You could force Americans out of their cars and onto your buses and trains at gunpoint.
Nah.
If you're sitting in gridlock traffic for an hour, and you're watching clean comfortable buses zoom by in their own dedicated lanes with the people on board watching Netflix on their phones it doesn't take much to get people to move onto buses and trains.
Completely off-topic, but that was the one plot hole in the Watchmen that I could not get past. Dr. Manhattan can rearrange molecules at a whim, and he can't cure cancer? He knows his own future, but he's surprised by the media ambush?
It makes absolutely no sense. Never did.
It is also a LOT easier to both post content and reach a lot of people via social media as opposed to doing both using your own website.
Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I could create content on my site and then automatically or semi-automatically share it on social media, where my social media followers would see it.
Takes more planning as you also have to warn the car when you're heading to the charging station so the battery can be preheated.
Depends on the EV. In my car, I have the option to turn on "Winter Mode" which automatically preheats the battery when its cold, so I don't have to think about it or plan.
I rarely use DC fast chargers, so it's off in my car, despite living in Canada.
It turns out that very few people use a passenger EV to do multi-hundred mile commutes in sub-freezing temperatures.
On a per-capita basis, very few people do multi-hundred mile commutes in sub-freezing temperatures, period.
In any kind of vehicle.
In the USA, the average commute is 20 miles each way.
Sure, if you want your kids to ask you to drop them off a block from school because they don't want to be seen getting out of a minivan.
Shrug.
I'm the boss, not them. If they want to get out a block earlier, than that's on them.
Sorry if your kids are in charge, but that's not the case in my house.
It's not my job to make them seem "cool."
It's a salary expectations mismatch. Lots of IT professionals have been laid off from various companies, who are now trying to rehire those same people with a 20% to 40% haircut. This is a result of over hiring during the pandemic, plus a (mistaken) belief that AI is going to reduce the need for software positions.
I don't think it's going to work out in the long run for companies who are overly aggressive at doing this. The most innovative engineers will likely steer clear of those who constantly lay people off. But it's going to take a few years before we get back to seeing the classic whine "We don't have enough local IT professionals, which is why we need to be able to hire people bubbling out of dubious Indian diploma mills at discount rates."
If Substack wants to take the pure Free-Speech viewpoint that "the correction to bad-speech, is more speech (calling how how much the original speech are disingenuous hate-filled a-holes)", that seems like an intellectually and morally consistent position. It's literally one that the US was founded on.
If they propose to help anti-VAX Covid deniers spread dangerous, unscientific, lies -- that can literally get people killed. Then even I have a problem with it.
Setting aside that we don't have "crowded theatres" in which to shout "fire" in any more, outright lying, grift, fraud, confidence games, and attempts to mislead people into things that will cause them to die, has never been "Free Speech". Ever. (Oh, and part of "Free Speech" also includes the right to boycott people who you find offensive.)
That's my somewhat nuanced take on this situation.
You want Trump to be the first octogenarian billionaire POTUS to land on the moon?
Yes, provided NASA leaves him there.
peaceful protesters
"Peaceful protestors?" Fuck RIGHT off.
There were making lives a living hell for people living in downtown Ottawa. For week after week.
They had people in their midst waving NAZI flags. They were ignorant cultish fools who couldn't even state a policy platform beyond "Fuck Trudeau."
I hate seeing science infected by trans ideology.
And I hate how Slashdot is "infected" by people who lack even a basic understanding of science, and refer to science as "ideology."
Let me explain it to you AGAIN.
Humans have three characteristics: 1) Sex, 2) Gender and 3) Orientation.
Sex: Whether you have male or female reproductive organs (or, in some rare cases, both).
Gender: Whether your brain considers you to be a man or a woman, or somewhere in-between.
Orientation: Whether you are sexually attracted to someone with male sex, female sex, both, or none.
So yes, someone can have female sex and be pregnant, but be a man.
Judging by your ignorance I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess your sex is male, your gender is man and your orientation is attracted to female sex. And that you have trouble getting laid.
Government is more boondoggle than useful.
....spoken like someone who has never gone to a third world country to see what nations without effective governments look like.
Also, while I'm at it, the amount of waste in private enterprise beggars belief. Way more than anything "government" has wasted.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
