In online stores you can find extreme numbers of different brands.

My mom’s cat ate Nestlé Purina until he stared vomiting too often. He had acquired allergies to the fillers in it and now has to eat hypoallergenic foods made of actual meat, or straight up meat. Read the ingredients and be appalled. It seems cheap, but there’s very little cat-digestible food in it.

There used to be a business catalog book called “yellow pages”. Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.

There used to be a business catalog book called “yellow pages”. Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.

I’ve owned several recumbent trikes like that one, all of which lifted the inner wheel in sporty driving below my preferred speed.

At which sideways acceleration will Aptera roll over? A heavy battery between the front wheels will help somewhat.

“Millions” is cheap in car making. It buys you just enough design for manufacturability to make it good enough and cheap enough for people to buy.

Less design -> worse result while more expensive to produce. Example: Podbike (I like it, but the price)

Then register it to the next vehicle class, semi-light or whatever. Have the lawmakers fit the laws to the optimal vehicle designs with 2025 technology. How old is the law with the weight limits? Time to update and fit law to existing reality? Isn’t it tradition to let the industry write the laws that apply to itself? Aptera is industry.

If the weight limit were to be adhered to, then the four-wheeler’s structure would have to be redesigned around lighter engineering.

That law is lawfare from the traditional car industry and has to be changed.

Trikes are only good for saving pennies at the cost of driveability and usability - they should not be incentivised by law. Four-wheelers are more stable and should be under the same law as trikes.

Aptera is stupidly shooting itself in the foot with an awkward three-wheeler instead of making a good, light, safe, illegal car and attacking the harmful law with it. A quad could have a cargo space or back seat between the two rear wheels.

Riversimple Rasa

Renault Twizy

HP Velotechnik Scorpion

Trikes are less stable than 4-wheelers, slow and teetery around curves, unless very low centre of gravity.
Trikes can’t have a cargo space or back seat between the one rear wheel.

https://www.quora.com/When-a-3-wheeled-car-is-being-designed-how-will-it-be-calculated-if-the-car-will-topple-How-will-the-maximum-turning-speed-and-radius-for-safe-turning-be-found-out/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Sabotage through lawfare is being done to velomobiles / pedal cars:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-the-Sinclair-C5-one-person-battery-electric-velomobile-failed-to-take-off-during-the-1980s/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles

I’ll start respecting it the moment they add the fourth wheel.

Plausibly deniable attacks on political opposition.

Putting an application’s functionality in a hardware interface can be prohibitively expensive. You need a good interface for designing a weekly program for curtains, coloured lighting, and fridge/freezer noise profile, for example.

Maybe he’s trying to perform above his IQ. Some people can’t learn some things.

The companies started it in the 1980s.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.

Commercial website feed shaping algorithm:

• Promoter feeds you what you want (to addict you), not what you need (to improve your life), manipulating you to make money for advertisers. You may be allowed to follow things.
• Filter omits what is banned or shadowbanned by the platform owner, manipulating you politically. You may be allowed to mute or block things.
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They decide what you think about and don’t know.

Lemmy feed shaper:

• Fuzzy promoter: You choose one from a handful of simple open source ranking algorithms (which can be fooled by bot activity)
  https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
  Unfortunately the default ranking promotes new content only, so older valuable content is forgotten.
• Strict promoter: You follow what you want (tediously one by one - there are no associations between similars)
  This too lets older content be forgotten - you have to go and dig up your followeds’ content published before following.
• Filter: You block what you avoid (instances, communities, users), but topics leak between communities (but some apps support keyword muting, which doesn’t work on pictures of text)
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Fediverse feed shaper lacks a defined topic hierarchy for accurate content tagging (of instances, communities, posts, replies, users) by users, preferably with web of trust between taggers.

Quora had a precise topic taxonomy until 2023 or so - my feed was excellent (except for some spam, because no web of trust). Then the remaining co-founder enshittified it, filling my feed with viral click-hits.

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StreetComplete helps improve OpenStreetMap.

Quora became good in its first years until the other co-founder was fired around 2012 (Coincidence? Who were the visionaries?). Quora stagnated until 2018 when the remaining (visionless) co-founder started enshittifying it.

With crowd thinking, we can avoid semi-accidentally killing all life in this star system with our ever more dangerous technology.

• Memex enables building a consensus about reality, ascending us from arguing about knowledge to building knowledge, preventing the dangerous propaganda shown.
• NLS solves problems faster, reducing damage caused by stupidity and perverse incentives.
• Dynabook makes humanity crowd-wise, making life better, surviving future better.
• Dynamicland is the best user interface for knowledge in crowd thinking.
• Xanadu web transforms economy by rewarding real value making according to evidence-based logical consensus, removing perverse incentives, preventing future problems like the ones shown.
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But we choose to risk extinction and keep paying for this horror show instead.