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Heard that modern truck engine compartments are getting so cramped you gotta lift the cab to even change all the spark plugs. This way dealers can charge $500-$800 for a plug change. (And diesels, which don't have plugs, have even more stuff ($$$) crammed in instead.) It's getting to the point where having the know-how plus equipment to lift a cab is becoming outright essential if you don't want to pay thousands for routine maintenance.

Tesla's opposition to Right to Repair has chilled the brand to many frugal car buyers who drive their daily beater 20+ years and 300,000+ miles. Being able to buy an affordable electric crate motor will open up the world of electric to those who like to keep their technology for the long haul.

Curiously it still "predicted" the early 2020 COVID recession gray bar, but it of course could not have predicted it before Wuhan's patient zero, so I guess it has a way of being sometimes lucky. (Or, if the chart truly is to be believed by its faithful, then the early 2020 recession would have happened even without COVID.)

For every 100 men that would volunteer to endure enemy fire, how many of those 100 would volunteer to have the young girl in the video discipline them for their lack of microagression awareness? How many of those 100 will assume she will be promoted to higher paygrades than they ever will? How many of those 100 will get the impression that girls like her will be deciding which foxholes they lay in while guided Chinese smart munitions rain down? Rather than speculate I would love this study to actually be done. Randomly sample 200 men who show up in recruitment centers. Show one group of 100 the "my two moms" cartoon and the other group of 100 a video more like the Chinese or Russian one. Then see how many of each group of 100 afterwards say, "Ya' know, on second thought, training to be a carpenter or plumber ain't so bad."

> obvious that men and women are targeted differently

But men see the ads targeted at women.

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."

If the rough men the USA needs see that ad they might have second thoughts about military service being a fit.

Engelbart's chording system wasn't faster than QWERTY, but chording systems of the stenographic sort are the fastest way to get fingers accurately typing words, allowing over 200-300WPM for mortals. A major source of error with QWERTY is timing. We type "teh" instead of "the" if 'e' lands 1/100th of a second before 'h'. Or we type "THe" when we meant "The" because the Shift key is error prone to hold and release just right.

Piano is known to be very hard but it forgives keys being a few milliseconds off because the ear can't hear if a C-G chord was actually C-3-milliseconds-before-G or G-3-milliseconds-before-C. (The wavelengths of the notes themselves contribute to the latency of the ear precisely determining the order each note was struck.)

So stenographic chording systems help eliminate the error of having to exactly time the ordering of key-up and key-down events. If laptops shipped with steno keyboards they'd be faster and more pleasurable to use but "good enough is the worst enemy of best" I suppose. Shakespeare and Tolstoy didn't need high speed text input systems to write all their masterpieces. Modern computerized systems for writing musical scores haven't given modern society an abundance of Beethovens and Mozarts cranking out works like the 9th Symphony and the Magic Flute at 100 measures per minute.

Funny, as I write this comment my thinking is beginning to evolve to consider that maybe we would be better off using Engelbart's speed limited 40WPM system after all? If the effort to post a comment on political Twitter were higher maybe we'd have higher quality political discussion thereon? If I had to write this HN comment long hand with quill and ink I think I would have been compelled to get my point across with half as many words....

It's like that old joke about King Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines: "He tells me I'm one in a thousand!"

How much of her $100M+ fortune has she donated to charity? Almost none that I can see. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have committed to giving nearly all their billions to charity but Paul and Nancy Pelosi are using their $100M+ to establish multi-generational trust fund wealth for their children and family.