BMW is also the company that came up with the idea of a subscription for heated seats.

White is boring, but it is so practical.  White paint hides the dirt and it is never hot to the touch, even on the hottest days.  You would be surprised by how many people don't know about how cool they stay, but that's the main reason why work vehicles are mostly while.

That's a beautiful mountain lion.  Good thing ML attacks on humans are uncommon.  Honestly, I think you are lucky to be able to see one so clearly like that.  I saw one years back on the campus of UCSC.  I was hanging out with some friends on the grass in the evening and one just crossed right in front of us.  The closest distance was maybe 35-40 feet away.  There are deer all over that campus, so it would make sense that they would be hanging out there too. 

Opportunity was an amazing success.  I do think they set the bar low in the original mission outline though.  I wonder if they have come up with a solution for dust on the solar cells yet?  Seems there must be something they could do like windshield wipers or compressed air occasionally blowing on the cells to clear them off.

That Naomi Klein quote its hard.

Something like this could be very cool if widely adapted, otherwise it is pretty limited to the Bluetooth signal between two phones.  It could be useful for a bunch of people in a single compound who want private alternative to texting each other.

Meshtastic uses LoRa and can scale many miles.  It takes outside hardware, but you can go back and forth from cell phone to a LoRa device.  An off grid network can be as much as 2,800 miles wide and it can also tap into the internet or satellites to communicate globally if desired.

https://meshtastic.org/

I thought your joke was funny, my wife was like "he doesn't even know what a fault is".

I am about 18 miles away from the fault.

It's awful.

I am not sure why crude isn't rapidly going up the way I would expect.  From what I understand global oil reserves are drying up.

Yeah, same idea, just a modern take.  I am sure there are a lot of people with suspended licenses riding these ebikes too.  It is interesting from an industry prospective too, because most people written off the electric motorcycle as commercially unviable, but here are these e-mopeds raising up from nowhere, filling a niche my most people didn't think about.

On the low income/poverty/day labor end of the ev world I am seeing a lot of fat tires "ebikes*" that could be purchased for less than $1,000, have about 30 miles of range and can do about 30 mph.  These things are quietly enabling transportation for many who otherwise wouldn't be able to get around.

*They are technically not legal in most states, but law enforcement isn't cracking down on them that much.

I purchased a very low cost regular tire size ebikes myself, but it tops off at just about 20 mph, which seems plenty fast for me.  Before switching to the local high school district, I was riding it on the bike trails to get to work. When I took into account parking and walking from my car the commute was about the same amount of time.

>we* Canadians

How are you achieving this?  You have Canadian ancestors?  From the research I've done age works against Americans looking to immigrate. 

I am still just lazily working out 4 or 5 days a week.

Thinking this through to farther down the chain of events and it gets interesting.  The knowledge base of AI will get stale as it kills off the very source of it's knowledge.  Then what happens? 

Side: Do we know if the AI crawlers are respecting robots.txt?  Will every publicist start blocking AI en mass as an act of self-preservation?  I could see Google making it really difficult to separate out the SE access from Gemini access.

Right, the title makes sense.  Finance and tech are two areas where AI could automate quickly.  I know transportation is inevitable, but the legal and hardware obstacles will take some time.