On this I partially agree as for new cars this is less then the incentive program which they already ignored.

But it might be worth a used EV.

A lot of the ones I've seen are newer leased vehicles.

If their daily mileage can be done on a single charge the fuel savings could add up pretty quick. Otherwise a hybrid is a no-brainer.

Tesla's are notoriously expensive to insure, but fuel costs would definitely be lower with at-home charging.

Public chargers? Not so much.

I'm assuming there's conditions around it. But it does seem to push against Uber's narrative that their drivers are contractors and not employees.

I'm surprised that Alphabet has done as well as they have in the era of LLMs. They're as much an AI company as anyone in big tech, but I've always heard that search is they lynchpin of Google, and LLMs must have decimated that.

I'm not sure you understand how venture capital works.

something about cats?

Strictly speaking, this isn't an "either / or" thing. You can both be right here.

Agreed. Dropping a ticket in the driver's seat is kinda ridiculous, but there certainly should be a mechanism for recording infractions and penalizing the company.

To put a major social media company under the control of right wing political actors.

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No way can this possibly go wrong! The law of unintended effects does not apply!
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There really isn't a better way to deal with the abuses. Here's some personal experience.

Fortune 500 company - bottom half of that group is all I will say about them - laid me and some others off in a big layoff a few years ago. Yeah, they got rid of a few H1-Bs in the layoffs, but the vast overwhelming majority of layoffs were white American males over 40 years old, who just happened to be making good money. In my department, only Americans got laid off and not a single H1-B was impacted by the layoffs. I've been told that this is supposedly "illegal", but it's exactly what happened. They kept the H1-Bs because they make less money and they can't leave unless they want to return to India.

Same company, but a few months before I was laid off, a college student I barely know (friend of a friend kind of thing) was offered an internship by the company. I told the student that I knew his manager and I thought highly of her so I figured working there would be OK. Probably didn't hurt that this manager was Indian as was the student. He told me his dream was to work on stuff that gets patented. I told him that in our state we did not work on that kind of thing, but we had an R&D office in another state that did. I told him that he'd never get to work on stuff that gets patented here but if he got his foot in the door with the internship, maybe he could eventually get there because the company liked to hire its interns. He did indeed get a job offer after the internship, which he accepted, making him an H1-B. I have some limited contact with him and he's still there. And he has no plans to ever transfer out of state to the R&D org and work on patented stuff. All it took to make him completely give up on his dreams was an H1-B paycheck.

Final story about the same company. You might remember in Trump's first term he put limitations on H1-Bs in IT because of abuses. My company wrote a job description up for a job they wanted to fill during those restrictions. I saw it early one morning when I was getting coffee as it was on a bulletin board. The job was in another state and the requirements were super specific and honestly a whole lot of bs like the job required a master's degree and experience doing chip design. My guess is that if an American with the very specific skills somehow applied for the job, they'd just offer the H1-B salary and expect the American to say no. So the job stays open for I guess maybe half a year or more and finally they get permission to hire a specific guy for the job from India. Know what he does? He writes code in Java for them. That chip design and master's degree "requirement' stuff was bs to try to make sure only he could match those "requirements". He was the only employee our org in the company hired for an entire year. I mean, if you can't hire H1-Bs, they simply weren't interested in hiring anybody.

They got more self-driving cabs than Tesla, and Tesla is getting hundreds of billions in valuation from their "Robotaxi".

In either case, if they can scale this there's loads of money waiting. I think they're currently Waymo's only real competitor.

You usually can't skip commercials via any type of streaming that has them. And some of the so-called "commercial free" streaming services changed their terms of service so that under certain conditions they can still show you some commercials. Paramount+ is one I remember that made that change.

You can't say he didn't boldly go.

True, but it's a hell of a lot easier to upload a torrent of scanned books than purchased and scan them yourselves.

Plugging in your car while parked? Assuming there is an outlet near by, you have an extension cord, and your heater cable is in good shape?

I thought you didn't want any obstacles to using your vehicle.

You know what else happens in -40C? Your oil turns to sludge and the weakened battery in your ICE vehicle is unable to get the engine running.

I'd rather an EV with reduced range than my ICE car not starting.