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  • I mean, my input was that I think it’s shitty to suggest that things are complete solutions to any societal issue when it requires ignoring massive swathes of the total population.

    I think it’s shitty when it comes up to double down and say those people don’t matter.

    I think it’s shitty to say “well they chose that so fuck em”

    Like, can you imagine saying “fuck people in Flint MI, they want safe drinking water they shouldn’t live in Flint, they chose this.”

    So, I mean, that’s my point.


  • I could and did forgive the original response for exactly the reason you said.

    But in my follow up, I clarified my position and point, and that being ignored is why I’m stating it as being a strawman. I explicitly said I support public transportation.

    Let me say it again: I explicitly said I support public transportation.

    Let me say it a FIFTH TIME NOW: I SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

    How many times need it be said before buddy stops characterizing my position as being against public transportation?

    Sincerely, how many times?




  • I’m not disputing the benefits of public transit.

    I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I’m a very vocal proponent.

    I grew up in a rural area. Our small area tried earnestly several times to get a bus route going. First with old school buses and then with some old city buses. They just couldn’t make it work. The population density just couldn’t support it.

    My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless






  • I don’t really care what they look like. If any truck actually could meet the promises these made, I’d buy the shit out of them:

    -All electric

    -Sophisticated sensor suite to improve operational safety

    -Working performance comparable to F150

    -low maintenance

    -Can be used as home power backup

    -not a Deathtrap

    -not a Killing machine

    It hits the electric points, but that’s it. It’s a bad truck. It doesn’t fulfill any of the “smart” promises. Death trap killing machines in constant recall that can’t handle rain… Let alone do work.

    The aesthetic doesn’t even make my list of complaints. It’s like the whole industry has been trying to make trucks as shitty as possible for like 30 years. Give me a '94 ranger electric conversion kit and it’s game fucking over cyber truck.




  • I completely agree that if there are tools that can allow a vehicle to “see” better than a human it’s absurd not to implement them. Even if musk could make a car exactly as good as a human, that’s a low bar. It isn’t good enough.

    As for humans: if you are operating a vehicle such that you could not avoid killing an unexpected person on the road, you are not safely operating the vehicle. In this case, it’s known as “over driving your headlights”, you are driving at a speed that precludes you from reacting appropriately by the time you can perceive an issue.

    Imagine if it wasn’t a deer but a chunk of concrete that would kill you if struck at speed. Perhaps a bolder on a mountain pass. A vehicle that has broken down.

    Does Musk’s system operate safely? No. The fact that it was a deer is completely irrelevant.







  • I don’t think it’s “just” LoRa on 2.4ghz, because if it were existing lora devices wouldn’t be able to decode the signals off the shelf, as the article claims. From the perspective of the receiver, the messages must “appear” to be in a LoRa band, right?

    How do you make a device who’s hardware operates in one frequency band emulate messages in a different band? I think that’s the nature of this research.

    And like, we already know how to do that in the general sense. For all intents and purposes, that’s what AM radio does. Just hacking a specific peice of consumer hardware to do it entirely software side becomes the research paper.