I have a kidney transplant myself, and I also know that not all transplants are created equal. Lung transplants are the most fraught with risks, but something like this probably isn't. They only need it for as long as they want to bear children, after that it can just be removed. Some transplants, like corneas, only temporarily need immunosuppressant, I'm curious how a uterus works given the immune system already has to treat it differently from most organs, but either way, it's not as if it's permanent.

Why adopt?

Besides, this isn't even new, and a lot of these have already been done. First living donor was in Sweden in 2014, first deceased donor was in Ohio in 2019, and many more (of each kind) have been done and resulted in a successful live birth since.

Basically. I personally would favor a design that heavily prioritized/preferred microcars where larger cars are already used. In many cases, it would be a simple matter of re-painting the lane markers.

But it doesn't really matter what you do, you're going to have nuisances regardless. That's just part of living in cities.

What does this have to do with left/right politics?

Unlike you, I don't even subscribe to the left/right dichotomy. Or any of it, really. You'll never hear me claim, in a general sense, to be a moderate or a centrist either, because to me that's like pointing at your favorite place on a globe and saying "that's where the center of the world is."

Who said "no pizza at all"?

That's an interesting hypothesis considering I just bought an EV last week. Specifically, a Deep Blue Metallic 2023 Tesla Model Y Performance with white interior. I'll grant you, it's not yet in my possession as it's currently undergoing a bit of body work, but it will be within about a month from now, and at that time it will be the only car I drive for the foreseeable future.

That's great and all, if you're building one from scratch. Otherwise you're proposing tearing them down and rebuilding in your image.

When was the last time you bought something expensive and wanted to just give the seller extra money?

The labor market is and always has been that way. Whenever idealists try to forcibly change that, something somewhere has to break, and as history has shown, always does.

I read the whole thing and got it as "give people the freedom to choose whatever transportation they want, as long as it's not cars." Particularly given people already have a choice, but choose cars for convenience. Even in very walkable cities, people still do that anyways. I personally like having a car so I can get the hell out of the city. And outside of the city, this isn't even debatable.

Probably worth mentioning at this point that cities stress everybody out, even when city life is all you've ever known. Probably reduces your lifespan too. It has always been this way, even since before cars were a thing. Certainly before sanitation was a thing.

To me, the debate over cars in cities in some sense misses the point -- cities are full of nuisances. All you ever really do is trade one for another. For example, if you take the train, rsilvergun is going to sit next to you, taking up three seats, smelling worse than Fred Flintstone's ass, and beg for money while he rants to nobody in particular about capitalism.

No. GDP tells you what your combined economic outputs are. Selling something that already existed does not add to GDP.

To put this into terms you can understand: When your partner diarrheas into your mouth, they produced something that you place high value upon. That's the product. How much of it you swallow vs how much of it spills down your chin doesn't matter because it's not measuring inputs. Whatever you do or do not scrape up off of the floor and sell overseas to serviscope_minor likewise doesn't affect your Gross Domestic Poo.

I was looking at them in 2020, and I was particularly bothered by the fact that they didn't even have adaptive cruise or forward lane assist, both of which were already basically a given by then, even in the $16k range.

Anyways I just dropped $16,500 (after some taxes and fees) on a 2023 model Y performance with 25k miles. Needs body work, but by the time it's all said and done, should cost me about $22,000.

New cars are for rich people.

That's not what I got out of "no cars at all"

That's not what I got out of "no cars at all".

Elevated exposure to tiktok/reels/shorts detected. Would you like some grass to touch?

The Chevy bolt also sucks. I took a serious look at one a while back, and even the more expensive trims were missing shit that other cars had in the price range. Even basic things like an actual driver's seat, instead what you get is more like the chairs you find in a hospital waiting room.

Nah. Banning things that other people like but you don't is just something dictators say, along with a promise that a utopia is right around the corner.

It feels a bit like they're still behaving like a nonprofit, except they're not releasing their models to the public anymore, opting to instead keep them close to their chest. In the process of moving to a for-profit business, they mostly forgot to switch to a for-profit business model.

The guy that makes all of that white powdery shit you snort could be a chemical engineer, which is nothing like mechanical engineering.