First of all, are you new? Have you ever driven? If you think humans are just fine, you must be a shit driver with low fucking standards. Second, as bad as they are, humans have brains and cars don't. They can do things with those brains that the cars can't do. Finally, try not to suck Elon Musk's dick on your way through the parking lot.

Making decisions is not the same thing as reasoning, although it's nice when the former is the result of the latter.

If you use more than you produce, you are going to run into shortages.

The rest of the world can produce enough oil to make up for the oil lost in the straits, but they can't ramp up quickly. It would take years.

btw the biggest fear right now is that Pakistan might give nuclear missiles to Iran. It's something they've talked about in the past, and if I were Iran, I would be using all my persuasive power to get one from Pakistan.

If the missile works, if the missile still exists, if it gets past missile defenses, if mine sweepers don't clear up the mines, etc.

A treaty needs to be ratified by the senate to be legally binding.

Note that Ukraine has caught on to this trick, and is now insisting that any defense treaty make it through congress. Earlier we promised to help Ukraine, but the Budepest Memorandum wasn't ratified by congress.

The Iraq war only affected Iraq.

Closing the straights affects oil from Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

As an American, I'm still just hoping we don't end the Trump presidency in WW3.

The real question is, how will the government abuse this?

We've seen that every time we give the government power, they abuse it. This will be the same.

This would not be a problem if it weren't for war.

We should work towards world peace.

Sure, to the ignorant. That explains your comment neatly. Most of the divide is due to growth in Chinese manufacturing, not contraction of American manufacturing. While we sent our unprofitable cheap electronics goods manufacturing overseas, we not only kept but expanded the heavy equipment manufacturing. However, China expanded theirs a lot more.

What's going to really harm our manufacturing in a way that reduces our need for machinists is Cheeto Benito fucking up our relationship with the rest of the world, which is going to cause more boycotting of American manufacturers, and more nations will have nowhere to turn for their heavy equipment but China.

If your point is that vaping is bad, ok, I can agree with that.

If your point is that cigarettes are better than vaping, no you are wrong. Smoking is much worse. The mechanism is well understood.

Switching to vape from cigarettes will give you immediate health improvements. If a dermal patch works for you, then do that. If vape works for you, then do that. But stop the cigarettes.

Too bad they don't extend to not being executed in a van for cheating on your taxes.

Only until US cars are no longer aspirational to anyone because China makes better ones in every category, which is coming quickly.

That was for economic reasons, ID10T.

You're a fucking idiot. The court system is part of the process of that conviction you respect so much because you're a douchebag cuck.