"Visible"? The carbon credit of $2.7 billion represented nearly 40% of their net income in 2024.

90% of the vehicles they sell also got the $7500 credit.

They are in dire times.

Quite interesting to me and first time I am hearing about this.

Question for you, what do you do when it shows you may have cancer? Do you speak to your physician? Surely, this will change your life even if it doesn't need treatment for next 6 years? Does the treatment change? Can the treatment be done based on those results?

So many questions.

I'm hoping we find more stuff for Alzheimer's. My aunt and now mother have it. I fear that I am next and I am too scared of doing the DNA test to check for genes.

I decided to start doing them because a friend was diagnosed with a late stage cancer that had very few symptoms and lost his life only months after diagnosis. I guess if I got a positive, my hope would be that my doctor would refer me to a specialist and I'd get a head start and the chance to fight it that my friend never got.

The test is not foolproof and the detection rate for some early stage cancers is quite low. And of course early detection is no promise of a cure. Regardless $800 a year isn't an unreasonable cost for me given I get annual health screenings anyway. My insurance doesn't cover that test but you can use your HSA to pay for it if needed.

You immediately bring the results to your doctor ASAP. They'll recommend follow-up testing since they want verification of third-party results and, well, are doctors and will know better about what to test for. If you do indeed have cancer, they will refer you to an oncologist who sub-specializes in that type of cancer.

On paper, but the average citizen and current admin disagree. The check & balances also don't seem to work.

I'm an average citizen and I believe non-citizens have rights. And so do most of the people I know. So if you believe that, then recognize that that's just the consensus in your clique.

Average citizens are not on this platform.

Average citizens are commenting on YT and FB.

Most citizens are average and I don't see mass strikes while things are getting stripped away.

This.

I'm hoping at some point people will just get turned off by the internet and value human interaction more with no phones.

However, I recently when camping with some friends...nearing 40s....and the other couple kept getting sucked into watching tiktok....one showed me a "touching" video that was AI garbage.

As a counter-point, I was able to write lyrics with chatgpt (lots of back-and forth to get the right "feel"), then put those words to music with suno. It took two hours of my time, and my wife definitely had an emotional response to what was produced. There was definitely a human aspect to what the AI produced; it was personal and personalized, and it brought us closer. So AI can strip us of our personhood (especially through false intimacies), but used wisely it can also be a tool to reach parts of our humanity that otherwise might never be touched.

Oof. The self-deception around this is insane.

>lots of back-and forth

Not necessarily

Agree. I’ve had the same kinds of experiences, on both sides.

Ah, I agree for the most part, however, safety has definitely moved forward. There is a lot more to safety than airbags and seatbelts.

My car hit the breaks for me last week on a highway. I’m quite happy with the computerization of cars for this reason. It could be better as the link shows the downsides, but it probably has saved (tens of?) thousands of lives overall.

My car hit the brakes for me last week on a highway as well, except there was no reason to, there was nothing there. I'm not as happy.

I intentionally opted out of these sort of driver assist features because I don't trust the firmware going into them. If a safety misfeature can be disabled manually you also run the risk of an insurer denying a claim if they find out it wasn't engaged. Better to not have it in the first place and use the mark I eyeball for safety.

Yeah, I'm not happy I have them, but I'm happy other drivers have them. I guess they help overall, since I need to be careful to keep a safe distance from the guy in front of me anyway.

A couple months ago I was driving a rental and I coasted up on slow exit traffic with the intent of dodging right after the person to my right passed me. Well I got that far but I got close enough to the slowing traffic in front of me in the process it decided to brake. And of course because electronic throttle they lock you out of the gas. And it takes a couple seconds for it to decide that no, I really did want to go fast, so it lets me do that but of course the CVT needs to incrementally wind its way there at a leisurely pace.

So instead of cleanly pulling off my merge into a lane going 10mph faster than me I look like a goddamn moron for zipping over and then hard braking away 20mph of speed. All because some programmers buried in Toyota HQ somewhere spent too much time on the HN or Reddit or whatever circle jerking it in the comments with the "you can never go wrong by braking" crowd. Could have been way worse had it been a spicer situation, like merging into traffic with a disabled vehicle at the end of the merge ramp or just about any other case with equal or great speed differential and equal or lesser margin.

A car should do what I say. I can understand doing something when I have provided no input or perhaps ignore a 0-100% press to prevent wrong pedal accidents but this is just horrible systems design. If I'm traveling at speed and mash the gas it stands to reason I did that on purpose.

Even the structures of cars have improved. The crumple zones and structural rigidity is constantly evolving.

I also like sensors and crash avoidance tech.

Each improvement is hugely less influential than the last. Seatbelts get you 90% of the way there. Airbags do most of the rest, etc, etc.

All those improvements have been undone by the entire market turning in to brodozers and soccer mum tanks.

I know someone considering divorce because of ChatGPT. Well educated. It is quite sad, that instead of using a professional they ask questions to chatGPT and it reinforces their opinion/belief.

This is tale as old as time honestly.

Create a product sell or IPO. Revenue pressure increases. Product cost is increased or staff is cut. New software takes crown. Rinse and repeat.

I tore ligaments in my foot, awaiting surgery. Working on getting back on my feet but looks like it will be months before I can put weight on my foot. I am just hoping for smooth surgery and recovery. Injuries suck. Don't recommend.

I loved programming before doing it as a job. Now, I really can't be bothered to program outside of work.

At what age did you make this change?

I love medicine, researching diseases I hear about and learning about the body is hobby for me. I would love to get into it but I am almost 40.

> I would love to get into it but I am almost 40.

You're young! Saying that as a fellow almost-40.

I start with "I don't have any money, I need an open source library that does this" lol.....even at work.