Except for the incredibly wrong and bad advice that Americans, who already eat too much meat, should eat even more meat, sure.

Yes, but look at the comments. Americans are obsessed with meat. They actively believe that mostly meat diets are somehow much more healthy than mostly carb and vegetable diets.

None of them want to eat only grains and vegetables, and meat is both the most expensive food and also the most damaging to the environment, which I guess is a second thing Americans seem not to care about.

Something like 15% of the Americans I know are vegetarian or vegan. Though you've characterized the others well.

I think we need more education around glycemic index. Protein and fats burn slowly enough that they're not going to spike your blood sugar. Many Americans think that they're the only nutrients with that property.

Yeah you're right. Influencers have more, well, influence than scientists these days unfortunately

Scientists have never really had that much influence. See: high priests, religion, politics, &c.

The Paleo diet is utter nonsense. Human gut biome and ability to process different foods evolves far far far faster than that. We are nothing like our paleo ancestors.

Except that something like half of people don't have any internal monologue. It's tempting to pretend that LLM are doing similar things to our brains, but the reality is that they are extremely different and only very very superficially appear to be doing similar things.

Even those of us with an internal monologue aren't using it most of the time. I doubt I've ever though "now let me scroll down to the next comment", for example.

... is this true?

I'm literally always thinking in that way. If I focus a bit harder on it, it's apparent that there's another, faster cognitive layer beyond my background monologue as well.

Yes for me it's true. Most of my actions are not part of a monologue. However I use it to think through possible conversations or to carry myself through tough problem solving problems or complex processes.

Yeah, I think Tesla from a few years ago was the sweet spot. A small number of multifunction physical buttons for all the things you need while driving. I've driven a number of cars over the years with a mess of physical buttons like VW is introducing, and the result is that I've never actually used them because it's too complicated to locate the right button while driving. So usually I either just don't use the features in those cars, or end up having to stop to figure how to adjust some basic ass thing.

By feel. Not everyone uses all the buttons all the time, but stuff you use a lot is easily operated without taking eyes off the road. It pairs well with the other upside of physical controls, the manufacturer can’t move them out from under you with a software update.

The trick is to own your car for a few years at which point you remember where the buttons are by feel.

This is the advantage over a touchscreen - you can't learn those by feel.

For frequently used things, like cruise control, just a few months needed.

I've owned such cars for many years and no, I've never learned all the buttons. Also, I'm not advocating for a touchscreen, but a small number of buttons plus a screen is far more ideal than a massive mess of buttons. This shit has always been a UX nightmare, it sucks that it's coming back.

I knew all the buttons on my steering wheel within weeks. They're very convenient because your hands are already on the wheel. Touchscreen buttons are just not a replacement.

Yeah, there's, like, I don't know, 25 buttons if you count the stalks? That's a lot I guess, but I wouldn't want to turn down my music or skip the track by looking over at a touch screen and guessing.

I normally don't look at them, you know by heart which is which and ours has also one up/down sticking out knob on each side (volume & cruise speed control). Combined with very nicely visible laser heads up display I never look on dashboard nor computer screen in the middle while driving.

Staying continuously visually connected with all environment simplifies driving and definitely improves safety. Also thanx to that heads up display I didn't get a single speeding fine while by default driving at the very limit of allowed speed, including our radar-infested towns and highways.

2010-level of tech of bmw f11 is enough for me, the only real improvement would be full unsupervised self driving which isn't coming anytime soon.

It’s not necessarily “a mess”.

I rent A LOT of cars for work and it’s clear that some makes know what the fuck they are doing(Volvo, Toyota) while others don’t.

> Toyota

Gotta be kidding me.

The touchscreen on my 2010 Prius stopped responding, I could still use the "Voice Control" button on the steering wheel. Waiting 10 seconds each time to navigate the menu by voice, hoping it heard me clearly each time.

Surely voice commands can replace buttons and touch interfaces in 2026!

You just feel around for it. Buttons on the steering wheel can be a lifesaver because you don't have to reach down or even look at it, you know what you're doing.

Usually there are a few buttons that matter to you, and you will memorize their position after some quite short time.

I don't like music while driving, so I know by feel how to mute or turn media/radio off in every car my family has.

My wife can't drive without music, so, she knows all the other media controls I don't care about by muscle memory.

Do you touch type on your keyboard without looking at and searching for letters?

Buttons on the wheel is the same. You simply learn their place and feel.

The same way you're able to touch-type

Somehow never learned after... ahem... multiple decades using computers professionally.

Touch typing is a standard layout. Every car is different.

Most people drive the same car everyday.

Most people drive the same car most days. Either many or most people (I don’t have stats) drive a different car some days. There’s entire companies — Hertz, Avis, etc — with business models based around this observation.

The interface changes constantly, remember? That's the whole draw of a touch screen, it can do different things, it's not static like buttons.

That’s the point : by memory . You don’t have to move your eyes away from street at all

Speak for yourself. I can adjust all of my physical climate controls, radio, wipers, and cruise control without taking my eyes off the road. Maybe some fumbling to pick the right blower angle.

Some manufacturers have massively screwed up the cruise control buttons. On Rivians, for example, the car will instruct you to take control of steering if you will soon enter an area where it can’t do assisted steering. Fine, except that the only control that can transition directly from assisted steering to plan enhanced cruise is to jerk the steering wheel, which is distinctly uncool. So you instead cancel cruise entirely and then re-engage it.

To add insult to injury, despite the fact that the speed up and speed down buttons are actual physical buttons, they are so aggressively denounced that there’s a loop: press button, wait, press, read screen to see if you’re making progress, press, etc.

Anyway, the point is that, while physical buttons in predictable locations can make it possible to operate something without looking, it still needs a good design and implementation.

I mean "even" in a Tesla you can adjust volume, next/previous track, wipers, cruise control (among other things) with a physical button, and climate controls are in a fixed location on the screen (and are typically left on auto).

The fix is actually fairly simple IMO, though will never be implemented. Make all ads passive, e.g. require people to explicitly ask to see them. For example, when I want to see what new video games are around, I go to review sites and forums. It's opt-in.

Making all ads only legal in bazar-like environments, banning all other forms of "forced" ad viewing, and also banning personalized ads completely, would go a very long way to fixing the issues. Hell, we can start with simply banning personalized ads, that alone would effectively destroy the surveillance economy by making it illegal to use that data for anything other than providing the service the customer purchases.

But you are buying into viewing ads when you use services that show you ads.

Also, ad bazaars sound great until you realize that every locality needs to have their own bazaar. Seeing ads for New York barbers is kind of useless when you're in Los Angeles. Now you have a million ad bazaars and that's the only advertisement allowed. A little bit of corruption and your ads outshine all your competitors in that locality and they go out of business, since signs are an ad too.

Also also non-personalized ads mean that the only things that can be advertised online are digital goods or things that are available globally. Basically, it will work for Amazon and AliExpress but that's about it. And adsls in Russian or Japanese or Korean or German or French or Swedish or Portuguese aren't going to be that useful for you, are they? Ads in English but for a product in another country might be even worse.

> BYD is valued as an auto manufacturer. Tesla is not.

This in no way addresses the accusation that Teslas valuation is built on nothing. BYD also has self driving software. So what exactly does Tesla have that is not cars and batteries?

The ludicrous humanoid robots with dubious use cases? That’s not it either because the stock was absurdly high before that was a thing.

I have never seen a better example of how arbitrary and irrational markets are than Teslas valuation.

Many tvs have special sound modes for old people that boost the vocal range significantly. Makes the overall audio sound like crap, so pretty close match for youtube audio.

Easy, you and all your friends are getting old.

Stop gaslighting people.