That depends on how many lanes there are and if there is a median.

Personal hot take: China is forbidding its companies from buying Nvidia chips and instead wants to have its industries use China-made chips.

I think a big part of the reason for this is that they want to take over Taiwan and they know that any takeover could likely destroy TSMC and instead of this being a bad thing for them it could actually give them a competitive advantage vs everyone else.

The fact that the US has destroyed relationships with so many allies implies it may not stop a Taiwan invasion when it happens.

I'd say the main reason is probably that they want to insulate themselves from US sanctions, which could come at any time given how unpredictable the US government is lately.

The issue is the X is still a small SUV. We have one and ended up buying a Rivian as well because it has a lot more useful space than the X.

We have a model X and model S. I still like them but for our latest car we bought a Rivian SUV instead. The interior is just laid out better and there is a lot more space despite being roughly the same size as the X.

The Rivian has the 360 degree view and other stuff as well.

And as for the delays - our X was in a minor collision last November and is STILL not fixed. The only way to contact Tesla is through the app and so we make an appointment, take photos, describe the issue and then are told to wait two months for our appointment. Then invariably the day before the appointment, we are told that the center we had the appointment at cannot do the work and to go to another center, with another two month delay, which then tells us the same thing.

Not being able to reach a human to fix out $100k+ car is infuriating.

>Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then?

Yes, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was sentenced to 30 years in prison (!) for having a single partially-smoked joint in his car.

This conversation is basically:

"All zebras are red"

"Actually, if you look at studies, you can see that horses come in all types of colours. So I would expect zebras to be the same"

"Horses are not zebras, that should be all the proof you need to accept that all zebras are red."

>but they have never been free.

Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed the cop off, you'd never get shot for it.

No one I pay attention to posts on twitter any more.

Today I saw a twitter interaction between, of all people, Ross Douthat and Scott Alexander. Two very bright and interesting thinkers with wildly divergent points of view, discussing ideas with courtesy

Oh no no no, he drinks in the Human Biodiversity and Neoreactionary bars. Totally different thing entirely, even if both are full of Nazis.

Serious question, where do they post to?

As far as I can tell, Mastodon was briefly hyped on HN but nobody actually uses it. Bluesky seems to have a few people within a fairly narrow political range. Truth social is just for Trump. Reddit is pseudoanonymous as is HN. Instagram is for sharing photos not ideas or links. TikTok is a Skinner box.

I ask this as someone who genuinely doesn't know how to use the internet anymore. Reddit used to be useful but is now a cesspool. LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers. The twitter-clones all feel a bit like using a paper straw to fight climate change.

I know there are semi-private slack groups and discord channels out there, but I don't know how to find or join them and it seems like a hassle to follow.

Basically, for me, no one I pay attention to posts anywhere any more.

Mastodon is great, but non-algorithmic, so it only gets good after you explore and follow more people who are interesting. Garbage in-garbage out. I find it very high signal to noise and full of interesting people. Bluesky is where people go to talk to an audience, mastodon or fediverse people tend to be more conversational.

BlueSky is the new up-and-comer. I am enjoying it, but I unfollow anyone that posts ragebait or political content (besides memes, some of those are pretty funny).

> LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers.

Thank you for this horrifically accurate and insightful characterization.

All social media is a Skinner box

Jack even said so when Twitter originally took off. He was excited to see how 140 chars forced people to shape their thoughts.

Everyone is tired of it. That’s why the formerly popular social media sucks now.

The entire economy in the US is built around behavioral economics experimentation, A/B test, measuring retail behavior and putting options in front of retail shoppers.

You sound like an another exhausting American. Rather than find community through self guided journey you just want it handed to you, like a religion.

They post on Bluesky.

Nobody I know in person has ever posted to Twitter either now or back when it was cool.

If congress doesn't allocate the money, they won't be paid, even if they have a contract that says they will.

Imagine Trump decided to offer a worker a trillion dollars. He writes a contract with the worker. It is irrelevant - the worker won't be paid because the executive branch is not allowed to spend money that hasn't been authorized by congress.