EV sales in the US have not plateaued: far from it. In Q4 2023 they showed robust 38% year-over-year growth.

While in general a city is just a large town, in some places the words ’city’ and ‘town’ have specific legal meanings. In New England, for example, a city is a municipality that has grown too large to be conveniently governed by a town meeting. There are many cities with populations below 50,000 and some few cities below 20,000.

Don’t assume that you know the usage of words worldwide based on your own experience.

There appears to be strong support for eliminating the biannual time change, but there is no consensus about which time to use all year: Standard or Daylight time. Both sides marshall data and statistics to support their position, and it doesn't seem that there will be a meeting of the minds anytime soon.

I, therefore, expect nothing to be done. We will still be changing our clocks for some time yet.

Your logic is faulty.

Non-cops are caught breaking the law every day. If we see someone who is not a cop, should we assume they are breaking the law?

Meta cannot threaten to pull news from Facebook. A 'threat' involves some harm. Pulling news from Facebook would be a wonderful thing.

The cost of the radar or lidar is not the deciding factor. It's the sensor-fusion problem when you combine them with vision. You have to have vision, and if combining vision with radar/lidar is problematic, it makes sense to go vision-only.

If parents relieve a certain public school of the duty to educate their children by sending them elsewhere, why should that school still get the funds for educating the children that donâ(TM)t go there?

Give me a Tesla any day. All this ‘shifting’ is just to overcome the severe RPM limitations of combustion engines. Electric motors make this obsolete. In a Tesla, hit the accelerator and it goes (like a bat out of hell, if you want), release the accelerator and it regeneratively brakes.

All this talk about ‘control’ of the vehicle via manual transmission is just nostalgia-driven rationalization.

Manual counting is inaccurate and labor-intensive. Verifiable electronic counting of paper ballots is better and cheaper.

The problem is that ‘hatred’ has been redefined to include any speech that transgresses the progressive norms. For example, calling a transsexual person by their birth name is now called ‘hateful’, even in the absence of any evidence that the speaker bears any ill will towards the transsexual in question, or transsexuals in general. If a married woman chooses to change her name, is it ‘hateful’ to call her by her maiden name?

One can disagree with the current transsexual zeitgeist while wishing only the best for transsexual people. Yet, hatred is imputed to any who so disagree.

Suppose a country was set to impose a tax of $1000 per social media post. If social media sites threatened to pull out from that country, would that be 'blackmail'?

If not, how is it 'blackmail' to threaten withdrawal from Canada because of higher costs?

Is a company never entitled to avoid higher costs imposed by new legislation?

>Capitalism is fundamentally about taking any shortcut that you can get away with it

It is silly to ascribe that behavior only to capitalism. That is precisely what happens under communism, with the added problem that you can get away with a lot more when you can silence (temporarily or permanently) anyone who complians.

By your logic, everyone either believes that personhood begins at conception, or that it doesnâ(TM)t begin until birth. While itâ(TM)s fun and easy to argue against the most extreme position, itâ(TM)s not very helpful when in fact there is a broad spectrum of views.

So how is passing a law to solve a supposedly non-existent problem such a big deal? If schools are teaching sex-ed in an appropriate manner, then the law is a dead letter: forget about it and move on.

The fact that there is such a big deal being made about this law gives rise to the suspicion that some schools are teaching (or plan to teach) about sexual topics to inappropriately young students.

That’s not being suggested at all. The point is that whatever components of IQ may be genetically determined, they are not correlated with race.