Pretty bad article, but here are my two cents on the actual answer, as of right now:
These perform similar to or better than ChatGPT 3.5, in some cases comparable to 4.
For specific niche applications (role playing, nsfw stories, etc), just search on huggingface.co and read the user reviews.
Over geologic time, the vast majority of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. It's not particularly meaningful to try to divine the reasons for the extinction of any one particular species. Obviously, the subtext they are trying to convey here is "these were apes, and climate changes drove them to extinction; we are apes, so won't anthropic climate change drive us to extinction?!1!?" But it doesn't carry over like that.
Perovskites are the solar tech of the future, and they always will be.
Companies provide healthcare in the vast majority of countries with universal healthcare, including in Europe. Government provision of healthcare is really only a thing in the UK, and the NHS's current struggles show that such a model isn't necessarily faultless in practice.
NHS is single-provider, where the government supplies the healthcare directly (e.g., doctors and nurses are NHS employees). Single payer usually refers to systems where the government pays for healthcare, but the healthcare can be supplied by a mix of providers including private sector providers, like in Canada.
But you're right, single payer isn't the same thing as universal healthcare. In practice, the US system with Obamacare can be regarded as a universal healthcare system. Switzerland, which has a similar public-private model, is generally regarded as having universal healthcare. The only subtlety is that the US system makes it pretty easy to opt out entirely, so some fraction of the population ends up not having healthcare access through some combination of bad luck and bad decision-making.
The thing is, individual citizens can't reform the police, or ambulance services, fire brigade, or power utilities, all of which have been gutted by the ANC. All they can do is to pay, out of pocket, for private sector replacements. No one is arguing that this is better than having working public sector versions in the first place, but that's not achievable until the national government gets totally overhauled (if it ever happens).
This is what happens as the state gets hollowed out by decades of ANC corruption and misrule.
Yay, a low effort article containing nothing but partisan cheerleading. It's gonna be a long 2024.
The answer, of course, is that he hopes to pick up Trump supporters in the event of Trump suddenly dropping dead. We can call this the Big Mac route to the Presidency. And it's why DeSantis and Haley are mostly going after each other.
"EV winter" is a silly framing. Many Chinese EV companies are on a roll, with BYD just surpassing Tesla in EV shipments in the last quarter. EVs are now mainstream in China and the car markets in other countries won't be far behind. Obviously, Tesla faces more challenges from the fact that it no longer has the market to itself, but competition is a good thing.