iNow

Simply repeating an invalid claim over and over doesn’t magically render it true

Potato

Just to amplify exchemists last point, the foundational premise of this thread that fires are a bigger problem in EVs is simply false and is likely an example of buying into the unfounded partisan propaganda on this topic. https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2024/04/21/electric-vehicles-not-guilty-of-excess-short-term-fire-risk-charges/# EVs represented far less of the reported fires than might be expected given their market share. Estimates by the Phosphorous, Inorganic & Nitrogen Flame Retardants Association reported 55 fires per billion miles travelled in ICE vehicles and five fires per billion for EVs. A report from AutoinsuranceEX said EVs exhibited 61 times fewer fires per 100,000 sales than ICE vehicles. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/mythbusting-evs/mythbusting-world-evs-are-electric-cars-susceptible-catching-fire The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) reported 23 fires in 611,000 EVs during 2022, or 0.004 per cent in a year, which makes it 20 times less likely to happen than ICE car fires, which burned 3,400 times in 4.4 million cars, or 0.08 per cent. MSB has also recently proven a new way to extinguish battery fires fast.

Toyota has been talking about those for over 15 years already yet here we are, still waiting for this emerging technology to emerge. http://www.electric-vehiclenews.com/2010/12/toyota-announces-4-layer-all-solid.html

Synchronized swimming

It’s your attitude and worldview It’s six (6) pages now you’ve been droning on and on and whining.

What are YOU doing to help?

This is a financial and political challenge, not a technical, scientific, nor engineering one. We know what needs to be done. Now we just need the collective will to do it.

The OP displays all the hallmarks of a self-reinforcing delusion

The simpler answer here is that this is conformation bias. Humans find patterns everywhere even when they’re not there. Pareidolia Is powerful, and all one needs to do is think of the countless many more times people die and nobody feels anything. Until / unless you survey ALL deaths and compare that against times loved ones felt “something,” you also have a sampling bias. You have anecdotes, not data. Further, you’ll need to propose a mechanism better than Sheldrakes morphic resonance.

These are not mutually exclusive.

People argue more FOR a focus on rehabilitation and safe societal reintegration, not for abolishment of prisons outright. Things often make more sense when you accurately frame the proposals being made. Presidents neither write nor pass the laws anyway. That’s the job of Congress.

It’s a broader strategy than even that. The populace is being primed to disregard even the possibility of a truth. Everything can be dismissed and hand waves away as “just one perspective.” In this scenario, social structures and cohesion itself crumbles.

Lathe with cutting fluid, hand files under microscope, and some are cast by pouring molten metal into a form

There’s a video for that, too

Only bc you have this as your preconception. The human mind has this amazing ability to find what it’s looking for. Best of luck. I’m already far more involved in your silliness than I ever intended to be and plan to correct that now.

They’re just a shit stirrer (colloquially a muck raker)

Oh good. Now you’re referencing Matrix movies and spreading myths about those. What an awesome thread /sarcasm

I really don’t care. He’s here whining and blaming others for his problems. I have no patience for that. Many folks have trouble socially. Most recognize the common factor in those interactions is self and work to improve it. Instead of seeking out incels and spreading their messages online, the OP should pull his head out of his ass and get some therapy… and join a club or sport like I said the first time.

Adding to the above, looks like Claude 3.5 is the new best in class LLM. It’s only been out for a few hours now. Alex Albert from Anthropic pointed out that on GPQA (Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A) Benchmark, they achieved a 67% with various prompting techniques, beating PHD experts in respective fields. The training data seems to be current at least as of February this year (GPT-4 is only current to somewhere in early 2023 IINM), and it has better vision capabilities than GPT-4o (the Scarlett Johansen one with lots of buzz a week or two ago). They also shared this on their release blog: “In an internal agentic coding evaluation, Claude 3.5 Sonnet solved 64% of problems, outperforming Claude 3 Opus which solved 38%.”

Based solely on what’s been posted in this thread, it’s hardly surprising you can’t find a mate nor get laid. It’s been an uninteresting mixture of crybaby and caricaturing and cartoonish dehumanizing throughout.

Sadly, in a democracy, there are a great many for whom this would elicit further support of the people trying to move it forward. Anti-democratic ideologies are gaining traction, with great help from troll farms and AIs in use by adversary countries. "Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without." Eisenhower: Speech before NATO Council, 11/26/51 [DDE's Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]

I assumed that’s where you were coming from. I mostly just have a conditioned dislike of pink batt fiberglass so got triggered 😝