Yeah… as amazing as full dive VR would be, I’d be afraid that weaponized would be a better term for how it would be implemented than enshitified.

Umart sounds like Best Buy in the US. Fuck Best Buy.

I think it’s a truck for regulatory reasons. Trucks get a pass on a bunch of things that can be a regulatory issue for cars, because of course they do.

They are offering kits to make it a van or SUV. Still no coupe, but better than a truck for many purposes.

By the time most people start pumping gasoline, they are almost past the part of their lives they take many standardized tests in.

This was interesting. Most of these jobs are dangerous because they increase your exposure to car accidents it looks like.

I had heard that most police officers deaths are from car accidents, but this says “violence by other people or animals”. Must be just their category name, not because animals are a significant danger. That category is shared with one other profession in the top 25 most dangerous, supervisor of mechanics at number 19. I guess bossing around people with a lot of potentially dangerous tools at hand goes bad fairly often.

Well, one way or another it won’t be too many generations. Either we figure out it’s a bad idea or sooner or later things will go off the wheels enough that we won’t maintain the infrastructure to support everyone using this type of “AI”. Being kind of right 90% of the time is not good enough at a power plant.

Heavy things can bounce if they have the right properties. That ball looked to be going somewhere between 5-10 mph and that guy went down fast. That momentum had to come from the ball, and that ball has to weigh considerably more than he does to hit with that much force at that speed.

Consumer Reports. You do need a subscription, but they tabulate a lot of service and warranty info, do a lot of surveys, and do in house testing. If you’re buying a large appliance I’d say it’s worth it. They do other stuff too.

We we considering a samsung fridge among our options when we needed one a few months ago. Ended up going with a brand with higher reliability ratings (for reference, that’s most other brands, according to consumer reports anyway). But man, don’t I regret it now. I could have paid for the privilege of having ads playing in my kitchen at all times (at least until the fridge broke), what a missed opportunity.

A truly horrifying prospect.

Well, don’t be hasty. Being sent back to Venezuela may not be the beginning of justice, depending on why they left Venezuela to begin with.