zabadoh @ zabadoh @ani.social

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MBFC says economictimes.com is right-center wing, with mixed factuality, low credibility. '

Owned by the Times Of India group.

Mel and Sly are no surprise.

John Voight is a surprise, considering how Angela Jolie runs. Must be a boomer thing

Kennedy was a lot younger at his inauguration (43) than Trump is now (78).

I know over-using the mouse has wrecked my right index finger... Damn you Diablo 2!

It's got a weird mix of features that don't match.

The mammy figure and side art appear to be bolted on a spring lever espresso machine, even the plates around the drip tray appear to be added on.

The Mammy's arms as the lever would be a feat of engineering to be functional because the force is in the wrong place if this was adapted from a center lever machine.

The only side lever machine that I can find that might serve as the basis for this is a vintage Gaggia that was made up until the 70s. https://greatinfusions.com/vintage-gaggia-compact-82-espresso-machine/

The front has some anachronistically modern features, like the lighted rocker switch to the bottom left that is typical of 1980s appliances, and that small rectangular plastic looking water level window to the left which again points to something more recent.

The copper tubing as the steam wands doesn't make sense as everything that looks like this has the flexible wands.

After 1946 when the lever espresso machine was invented, until around 1961, when the modern look came in.

https://counterculturecoffee.com/blogs/counter-culture-coffee/history-of-espresso-machines

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Why not both?

Totally not a genocide. No way, uhuh.

/s

i.e. Americans don't understand, or care, about democracy.

Got it.

Did anyone ever think of think tanks as anything other than thin veils of credibility for whatever they were advocating for?

The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution, for example.

...this is a virus that already circulates among populations in China, the U.S. and elsewhere, so there is more herd immunity against it than there would be against a novel virus, such as COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic.

Everyone's probably already caught it, and it doesn't seem to be as deadly as COVID-19 was.

Luigi didn't.

Americans train their kids to become engineers, but after they graduate, companies like Musk's won't hire them because foreign H1-B engineers work cheaper.

Sure, I'll bite:

In 2024 up to week 50, there have been 45,447 deaths involving COVID-19. This is compared to 159,940 deaths involving flu or pneumonia and 2,892,661 deaths from all causes in the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

For comparisons sake, traffic accident deaths in the first three quarters of 2024 were 29,135.

I think the government has a good handle on COVID-19 now with more-or-less mass vaccination, so it's not going to cause mass deaths and disabilities.

I'm more worried about H5N1 bird flu, more currently the affect it's having on milk and egg prices (over USD$12/doz. yikes!) and the potential to mutate to direct human-to-human transmission.

From https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22401-bird-flu dated 12/5/2024

What’s the mortality rate of bird flu?

Overall, the mortality (death) rate for bird flu in humans is high — historically, about half of all people with known infections have died. But most recent cases in the U.S. have been mild.

My apologies, I assumed that you lived in the United States, where 40% sewer coverage for a city would not be good.

Only 40% sewers in your city?!?

What state is that in, may I ask, so I can never go there.

FSD is less reliable compared to say Google's Waymo. GM's Cruise gave up on autonomous driving

China's dubious state media, says their autonomous robotaxis are quite safe, and they're rolling out fleets of them in major cities already

But I'm sure that bits and bobs in Tesla's FSD systems have some value to someone.

The sad part is, that allowing Elon to export "Full Self Driving" or whatever other technology to China won't even help Tesla that much, and will even harm the company in the long term:

The Chinese will just copy/steal the technology, because all foreign investment is through joint ventures with local corporations, and give it to their domestic manufacturers, like they did and continue to do with all other offshored production that winds up in their hands.

As a recent spate of articles about GM, Honda and Nissan, tells us, the Chinese domestic manufacturers now own 60% market share.

Tesla's market share in China has dropped in nearly half over the last 3 months from 9/24 - 12/24, from 6.43% to 3.39%, and that was already down from 9% in 2023.