You can still adjust them for exceptions, for the rest of the time auto is where it should stay.

China has mandated electric scooters now. They ride on the sidewalks frequently though so when I was there I’d have the crap scared out of me when a scooter would silently blow a few inches past me.

And people need to set their lights to auto and leave them there 99.9% of the time. Pretty much all cars have that setting available now. The number of people I see driving with just their parking lights on, or no lights, at twilight is amazing. It isn’t just so you can see it is so others can easily see you.

You’d think they’d have lights that can self adjust their direction based on the vehicle’s angle and if it is turning. I’d love to have headlights that show me where I’m turning for things like pedestrians crossing in unlit areas. They had these on the 1948 Tucker.

I hope they ban loud exhausts and aftermarket noise exhausts next.

I don’t know why the manufacturers have such a hard-on for super bright headlights. It isn’t like anyone is basing their buying decision on it. I guess when you are an executive who never drives themselves you don’t get blinded by them. I hope the NHTSA finally sets limits on headlight brightness and the gov bans aftermarket lights that exceed limits also. Now if we could just get enforcement to crack down on the a-holes who blast backward facing lights to harass other drivers also.

This puts the burden on owners having their headlights properly adjusted. People who can’t even be bothered to watch the road or change their oil aren’t going to care about their headlights.

You better pack a few hundred thousand years of snacks for the trip.

The use of light years is very deceptive. People see a small number and assume it is a modest distance.

Remember, assuming it isn’t AI generated to begin with, most “journalists” today have almost no experience with the subject and get paid a pittance, assuming they aren’t interns to start with. Clickbait titles are incredibly bad nowadays and have become the norm. I have to laugh at how deceptive they usually are.

Seriously, people are getting it filtered through crap and assume the original info was crap too.

Red dwarf stars are tough environments though. Due to their internal high convection energy transfer mode they tend to erupt with massive solar flares, due to the much closer orbit required to be in the habitable zone this becomes a major issue. It could even strip atmospheres. Also, the closer orbit can result in tidal locking with one face always towards the star.

The amount we spend on cloud hosting I keep suggesting (and I think they are starting to listen) that having on-prem hardware makes financial sense again. We have the staff to run them already anyway.

Now that every generation from gen-x on mostly no longer gets pensions but gets 401ks this can really f up people’s savings that they will depend on in retirement.

Foreign stock funds.

If only we had these things called electric lights.

Yah, I can’t see anything that could go wrong with this. /s

It is like work monitoring that can monitor every keystroke and trip to the bathroom. If you expect people to be 100% rule abiding, perfect and predictable I’ve got news for you. The people putting these systems into place would never stand for them being applied to them.

Shame is a greatly underrated emotion.

The brexit folks will point at this.