A bit tasteless mixing alcohol and motor vehicles. Operating heavy machinery like 2-ton cars in not a place for alcohol at all.

Yes, they are not actively encouraging combining it, but what did the marketing department think? Selling the liquor will probably be easy, but some risk for their main brand. Which could actually be important if they reach a point where productions is expanded and actually need more custumers.

Also: Full self driving is not yet here - and even if we had it, I expect that for a while you still will be legally in charge as a driver. Including the requirement to stay sober.

I see. Let's hope the more consumer-rights friendly liberals get some influence in congress or the government.
(Are there any consumer-rights friendly republicans?)

And I wish it was possible to vote Green or Pirate Party in the US without sacrificing chances for the at-least-less-evil party.
First past the post, without second rounds of runoff voting, is an election system with quite a number of bugs.

Have you any indication for that? Biden is not exactly the most liberal candidate, but you could assume the more consumer rights-aware liberals will have a better chance with a Democrat president, rather than with Trump.
Also, I haven't really seen Trump as friendly to right to repair / consumer rights / open source at all.

To test if the phone is possible to repair with leftover parts from broken phones. Which is a nice piece of information for consumers to know when buying, even if the phones are under warranty now. Price and availability of repair will be affected if such schemes are used. It's also quite anti-competitive, of course.

There has also been other criticism of the Amazon launch in Sweden.

There is a fear that Amazon will take market share from more well-behaving local or European companies by lower wages and worse conditions at work. There is an ongoing campaign to make Amazon accept normal Swedish working conditions, including accepting a collective agreement with the unions. This is something most businesses in Sweden do, and helps protect reasonable pay, working hours etc.

Writing from Uppsala, around 100 km from the new Amazon logistics centre.

Amazon has launched in Sweden with almost no marketing campaign. However, now almost everyone with an internet connection know they are here. This could be of some value, despite the content of the translations.

Yes, same here in Sweden, you are supposed to be able to return old batteries and electronics to the shop that sells the stuff. Plus, many gas stations have an "environmental container" where you can return paint leftovers, batteries, old fluorescent tubes and other environmentally hazardous stuff.

The city (200.000 pop) has a several recycling centres that accept the above plus many other categories, like wood, electronics, garden waste, drywall, furniture for recycling ... Many are open even on sundays. And there is a traveling recycling service for people that can't reach the recycling centres by car or cargo bike.

Organic waste is used for biogas production, and is collected at homes. Office paper + packaging (plastic, metal, paper) is collected in-house (for larger buildings) or close to shops (for people in single family houses). The latter is operated by the packaging industry, and has got some criticism for lack of availability.

I imagine the Germans have a better system.

Perhaps they should be glad at least not getting candidates as in "Secretary of the Internet" of xkcd fame ...
https://xkcd.com/494/

A partner? They probably have less of both business contacts and "business contacts" with Biden, and even less with Harris.
Possibly, a president they have kompromat[1] on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The energy efficiency of creating synfuels from electricity, and then powering an internal combustion engine is abysmal. An ICE converts only 30% of fuel energy to torque, and on top of that creating the fuels takes a large amount of energy in itself. According to this report from the European federation Transport and Environment, the energy efficiency of synthetic liquid fuels + ICE is only 13% - the rest is lost. A BEV can reach around 75%. The only vehicles beating that are direct-powered from caternary wires or third rail - like metro trains, electric locomotives, trolleys and trolleybuses.

See https://www.transportenvironme... and and an overview on https://www.burchfisher.com/ne...

Of course, if you instead measure in energy per traveler and km, nothing beats a bicycle (or velomobile).

Kind of: It could be seen as bit too much capitalism if even the votes of representatives are for sale to the highest bidding corporation. This does of course not happen directly, but making representatives depend on campaign financing from wealthy company owners can still influence quite a bit (despite attempts to curb it by campaign financing laws). Also lobbying in general, like when some industry group tries to for example introduce draconian copyright laws, or stopping right to repair initiatives.

That implies most businesses in CA are dying. I'm not very convinced of that.

1. Really? OK, the wildfires are scary, but not sure other states would be without other risks. And GDP indicates quite a few businesses do quite well. If you try to refer to regulations; well, it can be some paperwork, but seems like the businesses mostly having trouble with them are the ones stuck with products or practices that goes against consumer, worker protection and/or environmental demands.

2. Also, are they actually a business? Seems like a non-profit rather.

Mostly, actually yes. Not wood as it is (even if you can make some remarkable structures such as bridges from it, and wooden panels sure is a nice touch), but many kinds of plastic can be made from bio-sources[1]. It has just been cheaper to make it from oil (which is also of biological origin, just not in current circulation).

And tires are made partially from trees[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
[2] https://www.bridgestone.com/te...

You realize that going to a protest may actually be the method available to "get involved in the political change you want to see happen"? In democracies they are a a legitimate way of influencing policy - and in a less democratic society, other democratic means of affecting policy (like a multi-party system) may not be available.

Also, mass protests like in Belarus have helped substantially to topple regimes. For example, the recurring protests in German Democratic Republic cities before the fall of the Berlin wall. The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the liberation of the Baltic states, or more recently the Maidan Nezalezhnosti protests in Ukraine.