RegalPotoo

Idk, even before Musk went full meth head things were already heading south pretty fast - they'd completely squandered their first mover advantage and their "move fast and break things" approach was really starting to take a toll on their brand reputation. Teslas were already starting to be known as expensive cars with terrible build quality, then the constant delays and broken promises about self driving did them no favors either.

A Tesla made sense when they were pretty much the only really viable luxury EV, but when you can get equivalent cars (with better build quality) from established Western manufacturers for ~75% the price or from a Chinese manufacturer for ~60%, what advantage do they have?

Musk's cult of personally is/was a big part of it, so they are kinda screwed either way - the stink of Musk won't instantly vanish if they get rid of him, and taints everything while he stays

Another point on this, in events like this the cell network is often under very significant stress as every single person tries to contact their family and friends at the same time to check if they are OK. The general advice is to avoid making phone calls if you can to keep capacity free for people who need to contact emergency services

Nothing - my employer pays for it - but if I was paying myself it would be $85NZD/month for 150GB 5G data, unlimited text and calling to NZ and Australia

Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy

Existence is suffering

If you are going to propose a law, you need to define "stupid"

I find it telling that AGI people seem to assume that AGI will spontaneously appear as a distinct entity with its own agency rather than being a product that will be owned and sold.

People who have hundreds of billions of dollars can get mid-single-digit percent ROI by making very safe investments with that money, but instead they are pouring it into relatively risky AI investments. What do you think that says about their expectations of returns?

To me, "fine" means "legal if you are rich enough"; I'd be for a system that if you get more than X speeding fines within a period, your license becomes provisional, and you have to resit the full license test within 6 months or loose it entirely. Maybe required people to have a "P" plate in the window while their license is provisional as a bit of social pressure as well.

Pretty much you've shown you aren't familiar with the requirements to operate a vehicle on public roads, and need a reminder

At a guess:

• People with steam accounts and VPNs in countries that steam doesn't operate in. Steam will block your "foreign" credit card as a fraud risk, but eBay dgaf cos it's the sellers problem if they get ripped off
• This is probably a pretty convenient way to send small amounts of money to people in a way that looks pretty legit. Arrange to buy some drugs off someone over telegram, they get you to buy a "steam card" from them, they send an envelope with a blank bit of cardboard and the drugs

A friend of mine seems to get a ticket about once a year on average (which I don't get - I've been driving for 15 years and never got one) - the thing that really bugs me though is how angry and upset she gets when she does get one; like she's been targeted personally for something entirely outside of her control, not that if you choose to consistently drive 10km/h over the limit you are eventually going to get pinged. She doesn't seem to have the "nothing is ever my fault" attitude generally, but for speeding fines it's like she doesn't feel that responsibility as a driver or something. Idk people are weird

We misunderstood, we thought that we owned you and could do whatever we wanted

So realistically, what would happen if there was a collision like this?

It's a pretty significant hit, but not enough to meaningfully change the moon's orbit, so no long term impacts from that. Maybe a pretty meteor shower from the material ejected? Probably not enough material to cause a significant amount of surface heating.