I've said before that the upcoming bans were more aspirational than effective, placed far enough in the future that when things didn't go as rosy as predicted (which itself should be predictable), that they'd modify them.
Examples include:
1. Expanding the qualifying vehicles, like including HEVs in the same category as EVs
2. Pushing deadlines back
3. Lowering percentages.

Have US tech companies considered following the laws in the countries in which they wish to operate?

You merely reiterate my point. The left don't care about reining in the financial markets, they care about castrating kids.

Sure, it may provide some small value somewhere. But just as you don't have go to to the Moon to develop velcro, you don't have to create a giant financial casino to develop low-latency communications... you just invest the money on developing low-latency communications instead.

There is simply no world where it makes sense for the best and brightest kids to be spending their time figuring out how to take a tiny cut of transactions rather than building new things that will be useful to everyone.

In my experience it seems that consultants are often only hired to justify things that managers can't justify. Once they hire a consultant and the consultant tells them they should do the thing they want to do, they can do it with no further justification and blame the consultants when it all goes wrong.

AI should be pretty good at that.

I know of several companies who are avoiding hiring anyone with a degree for that reason; it's much cheaper to hire competent people without degrees than to hire people with degrees who expect much higher pay so they can pay off their loans.

But they're small to medium sized companies who aren't being strangled by HR.

HR is basically Political Commissars for business. It's quite insane that anyone let it grow from what should be a tiny part of the business to a cancer that's destroying so many.

I've had about ten jobs since I left school and not one has ever asked for proof of my grades. I didn't even bother getting my degree certificate until I had to send a copy for a visa application; they're the only people who've ever asked to see it.

That said, it may be different now that HR has taken over running so many companies.

> Anytime we want we could shut them down but we would have to change how we vote.

No major party wants to rein in the financial markets. I'm not sure about Harris, but I remember Clinton getting more donations from financial companies than Trump.

> The next time you're getting upset because somebody gave their kid puberty blockers or somebody said happy holidays ask yourself how many hours a year you worked so that you could get upset about that.

Imagine if the left had spent the last ten years pushing for reining in the financial markets instead of castrating kids.

Imagine what the world could be like if we didn't take a large portion of the smartest kids in the country to have them work on how to skim 0.00001% of every financial transaction and instead employed them doing something useful instead.

History will see this as an absolutely insane waste of potential.

Personal preference, perhaps.

I listen to podcasts while I'm working in the shop or driving around. Usually at 2x. It's usually media and news analysis or long form stuff that I'd not have the time to consume otherwise.

Obama replaced protein with canned veggies, soy products, and other low-nutrient foods. That increased the amount of processed foods the kids eat (unless you don't think canned veggies counts as processed?)

It's long been thought by alternative health folks that Parkinsons and other related neurological disorders are largely environmental - due to toxin loads, from everything from heavy metals to pesticides.

My great-grandfather died of Parkinson's disease - or more accurately, hung himself at the sanitarium because of the repeated electroshock 'treatments'. It doesn't run in the family. It just so happens that he had a fairly excessive canned peaches "addiction", sometimes eating several cans a day. We think his disorder may have been related.

The next admin won't be able to force manufacturers to make EVs because the AI data centres will be sucking up all the available electricity.
They're more likely to ban EVs to free up electricity.

We already fixed overpopulation. Birthrate is at 1.7 and falling, 2.1 is replacement.

Turns out "1st world lifestyle" is plenty effective birth control. As the world becomes more prosperous, birthrates fall.

It is very different in the bar. There you can have a debate, question and clarify. With a podcast, you cannot.