Care to go look up and tell me how Jews were treated in the region under the ottoman empire?

You seem to think that what’s happening in gaza is a one sided new event but you conveniently ignore what came before.

The US killed a half million civilians in the middle east as a result of 9/11. Where’s the blowback from that?

Then Oct 7th happens, and now all of a sudden everyone cares about gaza because Israel is kicking them in the teeth in retaliation.

Selective caring. Nobody gives a fuck about the rhohinga or the uyghurs, despite those situations being far worse. Where’s the demands to sanction China or Chinese companies who are supporting that genocide?

Where’s the support for native American groups who the US is still oppressing?

Hypocritical, all of you. I don’t care about your opinions if you just pick and choose when to apply your morals to make yourself feel better. Help everyone, or stop pretending that your not doing it because it’s the cool thing to support right now.

Even at it’s peak, Gaza did not have any significant science being produced.

It’s even in the actual article:

Researchers in Gaza do not have access to sufficient materials, including chemicals, scientific instruments and replacement parts, since 2007. The lack of infrastructure affects researchers in all fields of science, and has limited the number of publications and our quality of research.

It was dirt poor, quite literally.

I’m not saying that destroying educational institutions is good, or that it didn’t matter. It absolutely does matter and isn’t a good thing, I’m just saying that the headline is misleading. I really wish this war didn’t have so much propaganda going on from both sides.

Iran’s government is the western definition of evil.

Celebrating deaths of dictators and war criminals is not a new phenomenon.

I’m a Canadian, so the only hate speech laws that I care about are the ones for my country.

No I do not think intentional misgendering should be considered hate speech (in the legal sense)

I would absolutely fire an employee of mine for doing it though, even if I found out they did it outside of a work context.

Just because something isn’t illegal doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be consequences for it.

A) This thread is 8 months old, what the hell are you doing going through stuff this old. Get a life.

B) If you do it intentionally, knowing that they don’t want it, you’re a bad person. It’s not hate speech though based on the legal description in Canada. Just like I can call you a thin-skinned small-dicked asshole and it’s not hate speech.

Start your own community to replace the one you don’t like the mods of, keep the content fresh to attract people to yours instead.

See, the problem with that math, is that it ignores the fact that I would own a car regardless. A gas vehicle would have similar (yes EVs have slightly higher manufacturing emissions) base emissions, in addition to the tailpipe. They cancel out when you compare car to car. My emissions, compared to driving a gas model, are non-existent, which I guess is a clarification that you need.

Unfortunately for my total emissions, I live in a rural area, there isn’t even a bus that would get my kids to hockey practice, let alone games in a 2 hour driving radius.

They’re really the only option in rural areas like where I live at this point. I’d like to see more busses (we have hourly service along a nearby main road to only a single destination) but until we make them self driving and electric to reduce operating costs, there’s simply no way the district could afford to run them frequently enough to be a viable alternative to cars.

I did use busses extensively while I lived in the city though. I wish they were cheaper (or free) though.

And some of us live in Jurisdictions with 90%+ renewable electricity. My EV emissions are practically non-existent.

There are three ridesharing companies in the city I live near, plus regular taxis. Is there an example of a region that only has Uber that you can think of? Airbnb also has competition from VRBO and local hotels keeping nightly prices down.

The engineering to design the product is built into the cost of the vehicle, it gets amortized over a massive number of units over many years and therefore doesn’t need to be included in back of the napkin calculations like this.

I’m pretty sure that the government in my country (Canada) would destroy a self-driving car monopoly before it could establish itself. The EU probably would too. They would likely mandate the company license it’s tech to other manufactures at government set rates like they do currently with a few other industries like Cellphone networks. That being said, there are already more than a half-dozen big name companies working on it, I highly doubt only one will succeed.

I live in an area very poorly served by Taxis, since I’m about a half hour (on a highway) outside of the city. We only have 2 taxis (total vehicles, not companies) in the community that only operate during daytime hours and a ride into the city is about $50 one way. $300 doesn’t go very far when a return trip is $100+ tip. The bus into town only runs twice in the morning and twice back out in the afternoon and if your destination isn’t directly on the main route it can take 2+ hours to get to a specific location in the city.

Self-driving busses would be great too, they would increase access in many areas reducing the need for cars. They are the exact same tech though there’s almost no difference between driving a car or a bus from a machine learning perspective. The decrease in costs would be less though, since busses are much more capital intensive compared to their labour cost. They may only save 30-40% of costs by eliminating the drivers. Busses also operate at much higher utilization rates already.

What you’re suggesting in the first paragraph is price fixing, and because there are multiple companies it would require collusion to pull off. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but generally speaking in capitalism competition will push prices down. That’s why buying a TV is so cheap, and why you can get bananas for almost nothing still. Most products prices are pushed down by competition from multiple companies.

The robo-taxis themselves probably cost on the order of $100,000 at the moment, due to all the extra computers and sensors and stuff on top of a standard EV. Spread out over their expected lifetime of say 5 years at 20 hours per day, that’s only $2.70 per hour.

They’re electric, so there’s that cost too, lets say they drive their maximum charge per day (400km) which is actually quite high for a taxi, that adds about $20 per day in electricity costs, or another $1 per hour.

Maintenance on electric cars is almost non-existent, you pretty much just need to rotate and replace the tires and change the cabin filter. This isn’t insignificant, you’d change the tires every 100 days or so with that much driving, but you’re talking about $5 per day, or $0.25 per hour. That’s literally my entire warranty work for my EV. There simply aren’t as many parts to wear or break as in a gas vehicle.

There will of course be other costs like regular cleaning, and fixing the upholstery from wear by patrons, I can’t estimate that, but I suspect it’s not a huge amount. Plus insurance, also cheap per hour when you’re operating that much.

So the total operating cost for a robotaxi per hour is around $4-5.

Even the cheapest taxi driver is going to be making what $15-20 per hour (with tips), in some cities it’s double that.

So the cost to the company for running is going to be 75-80% less with a robotaxi fleet.

The price per hour for robotaxi’s will also continue dropping, as EV battery costs come down and the self-driving technology matures they will be able to produce these at scale and go from a $100,000 current price to probably $50,000 over the next decade. The price of labour is going to keep going up though.

These big companies investing in self-driving systems are spending billions because they know how much money will be made on them. My wife and I pay about $300/month to have a second vehicle that we use only 5-6 times in that period. If I could have access to a $10 per trip robotaxi it would make far more sense to drop that second vehicle and use those services for the odd times I need it.

Because they don’t require a human worker, which by far is the most expensive and challenging part of running a taxi service. The operating cost per hour is super low.

Robotaxis only need downtime for charging and regular maintenance, probably only 2-3 hours per day in total.

Well then ban them from owning houses, not cars.

You think humans driving cars is somehow valuable to society?

Because normal taxis are extremely expensive, and provide poor coverage in many areas. It would cost me over $30 to take a taxi to the nearest grocery store and back. It would cost me over $80 return from my house to the middle of the nearest town large enough to have a Walmart. The taxis also only operate during daytime hours in my area.

You’re going to want a robotaxi when you get older and lose your license.

These technologies will make aging gracefully much easier.

Also benefits for people with disabilities and cost of living (reduced shipping/transportation costs)

But fuck progress, am I right?

I didn’t misunderstand your question, I ignored answering your question and instead gave advice to a person who would ask such a question.

You will die an unhappy person if you make hating other people a priority in your life.

If you think hate speech is acceptable, you may want to stop and reassess your life. You dun fucked up.

Try building a life that doesn’t revolve around worrying about other people do that doesn’t affect you, it’s far healthier.