First you say Tokyo, then you say Shinjuku. Make up your mind!

When I plug it into the application I get 452, I had to zoom in to be able to see Shinjuku, there were so many charging stations! Of course, it also implies that Shinjuku isn't really a city, more a section of Tokyo. But even restricting a circle to about 12 km, I get about a dozen stations, 4 of them Teslas.

Are you talking about having the equivalent of a Tesla Supercharger in the garage? Being able to fill up from 'empty' to 'full' in ~5-10 minutes?

1. You can't actually reach 5-10 minutes, the Lithium-Ion chemistry won't let you. You can get to 80% very quickly though.
2. The expensive part wouldn't be installing the supercharger, it'd be upgrading your home's service.

Current standard for a 'home' is 100-200 Amps@240V. That means they max out at 48kW. A supercharger is 120kW/160kw. You'd need an 800 Amp service to feed one of these and have enough left over to run the rest of your house.

Now, no prices are available, but from what I've seen, a cut down supercharger station should be available for a few grand.

If you're living in a mansion, you might have this, but even then you'll probably need your service upgraded.

Then they go home disappointed when they find out that you pulled a permit, had an electrician install it, and it was checked by a city inspector. The equipment itself is rated for the use involved.

Or for my house, only the last, and I know how to run electrical cable.

Consider that a home charging station can be on the order of a dryer(30A) or oven(50A) outlet, which will probably cost a couple hundred to install. Meanwhile a commercial gasoline is probably going to set you back $10k per fueling point and require regular maintenance.

There exist systems where you can install a cut-off device that turns power off during peak demand periods (popular for pool pumps and water heaters) where you can get a discount, the amount of which varies by utility company. I know because my grandparents had one.

Some of these come with a sub-meter, some don't

I tend to see it as more disruptive. Sure, the gas stations can spruce up their store, what if the local mall installs a couple hundred* chargers? What if you're trying to decide between TGIF and Ruby Tuesday, driving an EV, and know one has chargers and one doesn't?

What if department stores start putting them in?

While you're at it, to keep the drain down, install solar car shades.

*Or something along the lines of they install 10 chargers. When they notice that usage is over 75% for more than a couple hours a day(IE an EV owner going to the mall can no longer count on getting one with near certainty), they double the number.

1. Own a home with no garage? Install the charger outside. It'll cost a bit more for a weather rated one, but not that much more.
2. Landlords - as electric cars become more common, being able to rent to somebody with an electric car becomes a selling point, thus an incentive to install one. Lets you charge more rent and/or attract more/better tenants.
3. Taxpayers will pay for a little of it, it's tax deductible.

I'm going to keep doing so because this is only ONE of my beliefs. I get going on a rant about the drug war, prostitution, property rights, and such and you'll see that I'm much closer to libertarian than progressive/liberal. There are also topics where I have a conservative streak.

In short, no one party fits me particularly well.

It's the difference between killing somebody in a car accident and killing somebody in a DUI car accident.

I restrain the 'hammer' for diseases that are 'easily preventable'. IE the ones we have long-standing vaccines of proven safety for.

I'll restate my belief: Do as you will, so long as it doesn't harm none consenting parties. Besides, while a good portion of those who remain vulnerable even while vaccination is available know about it, the vaccine itself has a failure rate, thus the more protected EVERYONE is the more people have been vaccinated. Indeed, as an absolute number, until recently these unknowing vulnerable people outnumbered the knowingly unvaccinated, medical issues or not.

Actually, yeah, I do. If I have to go out, I wear a mask. They're more effective at catching the infectious droplets that cause infection when worn by the infected person anyways, and even if it's not the flu it's something I don't want to be passing around.

I also get the flu shot, and at least for me, it's worked.

Huh, according the Numbeo, Boston isn't 3, it's closer to 7. Not quite the difference there, especially when compared to Geneva, which would indicate that it's much more economical to rent until you're going to be living there for most of your life.

No, they go to jail for harming others. They only go to jail if:
1. They fail to vaccinate
2. They also fail to take alternative prevention techniques(that work)
3. They become infected and:
4. Spread that to somebody else
5. Said somebody else suffers a harm that cannot be compensated for financially. IE death.

HOW they stop from being disease vectors is up to them. If that means that they can't go out because they don't want to vaccinate, that's on them.

Your right to throw your fist stops at my nose. Personally, I include easily preventable diseases in that.

Well, I'm a *moderate* libertarian, but I believe you to be incorrect.

Your premise is false. We find 'patient 0' all the time through investigation, and if you're a carrier of the disease and are one of the ones who exposed the person who died from the disease to it, when vaccination allows you to stop yourself from being a carrier relatively easily and safely, we darn well CAN prove, if not 'beyond a reasonable doubt', at least 'preponderance of the evidence' which means you're paying $$$ at a minimum, and at a maximum you're in jail/prison for negligent homicide.

If there was half a dozen of you, treat it as a conspiracy, jail for everyone.

Not disputing your choice, but for a given value of 'deal' you can hire your yard work done easily enough in most areas.

But, as I understand it, owning a condo is a bit like averaging renting an apartment and buying a home. Cost savings because you don't have the real-estate and infrastructure associated with a single family dwelling, but the more efficient larger ones.

You still have, as you say, partial ownership, so you get to vote on what happens. Which is more than an apartment dweller, less than a home-owner.

The issue is quite a bit more complex than that. For example, there are THREE primary goals/duties for prisons:
1. Punish, as you said.
2. Warehouse - prevent more crime by isolating the individual from the rest of us
3. Reform - because they most likely get out sometime, we need to fix whatever causes them to be criminal in the first place, if possible.

You have to balance the three duties, and I'd argue that the US system needs to add a hefty dose of #3, and social media, communication can help *a lot* with this. The vast majority of prisoners are NOT drug kingpins who will order hits from prison if they're allowed to communicate with the outside.

Probably not. It seems that he was talking in generals, not going for a sarcastic implication that the guards are incompetent.

Besides corrupt and incompetent guards you also have inmates and outside conspirators who get incredibly creative in their efforts to smuggle stuff into prisons.

Prisoner anuses is only one of many vectors. In one case they had a cat trained to travel between the outside and inside with the contraband tied to her collar. She got food on both ends. A CAT!!! They trained a bloody CAT to run stuff!

They've also found devices being floated by balloon, launched by catapult and pneumatic launchers, trawled up backwards through the sewer system, etc...

Imagine that you're trying to keep several hundred bored engineering college students from doing something. How well is that going to work? The average inmate intelligence might be less, but you do have quite a few intelligent ones in there, and really, what else are they going to do?