| Author | Message | ||
     Hootowl |
Tesla update: I took my mother out to dinner for her 77th birthday this evening. The car drove us to and from the restaurant with zero interventions. The latest version of the software eliminates 300k lines of c++ code and replaces it with 100% neural net machine learning. It is truly astonishing. 10x improvement and remarkably human-like. It did exactly what I would have done in all situations. The future is bright. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Hoot, that makes me think of the slogan, "If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!" | ||
| Hootowl |
Sidewalks are not included in its navigation system as valid roadways, so I am not quite sure why that would spring to mind. | ||
| Ducbsa |
No knock on you, I say it about myself. Buell riders can have free-flowing thoughts at times. | ||
| Ducbsa |
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| Whisperstealth |
Regarding Vaccination: As a "Pure Blood", intact straight Male, I've been told my sperm will become highly valuable in the future... I'm still waiting for women to beat a path to my door... Interestingly enough, my poor furbaby is both Vaxxed and no longer intact, sorry boy... | ||
| Aesquire |
Whisper, going for death by snu snu? You're going to be stalked by cults in our Fallout tomorrow! https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the -daily-chart-how-much-more-juice.php Tomorrow's domestic & foreign terror targets will be data centers. Both transformer stations, and EMP bombs. ( non nuclear ground delivered ) Twaddle by Iranians, formerly known as... Google by Sinophobics. Facebook by Incels. And the Pornhub vs. Xhamster war...  | ||
| Whisperstealth |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the -best-climate-beatdown-of-the-year-so-far.php  | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/thr ee-cheers-for-oil.php A Toyota Hilux & team with shaped charges to take out the Iranian pipelines in the North to Russia and Europe, plus water drones to take out the Iranian southern oil ports, and the Chinese invasion fleet goes oar powered. A few more teams taking out truck traffic carrying Iranian drones to Putin, and you've got disproportionately effective cost benefit ratio warfare. And record breaking cold in Europe this fall might crash the E.U. especially if infrastructure attacks shift demand. We live in interesting times. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.space.com/mars-asteroid-impact-billion -craters-ejecta | ||
| Tpehak |
Imagine such thing landing on the Earth. If you'd have a choice where would you like it to land? (Message edited by TPEHAK on March 29, 2024) | ||
| Hootowl |
Washington DC | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/a-b us-too-far.php 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, to be precise. It's an old building, rebuilt after arson, and a poorly insulated energy hog. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/the -beepocalypse-is-over.php But the llamas! Lots of new bee hives built and a deliberate effort to put in free range housing, wild bee capture and protection hives, seems to have worked. Now the mystery of why the big decline. Insecticide was the initial guess, herbicide, maybe electronic navigation interference. Now vanishing 3G? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/wholesale-madness-retail- insanity/ | ||
| Aesquire |
If the government had stuck to tax incentives, instead of authoritarian Orders, the market would demand more electric cars to the point of "cheating economic viability", a higher demand than normal ( almost zero except vanity products like Fiskars ) with complaints about the government giving rich people tax dollars while the poor suffered. Yes, that was the late 20th century complaints from both sides of the political divide. Technology improved, and a legal immigrant African-American started Tesla, leaning heavily on the legal tax incentives, and changed the demand. From consumers, not dictatorial watermelons. I'd go full "told you so!" as blackouts become SOP and we get gaslighted by the same zealots that created the crisis blaming You for more electric demand while they shut down power plants. But that's too obvious to get egotistical about. | ||
| Hootowl |
Musk did not start Tesla, but he was an early investor, and eventually had a controlling share. | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks for the clarification. A buddy just bought Tesla stock. On "the science is Settled" lie. Remember the food pyramid? Now known as the heart disease and diabetes diet? Pluto? Not the Disney toon, the PLANET? The onrushing Ice age? ( I'm still buying that one after looking at the Vostok Antarctic Ice core data, and hope it holds off until I'm gone ) ( but not for the reasons proposed in 1977 ) Teflon? The threat of fluorine containing plastics might be pure hype. Or one of the reproductive health triggers. Silent Spring? Millions of humans dead from that one. Phlogiston chemistry? And I'm still waiting for the convergence of Einstein's curved space time, zero point particle/antiparticle creation, and Maxwell's equations. The good news is the utter reliability of the Tell. Anyone who says "the science is Settled" is either ignorant ( a good person to sell that bridge your uncle left you ) or dishonest... So you know not to give credence to anything else that they say, too. The good news is, we have more unanswered questions than ever. | ||
| Tpehak |
Next Monday the total human sacrifice event will be initiated http://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-thi nk-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrific e-event-73671 | ||
| Hootowl |
Are you going? | ||
| Crusty |
Maybe he'll be the Grand Finale! | ||
| Aesquire |
It takes time and special techniques to sharpen an obsidian blade, but it's worth it. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/rev ersible-dont-count-on-it.php The lawsuits are just starting. Considering that this cult is targeting innocents and the mentally ill/unstable... (all adolescents are unstable ) I anticipate an upcoming wave of Doctor and School counselor revenge murders. Combine roid rage with bitter regret at getting mutilated... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/04/05/nbc-news-atte mpt-to-link-ny-area-earthquake-to-climate-change-i s-beyond-parody-n2394789 https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/04/05/nj-candi date-for-senate-blames-earthquake-on-climate-crisi s-n2394793 Next week the Eclipse will be blamed for... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/05/elon-env ironmentalism-human-extinction-n2394792 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/04/05/dea th-by-dei-christopher-rufo-talks-to-boeing-insider -and-whoa-nelly-it-is-bad-n2394772 Your typical home built airplane is a labor of love, with a decent dose of OCD. It's the rare, talented, perfectionist who wins the trophy at air shows. Panel gaps in tight tolerances, no burrs, wiring harness better than 99% of modern art, curved surfaces free of waviness... ( The designer/builder of Lionheart sanded the plug for the mold until he could see the mountains reflected without distortion or ripples. ) And the sailplane guys fill & sand the wings to a smoothness past eyeball optical measurements. To a very specific shape. Sure, there are some hurried flying junk piles, but there's an inspection process where a FAA approved expert checks out your work, at your expense, to check your work. Usually before paint and finish stuff, ( like upholstery ) and they focus on nuts bolts and safety wire. Pretty isn't the point. And Darwin Rules in aviation. Poor workmanship and accident reports go hand in hand. Consider most engine failures are from fuel starvation. Some are from poor judgment on refueling, stretching the tank ( they don't ) etc. Some from turning a valve the wrong way or sequence. ( John Denver died in the Rockies from a hard to see fuel selection valve in a new to him plane that he hadn't practiced/memorized the correct position by feel. ) And a lot are tiny errors that caused the fuel to stop. Improper venting, unported pickups, etc. ( SOP in testing is to run the engine with the tail in a ditch to simulate climbing steeply won't shut off flow ) The more complex the craft, the more complex the systems. Miles of wire & Multiple fuel tanks. Pumps. Valves. Vents. Preflight... Anecdote from Boeing. A 747 being built was found to have a loose fuel connection inside the wing, in a location utterly inaccessible after everything was riveted together. Hundreds of hours of work to fix. So they cut an access hole, fixed it, and installed a removable hatch. When Japan Airlines rep noticed the change from plans, he asked. Told it was to improve access for maintenance, he agreed, and demanded All their planes had one. And today, all do. Darwin, baby! Every Experimental registered ( home built ) aircraft in the U.S. has a sign in the cockpit, visible to passengers, warning that the craft is Experimental and not built to commercial industry standards. ( there's a particular legalese required ) I know a few guys that honestly added that it was built to higher standards. Like a custom motorcycle, there's the perfectionist who cares about workmanship, and the Orange County types that hammer the axles in since they didn't bother to build a straight frame. ( I wouldn't trust them to change my oil ) The Drama Queen guys don't drive their overpriced art at 12,000 feet where you can't just stop and walk home. I used to love the Bikernet stories of building a new bike to ride to Sturgis. The Jesse James chopper that needed to stop and find a welder multiple times to keep the rear end from collapsing, again. The bike built so low it hit Bots Dots on the highway. And my favorite, when the Project bike just wasn't going to get running in time. So he took the shop Buell Cyclone and had zero drama and the smoothest, fastest, run. Until he hit a deer. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/04/05/the-resp onses-to-the-new-york-earthquake-are-hilarious-n23 94788 | ||
| Aesquire |
Eclipse stuff. https://instapundit.com/640476/ The person who asked the Mayor to stop the Eclipse is the poster child for arresting the entire education system and shipping them to Chernobyl to teach math and English and gender studies to the radioactive dire wolves. They'll probably replace us after the WEF puts birth control in the crickets. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
The person asked the wrong entity. Everyone knows it's Zeus who controls the heavens, you must ask him. Or maybe that God wannabe in China. I find it fascinating that some stores/businesses are shutting down for/during the eclipse. Some are going crazy, saying it's the beginning of the apocalypse, or Christ's return. Reminds me of all the Y2K hysteria. Being in the path of the eclipse, people are coming from all over to my area to witness the event. I get for free, what some are paying thousands to see - or not see LOL. Trust me, I know better than to go to Walmart on the first Saturday of the month, the first Saturday combined with the eclipse watchers?! No Thank You. | ||
| Aesquire |
Well, it's literally a once in a lifetime chance to see the results of the most improbable celestial coincidence visible with the naked eye. So closing shop, ( my bank is ) for the afternoon is nice for employees and public safety. Seriously, according to current theory, a Mars sized planet collided with the Earth, splashing an enormous amount of molten rock and plasma into orbit, while the shattered remains goes off into eternity. There's only a tiny number of sizes, vectors, and velocities that combine to get that "splash" into a nearly circular orbit. Luna, our Moon, is the largest moon in our solar system, in proportion to it's gravity anchor planet. ( poor Pluto no longer counts but it's close ) And not only did the enormous tides from Luna create the density of atmosphere we enjoy, ( unlike the crushing acids of Venus ) they create the moving interface of land and sea that is a major factor in the evolution of life and amphibians that is hypothesized to lead to... Us. But all that is hypothesized history, long before humans gazed upon the heavens. What WE see is the incredibly improbable exact match in incredibly different sizes, that puts the shadow of Sol's radiation by Luna periodically blocking the Sun EXACTLY covering the ball of nuclear fire and revealing the outer atmosphere of Sol and the incandescent gases arching along intense and shifting magnetic fields. Something always there, but invisible in the bright light to the naked eye the vast majority of time. Except Monday. It's so insanely unlikely, it's enough to make you believe in a Creator. |
