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>Waymo demonstrates that it is years ahead of Tesla FSD technology
>Annouce robotaxi event at Warner Brothers Studio lot, only a decade behind earlier predictions to claw back some of the limelight
>Realise that your FSD technology is woefully behind
>Delay robotaxi unveiling
Yep. It’s Tesla time!
Could you imagine what every conflict would look like if they applied the same standards to US weapons?
Oh interesting.
Just recently, the more lib-oriented content creators were hyping up how the Ukrainian armed forces had “invented” a war crime drones dropping thermite onto enemy positions. My first thought was “Why are they using drones to dump thermite on a target instead of using artillery or missiles or a drone bomb? Are they really scraping the bottom of the barrel and going for improvised weapons?”
And it sounds as though they might just be. It’s fascinating to see how divergent their perspective is compared to mine.
Thermite is very stable and it’s basically impossible to put out once it’s going. Hard to ignite though, but that’s equal parts feature and bug; some things burn hot enough for it, you just have to use your iMgination. A reasonable quantity will melt metal, so it’s good for dealing with vehicles if you get it in the right place. I appreciate the Cody’s Lab approach using aluminium foil because it provides versatility. My guess is that the Ukrainian armed forces are using something like a paint can and steel wire to contain the thermite while suspending it below the drone.
Oh ummm… haha, that’s weird. Imagine this comment describing what happened to you. That would be super awkward and uncomfortable. Probably. Idk it never happened to me, I’m just talking in hypotheticals.
Honestly of all the European countries, the French throw a protest unlike almost anyone else.
They are super territorial about labour rights, which I have nothing but respect for, and they’ll create barricades and flip cars and burn shit if they’re dissatisfied with what’s going on in parliament.
Given that Macron is trying to push through reforms to erode pensions and he’s been stalling on appointing a prime minister for quite a long time, and now he’s betrayed the left coalition with his appointment, I would expect a lot of rage to spill out onto the streets of France.
For reference, the French government spent like a billion dollars to make the Seine river (allegedly) safe to swim in again for the first time in like 100 years. The French people were pissed off about this huge waste of money just to show off for the Olympics. I think the mayor of Paris committed to swimming in the Seine in the lead-up as a photo op and to instill confidence that the Seine was safe. The French people started to plot a protest of shitting in the Seine right before the mayor was going to swim in it and people even started to coordinate for when to shit at which points in the river to ensure the maximum effect.
Even if nobody took a shit in the Seine in protest, the fact that the option was on the table and considered viable to the point where people put in serious effort to coordinate says a lot about the French people’s readiness to protest.
“If we vote him into power we can push him left!!”
Article, if you’re stuck behind the paywall: Chinese chip start-up Xiangdixian said to collapse amid cash crunch and legal woes
Chongqing-based Xiangdixian has dissolved the company and terminated the contracts of nearly 400 employees, according to Chinese media reports
Xinmei Shen
Published: 1:55pm, 1 Sep 2024
Updated: 1:58pm, 2 Sep 2024
Chinese semiconductor start-up Xiangdixian Computing Technology has reportedly collapsed amid a cash crunch and dismissed all employees, highlighting difficulties faced by domestic chip firms despite a nationwide self-sufficiency push.
Xiangdixian, based in the southwestern city of Chongqing, on Friday held an all-staff meeting where it announced the dissolution of the company, terminating the contracts of nearly 400 employees, according to reports from local media such as ijiwei and TMTPost.
The company had failed to fulfil terms agreed upon in a previous funding round, following which its shareholders filed a lawsuit that led to the freezing of its bank account, TMTPost reported. Xiangdixian is now seeking new investors and trying to get access to its account, the outlet said.
But in a statement posted on WeChat on Sunday evening, Xiangdixian denied reports that it has taken measures to dissolve or liquidate the company. The firm said it faced “market adjustment pressures”, as the development of domestic GPUs has not met its expectations.
At present, the company said it is “making adjustments” to reduce operating costs affecting some team members, but will strengthen its core research and development and operation teams. The firm added that it is now actively talking to investors and looking for external financing opportunities.
That’s a shame. I don’t know enough about the American healthcare industry to give you any good advice but in lieu of someone coming along with that I’d play dumb and deny that anything happened and say that you started noticing problems during the period of coverage.
What if that injury that happened 7 years ago only happened a couple of years ago, back when you started under the current insurance coverage?
Oh shit, I should have waited to post this image
You should call them, speak to a manager, and ask them what the manager recommends your immunocompromised friend should do as they have been given directions by their doctor to wear a mask while in public and they would like to eat at the store.
Record the call. Start some shit. This has gotta be an ADA violation.
Be super careful if you are thinking about moving a grease fire.
You absolutely don’t want to spill it as you are moving it because it slips from your hands, because you are panicking, or because the flames get bigger and you recoil.
If you have the money, buy a fire blanket and keep one on a wall or inside a cabinet door such as a pantry door. They aren’t that expensive and as long as it hasn’t been used it will last you a lifetime. Your life, your health, your belongings as well as those of your pets and loved ones are worth it. Think of it like an insurance policy.
Just remember that you want the fire blanket near the stove. Not beside it. The last thing you want to do is have flames blocking you from reaching the damn thing.
Also welding gloves > oven mitts for the kitchen. They protect your forearms and you’re going to have a better time dealing with a fire wearing those than you would with an oven mitt. Same goes if you have open fires, especially if you’re camping. Being able to throw on some gloves to pick up a log of burning wood can spare you from disaster.
There was a quote from him about Jacobin wanting to be highbrow from a long time ago. I have probably read two Jacobin articles since the early days of the publication so I’m not sure where it’s at today tbh.
Sunkara is a curious figure because he either changes his position a lot, he says what his interviewer wants to hear, or he is intentionally concealing what his goals are. He vacillates from being a loyal opposition Democrat supporter to a revolutionary communist to a person who extols the virtues of social democracy and European welfare capitalism. It could be that he’s just flattering whoever hosts him or that he’s trying to sugarcoat his words so that his message is well-received by the audience of the publication in question idk. I haven’t bothered to look closely enough to try getting a decent read on the guy.
Maybe obscurantist was a poor choice of words on my part but in that old quote he was saying that he wanted to make a socialist publication that was slick and intellectual. So if I gave the impression that he said he wanted to rival French philosophers or the Frankfurt School for their obscuranism then that’s my bad.
The name:
Jacobin
The character of the writing:
Narodnik
Bhaskar Sunkara created Jacobin specifically with the intent of making Marxism more academic and aimed at the intelligentsia.
If you think that sounds like an attempt to sequester Marxism away from the proletariat by concealing it with obscurantist language and focusing on topics that are divorced from the concerns of the working class in order to strip all revolutionary potential from Marxism, well have you ever considered that maybe Kautsky was right all along?
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That’s the one. Dunno if there’s an iOS version available though.
Skip forward two months:
"Hey guys, we successfully repelled the mainland Chinese invasion of occupied Formosa!!
What? No, you can’t see any evidence of this. We sunk all of their ships in the Taiwan Strait so you’ll just have to take our word for it that we actually achieved what we said we did and trust that this isn’t another example of our unit pulling another political theatre manoeuvre."
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