He wants to plug it in also. I have a 2019 Honda Insight that's essentially the same as that 2024 civic, but neither can be plugged in. The only model Honda use to make was the Clarity, which was basically a civic hybrid that could also be plugged in. I wish I could get one of those.

A 50 mile range battery for a PHEV would be perfect and is what Prius Prime has. Just wish other vendors (honda..) had this choice.

To all the women that ARE going to college. More women are purchasing their own homes now as well. So they will be needing AC service.

I think it was more about the value of the degree itself back in 1960 versus meeting your spouse on campus. With a well paying college degree job, you had your pick. That's still true now, actually. Most high paying jobs still require a degree.

Sounds like now, you'll run into more women on campus, which should help your chances of finding a date. Now if only they could get their collect heads out of their phones long enough to cute-meet.

It's social media. Anyone can roll their own at this point. Even Trump.

I only read the summary, but it did mention that some of his videos were getting de-monitized for some of his antics and this gave him the push to buy this so he could do whatever he wanted.

It's sort of a stretch for this to be on Slashdot, but then again, here is someone that used a computer, built a YT channel with all the work that goes into the media creation, then was able to buy a "playground/film area, whatever" and setup a subscription video on demand on his own. That's really quite awesome and something you could only dream of 30 years ago.

The rest of those "deaths" would be more realistically categorized as co-morbidity at best. Hypertension, heart-disease,etc, were listed amongst all the people that died.

It's like saying alcohol killed someone that had gotten drunk and then wandered off a cliff. Well, no, it was wandering off the cliff that killed him, not the alcohol.

And that's 100% okay. In a fully automated world, you could just fuck off and enjoy just having fun. Me, I really enjoy building things for a hobby and often wish I had the spare time to work on much larger projects. I think it would be fun to build a house, helping out with each and every step. As it is, I do make stuff out of wood with hand and power tools. Furniture, mostly. I just do it for fun and the challenge. Maybe one day I'll get around to building myself a custom computer desk. I drew up the plans by hand but life changed, etc. One day.

There are lots of jobs I would love to learn about and participate in, if only I had the time.

I do agree I would not do my specific job if I didn't need to the money but there are other jobs I would indeed do.

You could always require 10 hours of community service from everyone, every week. If you choose to study something, you could contribute to that field.

I'm sure scientist would love to just be able to do research without worrying about making real money or whether they would get funding.

There is still "fun" work that could be done and I think people would generally want to do stuff. Right now, we do what we have to do to survive. It doesn't always align with what we wish we were doing. In some cases, what we want to do doesn't pay squat and we can't chase after a passion job versus what actually pays the bills.

Imagine this, a work place with only workers that wanted to fucking be there. They not only wanted to be there, but were passionate about the purpose. That's the kind of world we could have if we were not busy busting our butts to survive. Even if half of humanity just wanted to sit around and do nothing, the other half with the passion would take us to new heights!

Shsssh. It's like pro-wrestling. We know it's fake but we want to believe! Just let us have this moment where we dream about utopia.

You'll still need a currency unless you find a way to convert energy it into anything you want. If you can "magic" raw resources into existence, then sure, goods and services could fall to zero. Since resources are finite, we'll still need a currency because things will still need a "cost" in terms of actual raw materials used.

In my mind, if everything is automated, we all would need to be given the exact same spending power, regardless of anything you spend your time doing. You ban any other source of income. Otherwise, you end up right back where we are now, where any extra base payment will just raise the floor as oppose to lower the ceiling.

I can't really seeing humanity get to that point though. I could see placing humans into a premade environment where "adults" were already running everything, but humanity as it is today, getting there seems nigh impossible.

With full automation, you don't need or have any kind of copyright or legal DRM of any kind. Those exist so people can generate income off their works. Without the need for income, you don't need to generate it. Anyone could request the automation make them a thing that bob got and they could. If anything, the way to gain status in such a society would be to actually create something that went viral or otherwise let people do something new.

You could of course still create whatever you want from scratch or with the computer or a combination, whatever. It's a hobby or maybe you develop something that helps makes things more efficient, which would give everyone more resources.

We can dream of fantasyland all day.

If we were fully automated, you would have to come up with a different way to go about distributing resources, as we wouldn't be earning an income anymore. I could see aspects of that working out just fine but the big elephant in the room is how do we choose who gets to live where if we all get equal access to resources given everything is automated?

Since raw materials are always finite, things would still have a "cost". This is where individuals get to choose how to spend their allotted resources.

It would be a significantly different society then anything we've seen before of course. The housing thing is tricky for sure. I guess grandfather over existing homes to their occupants. Some how, I don't think the rich would be okay with only keeping their primary residence or for that matter not being "rich" anymore.

But hey, it sounds like a great idea and I'd love to live in a Star Trekk future as opposed to what we are actually going to end up with.

I agree that it is highly unlikely to ever be there way but it could be that way.

For instance, we could put the environment first instead of treating it as an externality to be dumped on. Running an unsustainable business could be made illegal and bans on buying from foreign agents that are not following these laws is also feasible. Compromising would be made and no one would get everything they wanted but they would get some of what they wanted.

Highly unlikely to happen but it doesn't mean it cannot happen.

P.S. Given how you describe the plight of the typical Chinese worker, we shouldn't be trading with them based on human rights issues alone.

You can "sniff" wifi traffic and SSID is broadcasted. Even when you check the box "don't broadcast SSID", you can still gleam off the SSID in the initial packet exchanges between an AP and a host, with you as a 3rd party listener. Even if it takes a while, it will eventually find any open APs that exist.

I'd be happy we were shipping products around on our own continent as opposed to half way across the world. I'd be happy that we would gain some security for our supply chain on stuff we need and want to buy. I'd be happy that these factories, automated mostly, would have to run at American safety, worker, and environmental standards, as opposed to how other countries do it. If we are consuming the goods, they should be held to our same standards. Stuff is "cheap" because we're not paying the real price of it. We're pretending externalities don't exist.

Any jobs we gain is just icing on the cake. The facilities have to built also, which is a lot of trades jobs required.