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What should have happened is to process all the visas and relocate folks concurrent with the withdrawal deadline.

Yes you have a point there. But the young family stage is quite brief. I'm in a quandary myself about a new car. I really only use it for visiting my aged father in his nursing home once a week, which I could do by bike and train if I had to, and for our annual trips to Brittany. I have no actual need to keep stuff permanently in the car. So maybe I'll go electric in a couple of years, or maybe I won't get one at all and just use Zipcar when I need to take stuff to the rubbish dump etc, as my friend does. The peak demand issue I don't see as invalidating the approach. Given that I am talking about cities, there is little need for commuting by car. Furthermore, catering for demand peaks via a collective pool of vehicles obviously requires far fewer than one per household. I'm not sure I understand the safety issue you raise. You seem to be base this on reducing vehicle weight by cutting back on the safety of the construction. I don't think anyone in this thread has suggested such a thing, and certainly not me.

A worthy clarification

Wireless charging from the roads themselves. I support this

Except they did not pull out quickly out of Afghanistan...?

As long as one is absoluteley sure it's not smouldering in any way. I wouldn't bring spent charcoal in, just to be safe; it can produce carbon monoxide if stll glowing unseen. You probably meant that anyway, but I'm just highlighting that point for those not familiar.

I'm not entirely sure what you are really asking. It's probably a language issue. I doubt that you are being asked for the full algebraic expression for these wavefunctions. It seems more likely that you are being asked to show how linear combinations of appropriately chosen atomic orbitals generate the hybridised ones. This link shows you how 4 sp3 hybrid orbitals can be constructed from s and 3 p orbitals: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Map%3A_Inorganic_Chemistry_(Housecroft)/05%3A_Bonding_in_polyatomic_molecules/5.2%3A_Valence_Bond_Theory_-_Hybridization_of_Atomic_Orbitals/5.2D%3A_sp3_Hybridization You can do something analogous for the others. By all means come back if I have misunderstood.

They are solutions conceived to fix a problem, which they then see if the data agrees.

No, there are data which point to their existence. Much like there were data that pointed to the existence of the neutrino, before we could actually detect a neutrino. AFAICT the problem here is you are not familiar enough with the reasons scientists think dark matter and dark energy exist. That's probably one reason your common sense says it's nonsense. Another is that some of science is just plain weird and outside of common experience, and therefore not intuitive. Which would make "common sense" moot. You're wielding a NERF sword in this battle

I'm not sure that state-of-the-art AI manages to replicate the adaptiveness of nervous tissue. I'm no expert on AI, but for AI to replicate that --adapting to slowly varying random environments-- it would have to be able to decide what abilities are worth developing. Maybe it's got to that point and I just don't know.

Todak, I think @dimreepr means that when AI shows desires and motivations, as living creatures do, then we would more likely infer some type of conscious agency. I myself am unsure. A self-preservation algorithm can be completely programmed, and implemented without any actual awareness or desire to keep living. The steam heat system in my aunt's house works to maintain a certain equilibrium so that it doesn't break, but few believe it's conscious. I am more likely to infer consciousness when an entity, to survive, reveals an ability to improvise novel methods of protection. Perhaps that makes me an intelligence chauvinist. With some theories, like Tononi's, it's all a gradual continuum of awareness, with even single ants and flatworms having a dim awareness, and qualia. Epistemically, I believe we are forever blocked from knowing what it's like to be an ant. Consciousness is a process that is only known, experientially, from the inside. That's just how it is. To say that is almost tautological.