Nothing you said there actually disagrees with what I said, with the exception of abandoning Twitter completely, which I'm okay with in principle. The issue is that Twitter is currently an effective method to reach some subset of their constituents, regardless of how misguided they may be. Giving an alternative is also a bonus.
Face it, the number of people who know Mastodon exists is a fraction of Twitter users. Do you think it's politicians' job to provide technology education?
I absolutely agree, and the most I get from Twitter is from other people posting about it elsewhere. But there is a need for politicians to reach their constituents, and if they can be effectively reached by an imperfect method, then I can accept them using it while also promoting better methods.
To add to this, the water is slightly acidic, so this could be due to leaching.
I can't imagine you've read much about McCarthyism because it didn't take long for it to be many things that aren't communism. Labour unions and homosexuality were just a couple things that could get you on their radar, and merely being brought before a committee could get you fired. House Un-American Activities Committee sounds more like their job description and not what they were trying to stamp out.
Maybe you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket.
While I agree that this would trick many human drivers, I think the goal of a self-driving car is that it be better than human drivers. And there is existing tech that could help achieve that.
You are still showing your lack of understanding of statistics. It requires a large sample size, yes, and the larger it is the more accurate it will be, but the proportion of the total population doesn't have to be large at all. Margin of error and confidence are both controlled by the absolute sample size (assuming a random sampling). Here's a link that covers the basics. Most serious polls use a sample size of about 5000. Now, 1000 isn't terrible, but it isn't good, but not because it's such a tiny fraction of the population.
As for the methodology, which is also critical, I don't know what method for phone surveys is considered adequate, and it is well known that phone surveys are becoming less relevant even if they are more accurate than polls where the respondents are self-selected.
I mean, you didn't say the balls couldn't have flat sides, right? Innovative solution to a dangerous request.
When life needs parentheses.
That's about $3 USD per dozen. Maybe not as cheap as it used to be in America, but closer than it is now. And from a farmers market, no less.
an English movie of the same name
Is that a Cashback reference?
Some youtuber was saying as much. A lot of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and a lot of Tesla's valuation is tied up in Musk. But Starlink is making far more than Tesla, he owns a larger portion of it than Tesla, and he's selling Tesla shares. If he makes the right moves he can entirely walk away from Tesla and leave the shareholders holding the bag.