This is just semantics dome. How long do you want to be around car exhaust, from any car? Car exhaust is not compatible with living things. That's a downside.

Welcome to like, 80% of drivers. What's your point? A BEV is great for 80% of drivers? Fantastic.

lol, regardless of what you think of him is the quote wrong? Argue the point, not who said it. What if I told you your mom said it after we finished up last night? Doing that just says i don't have an answer.

Great, for the rest of us a car is transportation. So sorry you won't be able to buy a model 2035 gasoline car, you'll have to choose from a variety of enthusiast electric vehicles or an 80 year deep used market. I'm so mad I can't buy a fridge that uses 1950's Freon anymore. I'm gonna go pout and get a drink from my new R410 fridge which works 10 times better.

Bro, the Libertarians are over, they sold their soul in 2016 and it's done. It's obvious why the adults stay in charge, the edgy teenagers can continue vague threats online.

Guillotines over fucking electric cars, the fuck outta here.

For their kids iPhone they absolutely do not keep their phones longer. After 2 years like clockwork and iPhone starts to have weird behavior. Most commonly this is because the battery is wearing out and the software is doing all sorts of weird tricks to hide that from the user. Those weird tricks cause all sorts of headaches most notably you'll start to get messages late because the phone isn't driving the radio is hard in an effort to spare battery life.

Meanwhile I'm at three and a half years and I'm just now thinking of replacing my Android battery because it doesn't last as long through the day. But the phone's performance hasn't degraded I just have to charge it halfway through the day.

iPhone users yeah they can just get a new battery but I speak from experience they don't want a new battery they want a new phone. And with the way cell phones are sold through carriers most of the time they're just going to get one and pay an extra 20 or 30 a month to have it rather than the 60 or 70 it costs to replace the battery. Not very economical but I can hardly complain if they're not buying a bunch of new computer hardware every few years like I do. Never did get the kid into PC gaming.

in an effort to get the people who make a living off tik toks to lobby congress. Which is silly. If they were going to do this they should've done it months ago.

They also did something *really* dumb. If you've got the app installed they sent a noticed to call your congress critter about the "ban". Which a lot of people did. Which sounds great, but if you're trying to convince a Congressman that your app can't influence American politics that's probably not the best way to do it...

None of this matters since as others have pointed out they can just buy all our data from x.com and Facebook (mostly Facebook, does anyone really still use x.com?) and use that for election interference.

93% of the recent protests were peaceful. Of that 7% it was almost entirely counter protestors. Google "autozone window guy", or look up who started those fires at the 2 police stations (hint, it was right wing provocateurs). I guess there was that one girl who got run over at the "Unite the Right" protest, but while terrible that was one murder. I don't think even they turned over any cars.

That's protests. There were some minor riots and burned cars after the last super bowl, if that's what you mean. But those are football hooligans (or Soccer if you're a Yank like me).

I mean, if you're on the left wing you need to keep it *very* buttoned up. For one thing cops are 3 times more likely to use violence against you and for another the Supreme Court just shut down pretty much all left wing protests since if literally *anything* goes south the organizes can be held liable, even if it's just some rando counter protestor causing trouble... which of course they will now.

This isn't about viewpoints. One side is about objective reality and the other side isn't. it's up to you to pick a side.

USDC has missed it "peg" (e.g. it's dropped to a value of below a dollar) more than once, and there's a *lot* of evidence that it's been off it's peg for ages and that market manipulation is hiding it (google it).

It's primarily used to get real money (e.g. fiat currency) into and out of the crypto markets.

We learned from a recent story that minting $1m in crypto costs around $3.5m. We all know what's making crypto run these days is crime of one form or another. Money laundering mostly.

That's all well and good, but integrating that into our main line economy is eventually going to cause a massive crash that'll hit us all. If we let that happen it'll make 2008 look like the .com boom days.

Well, yes, there are trades. But the data shows that non-degree workers *as a whole* are earning about 25% less than they were in 1980.

The true information gleaned from this article is that Ford actually makes some EVs...

The documented process is to never answer the phone.

Probably because Netflix is getting more expensive.

Seconds?? Wow, and they were complaining about my two minute average...

It's pretty easy to offer consumers a great deal when you're willing to dump wheelbarrows of cash into a furnace to do so.

I think you mean that more women don't want to put up with abusive men anymore.

You can't blame them for wanting to be near their mother when being born.

Right, but it's worse with Chinese because of the vast number of symbols, even with the mainland Siimplified Chiense. For a long time it was assumed that a practical Chinese keyboard could not exist, but once one was invented it's been a long sequence of improvements and competing methods. There are even contests for the fastest typist, and the winners tend to be the ones using predictive text, and the best predictive text will be going out to the internet. Younger people are using these systems over the older methods (and just like everywhere, older is uncool). So the choice often ends up between using the system that uses the internet and type quickly, or use the system that old people use and type slightly less quickly.

We don't need to rely upon the internet to type English, German, Hindi, or Japanese, even on smart phones. But there are a lot of Chinese who need this if they aren't practiced on the older input methods.

Instead of a cooperative one then or gradually going to see profit go away as an important metric. That's because we're going to gradually become a kind of neo feudal civilization with a very very tiny handful of kings and queens at the top (socially we will probably still call them CEOs or just company owners) a tiny handful of people who serve and protect them and then a massive number of people living in staggeringly abject poverty.

You're kind of assuming that everything is going to stay the way it is socially because it's really hard to think of those kind of massive social changes to completely remake the fabric of our civilization. But with the huge automation pushes going on and more and more and more consolidation every year into the hands of a smaller group of people at some point they're just going to take their ball and go home and they're going to have ai-powered drones and robots that will gun anyone down who tries to fuck with them.

Again this all assumes we stay on the course we're on right to the moment. There are plenty of people who can see this coming and are trying to do something about it. And younger voters are smart enough to know it's coming. It's just a question of whether or not the major world powers are going to be democracies long enough. The older generation is hell-bent on giving up democracy for a variety of stupid reasons and if democracy goes we lose that fight and we become a Neo feudal dystopia.