There actually was a push in the UK a few years ago to outlaw pointy kitchen knives, but it met with great resistance and was dropped.

However, the point remains that stabbings in the UK are actually less common that stabbings in the US. This points out that while many think that guns are the cause of the US' violence problem, the real problem is deeper: US culture is just more violent.

Generally speaking, making an EV go faster would start with just buying a sporty EV. Then installing grippier tires, because EVs just have so much torque that they'll beat drastically more expensive ICE sports cars off the line.
Modding an EV to be faster, not from the factory? That might come up eventually, but would be beefing up the electronics to be able to deliver more and higher voltage to the motors, and replacing the motors with more powerful units.
But that still runs into that many EVs can absolutely smoke tires as is. They don't need more power.

If you're living in an apartment with no garage, how are you doing an oil change yourself? Most places don't let you work on a car out in the open.
It's also like boasting about how you only need to wind your mechanical watch once a day so it is superior to a electric quartz that only needs a new battery once a year.
Maintaining an ICE might be pretty easy (I've done my own work for years except when a special has the dealer doing it for less), but the point is that maintaining an EV is even easier.
No need to regularly change the oil at 5-10k miles. No sparkplugs to change. Cabin air filter only, which can generally be done just by replacing it from the glove box (every car is different though). No need to replace the alternator.
Brakes and rotors generally last orders of magnitude longer due to regenerative braking. So that maintenance goes from a regular event to maybe once in the car's life.
Power steering pump? That isn't what I'd call routine maintenance.
Most CANNOT replace that in their driveway or garage.
No, not "everything" has to be done at the dealer or "authorized" shop. Tire places can still replace the tires and do work in the wheel area, like brake jobs if that becomes necessary.
Computers? ICE tends to have almost as many of them as EVs. And they're just as easy (or not) to swap. I've read about F-150 headlights that need dealer programming to replace correctly.
Not have a car with a in-dash computer: almost impossible today, EV or ICE.
Closest thing to what you say today would actually be the proposed Slate EV.

Gobs of money in this case could be as low as $200.

Think of it like installing a faucet or shower head you like better than the original. If you are to be there long enough...
Besides, they can also take the charger when they leave.
Still doesnt change just using a regular extension cable.

That sounds nice and all, but there's really no legal way to do that. The money was collected illegally, so it has to be returned (with interest) to the people it was collected from -- the importers.

It's going to take years to find out just how corrupt, and we'll never get the full story. What we can see isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

Heh. The usual metric is "mission success". For a manned flight, that includes getting the people down safely. For a typical unmanned flight the mission is "get the payload to the right orbit". If you manage to land the rocket after that, that's gravy.

What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

Zipline is still around, still making deliveries in Africa and some other places, and also doing some in the US, for Wal-mart.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

There isn't any launch platform with no failures, ever, that's not how you measure reliability. Reliability is measured on percentage of successful launches (payload reached target orbit), and Falcon 9 is, indeed, the most reliable orbital launch vehicle ever, by a wide margin. Here are the platforms with >= 100 launches (the 100-launch line is kind of arbitrary, but you have to draw a line somewhere and platforms with very few launches don't have meaningful statistics):

#1 Falcon 9 (including Falcon Heavy): 637 successes of 640 launches, 99.5% success rate. If you focus only on the block 5 variant (most-flown version, currently flying), it's 572 out of 573, 99.8%.
#2 Atlas V: 106 of 107, 99.1%
#3 Delta II: 153 of 155, 98.7%
#4 Space Shuttle: 133 of 135, 98.5%
#5 Long March 2/3/4: 503/521, 96.5%
#6 Ariane 5: 112 of 117, 95.7%
#7 Soyuz: 1889 of 2014, 93.8%
#8 Kosmos: 559 of 610, 91.6%
#9 Proton: 382 of 431, 88.6%

Soyuz has to get props for the sheer number of launches, of course, though that's probably mostly because the Russians couldn't afford to build another platform. Soyuz isn't a particularly great rocket in any way -- smallish payload, good but not great reliability -- but they kept using what they had. It's also worth noting that assuming Falcon 9 maintains its current launch cadence (which it won't; Starship will probably start taking its launches eventually, and if that doesn't happen, the cadence seems likely to increase), it will match Soyuz' launch count around 2033.

If one buys an EV then loses their job, many of the same problems apply to an ICE vehicle, making that payment. In any case, charge at home instead, use supercharger stations around, etc... Like learning where to best fill up with gasoline for a different job location.
BYD didn't so much chose to not build a factory here as they are blocked from doing so.
More and more used EVs are hitting the market.

Lots of people already own their home. So no need to buy out a lease.
Even if they are renting, may landlords would not object to an upgrade.
Besides, we're still at that an extension cord out of an ordinary outlet works for many.
Nirvana fallacy - it does not have to work for 100% of people to still be a valid solution for many.

What we're really missing today is Tape. Iomega Ditto was impressive because it brought tape to the consumer segment. Today, Enterprise has tape but there's no good way for your average photographer or prosumer to have cheap backups of their data.

I have about 2TB of photos that I've accumulated and there's no easy backup option except for very fragile external HDDs.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.