So DOS 4 is Vista, and DOS 5 is Windows 7... oh how history repeats

I'm talking about, if I may invoke fiction vaguely, a machine made in the likeness of the human mind. I'm talking about what separates us from software, and how for some jobs it isn't much at all. I'm talking about how slavery never ended and the wealthy would like to replace all of us with very small shell scripts. And to them, that's actually viable. They don't understand any of the reasons why it isn't; even the ones that are that smart aren't that educated in that way. If they were, they couldn't do what they do simply because they could see it's unsustainable.

That's very much my point. They are already doing a shit job because it was all that was available. Now what are they supposed to get, a shittier job? It's hard to find one that pays, as backwards as that is.

I'm not new, friend.

Please please please write a screed explaining how forcing Apple to use stuff that users want them to use and support things users want them to support with absolutely zero harm to other users who simply don't turn on any additional features which will be disabled by default is bad for consumers. And don't cheat and use AI, really lean into it.

Most people process fairly visually, some people especially so. You see the same set of logos presented over and over again alongside the logos you are already predisposed towards and they are associated in your mind.

Maybe there's actually an advantage to aphantasia...

Imagine the Lucky Bastards getting to write off every penny of their loss on EVs, between gov’t subsidy, credits, financial handouts and creative accounting its all write–off

Smucks like Joe have to eat the mortgage, ahem car payment, take the drop in depreciation, pay insanely expensive connection fees, charging equipment, installation and tie-in just to “cheaply” recharge his EV at home. Joe has eaten his last EV sucker-bill and finds himself using ride-share, public transit or 15yo ICE he thought was too expensive.

Meanwhile, EV automakers are flying around in private jets, lobbying capitol hill for relief and laying off Joe Schmoe and halting production. EV car makers get ur head out of the cookie jar and start R&D, coops, innovation centers and engineer a car that Joe doesn’t lose his home, happy family, job and sanity with your VERY EXPENSIVE replacement for ICE

Senators, legislators and NEXT president of US freeze NTSA regulations that prevent SxS EVs from being licensed for non-interstate use. The world cannot afford legacy ICE regulatory mandates. AI is enabling safer cars without the crash-safety cushion requirements. Stop the insanity and get mobility as job#1 back into the mainstream of the economy

States, Montana and Florida thank you for licensing SxS. Your fellow states can legalize and follow your lead. There’s a pathway but its putting to rest a ton of bureaucracy, regulatory capture and Federal mandates that too long catered to the ICE money machine

Early Adopter Joes’ need relief here too. The bottom was pulled out from under their EV investments. There’s gotta be a way back, a pathway, for those burdened with a product over-priced, under engineered and foisted on consumers who had no idea of the extensive electrical hurdles to charging at home affordably.

And that’s the First Step

Trademark owners have to protect their trademarks, or they lose them.

Allowing unlicensed works without permission would be a de facto donation of the trademark to public domain. Thus, they have to protect it by asking unlicensed works to not be distributed.

Now, if Nintendo wanted to be cool about it, they could give some kind of license to Garry's Mod and it would still protect the trademark as it would be a licensed work. But my guess is that a takedown notice is a lot easier while maintaining exclusive control over the IP and it's use.

Playing "devil's advocate" for a moment, consider that if a company knows about unlicensed use of their trademarks and doesn't protect those trademarks, they are in danger of losing those trademarks to public domain.

Consider what it would mean to Nintendo if they lost their trademark on Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda. It's a multi-billion dollar risk that they can't risk.

If you cannot detect when things are changing then you are doomed to be confused by changes. Welcome to the rest of your life, where changes are going to keep coming faster and faster, like they have been doing for all of history.

If you had a brain, you'd know.

It's overreach to prevent them from regulation of anything but navigable waterways.

"I await their decision on EV producers and the huge quantity of dangerous particulates EV's spew into the atmosphere."

The only particulates that EVs spew into the atmosphere are tire dust, and not much more than other vehicles - or if LRR tires are used, less than most.

If you mean during production, or pollution from generating power to charge the vehicle, even if charged purely with coal the lifecycle emissions are lower by the time an EV hits 70k miles.

TL;DR: Bullshit.

And average intelligence of the US would see a correlated increase once a hundred million people aren't being made dumber through their ADHD-enabling 20 second "spicy takes" from random fucking morons in an endless scroll.

Oh noes politicians might have the power to prevent people from profiting from polluting our nation and planet unnecessarily, HOW TERRIBLE.