This is devastating and, of course, not at all based in science. mRNA vaccines have the potential to give us vaccines for diseases that had previously been impossible with existing vaccine development methods. The Trump Administration and RFK Jr are deciding that the United States is going to rely on importing foreign-made vaccines in the future when we no longer have the knowledge to make the best vaccines in the world.

You know absolutely nothing about what makes water drinkable or how we as a society have already solved this problem

Y’all, we’re talking about condensate from a device specifically designed to capture water for drinking. We’re not talking about drinking the water dripping from your AC. Ensuring this water is drinkable is remarkably simple.

Not only that, but Clostridium botulinum only grows in anaerobic environments, so it isn’t even a remote concern in this case. That’s why you don’t hear about it much outside of canned food or instances where it’s purposefully cultivated for medical applications.

If you’re concerned with bacterial growth in the condensate of a dehumidifier, all you need to do is boil it

There are plenty ways to purify water once it’s been obtained

Waymo is already live in 5 US cities. Waymo has been operating in Austin for over a year city-wide while Tesla kept moving back their rollout and still only operates in a sliver of the city, and only during the day in good weather. Zoox has been heavily testing in Austin and is likely to go live at some point soon.

This isn’t exactly a comprehensive literature review, and totally misunderstands what a LLM is and does

Did you read the article, or is this just a hot take on the headline

6/21 was a Saturday, 6/30 was a Monday

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There seem to be quite a few already

Here in Austin, both Waymo and Zoox have already hit the streets with very little fanfare and no incidents I’m aware of. Not only is Musk’s technology inferior, but even if it worked well, what would make his service any better than the two existing services?

He has made a serious mistake hyping “robotaxis” as the future of Tesla, because:

• He has direct competition that’s already more successful than his service.
• Those competitors are funded by Google and Amazon, who have diverse revenue streams and could undercut Tesla until Tesla breaks.
• He has created impossibly high expectations from investors with a hard cutoff that’s next week.
• He’s looking to operate this service in cities, where 90% of people hate him personally.
• He’s dependent on those cities to allow him to operate, and they’ll revoke his permits the second there’s an incident.
• Elon has demonstrated himself to be such an awful human being that his vehicles are likely to be subject to vandalism, dramatically increasing his costs.

I think Tesla is absolutely fucked as a company. If I had the money, I’d short Tesla stock like a motherfucker.

According to their “About Us” page, they were a small business that is now financed by Post Road Group and Bain Capital. Creating competition for Comcast is a great thing, but I’d bet over the years those capital partners are going to demand enshittification for profit. I’d still drop Comcast like a rock though.

The excavation in the street sounds like the same thing Google Fiber did in my neighborhood, microtrenching fiber in the street along the curb. Has worked great for me for almost 10 years now

That movie? 2 Fast 2 Furious

I’ve done couple’s therapy, and the idea of completing couple’s therapy through text message is just really unappealing. Show me the study that compares a chatbot to IRL psychotherapy outcomes. There’s just so much to account for…body language, hesitations, facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, and more.

Who tf is using LinkedIn for content? As a networking platform, it’s pretty useful. But I also have never searched keywords looking for my profile or paid for premium, because why would you do either

There are plenty old movies I have seen or would love to see, but very few of those were made before 1940, and 1940 won’t reach public domain for another 15 years.

That’s a big leap from “235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942” to “all men.”

It says at the bottom because it automatically transfers over if you were following the last POTUS

Please don’t blame the politicians who are trying to protect us from big business over big business that doesn’t care whether they poison us as long as they make money.

There isn’t an effective mechanism to determine how carcinogenic or teratogenic every application of every substance is. There’s simply way too much variability. Knowing that a product contains chemicals from California’s list (roughly 900 I believe) of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects gives you the information you need to make decisions about how you use it. If something has this label, don’t let your baby put it in its mouth, for example, or don’t sand it down and breath in its dust, or wash your hands after you use it before you eat.

This warning is fantastic and is not supposed to give you all the information. It only tells you that one or more known dangerous chemicals are present in a product, which is still invaluable information.

Seems like they’re adopting more Apple-style branding