But the whole point people are trying to make is, once you take out the people who don't have a place to charge, the people who can't afford an ev, the people that don't want to modify their homes for an ev, the people who go on long trips occasionally and don't want them to take longer or take more planning, the people who don't like change, and all the other smaller reasons why people don't want these.... The intended market is very small. EV proponents keep saying things like '80% of all trips are within range' but they forget that it doesn't mean the same thing as 'EVs will work for 80% of people'.

You probably don't know any trans people personally. I grew up with the same beliefs about transgender people you have, until I actually got to know some of them. As impossible as it is for us to understand and as nonsensical as it appears to us, it's clearly not something most trans people choose.

It's OK for people to be different in ways we don't understand. Nobody has a duty to make sense to *us*. In any case, only about 0.6% of the population identify as transgender. Even if you completely outlawed gender reassignment surgery an gender-affirming care, it wouldn't budge the fertility needle even assuming trangender people decided to have children -- which they won't.

Of course, there's a counter example for any theory about people in general, so there's probably someone out there who chose it as a lifestyle. But that's just not the norm.

Also, employment is a lot less stable than it used to be. When I entered the workforce in the early 80s it was still common for people who were retiring to have worked for the same company all their lives. Young people now live in a gig economy; if they *do* work for a company, often they don't know how many hours they'll get from week to week.

And while things like TVs are cheaper than ever, essentials are often far more expensive. Median rents for a studio apartment in the US were about $250 when I got out of school; today they're $1200. If you have income twice the poverty rate and you follow the advice we were given back then to spend no more than 20% of your income on housing, you'd be looking to pay $483/month in rent. In most of the US even if you have roommates you'll be spending over $1000 per month.

Today it's more economically important to have a degree than ever. While wages for new college graduates have increased only modestly, wages for non-college graduates have dropped since the 1980s. Let's say you're thrifty and decide to commute to a state college. Your four year costs have risen from $3,200 to over $44,000. So families in their prime reproductive years are burdened with debt; it takes years to overcome that and to raise.

We often take poor families to task for being irresponsible and having children they can't afford, but the fertility rate in families below the poverty line isn't that high and it's remained steady for decades. What's happened is that the fertility rate at 200% of the poverty line has crashed.

Most women, with access to contraception and abortion, are doing what we told them is the responsible responsible thing. But if they *all* did it, it would be a demographic catastrophe.

I don't. Electricity grids in the US are in a pretty bad shape overall and have had years of neglect. I question whether this all points towards EVs or not. More likely, the $20billion figure includes maintenance and upgrades not done over the past 5 decades.

I'm not at all surprised. The UK is far more conservative than the US. You're talking about a country which in theory has laws against publishing any BDSM content regardless if the people in it are consenting adults or not. In the US beastiality was shutdown by credit card companies. In the UK the depiction of it is illegal. In fact so is the depiction (real or not) of many things considered obscene. Breathcontrol during porn? Verboten! The law bans the depiction of any act that may result in injury. CNC porn? Verboten! You can't even role play the helpless damsel on film.

The funny part is... the Crown Prosecutor has officially stated they will not prosecute adults for filming / publishing consensual acts under this law, but the law still exists none the less.

Yeah Australian airlines are a shitshow, but that baggage part is not an Australianism. Many airlines are not responsible for baggage and will outsource it to a dedicated logistics business that operates at a variety of airports. E.g. when I go and check in on Monday with Iberia Airlines the second my bag hits that conveyor it will be the responsibility of Swissport AG. It may be on my flight, it may not be, there's no requirement anywhere for the bag to be on your flight, and in fact people are separated from their baggage quite often on multi-leg journeys.

The airlines across the world may be responsible for your compensation, but contractually they have little control over your bag and will always direct you to whomever is responsible for airport ground services. The exception is a couple of airlines, e.g. KLM / AirFrance who run their own ground services units, and indeed outsource to others too, so you may be in a situation where you fly British Airways but when you land and can't find your bag you may get sent to the Air France desk.

Actually the EU rules aren't stricter.

EU allows room to significantly change flights without refunds. This new ruling does not and requires a full refund be given.
EU does not force compensation automatically. You said it yourself, you weren't even told compensation was an option on your flight.
EU does not put a time limit on how quickly compensation needs to be processed. It's taken me sometimes months to get the compensation, here they require 7 days.
EU does not mandate compensation for delayed baggage. This one does.

Where the EU is ahead is in the intercontinental flights being 4 hours vs 6 for the US rule, and by specifying the exact nature of compensation.

All you've done is shown you're surrounded by like minded people. You're not an industry trend. See the thing is your opinion (and mine) are irrelevant. Games are still being developed. Hardware is still being developed. Actual people with actual financial stake in the concept disagree with your opinion of the industry. That shows great alignment to the fact that you are the outlier, not me.

The Quest 2 was very limited by hardware. Yeah I agree a lot of the Quest 2 baked in games were novelty toys, but the beauty of it is ... you don't need to restrict yourself to the Quest. PCVR has a world of excellent experiences, some of which are AAA, e.g. HalfLife Alyx, After the Fall, or just some arcade style fun games that don't feel novelty at all like Robo Recall.

The problem is that it seems unreachable for the average person. How do I "work on AI" without money being extracted from my wallet? So now the people who pay the most money to the wealthy owners will get an 'edge' in their jobs and in life? Yes, in an economic system where people have to be able to do things to make money I think it is immoral to let them starve because now the owners don't need them. It's just maybe a much more large scale of immoral in the sense of we need a new system of economics to solve it that a lot of people don't see it.

You have money for two EVs yet you don't have money to install chargers for them. Interesting. I would say a person with money for two evs is not the average case in the us.

Yes and no. Automatically does sound like a step up, but the "and provide detailed info about the flight" is not a thing. You typically just give them your flight number and be done with it. I've been through this process a few times. The only time it has every been in any way complicated is when I was rebooked by the airline to a non-partner airline which then also turned out to be delayed and then KLM and TAP spent months bickering about who would pay me.

And yes there's lost / damaged luggage rules in the EU as well, maximum compensation limit is 1300EUR. That said this law seems to be more strict with its 12 hour window. AFAIK there's no legal mandate for delayed luggage in the EU, just lost or damaged.

You bought it Early Access. You don't get to consider your purchasing decision as a promise of the future. If you sunk more than two hours into playing it then you got some entertainment and your money's worth. Early Access is a risk you take to play an unfinished game. And there's no coincidence the abbreviation for Early Access is EA, both are equally likely to be turds.

No. If you want a finished experience, don't buy it in early access. If you are open to an unfinished experience then your ability to refund *after playing for a significant period* should be limited. You got what you pay for. You were entertained. If you weren't, well you should have refunded it earlier.

It seems like they did this only yesterday. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

It works out to $638/per registered car.