TheodorAlforno

Back in the days, mattresses were made of straw or other natural materials. Blankets and pillows were stuffed with feathers until recently. And people were not able to heat their bedrooms sufficiently during winter. Back in those days, you had to make your bed in order to air it and dry it from sweat. Otherwise it would start to get moldy really quickly.

Today, synthetic materials and central heating / air conditioning have eliminated the need for a strict humidity management in the bedroom. But it's still stuck in people's heads that making your bed is absolutely vital. I guess it'll take another one or two generations for it to become irrelevant.

12C charging rates means fast charging for small batteries. I would be perfectly happy with a 300km range car if I could recharge in 15 minutes.

Lead indeed caused violent crime as it influences our nervous system and thus our behavior. It is a widely accepted hypothesis by now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis?wprov=sfla1

Linux users NEED their computer. You don't put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.

I'm using Windows 11 at work and I don't feel really a difference. I just had to double check if the start menu is really in the middle.

I remember when smoking was banned in bars and restaurants. Smokers were furious. Now everybody enjoys it. I guess this could go the same way.

You're drawing wrong conclusions. Intelligent beings have concepts to validate knowledge. When converting days to seconds, we have a formula that we apply. An LLM just guesses and has no way to verify it. And it's like that for everything.

An example: Perplexity tells me that 9876543210 Seconds are 114,305.12 days. A calculator tells me it's 114,311.84. Perplexity even tells me how to calculate it, but it does neither have the ability to calculate or to verify it.

Same goes for everything. It guesses without being able to grasp the underlying concepts.

The technology will eventually be available to every manufacturer. I think the main problem is Trump who does everything to prevent the switch to electric vehicles.

We're having more and more electric buses in our town. It's beautiful. They are so quiet. So much better for noise and air pollution.

How is Ford's management perceived in the USA? Here on Europe they fucked up terribly.

I live in Cologne, Germany where their European headquarters and major plants are located. They completely missed EV development. Currently they stopped producing their best selling cars like the Ford Fiesta. The only EVs they build here are using VWs MEB platform and are selling at a higher price than VWs corresponding models.

They massively cut down on jobs and seem to be clueless about their future. They have been a major employer since the 1930s here and people are panicking about the loss of Ford altogether. They already shut down plants all over Europe.

There's still a lot of manufacturing going on in Stuttgart. Despite a lot of it being moved abroad.

Is it still Mexicans that come over or has it changed to people from even poorer countries like Venezuela or Honduras?