I guess not, but affordable small and very simple LiDAR range finders (ToF) have been around for a while. Not the fancy spinning scanners on Waymo and military robots. More like parking sensors and measuring tools.

I remember when the Israeli company that was developing Tesla’s first automation systems dropped them because it didn’t like the reliance on cameras only that Musk was insisting on.

Edit: removed useless link and provided Wikipedia page with better history of the hardware used. Mobileye dropped Tesla in 2016. Funny enough they were developing Lidar after dropping Tesla, but are more recently going to a camera only approach too. I’m still skeptical any firm will succeed with only mostly visible spectrum photons and have a safe product. But as secondary backup safety devices I’m ok with them. They shouldn’t be allowed to call any of it autodriving or autopilot though.

Amazon is trying to bring it back. So are other weird little companies that tie themselves to churches, or private prisons or both.

I don’t want one. It’s an unnecessary expense and statistically less safe to own one. I do think we should know how to safely handle one and use it an emergency, but if we have a civil war or societal collapse I have skills to trade for one and know where I can get one within 15 minutes if it’s a surprise.

Plus what if they assailant turns out to be an off duty cop or someone else connected to the violence industry?

You likely have no idea who you just killed and who’s coming to investigate it. Shut the fuck up and let a lawyer talk.

I hope your gun is securely “tucked away”. I have a kid and adding a gun to my household would make it statistically less safe.

I think it’s important to know how to safely handle guns, but in my life it’s completely unnecessary to own and maintain one. I know where I could steal a few if society collapsed, which I don’t think is likely anytime soon.

I hope there are good lawyers involved in this case we gotta start making serious dents in that $78 billion budget grift.

It was an interesting and well made video, except for his insistence that leather’s structure is “intelligent”, when it’s actually evolutionarily refined over millions of years natural selection. He also went on to say that human engineers would have to be gods to mimic it. Granted this article hadn’t been published yet, and ironically the little leather key wrap he’s hawking at the end of the video looks like a great candidate for this lab grown leather.

Deerskin is good for gloves too, and they’re also an invasive/overpopulated species where I live. Getting Kangaroo 1/2 way around the world is going to be a little more carbon intensive than I’d prefer.

Ice apparently has the 8th largest budget in militaries around the world. Gonna say it goes US, China, Russia, UK, Germany, India, France, Ukraine maybe (off the top of my head). Israel might be in there instead now too.

They are trying to be a private army for MAGA, along with the aforementioned grift payouts to prison companies.

I didn’t mean to imply chucking it outside was the plan, but I do have a compost pile for food scraps and from what I’ve read it’s better for methane production to compost locally than to add biodegradable materials to landfills. So presumably the idea with creating this type of plastic is to reduce landfill usage as well.

Isn’t the big excitement that this plastic can biodegrade in relatively normal soil conditions? As opposed to the industrial composting facilities that are necessary for PLA and other corn based plastics?

We get called the oldest democracy currently in existence. But that streak appears to have ended.

It had lidar rangefinders I believe. Nothing like the lidar scanners on actual delft driving cars, but still better than just cameras.

I heard it in the 80s-90s and come from the 70s. But my parents used it too I believe. At least they knew what the word was. They were form the early 1950s.

Well yea, but they claim the point is that it’s not going to need to end up in landfills because it biodegrades. Meaning at best it’s carbon neutral, but that’s unlikely unless only renewable energy is used it produce it in the first place.

Don’t get me wrong, it sounds miles better for the earth than making more microplastics, but it’s not much more than that, and not some kind of panacea.

The sound of rain on a tent/tarp is even better.

Little tough on the eyes though. I’m not crying.

Isn’t it only a carbon sink if you keep microbes from digesting it?

Is there a biodegradation of it that doesn’t release co2?

Self-exploiting code.

It’s what plants crave.

That’s not the option, but the authoritarians would have it that way if allowed.