Vodulas
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- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 9 hours ago:
Yes, they are meant to survive being hit. I already said that. They are also meant to indicate a no car zone, which it was clearly in. A small mistake would have been a slow speed bump from the side it was supposed to be in and not driv8ng through them
- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 9 hours ago:
They are not meant to be hit. They are meant to indicate not to drive there, and not cause damage when hit. They often separate bike lanes and sidewalks in the US. It got itself into a spot a car should not have been, then hit the bollards to get out of it. This is not a small mistake.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, that sucks, and seems like a distracted driver waiting to happen
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand that has more to do with the amount of money they are putting into R&D, not cost of materials for each vehicle. Media has been spinning it, but it is not a 1:1 thing
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
They are likely using LFP batteries instead of ones that take some of the more expensive minerals like cobalt. That is a huge part of the cost of EVs, and LFPs should help keep the price down
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
Wait, they took out the toggles? That is a ton of the personality of the Mini
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 2 weeks ago:
Men, not that weird. It’s marketing BS. Just trying to inflate their value (or deflate others) by saying, “Pfft, we can do it too”
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how mortgages work. You own the house, the bank owns the loan.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 weeks ago:
I did. That is the one thing the article said without citing a source. It is a common anti-EV talking point and like the person you responded to said, it has been debunked. On top of that, most of the time the environmental impact of transporting and refining oil are not taken into account.
www.ucs.org/sites/…/driving-cleaner-report.pdf
It’s kind of a shame, because overall I agree with the point of the article. Increasing the ability to use bikes and improving public transit are way more efficient, but EVs are a good option in areas where those are not currently viable.
Are EVs perfect? Hell no. Should we throw the baby out with the bathwater, though? Battery technology is getting better. Batteries that don’t use high impact resources like cobalt are becoming viable.
Sorry for a bit of a rant, but sentiments like this are hampering progress
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 4 weeks ago:
Mmmhmmm. And Microsoft
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 4 weeks ago:
They tend to be concentrated in my experience. Big tech hubs have a higher concentration. I see a lot of them around Seattle for example.
- Comment on Memdeklaro - A privacy-friendly decentralized identity framework 1 month ago:
Not much as far as I can tell. Seems to be sov-cit ideas but wrapped in leftist buzzwords
- Comment on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection 1 month ago:
Why the hate for beehaw?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s no biggie, just wasn’t sure if it was on purpose. Easy to navigate to the main site from there
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Looks super neat! Will definitely be checking it out. FYI, for some reason your link goes to a screenshot, not the main page for the game
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
ok? It was not about which is a worse offense, it was about a history of being shit asses
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
AFAIK, it was not sent to people signed up for the German language newsletter. Filtered via language, not location.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
Good to know!
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
No worries at all. To me it felt more like fetishization but that is a totally fair take.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
Of course! polygon.com/…/gog-twitter-wontbeerased-hashtag/
polygon.com/…/cyberpunk-2077-trans-advertisement-…
kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-tweets-transphobic-joke…
I included CD Projekt in there since GoG is owned by them
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
How many layers of people did this go through? Between their history of transphobia and now this, they are painting a pretty bad picture of themselves
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 2 months ago:
Mention yes, not really address though. More like dismiss out of hand
- Comment on Is there a good transportation game that actually simulates traffic as well as factorio does trains? 2 months ago:
Oh for sure. I get the infrastructure down, then go back and beautify it after. Makes it feel like finishing a project
- Comment on Is there a good transportation game that actually simulates traffic as well as factorio does trains? 2 months ago:
making pretty railway pillars
That’s what blueprints are for!
- Comment on The Fandom Strain: On the IP Illness That's Killing Magic: The Gathering 3 months ago:
An overall good article marred by the gate keeping bullshit. There are a ton of ways to play magic, and just because they are not part of the competitive scene does not make them “not real magic.”
I honestly don’t even think universes beyond is the problem in and of itself. The problem is the high number of sets released per year and the fact that too many of them are universes beyond and in standard. If they did 1 or 2 UB items and kept them to commander decks, secret lairs, or one UB set per year it would leave room for the universes within to shine. Hasbro would never though.
FWIW, the current set is universes within (Secrets of Strixhaven) and is really fun. Of course, the TMNT set before it was also really fun, but they were way too close together.
- Comment on Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices 4 months ago:
This becoming true again because of waves hand at everything going on but trend wise this has not been true for the last few years. It is also not true outside the US.
- Comment on Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty: Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again. 4 months ago:
Been missing the old Warzone days. I’m even fine with new maps, but leave the old ones in rotation.
- Comment on Crimson Desert Players Think They've Found AI-Generated Art In-Game 4 months ago:
Plus most classical paintings are public domain. If you want to be lazy but still have good art just put some of those in
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 6 months ago:
I had like 2 friends back in my CS 1.6 days that insisted on Xfire, but I paid for a Mumble server shortly after that. Might self host one again…
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 6 months ago:
Shit, I forgot avout Xfire. Mumble and Teamspeak are still going too