You can't call those e-bikes either

No. A moped is NOT an e-bike.

A lot of devious people are desperately trying to call mopeds "e bikes" because they want to outlaw e bikes (and bikes of all kinds eventually). Don't fall into the trap.

Most importantly, a motorcycle (or moped) MUST be in the traffic lanes. It is not allowed in the bike lanes or on the sidewalks.

The problem is that car drivers hate slow motorcycles in their lane. So they will lie in any way they can, in particular calling these things "e bikes", because the only solution that appeals to them is to BAN BAN BAN!!!! If they could get rid of the motorcycles they would jump at the chance to do so too.

The sidewalk is allowed if there is no safe alternative (ie no bike lane).

I'm using an e-bike that absolutely will not go faster than 15 mph. I suspect it is badly designed as even trying to pedal faster does not work, there is enormous drag as though the motor refuses to spin faster than that (it will roll downhill at a higher speed). However that is certainly fast enough for my commute which is 3 miles each direction.

So I agree that it is a fine cutoff speed. Anything faster is a moped or motorcycle, they absolutely should be legal but you have to ride them on the street and have a license and insurance. Personally I think it is ok if the cutoff speed is more like 20mph but 15mph is fine.

No. Classify them as mopeds (since that is what they are). You can ride a moped on the street, but you have to have a license and insurance. "e-bikes" are SLOW, which means they can go in the bike lane, or on the sidewalk if there is no usable bike lane, and there are much fewer requirements.

The problem is car drivers HATE small motorcycles since they get stuck behind them. So they all REFUSE to call these things anything other than "e bikes" and their only solution is BAN BAN BAN!!!

No e-bike has spontaneously caused an accident, you know. What a stupid argument.

Last I checked you needed a driver's license to operate a Rental truck.

In the "Cooling Tower" test, is it known that there is a solution?

Switzerland is already 1/3 French, 1/3 German, and 1/3 Italian

I agree, Newsome does seem to be practicing to be an anti-Trump. Anything he suggests seems to be chosen based on "how mad will it make Trump/republicans". Not on "is it a good idea" or even "does the left like this idea".
His likely replacement (Steyer) is also wading into this territory, most likely because it appears to be a way to win.

Just to be accurate: the reason we have 2 parties is because we don't use ranked voting. They are not independent problems.

The electoral college's problem is actually that the states have rules so that if 51% of the voters vote for A, 100% of the electors vote for A. This is producing huge swings from the popular vote. It's also true that a voter in Wyoming gets about 4x as many electoral votes as one in Texas but this is actually not a big problem because Wyoming has very few voters. It is plausible we could get ranked voting working very well if the counts of all the orderings were multiplied by the ratio between electoral votes and actual votes, and there may be reasons this is easier to pass than a true popular ranked voting.

2x seems possible if no government spending is replaced. However your 3x estimate is way too high, people living only on UBI would not be paying taxes (well federal and state) anyway, so you have double-counted them.

The hope (perhaps futile) is that they would remove other government programs (ie social security). Or make everybody get the same government programs (ie everybody gets SNAP and they can use it to buy food, everybody gets the same amount of housing assistance (which must be spent on mortgage/rent/property taxes/untilities/insurance). These would just be part of the UBI, with some restrictions on what you can spend that portion on.

I was able to get it to save all photos on Google Photos. But I seem to remember it was a pain, it took a long time before it threw away it's attempt to put all the photos into iCloud and stopped complaining in popups that I needed to buy more iCloud storage.

Free Google Photos is about 4x the size of what free iCloud is.

I'm pretty worried that all interdepartmental communication (those regulations, the forms for the regulations, invoices, contracts, lawsuits, etc) will transform into bloated gobbledygook that only AIs can read and write. They will have made their own language that we won't understand and will have to start trusting them to accurately translate between it and human language.

Automobiles employed a LOT of people, easily out numbering the ones that no longer picked up horse shit. That is a big difference from AI.