Someone ( well, maybe the next administration then ) just needs to make Google stop doing Evil.

I would love to use all their phones and watches and browsers and home automation and search and AI in one glorious integrated whole.

But because Google are evil ad-sellling people-tracking cunts, I am not fucking giving them any fucking information I do not absolutely have to.

If they Did No Evil, they could be a force for greatness.
But they're a bunch of money-grubbing grifter billionaires, whose company should be amde to be good or be broken up into teeny tiny pieces.

Ah. Also sorry for misunderstanding you.
I agree with your points.

It will be fun to watch the World turn into a shithole over the next four years of utter madness.

FTFY

You're both wrong:

"The Discovery and Commercialization of the Rare Earth Elements
The term rare earth was coined when an unusual black rock was unearthed by a miner in Ytterby, Sweden, in 1788. The ore was called “rare” because it had never been seen before and “earth” because that was the 18th-century geological term for rocks that could be dissolved in acid. In 1794 the chemist Johan Gadolin named this previously unknown “earth” yttria, after the town where it was discovered. Over time the mines around Ytterby extracted rocks that yielded four elements named for the town (yttrium, ytterbium, terbium, and erbium)."

[ Oh, and fuck the lazy Slashdot owners, I'm not fixing the quotes just because they gave up on this site.]

https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-rare-earth-elements/history-future/

You began: "I would not overestimate this."

But your second sentence (abridged) tells us why this is *very* important: "To me, it looks more to be the recognition of the fact that BEVs [are] ideal daily drivers."

That signals the beginning of the end of fossil fuel vehicles and is a great step towards saving mankind.

"Tesla cratering" is bad for Tesla shareholders, but I am not one, and I think it only matters to the rest of us that Tesla stays solvent, selling decent EVs, and I think they can do that for a long while yet, so: Don't Panic !

Around half of the US public always saw further than Trump.
And judging by the polls released today, that %age has increased a lot since November.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to choose shit candidates with a hateful woke agenda".

"This is explained by the visual cortex learning and rewiring itself to accommodate the changes in vision"

No.
It is quite adequately explained by the brain using existing pathways differently.

Thank you, for being the voice of reason.

Should we stop taking NYT and Slashdot seriously?

Seriously, MORE BULLSHIT ?!

Europe has a government and reports economic numbers.

If the US and China and California all count as "economies" then why does Europe not count? Southern China? Eastern US?

More bullshit from people who don't care any more.

No.
It did not rewire your brain
That is ridiculous pseudo-scientific nonsense.

Shame on you, and any editor, Slashdot and otherwise, who lets this bullshit through.

Equally, why would you need a Copilot key, a shiny Macbook, flared jeans ?

Fashion.

Yahoo also bought Altavista.

You haven't heard of Altavista ?

Exactly.