Corporations are made of people who are laser focused on making more money. They are the worst kind of people, which makes corporations worse than the average person.

My point is that I don't want to spend money and consume as a form of entertainment because it is the only thing to do around a charging station. It almost seems as if these chargers are being set up to trap you into spending more money. I wonder if EV owners consider the money they spend while waiting to charge as TCO. You have gone to a place you never would have gone and spent money. That makes you a victim.

No company is "good" because capitalism dictates that they let profit drive them and that alone makes them bad for everyone. I'm looking at this as either a company that produces a product that allows me to live my life with the most freedom.

I just don't have enough money to buy an EV and then find out I don't like it. No one will allow me to test drive it for an entire road trip to see how it is. I'm happy for you that you do. So I must make my choice by what I know without having one. And so far no one has refuted my belief that buying one may mean I have to stop in the middle of a long trip and have to charge. No one has refuted that they have less range in the winter. All things that make them unusable for many people.

And I hated the early days of smartphones where I had to worry about days where I needed to use them heavily and I may have to stop what I was doing during the day and find a place to sit down with it plugged in. Now my smartphone lasts at least a day with the GPS on all day and that's good for me. And that's all I want from EVs, to be able to use them all day (drive 800-1000km) and only have to plug them in at night.

Why do you need a new car every couple years? You buy a new one and they're good for at least fifteen. If you are buying a new car every couple years than the money you lost on depreciation is far outweighing anything you save on electricity anyway.

For one thing, I'm in Canada. My point is that I don't want to stop to charge at all.

So then we should just all use horses and bicycles because otherwise we are harming children. Do you avoid buying all products that were shipped by truck? You do know you are harming children right. This argument gets ridiculous quickly.

40% of the area I'm driving doesn't even have internet.

So I'm going to go for a whole hike and come back and my car won't even be charged yet? That's just worse.

For me it isn't an edge case at all, I go there around four times a year.

Because EVs don't work for longer trips as well. So it doesn't matter whether you do a long trip once a day or once every five years, you will still be inconvenienced. In fact, the less you do longer trips the worse it is because you don't get many trips so why would you want your one trip in five years affected by charging requirements?

You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises?

I don't know, what voters you're talking about. I voted for exactly the kind of aggressive stance Trump is showing, thank you very much. If anything, I'd like him to be still more aggressive — long years of appeasing foreign assholes have made them too confident, America's "red lines" can be ignored with impunity.

Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.

Do you seriously think, Chinese citizens have better control of their foreign policy? Or are you going to claim, America is "the same" or "just as bad"?..

So wait, you honestly think there's a difference? It's a one-party dictatorship. Ask your grandpa how that works in practice.

Horseshit.

eBay doesn't have the identifying information off a SIM card sold on their site, they literally have no way of tracking the sale/purchase by the sim information.

You've watched too many crime dramas on TV, the cops can't trace a burner phone by going through shipping invoices to local stores and cross-matching that with credit card receipts and ID the buyer from in-store CCTV footage!