require a ton of labor to be swapping millions of packs every day

It’s fully automated. The swapping and moving batteries to charge is done without humans involved. Even the car driving into the swapping bay is automatic these days.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeirdus-Launch-Singlemode-Measuring-Optical/dp/B07H5J2T5G

About 1500 EUR or USD. It´s a spool 15cmx15cmx12cm, 1 kg. 6inx6inx5in, 2 lb for the metric impaired.

Russia doesn’t care about calling out. They’ll just complain about the lack of proof and how unfair the West is.

They’ll respond more to use of force and playing their stupid game. Seize a few Russian ships by “pirates” or have a few sudden “machine room fires” and tell Russia “for your safety, stay away from that region or pay us for an escort”.

If the people dare to get uppity, the shadier parts of government blow up an apartment complex, blame it on the protesters and use that as an excuse to hunt them down.

Those roads are probably for police and military so they can arrive quickly in case of invasion or citizens becoming uppity.

That’s not the only toxic thing humans eat, drink or smoke. Chocolate, coffee, alcohol and probably many more.

The microlino. Quadricyle (L7e & L6e) . 12.5 kW engine, 90 kph max speed so enough for highway. Looks neat.

But it’s pretty fun when the customer says your program does it wrong and you pull out that old Excel, plug in the data and their Excel does exactly the same as your program. It makes the discussion about billable hours a lot easier.

Dump to an Excel sheet and ask them to make a formula for “active”. A client that can’t use Excel deserves to be teased and be charged extra.

Meat doesn’t matter

• vegans

Maybe if we’d put LLM powered puppets in the meetings with management so developers can just continue with their actual work we’d get a lot more done.

And it’s not even guaranteed to work. All corporations seem to be doing (quiet) layoffs so most employees just suck it up and commute, brimming with fresh resentment.

Saving civilization as we know it is not economically viable

It’s amazing how almost every interaction between nations and superpowers can very easily explained in kindergarten terms. It’s so often exactly “I want all”, “I can’t have I break it”, intimidating and slapping others just because they are smaller.

Received his order for this at Mar-a-Lago no doubt

This has been going on for a long time. The main difference is the “the suckers can’t stop us anyway” attitude.

Even SQL was originally called SEQUEL, Structured English QUEry Language. They got sued for the name and changed it to SQL. It was also pitched to retrieve data with plain language.

It’s very common. Every few years there is some no-code platform claiming no developers are needed anymore in any sector, not just web dev. Invariably these only work if you stay on the narrow path and of course the customer asks something outside of the easy path after the first demo so a lot of work by devs are needed to make of happen.

AI is just one more like that, but with hype on steroids.

Trump has always just spouted talking points and word salad until something gets a good reaction and that becomes the new mantra and even government policy. Things that had a bad reaction are put in the “I never said that” box.

It’s surprisingly how much this resembles how an AI generates images. It starts with random noise and refines that into a clear image that matches the criteria.

Businesses that were too successful are also called monopolies, and have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship all in their own.

Median wage in USA is about $20/h, so the actual numbers say there are a lot of people being closer to having trouble making ends meet. Even then, the ratio matters a lot. It’s the difference between “we’re all in this together” and “some of you won’t make it but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”. In the latter situation there is a lot more resentment and sympathy for violence.