https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number

Not technically true, but I think when you are scaling up from an A380, it becomes much less relevant.

So you think the species only became a “super power” because it hit 8 billion individuals? If so, then I’ve got some e coli cultures that would bring humanity to it’s knees.

I’d say agriculture made us a super power before fossil fuels, but even then, humans were wiping out other species during the hunter/gatherer phase. (Not a lot of giant sloths around any more…)

It’s more than just the hardware.

They screwed up by finally forcing everyone onto an objectively shitty OS. Every other time MSlop has dropped support for an OS, they’ve had at least two others to choose from, and one of them was passable.

They screwed up by letting AI vibe code updates, which were then vibe tested and vibe deployed. The last 3 “patch Tuesdays” have been absolute nightmares of system breaking bugs.

They screwed up by sloppily forcing AI in to every aspect of their OS, and then (allegedly) bragging about how the next one is just going to be an AI.

They screwed up by not recognizing that AI is not popular among the common user. There are like 3 people at my workplace who actually use it, and the main thing they use it for is to add fluff to a chat message to turn it into an email.

They screwed up by putting a “line go up” business moron in charge of the company, who then put more “line go up” business morons in charge of the projects and departments. It’s no wonder that the new outlook sucks and is not fully featured, despite being the “default” outlook for years. It’s no wonder new teams is buggy, inconsistent, bloated, and always changing for the worse. It’s no wonder why all the perfectly functional menus and features of 10 have been hidden by slick and useless facsimiles in 11, while confusing and clunky elements of Win95 still lurk in the shadows.

If Microsoft wants to get back on top, they need new leadership. An apology changes nothing, action does. The current man in charge and his posse of yes-men flat out lack the character and understanding to make a good product that people and businesses want to use. They’ve been coasting on the momentum of being the top dog for 30 years, but that source of market force is not infinite.

Jokes aside. You can build you own solar charging station for a few grand.

Not a lot of people can build their own oil extraction and refinement system in their backyard.

On the flip side, might be a good time for everyone to learn about wood gasifiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator

The one thing you are forgetting… Is that Tesla lobbies the regulatory agencies.

For another comparison, the cyber truck is 17 times more likely to burn you to death than the Ford Pinto, a car that is practically synonymous with fire.

This is why I’m pretty actively hostile to the lawn/pest salesmen in my neighborhood.

I answer the door with a snake in hand, and give them a rant about the insect apocalypse and the absolute waste of water and time that a suburban yard is.

Robot/AI

There’s hay porn now?! I’m done with this degeneracy, that was the last straw!

Yes, it was sarcastic pedantry.

TBF, the question didn’t say anything about eating the meat, or even cooking it.

The LLM just assumed that you were going to cook it in the microwave and eat it.

I’m having trouble coming up with a meat that would be unsafe to put in a microwave. Maybe poison dart frog meat?