Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald Trump.

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2024/07/statement-us-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle

The secret service didn’t know (or didn’t care) there was a shooter until after the guy clipped the ear. They failed at the prevention part of their job.

edit: all I’m saying is if they failed once, they could fail again. That’s it. I myself have no intentions of ever setting foot in the states.

Nah, it’s chinese so ofc you can’t

If you want to have a cool dream car (without the intention of owning one), look at HiPhi. They’ve done some crazy shit.

Plenty of websites filter out dummy email generators, could do the same in addition to applications. Making a drawing of something specific, but random (think of a list of a dozen or two images gen-ai gets wrong) could be a captcha replacement.

Do you really need that much power for a local model? I haven’t had a team green card in years so idk

It’s worse than that

as part of a revised economic deal that offers Kyiv no security guarantees in return.

Also, wars are hella expensive. Taxes going up is inevitable, the cost of living will go up, it’s just a question of “when”, not “if”.

It’s not a war you see, it’s a special… military operation? Wait, I think that’s copyrighted, shit

I think plenty of them recognize it, they just can’t organize by themselves. The seeds of distrust have been planted long ago, now they’re starting to give fruit.

seeing humans through the lens of producer and consumer

eh, we’re long past the point of foraging for berries to survive, we kinda have to be both. interesting take though

True, that’s why I sneaked a “probably” in my comment lol

Probably used a car with real plates on

people vastly underestimate how much you get from regenerative braking under real world conditions

From what I’ve heard and read, that’s why the original Opel Ampera/Chevy Volt was so beloved.

and pretty much every major manufacturer switched to plug-in hybrids

Nowadays we have new Honda (and Nissan but who cares tbh) hybrids where the engine doesn’t drive the wheels 99% of the time. So we’re intersecting with that timeline a lil bit lol

I’m not a time traveller so I can’t say for sure, but cars lile Chevy Bolt and Renault Zoe wouldn’t be the same, since Leaf showed that there was demand for small BEV hatches and battery cooling systems

We wouldn’t be here without it though. It did a decent job popularizing EVs, much better than i-Miev for example.

Leaf was the first “off the ground”. Tesla were the first to show that production EVs weren’t limited to boring econoboxes.

Anyway, you can filter out early adopters because they didn’t have factory anti-chrome, so if you see a shiny trim around the windows - it’s probably got a pre-public meltdown era owner.

I propose enclaves and exclaves everywhere. Pros: forces everyone to cooperate, makes saturation attacks pointless, pleases the spirit of Jacques Fresco. Cons: none I think