Many, many vested interests have tried to stop, deflect, delay, refund or shape the project and work into whatever will be least used and successful. The auto industry and oil industry, now also the ev companies including Tesla have a huge stake in not having Americans experience how dependable, useful, quick, clean and pleasant HSR is.

Once you try it you can’t go back to short and mid-range car and plane trips.

NSFW

Interestingly, producing unbelievable amounts of bombs does help ammunition companies.

Consequences for thee

Great article, brave and correct. Good luck getting the same leaders who blindly believe in a magical trend for this or next quarters numbers; they don’t care about things a year away let alone 10.

I work in HR and was stuck by the parallel between management jobs being gutted by major corps starting in the 80s and 90s during “downsizing” who either never replaced them or offshore them. They had the Big 4 telling them it was the future of business. Know who is now providing consultation to them on why they have poor ops, processes, high turnover, etc? Take $ on the way in, and the way out. AI is just the next in long line of smart people pretending they know your business while you abdicate knowing your business or employees.

Hope leaders can be a bit braver and wiser this go 'round so we don’t get to a cliffs edge in software.

Op, “horribly biased toward black and Asian people” as an article summary meaning the opposite of what you intend, it should be “biased against”, bias toward something is favoring it.

I’ve been saying that for 5 years, people will have a “choice” of course but it’ll be a luxury to analog a car in 25 years–for many good reasons. The data since 2007, when the iPhone hit the market dramatically worsened—at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. Humans should not be driving when they are overworked, anxious or depressed as hell and insanely distracted with digital addiction.

The horrifying part is a fascist bitch who owns Tesla looks to have elbowed his way to having the best seat to potentially dominate self-driving.

Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else

Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.

What about 6 minute abs?

So what is the local election likely for the state? Was it close last time? Are there good potential progressives or at least a dem who could win? Does this potentially tip the Senate a bit?

Date of the photo? Assume it would be before the election, shirt is dated 2024. Still embarrassing as hell for anyone with any pride, sense of worth or value of the broader world to stand with those POSs

The first piece of legislation passed by the newly formed California government was the “Chinese Exclusion Act” which among other things,

“prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years… The Act also denied Chinese residents already in the US the ability to become citizens and Chinese people traveling in or out of the country were required to carry a certificate identifying their status or risk deportation. It was the first major US law implemented to prevent all members of a specific national group from immigrating to the United States, and therefore helped shape twentieth-century immigration policy.”

Let’s not just limit it to native Americans and Californios(native Mexicans who lived in California before it was stolen), that racist core of the US has been there since day 1. A contributing factor to a lot of the westward migration in the US was that “lower ladder” white immigrant national groups like the Irish, Italian and others who were bottom rung on the east coast could move West and finally have someone further down the ladder to kick.

This is one of the sustaining reasons for racism in general used to manipulate groups who feel tenuous control and power in a society; give them a line about an “other” group, tell them they’re better than that group and wham, you have folks ready to kill to preserve their perception of a precious advantage in society–when of course in reality they’re no better and in fact worse off as the weak fall or rise together.

If you are interested in learning more, the history of California is incredibly useful as a proxy to understand why certain legislation, perceptions and other things still alive in the US that propagate racism exist. Look at immigration quotas the US sets for different nations for example; much, much higher in predominantly white, western European nations while Asia (see California influence), despite MUCH larger populations are allowed lower numbers of immigrants/refugees, visas, etc.

Meanwhile news announcing how apple and Google are adding “epassports” to their phones.

Enjoy that shit suckers

It’s not delusion, they know it is not a real product, not real value, etc. but they are paid for companies whose entire future has been built on the emperor’s new clothes. Rich powerful people get news interviews, people who don’t want to keep up a profitable facade (however temporary) do not.

How revolutionary. They’re going to upend the world of finance by trying to give loans to people who can’t structurally afford to pay them back in all likelihood? Isn’t that the entire playbook for wage slaves to those who are otherwise of sound mind and body?

Maybe they try to just continue with the current (awful)status quo without the psuedoscience? Course then they’d lose out on the fascism.

Sociology is one of the few majors that Florida is trying to cut from public school programs. They apparently think it radicalizes people to educate them about the way the world works.

Also, 20x the price of the original item.

Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.

The bubble was accelerated by people assuming prices would always rise, often their own greed and flipping or becoming landlords, and this was only possible due to the financial engineering that made lending to these folks posivle, but all of that droce the value of the underlying assets down significantly.

You claim there wasn’t a bubble…look at home price values in the sunbelt in 05 vs 2009.

TF are you talking about there wasn’t a bubble