Because it is…

I have seen people downvoted to oblivion for bringing up things like this in threads about Chinese EVs.

You are clearly only reading the parts you want to read. Have fun.

I posted it because you claimed none of that happened before 2020.

Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.

You seem to misunderstand the ire;

AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.

The text that became Project 2025 has been published every four years or so since the Regan administration.

You may be right about the copyrights in the individual unit, but I was talking about the underlying car OS in response to the commenter who said “most car systems run android”. QNX is a real-time operating system which is required for something like a car. Another for instance would be Microsoft Auto which Ford used before switching to QNX.

In general a modern car will have dozens or hundreds of computers running their own software and communicating in a sort of API fashion usually through something like CAN bus. Most of these systems can’t afford to wait on something to boot when you start your car.

In very general terms we are talking about the main difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

I was under the impression that a large portion of cars still ran QNX.

Absolutely, but I would even go as far as to say that things like rainy day funds or reinvestment should be considered costs of business not “things we might do with profit”.

IDK. Something tells me we aren’t done hearing about his ties to Epstein or him sleeping around as CEO.

Profit isn’t required to maintain a company. Only enough revenue to cover costs. Everything else is a surplus.

Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

I agree but I feel that you are missing the importance in being educated on how to learn. Having access to all of human knowledge means nothing if you don’t know what to do with it.

The large majority of the people I am referring to in my previous comment seem to be allergic to learning or at least convinced that the learning part of their life is finished.

Speaking as a Millennial who has worked at several colleges;

GenZ didn’t fuck themselves, they were fucked by GenX and older Millennials… AKA their parents and, to a certain extent, educators. Who, for some reason, decided to not pass on a single fucking skill they were taught as kids.

Seriously I have been around people just 10 years or so younger than I am who cannot make change, read cursive or analog clocks, or even use a mouse.

If I understand correctly then you are assuming that the mouse cursor is hovering and not just thick.

Aren’t these the same people banning Fluoride and complaining about supposed Mercury in vaccines???

You don’t have to worry about that until the 7th.

The only reason these things haven’t happened is that Microsoft was banned from doing them back in the 90s. They absolutely wanted to require a Microsoft Account (then called a Passport) in Windows XP. The ban was in place until just after Windows 7 came out.

Blame the government for doing nothing to protect consumers since 1999.

The fact that even publications like this are saying things like “the president’s approval” now is part of the problem. The president is supposed to have no part in that decision making process. It’s the FCC and the FTC that have a say and they are supposed to be politically insulated.