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>More than 60 fatalities have been linked to Tesla’s driver-assistance systems. Talk about something that could put a dent in your image!

That seems pretty low?

Driving is extremely dangerous.


It is. However, "Tesla statistically saved lifes" doesn't make an exciting news article.

Except absolute numbers are meaningless. You need to know driving hours or miles to know the scale. E.g. deaths per 100,000mi or deaths per 100,000hrs.

This site has numbers and sources: https://www.tesladeaths.com/

2013-2025 and only 2 linked to FSD ? The rest are human errors ? FSD sounds better than human drivers just going by that data. How many people have, for example, BMW killed in 12 years ?

They are all "human errors" since FSD and Autopilot are supervised systems, which is why statistics like these can't be used to make claims like "FSD sounds better than human drivers". At best, you could claim that [Autopilot|FSD]+supervision is better than a human driver, but even then there a a huge number of other variables to consider, e.g.: 'human only engages FSD when they are confident it will handle situation safely'->'artificially high miles/crash for FSD'

The great thing about robotaxi is we’ll get the real data. There will be no hiding when one seriously crashes and eventually kills someone.

Then we’ll get facts about deaths per miles driven etc.


"FSD has detected the car is about to crash, please take over control"

Yes and "linked" is a weasel word to imply something without making a definite statement for which there's no proof.

I just can’t believe we’re still paying engineers to be Claude wrappers. This is ending soon, right?

Nope, because as I’ve seen first hand most people are too incompetent to use an LLM effectively, as easy as it is.

An AI safety company!

It also suggests they might turn everything into paper clips, metaphorically speaking.

This is an urgent public alert.

If you see any businesses or new buildings named paperclips incorporated mysteriously show up in your area notify authorities IMMEDIATELY. Run away from the area, do not walk. Take shelter in a reinforced building. Wait for at least 30 minutes after the explosions have stopped.

Thank you for your cooperation in keeping the universe safe.


They’re really, really scared because of the Mythos controversy. Skynet will be under hyped.

Aren't they printing unlimited money from this? I'm sure the chip shortage lasts as long as they're capable of extending it without falling to competitors.

That's the problem with monopolies.


I am confident it will be their last big payday for the Cartel the Chinese certainly will design around it and move on and probably will go onto dominate the worldwide market after 2028. Afterwards Micron like Intel will go around begging for support. Using future buying IOUs to set prices, it’s going to bite them in the ass.

China will eventually do similar things if they're allowed to become a unitary supplier, but while they're establishing their foothold obviously they can't.

They do, pretty much, their margins are going up

Half of them are from India or China. Racial diversity is known to be detrimental to unionization. In fact, Amazon used this exact strategy to bust nascent Somali unions.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252481961/Amazons-Whole-...


Here is the obligatory scientific paper for those who cannot observe simple facts without a statistical analysis:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01762...


Expert economists working in both the Biden and Trump administration support tariffs.

The difference is the dumb way Trump is doing them and a smarter way of doing them.

Obviously, this comic completely misses that nuance and promotes a pseudoscientific idea that tariffs are somehow bad.


Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tarif...

Literally 100% of the 50 expert economists polled by the Kent Clark Center think tariffs overall make Americans worse off.

Nobody in politics can say this simple truth because the rust belt states are critical swing states.


It depends on the details though. That survey was just on a one sentence "new US tariffs on steel and aluminum will improve Americans’ welfare" question. They can have a place if say you want to maintain manufacturing for military strategic reasons.

The Biden administration kept the Trump tariffs. His own policy-makers, technocrats, said that they were a necessary geopolitical tool, cited China's extensive use of tariffs (amongst other states), and noted that they must be used to protect manufacturing and in tandem with allied states.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/fact-sheets/2024/05/fact-sheet...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251096758/biden-china-tariff...

https://www.internationaltradeinsights.com/2024/07/biden-adm...


It is possible for both Trump and Biden to be wrong about something.

I think the 'tariffs' in this comic are related to the current regimes application of them. Not representative of tariffs as a whole.


I think the comic captures that nuance by exaggerating the stupidity of the trump tariffs. If your trade strategy is "we must eliminate all trade deficits" youre gonna have a bad time


The doctor hits my leg with a hammer to test my reflexes. The comic isn't saying hitting legs with hammers is always bad.


That's a pretty unhinged idea you've presented; feels completely autobiographical.


People move out to the suburbs after they're married with kids? How is that unhinged?


It's just a strange comment; feels off. Like you're an Easterner imitating an American or something. Very odd.

Or AI. No telling.

Peoples talking styles are being changed by AI. Son online, you get real people, AI slop, and real people that are adapting.

But generally, the migration to the suburbs is a pretty studied thing. I assumed it was just a known phenomena.

So

There was farms to city. For few decades.

Then city to suburbs. for few decades. (cities deteriorated)

Then Covid, and here you are correct, some people that lived in cities for jobs, did migrate to 'smaller cities' when they could work remote.

And now? Seems like people are building little mini-cities? Where they can live, work, and walk to shops. People want the city feel, without the large city hassle? Like a village? But, not just a small town, its like new planned small towns. Back to the village.


I had a particular feeling about it and I looked into his other posts and he appears to constantly say explicitly "I'm an American, I'm from America, as an American" (a sentence I've probably never once said in my life) with constant China apologia; very odd.

0% chance you're getting a plot of land and happily ever after in the world as described.


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