That sounds rather short-sighted and egoistic.

Do as you like. Especially as long as it doesn't endanger the life or health of other people.
Regarding the latter, have you checked your carboon footprint? I,e, how much strain your (chosen or not) consumption patterns but on climate systems? There are several useful tools, for example https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

And all of those events get more intense and/or frequent when we increase the heat in the atmosphere. It's not that complicated meteorologically, and well supported by both models and actual evidence.

And sure, a single car trip is not break-or-make. But the total global emissions are the result of many small contributions.

If you value the transportation mode "stuck in car traffic" so high, then sure. Reducing car dependency however helps with many urban qualities, including preserving green spaces, ability of kids or the elderly to get around on their own, and of course air and water quality, traffic safety. Also congestion, helping those who actually specifically need a motor vehicle.

A workaround would be using a smaller vehicle - like a cargo bike (I can large almost all cargo, including building supplies, with the cargo bikes available in the local cycle pool) or regular bike. But yes, this kind of "buy more" verbiage both encourages driving and wastefulness.

Have you missed the estimated 2000 dead from the latest South Europe heat wave? Or the increased intensity of both drought and flooding? Or the fires in California, Australia ... ? Of course the whole world is not literally on fire (if that's how it was interpreted), but climate change is already here, and have already consequences to society. Mostly as predicted by meteorologists / climate science / geologists.

It's more than reasonable to listen to the predictions, and act on them if we would like to avoid much more severe consequences.

The question is slightly wrongly formulated - we don't need to replace fossil fuel vehicles with BEV:s 1-to-1.

A *huge* amount of traffic can be done with more efficient technology - for example rail with overhead electric power, which can move large amounts of cargo as well as provide efficient commuting and intercity trips (just look at Europe). All this while using relatively small amounts of rare metals - or real estate. And in smaller cities (especially in Europe where BMW is headquartered) a large share of car trips are 10 km with very little cargo. You seldom need a car for that - a bicycle or e-bike is often enough. Cars, when needed, can be then shared to a much higher degree - either as traditional fleets of shared cars, renting a car when needed, or (if you like cutting edge hyped technology) as robotaxis.

And yes, global warming is real, and will have significant impact on most parts of civilisation, more so if we don't take timely and adequate steps to stop emissions.

Full reusability, crew rated and rapid turn-around / low price - pick any two? The STS system aimed for all, but ended up with partial reusability and crew rating. With lots of inspection of ceramic tiles and other parts, probably not unreasonable given the documented risk profiles.

Also, if you could (again) place some seismometers in place, ideally spread out a bit more than previously, you could probably get interesting data from the impact.

He don't care about working-class people, except when playing on fears, insecurities or prejudices can help him getting power or spreading hate. Indications: Just look at actual politics, like cutting medicaid, veterans benefits, and a large amount of the other small provisions that existed to make life bearable people that are not billionaires.

Because if someone has resorted to LLM-generated slop for the illustration (and the organisation publishing being fine with at least that kind of slop), there is some elevated risk the text will also be slop?

When you actively have to resort to undocumented hacks to get your OS to do what you want, especially respecting your privacy, things are wrong in several ways. Probably the classic that you are not the consumer, but a resource (in this case, most things you write or view) being used and monetised. I could hope at least GDPR and somewhat better consumer protection laws could help users in the EU, but it still needs enforcement. Getting rid of that OS is of course preferred.

Yikes, inventing the bus again. Or to be specific, the concept of "routed taxicabs" has already existed for long, as "Marshrutka" in parts of the former Soviet Union. Running larger private vehicles like vans with full sets of seats on fixed routes, but only stopping on demand - it looks quite like what the "innovative" company Uber intends to introduce. Quite typical, especially in the 1990:s as a result of underfunded regular public transit.

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Well, maybe do some machine learning data injection (which is a quite available branch of attacks) in material scraped without permission to make their generative models output images of Tianmen square, Winnie the Pooh or maps with neither Taiwan nor Tibet :-)?

Also, as they at least on paper claim to follow international treaties, it could be a more reasonable case for applying some trade policy.

The British initiative has some good points. It's a bit strange, that many parts of society has accepted widespread copyright infringement and ignorance of /robots.txt when done by corporations to feed their generative (or plagiarising, depending on your point of view) models. While file sharing, even small-scale, was given harsher penalties, IP blocking and law changes to help mostly the large corporations.

It would probably be much better the other way round - that some regulated personal non-profit sharing was allowed, transferring of anything you paid for to any kind of device would be perfectly legal - but scraping of any creative content without explicit agreement, especially by for-profit organisations for generating competing works, would give harsh penalties. Collecting royalties from corporations to artists agreeing to scraping would also be at least a more worthy task for writers / composers / movie-makers organisations.