Possibly a solution, possibly not. UBI in general tends to be more effective the broader it is applied. Attempting to test it in an isolate sub-group of the population has inconsistent results.

Philosophically, I tend to lean more towards offering standardized services instead of giving money out and letting people compete in a poorly regulated free market for those necessities.

In the future I suspect we'll see a mix of solutions, rather than a one size fits all. With basic income for expenses that individual decision making is practical. Like food or housing. But perhaps not in situations where individual choice is not practical like in healthcare. Or where individual choice is extremely inefficient like public education. (children should go to a standardized school that is physically close to where they live. shipping everyone off in random directions is inefficient)

This article has motivated me to change up my punctuation preferences; you see: we hardly ever use the noble semi-colon; a punctuation that adds a wonderful dramatic pause; while connecting each sentences into a thought-stream; and only once the complete train of thought has been completed; shall we finally terminate with the ignoble full stop.

I would prefer several types of people sit back and let the adults run things for a bit.

Got any data? I suspect you're influenced by social media covering an imaginary trend that is exists because it's great click bait.

Perhaps it was never great, but people certainly romanticize various periods of greatness.

It's related to the problematic romanticization of war in our culture. War always sucks. Even when you're winning the war, it can be pretty terrible at an individual level. Turns out that having blood in your hands doesn't feel all that great to the vast majority of non-psychopaths in this world.

 

The best numbers I've been able to find put that number at about 25% of car owners

In the US, I thought I'd seen the number being closer to fully 1/3 of the population that did not have offstreet private parking where they could recharge every day....

I'm not in favor of the govt intervening....I'm ok with them maybe helping to get charging infrastructure going a bit more, but I don't want taxes or incentives on EV or ICE....let the market work that out. When the EVs are truly beating out the ICE vehicles.....the public will switch....if they don't, then they don't...but the govt shouldn't be choosing winners and losers here.

We were never terribly great at democracy. There is a little bit of an observation bias, because historians tend to quote literate and intelligent people (both good and evil). And rarely do they share quotes of the barely literate rabble.

Initially democracy was for land owners. Implicitly men, and specifically white men.
Next we opened it up and any white man could vote. Even if they didn't own land.
Then we eventually we decided that black men are men too and they could vote, somewhat. They weren't allowed much justice, but technically could vote.
Eventually in 1920 we allowed anyone of the age of majority to vote, even women!
Imagine that, EVEN women could vote. That's quite a leap from where we started.

But there is a significant faction in the US that wants America to revert back to when it was once Great. We pine for the days when not everyone could vote and white men were respected for their systemically enforced power. The 2025 dream is to topple the series of events that occurred nearly 250 years ago, and guide this nation down a different path. A very hierarchical and undemocratic path, unchaining white men from restrictions they see under an egalitarian society.

I somewhat regret letting the fools run the world, while I dabbled with interesting computer projects.

Depends on if a Senator swore a loyalty oath to their party, or still believe in the oath the swore before entering office.

Making the little guys suffer is all part of how the system works. If you have workers that are broke and desperate, then the labor market is in surplus and it keeps wages down. Plus you don't have to be nice to your employees.
For the middle class, trimming a bit off the top of their retirement savings is very profitable. They simply have to accept a lower standard of living in retirement, possibly working past retirement age. Again this is very good for business.

A SCSI scanner should at least be a standard so it shouldn't need device specific drivers...
An ancient SCSI scanner from the 80s or 90s should still work today, providing you have a working SCSI controller.

Much worse are the scanners with proprietary interfaces, or proprietary protocols over other interfaces (parallel, usb, even their own proprietary isa/pci controller cards). You may find your scanner wasn't actually SCSI at all if you had to get a specific controller for it, a proper SCSI scanner should work with *ANY* SCSI controller.

Before leaving the charger, you can see your next charging stop and the expected arrival SoC (state of charge). Only an idiot would leave a charger without having enough battery. You can also choose to charge more and skip the next charger - for example, if youÃ(TM)re stopping for lunch.

Sounds like a pain in the ass to me.

With my normal car (ICE), I don't have to 'plan' my trip based on where I have to fuel up....with the few exceptions of extremity, like crossing a few desert areas in the US, but for the majority of the US....there's a gas station on every corner in a city and all long the highways....you don't have to know where...they're just there whenever you need them.

And...gas is getting so cheap again too.....

Last time I used one of those apps to find chargers in my area....I found precious few for the whole city area that were public.....

I've only seen a few in a Whole Foods parking lot, and I think there were some in a Winn-Dixie parking lot.

But the few the apps showed were mostly private chargers.

so, living here if you can't charge at home, you're pretty screwed.....EV is just not the way to go around here in the New Orleans area.

With TCO it is cheaper to put there bigger battery and remove the ICE. But most of the new car buyers cannot calculate TCO and they care only about purchase price.

Well, you also have to consider the large number of people that do not have the capability to charge at home.

If you cannot charge at home, then an EV just doesn't not make much sense in most of the US.

Noone is advocating raising prices. They're just advocating for quoting the actual price up front. You would end up paying the exact same amount, it's just declared up front instead of misleading you with artificially lower prices and expecting you to make up the difference with a tip.

Pronunciation of letters is different to the names of the letters...
Or how do you pronounce "what"?