model to it, then use that dataset again to gauge the viability of the model, the model will pass with flying colors - because it is literally fit to the dataset you’re using. You have to use “other” data, even cutting the original dataset in half and using half to train the model and half to test it, is better than nothing.
If much of reddit is bots, then this study would be bots feeding on each other.
Next time there’s a race crime in some backwater county, we need to send the national guard in to patrol the county in response to the high crime rate there.
I thought it was dumb, too, but I definitely wasn’t upset by it. Conservatives were, for some reason.
Yeah think of the military-industrial complex shareholders! Why won’t someone think of the shareholders?!
If he gets one, will he go away?
Here’s my problem with all of the automation the manufacturers are adding to cars. Not even Autopilot level stuff is potentially a problem - things like adaptive cruise come to mind.
If there’s some kind of bug in that adaptive cruise that puts my car into the bumper of the car in front of me before I can stop it, the very first thing the manufacturer is going to say is:
But the responsibility for safe driving, is on the driver…
And how do we know there isn’t some stupid bug? Our car has plenty of other software bugs in the infotainment system; hopefully they were a little more careful with the safety-critical systems…ha ha, I know. Even the bugs in the infotainment are distracting. But what would the manufacturer say if there was a crash resulting from my moment of distraction, caused by the 18th fucking weather alert in 10 minutes for a county 100 miles away, a feature that I can’t fucking disable?
But the responsibility for safe driving, is on the driver…
In other words, “We bear no responsibility!” So, I have to pay for these “features” and the manufacturer will deny any responsibility if one of them fails and causes a crash. It’s always your fault as the driver, no matter what. The company rolls this shit out to us; we have no choice to buy a new car without it any more, and they don’t even trust it enough to stand behind it.
Maybe you’ll get lucky and enough issues will happen that gov’t regulators will look into it (not in the US any more, of course)…but probably not. You’ll be blamed, and you’ll pay higher insurance, and that will be that.
So now I have to worry not only about other drivers and my own driving, but I also have to be alert that the car will do something unexpected as well. Which has happened, when all this “smart” technology has misunderstood a situation, like slamming on the brakes for a car in another lane. I’ve found I hate having to fight my own car.
Obviously, I very much dislike driving our newer car. It’s primarily my wife’s car, and I only drive it once or twice a week, fortunately.
With his money, he could eliminate poverty right now. Why wait?