Gonna go on a bit of a tangent.

While technically correct, this is one or the many hypocrisies of the United States. The ability to silence others is a grotesque one. And while the government on paper is prohibited from exercising such a power, that power is still abundant in the form of private companies that weild power equal to nation states. If the United States truly valued freedom of speech, the same would apply to private companies.

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  • It was probably a mix or "I don't get this" and "I don't feel like it".

    Him "quitting" was because the other option was being fired and persecuted for falsifying safety documentation. He never actually did the tests, it was impossible to do so in less than a week, much less the day he claimed to do it in.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I worked as a tester for an embedded system, and there was a whole team of us. Our work was handed out in these big 3cm thick packets of testing sheets, with tables and graphs and instructions on how to test the system to make sure the code was safe for production.

    A coworker was evidently not wanting to do his work one day, and "finished" a packet the same day it was handed to him. Now a single page of those tests could easily take you a half hour, assuming the arcane instructions were even clear to you.

    He "quit" before the next day.

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  • [+] -18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

    For the occupants, any pedestrian hit by an EV will generally be in worse condition than if they were hit by an ICE vehicle.

    While this is ultimately good, the benefit can't be applied so broadly as "the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars".

    Edit: /u/inclementimmigrant had it right, not me

    The solution as always is to reduce car dependence.

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