Heh, I was first laughing, but looks like it indeed caused behavioral problems for some kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrosine#United_States

This is the main reason https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/

I have seen more of them in LA, but it doesn’t look like the number is increasing.

I have regular path when walking daily. And there’s one person who has model 3, and past year I saw cybertruck showing up there too. First I saw it there connected to charger sometimes it was gone, looked like it was used.

Last month I saw it just covered, for some time and last 3-4 days it is gone. Either the owner went somewhere for a longer trip or he sold it.

The truck is expensive and didn’t deliver on its promises, so I think it only became a statement, status symbol, tool to grab attention of others, but at least with the last one it is often getting not the attention the owners desire.

I think right now it is a very expensive MAGA hat.

Don’t know how accurate it is as I don’t own cybertruck and don’t know much about how it is built, but I heard that it has an aluminum frame, and since aluminum and steel can’t touch (as the joint would degrade without stone special treatment) they went with cheaper solution and used plastic joints to connect them.

Is that true?

He is just person born in rich family that used social media to create image of some kind of engineering genius, when his actual “skill” was to have money, push engineers to work hard and knowing how to get money from the government.

Hopefully Europe is not as corrupted and won’t make the same mistakes :(

It’s even weirder, as he apparently did not intended to visit.

Maybe that would motivate pharmaceutical companies to work on treatments that actually cure diabetes?

Seems like are breakthrough treatments we are getting over recent years is just to manage the sickness.

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The difference this time is that this won’t be paid by the government like covid vaccine and in fact will be very expensive (i.e. how much people are willing to pay to cure their cancer?)

How can you create such conspiracy, when they don’t even want to give that vaccine?

I suspect if we were forced to pay $500 or more to get covid vaccine we wouldn’t have conspiracies either.

No, at least not during this period. If it was invented right now, or is guaranteed to be only controlled by oligarchs and ruin life of everyone else.

You raised a very good point that I did not realize until now. In the past 8 years we actually stopped talking about politics to others, because it became so polarizing.

We absolutely need to talk about politics if we want to keep democracy. Hardliners likely won’t be converted, but at least, as you said, we should talk to like minded people.

Also, there’s indeed no point to worry about things outside of our control, and worry about things we can affect. Threat the things that happen, that we can’t control more as an obstacle that we have to deal with. Also support people who might have control and fight (governors, congress people, lawyers, judges, government employees, etc) so they know that aren’t doing it for nothing.