Put differently (so as not to imply high melanin is fundamentally superior):

Someone mutated to have lower melanin levels in their skin, which was useful to absorb more sunlight for Vitamin D production further north, and that mutation spread.

Depends on the exact wording, medium you said it through, and jurisdiction you said it in.

It’s definitely a different line for everyone, which is why I asked them to self-evaluate to challenge their own thoughts about it.

It could be they’re ready when a standard battery is 300+ miles with a half hour charge up. Could be 500+ with 10 minutes to charge, etc. until we get to a place where it’s probably far outside our lifetime and it’s suddenly a hard no to EVs and they may have had no idea.

I just chafe a bit at vague “not yet” with no clear goal. It’s the bread and butter of bad faith arguments against EVs and I don’t like to see it spread, intentionally or not.

EVs are older than ICE cars.

The market definitely went ICE for decades, but how mature is mature enough for you?

Wait 'til you hear how many different names people have for things that can all be defined as “music.”

ICE engines improve all the time too. Are you similarly hesitant to buy a car with one?

This just in:

Old man doesn’t know young people terms.

More at 11.

Strongly disagree with you that “right or wrong” instruction is “still learning.”

People say that a lot, but I used ChatGPT as a math tutor and it couldn’t figure out the first goddamn thing of algebra. It spit out incorrect answers, and when I asked about them, it’d flip the answer. I’d ask again, and it’d flip it again.

I’ve used it as IT help to fix a computer that wouldn’t boot and it hallucinated hard enough to make it worse.

Which ruins the surprise.

Did a little digging and it seems like the main barrier to entry in the way of plug and play would be setting up a Meta account and using your smartphone to set it up. From what I know about Meta automatically making an account for every human they are aware of and the fact that all Androids (and iPhones?) have Facebook pre-installed with pre-loaded wide permissions, that’s effectively the same as handing Zuckerberg all of my personal information by buying a Quest. While researching, I found it incredibly difficult to find anyone serious about privacy discussing the matter without getting shut down with a “Who cares? They have your information already just give them more.”

Soft pass until I know how to do it without leaking my life to the Meta gods.

I would love the Quest and have multiple if it weren’t for the Facebook requirement.

Thank the gods.

I know for a fact they have wait() code in there. If you try to do anything on a thread the OP has blocked you, it takes 10s or so minimum.