Let assume for a second we lived in a world truly like the one you describe.

Coca cola having cocaine in it. Beer having opiodes, Chocolate having just a bit of nicotine, etc. etc.

Then solution is to fix it, not just give up. Do not just take the money but change their behavior. Stop them from doing what they are doing.

But the truth is you have fallen for the oldest con used by lawyers. "What we are doing is no worse than anyone else." when it is in fact worse than other people. They exaggerate the issues other have. They try to get the guy that went just a bit over the line of what is illegal to be legalized, then they move the line and try again.

McDonalds, TV, and Music are NOT at all addictive. Just because they are desirable does not move to addiction. Certain video games do their best, and while they try hard, they too are not addictive.

Addiction is a real thing, not merely something that people like. Gambling and possibly sex might very well be the only non-ingestable addictive behavior. Almost nothing that is not addictive will convince people to do things they are ashamed of.

No one eve ends up prostituting themselves for McDonalds. But drug addicts will prostitute themselves for drugs.

Rockets routinely achieve speeds higher than Mach 1 and you never hear the boom. Mainly because the boom is in the direction they ae flying - up.

Vehicles cause noise. Noise is a sound wave in the media(air). Normally that wave is faster than the vehicle. The 'boom' happens when the surface of the moving vehicle hits the sound wave and pushes it.

If you shape the surface of the vehicle, you affect what happens when it hits the sound wave. There are a ton of things you can do to it - deflect the sound (often up), break it up into smaller sections, or even stretch it out so you get a less loud but longer sound.

Frankly it is amazing that it took us this long to figure out something this simple.

Henrico county (aka where Richmond Virginia is located) has enough power plants, they are short on transmission lines.

This is a common issue, as it is easier to convince Dominion (or other electrical companies) to build a new power plant, they are revenue generators. Few power plant have lost money. But substations and other transmission costs can be built in the wrong location and cost you more money than they generate.

So transmission lines tend to be looked at as infrastructure that costs you money, especially if it is not near a heavy population center.

The only time I have written a physical check in the past 5 years is for a present. You write it, stick it in a card and hand deliver it.

I cannot see any reason not to use some form of electronic payment for anything but a birthday/Christmas present.

Venmo, Zelle, ApplePay, Paypal, login to your bank account and wire the money,

For now at least, wearables require radio frequencies to work.

So block the radiowaves.

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/...

Paint the room with EMF shielding and you do not have to worry about any connections - not cellular, not bluetooth, nothing.

1) I did not suggest anything. I noted the problem was the minimal cost and theorized about what would happen if that cost was higher. You jumped to a conclusion that I did not make.

2) If I were to suggest something, I would suggest that the state charge the police to use the item and send the money to pay for legal aid attorneys for indigent defendants.

I think that's the real problem. People get so excited over things before they even examine it.

The anti-vax people will find a way to ruin this for everyone else.

Just like they managed to kill a US soldier and get about 200 of them sick simply by changing the rules so that the soldiers do not have to get vaccinated.

This is about the 5th time I remember someone saying they found 'signs' of alien life, and it never is.

Yes, this is exactly what we wanted. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Note, this vehicle has all the luxury options too, they just do not come as part of packages, you can put whatever you want in it.

Decorations (wraps instead of paint)
Fancy lights
roof racks
Fancy audio gear
fancy seats
Tablet mounts to give you back that entertainment system

Cop sees a guy at midnight on his hands and knees looking under a street light. Asks him "What are you doing?"

Guy says "Looking for my car keys."

Cops help him look for a while and then asks "Are you sure you dropped them here?"

Guy replies "No, I dropped them over there in the dark but there is no chance at all I could find them there, it is too dark."

When you track things, you think you make decisions/rules based on what you track. But you can't really track the good stuff like effectiveness, creativity, or intelligence. Mouse clicks, key strokes etc. are what they track, so they build their AI on that stuff.

It's no different than looking under the street light - you won't find what you want, just the stuff that is easy to find.

This kind of thing is an unnecessary invasion of privacy that will result in an AI copying the mistakes of humans, not their best behavior.

Oh my god, I did not know that British conspiracies nut jobs are crazier than American ones.

Thank you for showing me that Americans are NOT the most extreme idiots that will believe the most extreme of propaganda lies just because some lunatic spouts it.

I thought it was only Americans that could not spot the difference between obviously false extremist "interpretations" of real facts and reality. I thought we were the king of being a shit head that makes up lies when other people catch us being shit heads.

(Legalized gang rapes = government attempts and fails to stop gang rapes and covers up their failures.
Legalized beheadings = government upset about racist comments after a stabbing.
Rape of 11 year is the girls fault = government stopping the release of the rapists name after sending him to jail for 12 years. etc. etc.)

1) This is the United Kingdom, not the USA. They do not have a First Amendment/ Freedom of Speech.

2) The Internet is a liar and Social Media is their king. The idea of trying to fix the problem, if only in Social Media is very very appealing.

3) There is a huge difference between regulating Social Media (aka "Gossip" sites) and regulating Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television. If only because Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television CAN be sued when they slander someone. Good luck suing some 12 year kid from Absurdistan that used AI to make it look like you murdered his Canadian Girlfriend.