How much are we considering earlier Marvel as part of the MCU? Because even though it was before Iron Man/Hulk and the official "start" of the current MCU, a lot of people seem to forget that the Blade Trilogy existed...
As someone who recently came out, I was kinda hoping that this would be here. It is a pretty wild thought
"Expensive" is the real issue for Tesla. That's a couple dollars that can go into Elon's pockets.
Having seen how my buddy lives with his family being in the ~$100M net worth range and them overall being quite modest people, I'd 100% believe someone well above that and/or wanting to flaunt their wealth in a stupidly ostentatious manner would put a pool in their kid's room.
From scratch it's obviously not feasible, but having been a former Soviet state I'd imagine a good majority of the resources needed are floating around.
The main challenges with nuclear weapons are 1. procurement of the fissile material, 2. yield efficiency, and 3. miniaturization. Once you have the first part done, as Ukraine very likely has the nuclear fuel processing facilities to do so, the second part is less important if you just want a bomb. Just look at the fact that they were so confident the Little Boy would work they didn't even bother with a prototype, even if its yield ratio was quite low. It needed about 60kg of uranium for its 15kT yield, while Fat Man managed 21kT with only about 5kg of plutonium.
So, it's a tradeoff where if nuclear material is hard to come by and you need to get the bomb somewhere far away, making something really efficient is pretty important. However, if you have sufficient material and just want a decently big boom in the middle of a field, it's quite literally something you could feasibly manage in a home workshop.
The one other note on the importance of efficiency is in regards to fallout. Anything that isn't used in the detonation is blasted every which-way, and isn't really something you want as a normal military, since a nuclear wasteland isn't strategically very useful. But, if you're just trying to fuck up someone else's day, then its less important and you can get into really "fun" stuff like dirty and cobalt bombs.
Very, very broadly, I'd say a lot of my concerns boil down to them convincing the broader industry as a whole that cutting costs and delivering a shit product is okay, so long as you're doing it as a "technology company"
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Pushing out buggy, half-baked SW because "we'll fix it with an OTA" and a recall has little to no direct financial impact, allowing for you to gamble lives on hopefully getting a SW update out before the bugs cause accidents or deaths, rather than spending the time/money to get it right from the start.
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Removing stuff like important, standard hard controls (buttons/stalks/etc) to make everything a touch control, purely for cost cutting, but acting like it's because buttons are "old tech"
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Pushing that 100% BEV is the only current solution, rather than pushing for a far cheaper mass improvement of fuel economy and scaling BEVs as HEVs grow too, especially in developing markets.
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Using a proprietary charging standard for nearly a decade, solely as a sales tactic, and only cooperating with other OEMs once it allowed them to collect government subsidies
Those are just a few I can think of off the very top of my head, and the ones I've seen have the most impact on the broader industry. I can go into more detail on any of them as well.
Mood. It's a scary fucking time to have this realization, and I'm really not sure what I'm going to do either..
As someone who works in the industry, and done plenty of work for Tesla, I can create a far greater list of all the things they've fucked up in the industry, including electrification.
I'm repeating 2016, if I pregame all night, then as results come in I'm drinking whether I'm celebrating or coping.
Thinking that speaking out and condemning Israel would help them whatsoever shows you have literally no idea how US politics work. Let me preface this with the following: I'm well aware of the absolute atrocities going on, I don't think the US should be supporting Israel given the shit they're pulling, and do wish they would take action against them.
However, speaking out would be FAR more damaging than anything they've done so far. Do you have any idea how many Christians in the US literally think of Israel as what will bring about the second coming of Christ, and thus not supporting them would basically be seen and spun as doing Satan's work?
The Jewish population of the US is literally double that of the Muslim population, so purely from a numbers game, any chance of even denting that support would be suicidal.
Finally, there's the absolutely comical mainstream media bias where the very moment Harris spoke out strongly against Israel, there'd be an endless spew of how she wants to wipe Israel off the map and finish what Hitler started.
I get it, it's fucking frustrating and tiring and disgusting what's going on, but it's sadly the way it has to be played at the moment, and acting like Trump being elected has any chance at improving the situation is delusional at best.
Huh, a post history consisting of nothing but "What did Russia ever do wrong?" and "Dems bad because genocide". How many rubles do you get paid per post?
I'm 29 and this is already the case. A lot of the early 2000s internet is already getting hard to find, and even a lot of early YouTube feels like it's been scrubbed clean, or had stuff auto-muted/removed due to copyright that drastically affects the content. Not to mention all the flash animations and whatnot that might not have made it to somewhere as big as Newgrounds. There's a lot of stuff I remember watching that seems to be utterly lost