Not happening, solar, batteries, wind, geothermal, and other renewables have a lead that cant be taken with wild hype and mumble logic. Hard work, and lots of it is the only hope for an American renaissance.

Batteries are improving but are there yet, for country-scale use.

I was prepared to be dissapointed, but I am not. Honest, simple, carrys that sense of work is good and doing what needs to be done is enough and that you are just another critter.

self serving garbage from the "intelligence" aparatus designed to maintain the status quo mumble gump, dressed up as THE WORD

Some people write/speak in sentences, others in paragraphs, some fewer number can spin off a cohearant chapter, and the very occasional creature will discource at book length. Which is my way of saying, thanks!

more, MORE, MORE, security, and monitoring, and SAFTEY, MORE SAFTEY NOW, who do I have to kill to get more SAFTEY, GIVE SAFTEY, with gun drones, and cameras up the ass, super supository saftey pro THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

That made me laugh. I have never used AI, dont care if it works, and am (negativly) indiferent to it. Long ago I set benchmarks for algorithms that would indicate that they were sophisticated enough for general drudge work, for which they remain utterly inadequate. That they can fulfill formulaic tasks is hardly surprising, though the compute required does seem to be a lot.

further disincentives to having more than 2 kids. further inceitive for rich people to buy bigger cars, as they will be bigger status symbols for those with the write offs.

> further disincentives to having more than 2 kids.

I feel like it’d push for the return of station wagons over SUVs/Minivans, over fewer kids outright

> further inceitive for rich people to buy bigger cars, as they will be bigger status symbols for those with the write offs.

That seems to me quite negligible

Interestingly people had much bigger families before cars existed at all.

In other words, a world designed for cars instead of people is less friendly to people.

You can have spacious cars without needing suvs that are land ships

bunch of dweebs!

how could you not remember that all government teleports come with a spell of foorgetfullness,short dorks, scheesh!

transformers are infrastructure, 100% duty cycle with a significant overload capacity that can be 3 times name plate, right there with dams and bridges, and if one developes a fault, realy bad things happen and you get a crater. There very nature makes them imensely heavy and very compact, all of the equipment used to form the parts is gargantuan, and materials to build them come in units that must be moved by house sized forklifts, consider changing a tire on such a forklift. Remember that the largest transformers travel on the heaviest rail cars, specials, these things are way heavier than anything else per ft³. Which gets us to cold,warm, or hot idle, or decomisioning, which are your choices when a huge factory has no work, hot idle means limited production, warm means some of the guys hang out and tinker with stuff, cold means, locked up,no employees but security, as decomisioning something like this has strategic considerations, or should.