I'm in SC. It very rarely snows here so there is no salt on the roads so car bodies rarely rust out. For annual testing - there is none. We did away with our annual inspections 30 years ago.

These days as long as it run and you have a title you're good to go.

I can agree somewhat, and I'm not of the opinion that tariff's are automatically bad (though I'm under no delusion that they won't cause prices to go up dramatically here in the US - the Trump admin keeps saying otherwise). However, these tariffs are also coming along with repeated jokes/threats about taking over Canada, making it the "51st state", and referring to its elected leader as the "Governor" of Canada (for those not in the US - "Governor" is the title in the US applied to the leader of a state, not a nation).

Even if the tariffs themselves might be potentially justified, this entire overly antagonistic approach towards Canada is not, and its making our public image appear as that of a bully not a reliable ally.

Its the same here, but its my understanding that people frown on driving older cars a lot more there. Here PLENTY of people will buy a 10 year old car without any hesitation. Hell the truck my dad drives is 25 years old. The one my brother drives is 18 years old.

Just checking on some stats apparently the average vehicle age in the US is 12.6 years old. We keep them on the road a good while.

That's my understanding too. It's not that they're super high quality, its that they're "good enough" and a LOT cheaper.

Which honestly is holding back EV adoption in western countries. Many people can't afford a new car period - they shop used. Of those that do buy a new car there are a lot of sales on relatively low priced budget cars (ie, the Toyota Corolla). I know plenty of people who would scoff at the idea of putting more than $6k-$7k into a car (they're obviously in the buy used camp).

No EV's on the market can compete anywhere near the price point needed for mass adoption.

If we could clone an actual wooly mammoth from found that would be amazing, but just recreating a visual approximation by modifying modern elephant DNA seems a bit pointless. Its not a natural species that ever existed, its not likely going to be well suited to modern times anyways.

And honestly I'd rather see work done on resurrecting a Thylacine as those have been more recently extinct and so we have better quality DNA samples. Plus they're more likely to survive in the modern environment.

We use their services to send out text message from apps and make automated voice calls. That said it was just because they were cheapest. Twilio seemed to be just as good and was what I wanted but the PHB's are cheap here and found Bird as a lower cost option.

If it is part of the story then sure, have it in there. If not, then no, and don't try to shoehorn it into the story.

Make all the documentaries about it that you want, but movies are supposed to be for entertainment and escapism, not activism.

While true, aluminum and steel both have scrap value as well. They might not get as much as for copper but its still something they can and would sell.

The self-checkout thing is annoying but I don't really mind. I typically only have a few items and I can get through a self checkout pretty fast. When MOST people are using them though then inevitably the slow pokes who can't figure it out still manage to clog up the process.

24 hour stores I also deeply miss but realistically as someone who often went there are weird hours of the morning, the stores were nearly empty during those times. They probably weren't making enough money to justify it hence why they didn't break the 24/7 operating hours back after COVID.

Locking up stuff is a case by case basis. Certain ones do and certain ones don't depending on loss levels. Realistically if the public in an area is constantly shoplifting then its a matter of locking the stuff up or just closing the store altogether.

Resources are allocated depending on what's making them money. Twitch isn't exactly raking in a ton of money at the moment, and they're not likely apt to subsidize it with funds from other divisions.

Apple only LETS you use one app store. Google lets you use any one you want - most people just happen to choose to still use the Google Play store.

The difference is in having the choice, not which option most people pick.

The most common emergency I could imagine is needing gas and their readers are down or your card won't work etc. Even at today's prices $20 worth of gas is still typically plenty enough to get you home.

No - there can be mature and immature activists. No different than if I said "All adults have to accept that sometimes you have to forgo luxury expenses to pay bills."

You wouldn't say "Adult is just what we call financially irresponsible people now." would you? The statement that all of a group has to perform an action doesn't mean that many of them aren't already doing so.

All activists - be they political or technical or whatever (this disagreement seems particularly non-political), have to accept the fact the sometimes NOTHING will work, and you have to be ok with that.

You're not owed the change you seek. You can try to make a change and people may or may not agree with you. If they don't, that doesn't give you license to adopt increasingly more drastic measures until they accept it - that's how terrorists are born.

Sometimes things just don't go your way, and you have to be ok with that.

I wouldn't go that far, but realistically nearly no one is willing to pay for what is effectively a large discussion forum. Those things have existed on the internet for ages, and they've always been free.

Traditionally these were run by people who were just really passionate about a particular topic and weren't really intended to make any profit. If Reddit went pay-walled I'm sure many people would return to such forums (they're still out there and in use).