A huge wave of immigration from people fleeing the effects of climate change or meaningfully extending average lifetimes could change the calculation of population "collapse."
==Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking.==
Is this from your personal experience or is there a study that shows this outcome?
== When someone is out of line, you used to be able to rely on the public to correct that behavior. Now if you try, you're the bad guy==
I think people “mind their own business” out of concern for their own safety. The increases in gun ownership, road rage incidents, and mass shootings has certainly impacted my impulse to correct someone in public.
Yes, big government is bad! Unless it’s federal deposit insurance and bank bailouts. Or the space program. Or the interstate highway system. Or a universal social safety net. Or food and drug standards preventing adulterated foods and fake medicines from killing people. Or a strong national military defense. Or… well the list goes on.
I find it odd how people refuse to admit that Musk has made some errors. He is a human who takes big swings, and has his share of failures to prove it. It's ok to admit that. I'll note, there is no mention of "Thud" [0], another failure of his.
==Acquired by Tesla, who remains a major supplier of residential solar panels.==
Tesla bought Solar City for $2.6 billion in 2016. In 2019, they targeted 1,000 installations a week. In 7 years, Tesla has installed a total of 3,000 solar systems, getting to about 20 installations a week. Add in the fact that he purchased the company from his own cousins and the story looks worse. [1]
==Still a company.==
It is still an existing company, but that doesn't make it a success. Founded 7 years ago, has built one actively used tunnel. They also had to change the entire idea (it's actually just Teslas driving underground).
> I find it odd how people refuse to admit that Musk has made some errors.
GP was merely trying to dunk on Musk and didn't have a real argument.
I'm very aware of Musk's failures. Heck, they are the very things that define his companies and enable their successes. Every rocket explosion was a failure on the road to success. Every over-promise drives his people to work that much harder.
But you want to dunk on Musk a little more, fine, let's get this out of the way. (Not a comprehensive list.)
Bad:
- Twitter looks like a bad deal (so far), and is a public opinion disaster
- FSD did not deliver the promised value to its original customers (future remains to be seen)
- Boring has under-delivered and is not growing explosively (but they are still in business)
- His general skepticism of any COVID precautions (I think his entrepreneurial bias is behind this)
Worse:
- The handling of the cave rescue aftermath
Arguable:
- His political statements
- Twitter layoffs
- Personal life stuff (not really our business)
- Work-at-home policies (his track record says he knows what he is doing here)
There. Can we pin these somewhere so we don't have to keep hijacking every Elon post with these "revelations"?
== It looks like another one of those sincere efforts to prove that people who have different worldviews from the authors are just stupid.==
Your comment reads as the same, just in the opposite direction.
== And people love to vote up those papers because they assume that it scientifically proves their belief system is the correct one and the other guys are just dumb.==
Or maybe they find the results useful/insightful. I don’t think being cynical about other people’s motives really helps us understand human behavior.
Could you share your source please? I am getting conflicting results. The recently released American Time Use Survey 2022 [0] has it closer to 9 hours. Those 9 hours also include "naps and spells of sleeplessness."
I didn't put any effort in my source. I just googled for 'average sleep time Americans' an quoted the featured result. It wasn't really meant as a statement just a silly segue in to telling about the benefits of sleep. Both sources didn't really make it clear whether this is the time sleeping + trying to fall asleep, or actual sleep. I myself unfortunately take a full hour to fall asleep and wake up at 4 for at least another half an hour.
Anyway, it is good to include nap-times because these do count towards your total amount of sleep. It doesn't have to be continues.
There are plenty of things to look at, though it seems to be a constant maw that is never satisfied.
And on the other hand there are "influencers" and "content producers" and "digital marketers" who want to slip into that gap, but know full well that their contribution is not of any value. They're trying to be middle men in a world that's overconnected already. They plagiarize and copy and SEO and use generated content in the hopes of snagging a fraction of a cent simply by being in the way.
I don't mean that as personally derogatory as it sounds. I don't know them or their story. But I've seen many thousands of human lives spent in quiet desperation and wish that there was a better way to use the mind they were born with.
The linked article might help clarify things. The percentage of power from coal and nuclear power were both down considerably:
“The electricity production from lignite was down 21 percent, hard coal was down 23 percent, natural gas was down 4 percent, and nuclear declined by 57 percent, compared to 2022 values.”
The same could be said about the microprocessor or any other tech innovation throughout history. They all lead to new companies chasing investment dollars.
==Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking.==
Is this from your personal experience or is there a study that shows this outcome?