There is almost no politician or party that doesn't encourage certain behaviors or prop up certain industries with tax incentives.

If we just used oil for a feed stock and stopped burning it for transport and electricity we'd be fine, climate-wise. Same goes for coal if we just used it to smelt steel.

The food issue is thornier, because it's not just hydro-carbons: it's also water from non-renewable aquifers and phosphates from non-renewable mineral deposits. I think we'll have to worry about the latter two being exhausted long before the oil runs out. I don't think anyone's yet cracked sustainable farming at a level that supports the current wold population. So far I think our best hope is that the natural population decline that comes with industrialization shrinks the population enough that sustainable methods become tractable before those non-renewables are exhausted.

It terms of carbon emissions per capita, we are around 14th-16th depending on whose list you look use at ~14.5T/person/year. Most of the higher per capita countries are middle eastern countries or small island nations which presumably lead us because they are mostly burning coal or oil. However, they are so small they don't make a huge dent in absolute terms. Because we have a lot of people, and because our per capita energy use is also very high, a small reduction per capita for us makes a huge difference world-wide. Australia and Canada are both right above us, having higher per capita CO2 output, but significantly smaller populations.

However, I don't think it should be on individuals to change their CO2 output. These are for the most part systemic issues and need systemic solutions that are out of the grasp of individuals to enact, but we know the general sketch of what it needs to look like: more renewables in the electric grid, electrify home appliances, emphasize rail shipping over trucking, build better cheaper and more convenient mass transit systems, etc.

Unless your hardware lacks TPM...

Do you think "we" should clean out the garage on Saturday? :')

Undersea cables have optical repeaters to regenerate the signal every 100km or so. I would think these would need to be upgraded to work with the additional bands.

We want compulsory licensing for TV and movies, like we have for music.

The group agitating for these age verifications is the same group that would threaten civil war if the government tried to institute universal federal IDs.

I dispute that porn is harmful to a kid who is old enough to actively seek it out. Parents are just squeamish about talking to their kids about porn, about the distinction of the fantasy depicted there vs reality, etc. A well educated kid won't be any more harmed by porn than they will by other commercial media.

Some cars have CVTs and effectively infinite gears.

If you have adaptive cruise control, all you have to do is set the cruise speed to 25mph and steer. Gives your foot a rest.

You can put this in the users hand by prompting the user to validate the repair via the icloud app or website after a repair:

1. Phone boots and detects a part with unknown serial
2. Phone reaches back to apple and posts serial number and model # of part
3. The user goes to icloud which will tell them if the serial is legit OEM part and whether it's been reported stolen.
4. User authorizes the new part in icloud
5. icloud sends a message to the phone telling it that the part is legit and it can bond to it permanently.

Generally you would encode the serial number as a set of blown fuses on an ID chip on the part. Then you blow the master fuse that allows writing to the data fuses. Ideally pairing a phone with a new part would involve a free app that would accept the owner's icloud credentials + phone IMEI + new part serial number and would validate that a) the iCloud credentials own the phone and b) the serial number of the new part is legit and hasn't been reported stolen.

That would allow self repair and prevent theft or parting out of stolen phones.

No it's not. A civilian who holds no collateral clearance has no duty to guard the secrecy of classified documents, nor does he have a duty to not to further disseminate them. If he helped steal them in the first place he could be in hot water however.

Well, the way the legal system is setup is that it is on you to respond to the request and if you don't you lose by default. Most people don't have the money and resources to respond appropriately.