The Democrats have long since started curtailing these abuses
Bullshit. Every time something comes up that rapes privacy, the Democrats vote inline with the Republicans except for one or two token protests. In other words, provide proof of your assertion.
Being explicitly against the Constitution is not really an issue anymore.
My gut tells me that most of the current boom is zero sum game; people are paying too much for too little across the board, and the value ultimately provided just doesn't add up to much more than the sum of the parts.
Indeed. I have a house for sale and it won't sell for more than $200k and yet I can't find a house (similar to mine) to buy that is less than $400k. Weird that.
You can't have a society where if you don't work you don't eat and then start automating the fuck out of everything.
Correct, YOU can't, but THEY can. All you have to do is stop living and your problems are solved. THEY don't care about your problems. YOU are THEIR problem that they desperately want to get rid of. YOU might band together with others like YOU and bring out the guillotines.
Somone quite possibly made a living bitching about the loss of the 3.5" headphone jack, and possibly DB9, parallel, floppy drives, optical drives, firewire, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, micro USB, VGA, s-video, composite, RJ14, S/PDIF and PCMCIA.
One of these things is not like the others. I wonder if you have the intelligence to figure out which one it is...
Democrats confirmed RFK Jr as a cabinet member. There is no clearer sign that they are just as bought as the Republicans. They also universally voted for PATRIOT, DMCA, etc etc. The Democrats are wearing the same clothes as the Republicans. I am unsure why you are so loyal to them. They are NOT loyal to you. You are being manipulated. Both parties are bought out, even if they "feel" different to you.
but apparently there are more countries than just the USA in the world
WTF? Since when?
On Youtube now, I clicked on something about Charlie Kirk. Feed fills up with more of the same. I read one of those goofy AI generated revenge stories where a man or woman suffers some indignity at work or with their significant other, so takes revenge. So my feed really went nuts. Sometimes I don't get anything that I'm actually interested in, a screen full of revenge stories, and whatever political thing I might have watched.
If you do not login to watch YouTube, when your feed gets all messy like, just wipe out your cookies. It resets the algorithm. If you are logged in though, you are fucked forever as far as I know. There is no way to stop them from tagging you for that crap.
The passengers on a spaceship traveling at relativistic velocity will experience time differently.
So to the passengers, it may just be a couple of years... but entire civilizations would rise and fall before the travelers ended up at their destination. The planet they came from might not even have humans on it before they arrive at their destination.
A benevolent King is still a king.
Most of the time, you make sense. This is one of them. (sometimes you don't, badly)
So you could just as easily write an article "aresenic found in 100 of of 100 beers tested". And it would be so much fake news. So when I see an article saying they "detected" some kind of PFAS chemicals in beer, with no information about how much they detected or what kind of PFAS molecules or what amount of those chemicals are dangerous acutely or chronically...it's just as much fake news.
The word you need to hear is "bioaccumulation". The only material I am familiar where that word is applicable is: Lead. Even tiny amounts of lead are bad because your body can not get rid of it. Ever. If PFAS doesn't bioaccumulate, small amounts carry no worries. If it does biolaccumulate... we are in deep shit.
e-bikes should only be allowed on actual roads (not bike paths), because any law saying "certain e-bikes" or even having a speed limit on a bike path would be extremely difficult to enforce,
So you want a vehicle that is limited to 250 watts and 15 mph to participate on roads where the minimum speed is 25 and goes up past 50? Are you thinking this through in a sober manner or are you just randomly against something?
I am guessing that for you, personal electric vehicles just shouldn't exist at all. Whatever.
Oh, all bike paths near where I live do have a speed limit and it is enforced (about as much as it is enforced on the roads and highways).
I have a number of different electric personal vehicles. The speed limit in my jurisdiction is 15mph (nearby jurisdictions are 20 mph). I rarely see e-vehicles anywhere, but occasionally they are on the mixed use paths. Do you know who blows by me more than 10 mph faster than the speed limits? It is the fucking pedal bikers working on their Strava times. They don't signal with noise as required and they blow by you with less than a foot
Did you know the walkers are 90% quite nice to me? I warn them verbally as I slowly approach them from behind. No loud horns, just a calm and respectful voice.
Meh. This is dumb. As long as mixed use paths exist, some people will be jerks. It doesn't take a battery to be a jerk, so why regulate on that? I don't hear people crowing about banning pedal bikes, just e-bikes, and it is the pedal bikers that are the most hazardous where I am.
When I was 17 years old, I was riding my BMX bike down a road at my normal "cruising" speed. At some point, a guy in a Jeep paced me. I was weirded out and thought he was going to hit on me as we pulled up to a light. Instead, he looked over at me and asked me if I knew how fast I was going. I said no, I don't really care. He said I was maintaining a speed of 30 mph and was quite impressed. I was not impressed. I was not trying to be fast, I just get bored taking too long to get anywhere and my bike was my only form of transportation until I was 27 years old.
Limiting e-bike speeds to under 20 MPH seem utterly absurd unless there is bike infrastructure leading to EVERYWHERE. Cars are utterly dangerous to people who are slow. A bike needs to be able to keep up with traffic for short periods, as road usage is inevitable with the utterly shitty bike infrastructure that is available.
Maybe have a few police officers hang out at certain locations from time to time to discourage the people who use speed stupidly; but making bikes slower than a dude pedaling a BMX bike with his own legs is just stupid.
Look at how many foreign cars are in your parking lots folks.
LOL, American made vehicles have sucked since before I was born. I am honestly surprised that I see as many American made vehicles as I actually see. They are an EXTREMELY poor value proposition unless you get lucky on a pick-up truck model. There are legitimate trucks being made by American manufacturers; however, each year, it is a different model and different manufacturer. It is not worth the risk.
Interchangeable parts won't.
