Yeah, the design makes sense, just like the way house alarm is wired, where a sensor opens the circuit in case of a problem, so that if you cut the wire it still triggers the alarm.

They probably thought that satellite outage is way less likely than someone jamming the signal to steal the car and they probably were right, just that when the satellite outage happened, it affected many people at the same time and made the news, while a few cars being stolen by jamming the signal would not have made the news.

Yes, but relaxing the environmental regulations is one of the things he promised, so whoever voted for him either liked it or was not that opposed to it.

Sure, let's start with extreme sanctions on India and similar countries until their rivers stop being full of trash and toxic chemicals.
Then impose tariffs on any countries where the environmental regulations are lower than the US or the EU. Reason - so they can't undercut local businesses (that have to comply with the more strict regulations).
Then maybe worry about the 1% fuel efficiency difference.

My point was that people don't care. It was a reply to a post that said (paraphrased) "now people will have to buy more gas, it's only beneficial to boil companies". I'm sure oil companies will be happy by the increased demand, but this is also something that a lot of people want - not to have to buy more gas as such, but to be able to buy new less efficient cars.

Most of the laws in a democratic country are what most people agree with. People change the laws by voting for candidates who share their views. People voted for Trump, which means they want the law to be changed, so it will be changed. I guess people don't care about "saving the planet".

The seatbelt law can be repealed, IMO, everyone has the right to endanger his own life, as long as it does not endanger anyone else.
Speeding and driving drunk endangers other people.

By the way, most people do not drive too fast and most people do not drive drunk, only a minority does it. I think that if those laws were repealed, the number of people who do that would increase, but not that much.

Speaking of fuel efficiency - if only a tiny minority would choose inefficient cars, there would be no profit in manufacturing them, the companies would not do that (or there may be one company that would cater to that market). In fact, when the fuel efficiency was mandated, but SUVs and light trucks were exempted, more people chose to buy those cars, so, I guess most people really do not care about fuel efficiency that much.

Sure, fuel costs money, but it does not make sense for most people to buy a car that is more expensive and less reliable just to save 1% on fuel costs, because there may be no ROI on that.

In comparison, the government did not need to ban horses, most people chose to buy and drive cars when they became affordable, because they thought cars were better than horses.
The government also did not need to force everyone to get electricity instead of continuing to use candles or kerosene lamps. The government had to force everyone to switch to more efficient lightbulbs.

If it makes the car less complicated and more reliable then it's worth it.

The fact that the government is mandating fuel efficiency means that most people don't care. If they cared, nobody would buy the inefficient cars so the manufacturers wouldn't make them, no need for government intervention.

If you run an establishment that sells alcohol, you are required by law to not sell alcohol to minors. If you do, you will get punished. Similar with cigarettes.
If you run a strip club or a casino, you are required by law to not let minors in. If you do, you will get punished.
If you sell fireworks, you are required by law to not sell them to minors.
(I do not know about the law in your place, but this is the law where I live)

What's different here?

Maybe Microsoft AI is incapable of optimization and they fired all the people who were capable of doing it.

Seriously, file explorer is not that much different (from the user perspetive) from the one in Windows XP, but uses vastly more resources.

Are there any completely non-toxic pesticides? I mean the thing has to poison bugs and worms. Can something like that be completely safe for humans?. Probably not. People spraying it probably have to wear gas masks and other protective equipment.

Yes. The difficulty adjusts itself so that on average one block is generated every 10 minutes.

The reward for finding a block goes down every 4 years.

That's what Ukrainians have been doing.

So, now, if the Russian SIM card is offline for 72 hours or had connected to a foreign tower, its access to mobile internet is blocked for 24 hours or until you solve a captcha.

Yes, this was done to foreign cards a while ago, though it seems you can solve a captcha to get access faster.

And getting a Russian SIM card is probably going to be more difficult because they do not want those cards to end up in Ukrainian drones.

So, why were arms supplies to Ukraine constantly interrupted when Biden was in power? Also, why was Ukraine forbidden from striking targets inside Russia?

I saw this a bunch of times:
1. Ukraine starts going forward, reclaiming territory.
2. Almost immediately there is a problem with aid, some bill did not pass, something else happened.
3. Ukraine runs out of ammo and stalls.
4. After some time Russia starts going forward.
5. Suddenly, whatever problem occurred in step 2 is resolved, Ukraine gets more ammo and even gets some new weapon.
6. Russia stalls.

Maybe Biden was afraid of Russian nukes. Maybe he tried to prolong the war as long as possible without thinking that his term was ending and it may not be him in the seat. I guess the policy was "Ukraine should win, but Russia should not lose"

I don't like Trump in general, but I like the part when Putin says "we have nukes, we are going to test one", Trump's response is "we also have nukes and are going to test one".

Yes, they are doing it, or at least that's the plan. If a SIM card was offline for 72 hours, it is also blocked, just like one returning from abroad.
Mobile internet won't work for 24 hours unless you confirm that you are a human by solving a captcha.

Are there ways around it? I'm sure there are, but it would make drone attacks a bit more difficult.

At some point Russia will probably just disable mobile internet if you get closer than 300km to the border with Ukraine. It's not like Putin has to worry about his ratings.

Someone who gets some large amount of money and thinks "hey, this looks like a lot of money, I will never be able to spend it for the rest of my life, might as well stop working and do something for fun" does not become one of the richest people on the planet.

For example - I work because I need money. If I won the lottery or got a large amount of money some other way, I would put the money in some index funds or wherever that's low risk and live off the returns without having to work anymore. There are things I want to do and I need money and time to do them, but money itself is not my goal.

For the people who do become one of the richest people on the planet, money is their goal. They will work more hours, do anything to get more and more money. This personality trait is what lets them go to the top. However, it cannot be turned off, so, even if the person makes trillion dollars, he will work to make even more.

There's a game called Factorio. In it you crash land on some planet and have to build a rocket to launch a satellite in space, to do that you need to build an entire factory that takes ore, processes it, makes components and so on, until you manage to make the rocket. Technically the game ends when you launch the rocket, but you can play after that, improving and expanding the factory to be able to launch many rockets. People have put many hours into playing the game, even after if "ends" to have the most rockets per minute or some other self-made goal. The game is over, you "won", so why are you still playing? Because it's fun, there are goals still to be achieved and so on. The same with ultra rich and making money.

It's weird how the Pedophile Trash always want to argue the definition. Sex trafficking of minors means pedophilia, you disgusting subhuman worthless kidraper.