Stupid World

[R650R]

From 2billion value to zero. Another major failure in EV marketplace

https://thedriven.io/2024/04/19/aust...dministrators/




Only one year ago the Prime Minister of Australia was raving about them, and using Tritium as the posterchild to sell his new $15 billion “National Reconstruction Fund” to “build sovereign capability”.

During his visit, the Prime Minister said, “This is my third visit to Tritium. Every time I come back, I hear about more revenue, more jobs being created, and more countries where Australia is exporting to. This is a great success story here and I congratulate everyone at Tritium for their achievements.”

Nick Bonyhady and Tom Rabe at The Australian Financial Review point at energy prices:

A Nasdaq-listed electric vehicle fast-charger company hailed first as a Queensland success story and then as a justification for government subsidies is the second major Australian manufacturer to collapse this week.

Tritium’s demise comes just days after Australia’s largest plastics producer, Qenos, was placed into administration, and as an industry chief warns that rising east coast gas prices will continue to threaten a range of domestic manufacturing across the country.

In 2021 Australia was the world’s largest exporter of LNG but in a quest for climate purity we’ve banned so many exploration sites, and pursued so many stupid energy options we are about to start importing gas.

” Gas industry leaders have labelled “bizarre” and unbelievable the likelihood that Australia could soon start importing gas.”

Daniel Mercer, ABC

Peter Tinley [MP] said it made no sense for states to ban the practice of fracking to develop onshore gas reserves while also allowing the import of offshore supplies that were exploited using the same method.

Victoria has banned fracking through legislation since 2017.

“I find it ironic that some jurisdictions ban fracking, for example, but will eventually be importing fracked gas,” Mr Tinley told the Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference in Sydney. “How do you correlate that?

[pritch]

A mini rant if I may...

There are many clips on YouTube detailing encounters between US citizenry and law enforcement. It seems the initial reaction of a cop is to request ID. In most states though a person does not have to provide ID or any other information unless being arrested. The police though do not like their request being refused and the more simple minded cops then arrest the person for obstruction. This may lead to a lawsuit costing the cops employers a large sum.

The most ironic thing about this, however, is when the cops arrest somebody for refusing to answer questions they have to read them their rights. "You have the right to remain silent..." The actual meaning of those seven words eludes the cops completely, even as they say them out loud while arresting someone for exercising their right to remain silent.

[onearmedbandit]

I've seen a few of those too, often I feel sorry for the cop as a lot of these citizens are goading the police, but the cop is the professional and needs to know the laws they are upholding or applying.

[pritch]

I've seen a few of those too, often I feel sorry for the cop as a lot of these citizens are goading the police, but the cop is the professional and needs to know the laws they are upholding or applying.

True. There's a brilliant example on Elon's X. Two blokes in a work vehicle are stopped at a Border Patrol check point. All they had to do was reply that they were US citizens. One of the pair starts shouting about his Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. Nobody ever proclaimed their right to remain silent so loudly. Of course it ends badly.

A search on X for 'border patrol arrest' finds it. You might need to scroll down past several other clips but when the relevant clip starts it shows the driver in an orange T shirt.

[R650R]

Quite the first world problem isn’t it. Weird given the most basic human interaction with a stranger is to say hello and introduce yoursel, how can I help you?
If people realised how much intel they are giving away for free to international corporations via phone apps and technology with no real safe guards it makes it absurd to worry about giving a cop your name.
Although I do get the imposing impersonal nature of it having witnessed the departure of count to ten with say your name and address into random breat.h tests.

On our local police fakebook page something new was announced and of course the anti police brigade was in there with usual comments. It seems popular to demand cops wear body cams, I wonder what those people’s reactions were if general public were asked/mandated to wear body cams???

[nerrrd]

So I hear the latest AI development from Google is, instead of searches returning links to websites, the AI is going to scrape the information from those sites and then present the search results to you in a custom webpage.

So bang goes another business model, since a lot fewer people will need to visit an actual website (and see the advertisements).

On top of that, they've now made the AI models much more 'human-like' in their responses, so when they give people incorrect information (which they are still regularly doing) they at least sound convincing.

What could possibly go wrong.

[R650R]

So I hear the latest AI development from Google is, instead of searches returning links to websites, the AI is going to scrape the information from those sites and then present the search results to you in a custom webpage.

So bang goes another business model, since a lot fewer people will need to visit an actual website (and see the advertisements).

On top of that, they've now made the AI models much more 'human-like' in their responses, so when they give people incorrect information (which they are still regularly doing) they at least sound convincing.

What could possibly go wrong.

Well for starters it’s a short jump from there to Minority Report style thought crime being arrested before you’ve even thought about robbing the bank.

A couple weeks ago YouTube shifted to near mandatory sign in as I predicted in an earlier post. I’ve found a method to circumvent it but I need to do a previous search to generate content I’m likely to watch. Also the buggets have massively upped the ad content length and quantity.

Jerry Seinfeld made a great comment about AI and Human race at his recent university speech(the one where 30 terrorist sympathisers were thrown out and hundreds stayed to listen to him
Speak)
“We’re smart enough to design AI, dumb enough to need it and stupid enough to think it will work out ok.”

[pritch]

For some days the Arizona Attorney General's office have been trying to serve former NY Mayor and well known bankrupt Rudy Giuliani with a summons to answer charges related to election fraud. Giuliani has been making it difficult. Last night our time though Rudy threw an eightieth birthday bash which included posts on Twitter and other social media. And yes, the party was attended by representatives of the Arizona AG's office. Job done.