Not sure how it is now but when I did app deliveries you couldn't just log into the system and not do runs. There was a limited number of driver slots and you either did what was available to you or the system kicked you out. You are correct that they can't make you take a run but they can strip away your right to use the app if you don't. That actually started when people would just log in to have a spot in the driver roster first thing in the morning so they could jump in during peak lunch or dinner hours to do runs where they wouldn't be able to if they just tried to log in then as the slots would all be full.

Even if 100% of them are only 80% efficient that's still considerably better than what you get burning fossil fuels in a power plant then transmitting that power to a device that, itself, is even an impossible 100% efficient. California's major problem is that they decided nuclear energy is terrible but buying coal fired electricity from outside of the state is just fine.

Yea, about that.
In Washington and Oregon, counting gas and electric, there's around 10,000 miles of utility lines. Whatever you bury needs to be 36" or more to pass inspection. Throw in water and sanitation lines and there's a very good chance you're spending some serious money to dig that trench because homeowners aren't usually allowed to dig around utilities and need a licensed contractor. If the lines weren't ran to GP's house there's also a chance the lines are going to have to cross someone else's property. Forcing an easement happens when it's essential like water or heat but internet likely isn't something they can force a neighbor to accept a torn up yard for if the neighbors balk. I assume that will happen since none of the neighbors are willing to share internet or even allow a second line of service to be installed. And that's the good option since the utilities are likely to be street side on the neighbor's property and going all the way around is likely to balloon that cost.

I'm bringing all this up because my mom and stepdad had to pay $20k, decades ago, to run water and electric to their new house in a suburb of Cincinnati. There was no do it yourself option as the utilities were in charge of notifying the municipal authorities for a totally new service to ensure it was done by the book and inspected.

EV's shut off so their isn't any idle waste but the one thing I can't find is EV maintenance cost for extreme cases like a letter carrier. From brake wear to general wear and tear I'm curious is that's the main deterrent. Our mailman once told me he does around 450 stops a day and I can't seem to find an ev evaluation for that sort of extreme stop and go usage.

I went to school in Asscrack, KY, to a school where farm kids literally rode tractors to school on nice days, and we still had AP calc good enough to skip straight to discreet math and number theory in college. Shit politicians make for shit education.

Having a physical presence isn't the problem it's the absurd restrictions in place for those who want a physical presence there. What other nations say that in order to have a physical presence in their nation either a citizen of that nation must be a majority owner or you must sell 100% of your product or service through a native company in order to leech as much money as possible from the foreign company? And then you pay 30% more tax than a Chinese competitor. Where are these other nations that make it illegal for a foreign company to own the land or building they do business from and have laws that require you to risk losing your investment if your landlord merely refuses to renew your lease? Where are these other nations who will tell you tough shit when your partner company steals your source code, makes minor modifications and releases a competing product because only an exact perfect copy is considered theft?
There are reasons why none but the largest of companies can afford to do business in China.

Weird that people think credit cards are a necessity. I have not yet seen a need for one in 44 years of life. At worst I've had to float a utility bill for a few weeks until I could pay it but have never even considered trying to get a credit card. I guess hearing horror stories from stupid people letting them get out of hand just permanently out me off the idea entirely.

Whenever I see a link to a video that pings my 'is this true or just bullshit' scepticism the dislike to like ratio has never failed to answer the question correctly. I guess now I just pass on 100% of yt videos that have a questionable, sensational or controversial title. Not worth my time considering the amount of trash on that platform.

This happened to me at home Depot when I was working part time. Supervisors and managers have multiple accounts they have to check multiple times a day and they are accessed through the same computers we did customer account stuff on. I saw my manager using them and saw they were just apps that pulled up a web page so I wrote an Android app that had four buttons and each would open a browser window to the approximate URL for them to login.
Instead of being thanked for freeing up computers for customer usage they called the fucking cops. They didn't do anything but I did get a cease and desist letter for allowing access to urls that are still publicly accessable to this day. Stupid assholes were certain I had broken the law and was trying to steal important company information as a part time electrical associate...

You mean people don't want to search for an image, click a result and then be shown a completely irrelevant page without the picture they're looking for?

Depends on the scope of your worry. If it's entirely personal then China knowing what sort of porn you like or what shows you watch is irrelevant compared to your own government knowing details they might find repugnant. If it's something rational like your national economy and China has access to things like trade secrets that can have a potentially devastating effect on your economy then the question skews the other way.

My short time in China taught me that intellectual property theft is a way of life there. When your economy is based in large part on how much more quickly you enter a market than others that sort of thing can cripple you. Even the risk of that was enough that I supported getting rid of Chinese hardware at this scale.

So they basically housing bubbled themselves? That's hilarious.

Also you're missing that every study that claims that Democrats are higher educated treat a two year gender studies degree as more highly educated than someone with 30 years of trade skill knowledge which is given an education value of zero.

Illegal erotic fanfic it you consider that Dany and Sansa were definitely not as old in the books as they were in the show.

Except they're powering them entirely through coal so I'm not sure that's going to have much of an effect. They recently said they plan to continue pumping out insane numbers or coal plants until 2030. And that's on top of the nation with the worst track record for pollution now getting into the EV battery market? Lol