Worse, those amber alerts are really just custody disputes branded as “abductions”. They use the same word as when a stranger nabs a child and flees with it for nefarious reasons. Its disgusting. A father taking his own son because the mother has legal rights to it (or vice versa) might be against some court order but its inexcusable to use the word “abduction”.
I have zero faith that the government has chosen the right side in a custody dispute so I’ve had amber alerts disabled for ages. I don’t want to get in the middle of it.
Now if they were to invent a new alert system strictly for “rando nabbed a toddler from a park”, sure I’d opt in. But, luckily that really doesn’t happen.
Police love to “upsell” crimes. I guess I might do the same if my job depended on there being more crime. Reminds me of how a guy who urinates in public gets on the same sex offender registry as a really child molester. Inexcusable and only leads to public distrust.
Is it? Pretty much all of the trump EOs that everyone got so up in arms about were ruled against by the Supreme Court - in fact most often by the individual Justices that that same group got equally up in arms about.
Seems like the definition of hand wringing and over drama.
I mean remember how folks thought Kavanaugh was the end of the world and it meant the end of democracy? Well he’s continually ruling against trump.
As an Apple fanboy I have to say I’ve never been impressed with CarPlay. I’ve used it in rentals quite a bit but have found it generally infuriating.
Primary reason is the map. On the Tesla you have this beautiful map that you can pan around and pinch zoom in and out of.
On the versions of CarPlay that I’ve used, you can this minimal map that can’t be pinch zoomed. Seems like you have to tap the pan buttons by hand to get it to slide around.
It’s just generally unusable. Like I don’t even know why people like this. Oh and then the nanny aspect of your phone becoming a black screen of just enumerated turns with no way to actually see the map yourself (if the car screen is unwilling to work right, my first instinct was to go to my phone but alas no they brick it).
Before I owned a Tesla I remember thinking what a mistake it was that it didn’t have CarPlay because I assumed it was the best. Well it’s not. Not by a long shot.
This really needs to be done for a GLP-1 auto injecting needle.
Pretty sure it’s the same as an epi-pen as well.
It blows my mind. It’s a disposable, single use device that at the press of button:
1. Inserts the needle in your skin,
2. Slowly presses the plunger until the dose is injected
3. Then retracts the needle with plunger
Three distinct and seemingly opposing motions. With timing. All in a little plastic enclosure. It sure I can think of a toy with that kind of mechanism.
There's an even fancier mechanism with e.g. glucagon pens, where it actually has to rehydrate the freeze dried hormone (glucagon forms aggregations when it sits, has to be mixed fresh)
Actually, after looking into it recently, this is actually not true any more. All the current glucagon delivery mechanisms are either dry powder or DMSO-based, so no actual water involved, and are premixed and ready to go basically the same as epipen style autoinjectors
I'm excited for the advent of dasiglucagon which is a non-clumping peptide designed for the purpose.
When I was a kid I needed growth hormone shots. we used regular syringes that fit into this tan plastic "gun" thing. you pulled back the top into a locked position. placed the tip of the gun to the skin where the needle should inject, and pressed the trigger button to release the lock. can't remember if it also pushed the plunger though. this was back in the 90's.
I’d be curious to know if this sort of thing could’ve been predicted through computer modeling. And if not, does that mean, we have a gap in our fundamental fluid equations?
And if so, couldn’t we just have a model iterate on different surface patterns and optimize?
Toyota has done the world no justice by tricking most buyers into thinking they’re somehow leveraging the power of electricity when they buy a hybrid car. As if they’re somehow driving a sort of EV.
As the speaker in the video clearly articulates, a hybrid is a gas burning car. Full stop. (Ignoring plugins).
In fact, the technology very easily could’ve just been transparent to the User, and hardly even marketed. I mean, there’s countless dodads in a car that contribute to its overall improvement in fuel economy, and car companies have been adding these features over the last forty years. None of them have declared the car to be of an entirely new class the way this particular marginal improvement did.
Don’t fool yourself, you’re still driving a gas car, it’s still burning fossil fuels l, just marginally less of them.
If all of this effort had been to migrate to EVs I feel like we’d be in a better position.
As the speaker in the video clearly articulates, a hybrid is a gas burning car. Full stop
A gas burning car, albeit with somewhat better mileage than a non-hybrid car.
A plugin hybrid really can leverage the power of electricity. And Toyota does make PHEVs, though it's massively outsold by the non-plugin version.
I often hear that a plugin hybrid is what people really want -- an electric car minus range anxiety. But range anxiety is largely overblown, and most people prepared to go electric just get a BEV. For people who can't do that (for example, they don't have access to charging at home), the plugin hybrid offers no advantage.
