The US is betting on magic to catch insider trading in prediction markets.

I'm not sure a single-cab half-bed is going to really attract an audience, because people who need a pickup tend to need a full bed. Suburban posers and other performatively but not actually blue-collar folks aren't going to like it because it doesn't seat as many people and doors as a sedan. And farmers are plenty happy with their imported Daihatsu Hijets and Honda Actys. It's also not 1980 anymore, people understand each car you own is a $10k/year hole in the road into which you pour money, so being a two-car household is only A Thing where so little investment has been made to undo the damage of dedicating every public space to the movement and storage of cars that staying is only slightly more viable to moving someplace livable.

They'd have been smarter to start with the 1990s Toyota Van as a starting place for a body design and going from there, since the only major difference between the family hauler and blue collar work versions was the family hauler version had two removable bench seats and four more windows, and the work version had a provision to put in the bench seats.

Agreed. iFixIt should start posting "how to remove your vehicle's modem" howtos.

Like in a rare, double-whammy decision they both owe America an eye-watering amount of money for wasting our time, space, money and oxygen?

Suburbs suck and this wouldn't be doing anything to alleviate this. But probably doing a lot to make 'em worse, since this presumably would take away from space for an ADU that would increase livable space. Suburbs are for performatively rural morons who can't stand the thought of actually living around other people, despite having no skills useful for rural life.

You know Republicans just have it in for anything that doesn't run on gas when they're proposing this bullshit and yet, we can't even guarantee cars are driven by anybody in this country, much less someone licensed and sober, and cars do a lot more damage. Must be the oil they tend to burn.

If you think spicy autocomplete is having a conversation with you in the first place, you're already on the downward spiral. You're the reason for the guardrails.

Like, literally ask any Republican voter if they want $20 and you have a test subject.

Biased in favor of reality. The only harmful minority in the world are billionaires.

Because this is feeling very pets.com

Google, Microsoft and Amazon are hella-overvalued and long-overdue to pop.

You say this like banks aren't holding everyone technologically back in finance.

Don't give them ideas. When America has bad ideas, Republicans put it on wheels.

I'll take "things that never happened" for $100, Ken. The bigger problem is that they get treated like shit and Republicans have had them blocked from being able to take any effective labor action since Reagan. Nobody's going to take a nightmare job with bad working conditions and bad pay without any reasonable expectation that the working conditions or pay will improve.

Ever seen someone on the spectrum play air traffic controller on the VATSIM network in FlightGear or MSFS for hours? More than a few of the good ones are just autistic stoners who got a little baked and locked in. Maybe encourage that.