full Taiwanese independence is still a minority held belief on the actual island

Excuse me wut

Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.

23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

It’s almost like our entire world of modern technology is inextricably connected to the economics that support it.

Nah, the remaining employees aren’t the “dead wood” necessarily. They’re all the ones on H1 visas who can’t legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).

I2P is still around? I remember experimenting with it a decade ago. Sounds like it’s still a slow experience.

Just Google it, the advice you always hear when the other person is shutting down any more conversation. What an unfortunate result

Mint was my first, Pop is my current and fave.

Just remember to check your favorite Steam games on protondb.com to see how well it runs on Linux.

That “game” of which you speak is an appeal to privilege in its most obscene form: claiming an ancestral myth that allows you to impact extreme violence against other humans whose only crime is being born into the wrong bloodline.

It’s 2023 CE out here but some cultures are pretending it’s 2023 BCE

I actually appreciate this article. I’m not near where I need to be to invest in solar, but the details of the corporate fuckery that goes on in rooftop solar providers is helpful to learn.

Is it bad that I read this and immediately think “my God it’s mid September and the Australian cops have only murdered two civilians this year?”

I think the US hits that number within 5 minutes past midnight on the New Year.

Yeah this is an example of “lying with graphs 101”.

The data probably didn’t fit the narrative when they separate “always” and “sometimes”

I respectfully disagree that they still need Musk. The man has spent the past two years visibly shirking his own duties as CEO of Tesla while he was busy burning Xwitter down, and his personal brand is getting tarnished daily.

I do agree they need someone a bit more visionary, though. They couldn’t just snatch up the CEO of GM or Ford, but I bet you they could find someone out there who can focus on the future.

I agree with you that’s he’s a good hype man. But Tesla doesn’t need hype any more; they just need to solidify their lead over the EV market. At some point, hype and headline-grabbing turns from a fundraising asset to a corporate liability.

At a $747B market cap, I’d argue Tesla has definitely crossed that line.

Honestly, if Musk poured himself into a new futurist investment, he’d probably do better than he is doing right now… encumbering America’s biggest EV manufacturer with stock leverages for a social media platform he took off the public market and completely tanked the valuation for is not a good look.

Without Musk, you have 87% of Tesla (when you measure by shares of ownership). I’m surprised other shareholders haven’t tried to fire Musk as CEO.

Honestly, tesla would probably do better to fucking fire Musk as CEO. He holds less than 13% of the shares according to a 10-second Google search, so it doesn’t seem like he has unassailable control of the company.

If I were any of the other large shareholders I’d be fighting like hell to get a better CEO. Musk has switched from asset to liability.

I believed in Tesla’s FSD until they decided to go visual cameras only. Now I’m convinced they squandered their decade-long lead in the market on a technologically inferior strategy.

The only issue I’ve heard with NACS is that the 800V battery auto makers aren’t convinced it’s as capable as CCS of supporting the higher voltage for that generation of EV battery. Hopefully they work it out soon.

Can you please accept the USA into your pleasant union?

Honestly, as long as Tesla maintains its supercharger network, it will continue to blow its competition out of the water. I say this as someone who got a Korean EV instead of a Tesla.

Electrify America DCFC stations have been slipping in quality quite noticeably, just in the past year. EVgo is still catching up in the DCFC world, with a lot more slow 50 kW cabinets than genuinely fast 150+ kW chargers. Non-Tesla cars using the supercharger Magic Dock often aren’t charging as fast as a Tesla, likely due to the difference in electronics.

I think you have to be the sort of person who doesn’t mind tinkering a bit and putting in planning and effort to thrive in a non-Tesla, unless you simply never plan to road trip far enough to need DC fast charging.

So a lemmy user will probably be fine. The general public might do better with a Tesla for now.