I don’t hate them because they’re women, I hate them for what they eat! Which they do because they’re female. 🤔

I’d say harming mosquitoes (females only, that feed on blood) is better than vegan!

Well, this isn’t a unique concept. The fact it goes horrible pretty quickly and people keep falling for it is the truly impressive part.

I wish we had Gattaca instead of what we have. At least the shitty people would be genetically superior, for whatever that’s worth, instead of just richer.

The newer EVs are switching to heat pumps for managing battery temperature. It’s more efficient than resistive heat, and can use the same system for cooling. This helps maintain range both by keeping batteries the right temperature and by doing it more efficiently.

And who in Winnipeg hasn’t heard of what happens if you let your gas tank get too empty in extreme cold?

The Deep? That you?

Maybe it would be less happy without the pain!

Absolutely, but then you should have picked a better group to compare them to.

Sure, but that’s a very low bar.

But we are. It’s about our behavior, not the subject we’re acting on.

Your perception of what a psychopath is colored by media portrayals and what notable psychopaths have done. Not all physicists are like Richard Feynman, and they’re all at least reasonably smart.

What you’re describing is a psychopath who is stupid. They do stupid things because they are stupid, and they do psychopath things because they’re a psychopath. They aren’t going to lead the police on a chase across the country after a string of murders. If they kill someone, they’ll probably be caught the very first time. The reason they will kill will be somewhat less nuanced than an intelligent psychopath’s reasons, but that’s the smart vs. stupid difference - they’re both psychopaths. Neither will feel remorse, neither will feel any compelling need to achieve their goals by not harming someone else, and both would do it again if they felt the circumstances warranted it. One will just do it in a way where he might not get caught and the other won’t think that far ahead or will do such a poor job of it that thinking ahead won’t help.

Intelligence and good behavior aren’t inherently linked. Also, there’s good evidence that some part of the Neanderthal population was bred into modern humans.

I had a mouse problem once upon a time, and the new “humane” traps didn’t actually kill them. I got tired of bludgeoning them with a shovel and drowned one, thinking it would be easier. That was brutal and horrific, and I went back to using the shovel.

There is nothing humane about drowning an animal.

I wouldn’t say killing animals is categorically psychopathic, but killing them inhumanely certainly is.

If they have control of updates, they can withhold updates or deliver malicious updates. So they may not be able to make them drop out of the sky*, but they can send an update that makes them completely unable to take off, or even crash upon takeoff.

*But they could install a kill command to turn off engines when a signal is received.

^Hee Hee!

I’d say Thunder sounds somewhat different from their other music, and I don’t enjoy it at all.

So, using the handy little tool you referenced, I scrolled down to see how much of those contributions were from individuals associated with Honda, versus contributions from the Corporation. We’ll, the total from Honda, since 1990, was $324k. The total that wasn’t from individuals, from the Honda corporation, was…$0. Meanwhile, if you want to find a year where that’s applicable to Toyota, you will have to go back to 2012, the furthest back that the history (easily) allows you to go on that site. And their total from corporate and individuals comes in at $8.9M.

My embarrassment knows no bounds.

The difference is assuming, rather than looking for evidence, and then doubling down like now, after being told that at least one automaker is making a point of not making political overtures.

If you care to pore over my post history, you will see plenty of comments from me making the same point to people saying, “I won’t buy an EV because of all the privacy violations,” with me responding, “All new cars have this problem, ICE or EV.” They then respond with, “Well, that’s why I won’t buy a car made after x year,” to which I respond, “Then why mention EVs at all?”

If you don’t want to bother educating yourself before making sweeping statements, don’t be surprised if someone calls you out on it, echo chamber or no.

Well, as long as everyone is being shitty, I guess we shouldn’t mention how they’re shitty. Except apparently some aren’t.