It's funny watching Big Grown Cis Men feeling so threatened.

Yup. Congestion pricing has inevitably been met with howls of outrage upon introduction, which also inevitably has morphed into satisfaction 6-12 months later, in multiple cities all over the world.

"Could be fake?" Anything could be fake. Even a passport. That's a really stupid thing to claim.

If you live anywhere but the urban core, cars are a necessity.

Yes, in North America. Because of deliberate planning choices made in the past by politicians spurred on by the auto lobby.

Reversing those choices will be well-nigh impossible and hugely expensive. But living with those choices is also hugely expensive and damaging. Basically, in North America, we're screwed by decades of bad choices. I live in a suburb of a Canadian city (about 10km from the core) and I have a car. I wish I didn't have to have a car because car ownership is expensive and a pain in the ass, but because of bad planning on the part of my city, I'm stuck with one.

Delivery is a red herring. Amsterdam (as I mentioned in another comment) is a very compact, dense city with narrow streets where most trips are not done by car, and yet trucks and vans somehow manage deliveries just fine. It comes down to choices and proper city design.

How many people on an average commute are carrying a significant amount of cargo, though?

Amsterdam is a dense city with many choices for modes of transport. The streets are pretty narrow, yet they somehow manage to get goods delivered just fine. And the trucks and vans that need to deliver the goods can actually get through pretty fast, despite the narrow streets, because there's much less car traffic to contend with.

Not Just Bikes explained the end result of self-driving cars in a longish video called How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it).

So if Bubba wants to give his 6-year-old kid moonshine, it's all good?

Wait until the company's insurer hears about this... I don't think they'll be amused.

Engagement-driven social media is not the same as TV. It is far more addictive and far more dangerous both to individuals' mental health and to society at large.

If I were Dictator of Earth, I'd ban Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok completely. But I'm not, so I'll take what I can get and if it starts with age restrictions, that's fine.

There's this. And the largest increase might not be Americans leaving the USA for Canada, but rather people who would have chosen to go to the USA choosing Canada instead.

If an academic has a 180-day visa, then why would they want to buy a house? That makes no sense; renting for three months makes far more sense.

And yes, I'm not denying our healthcare system has its problems. Simply (re)stating that it's far better than the US system for most people.

AFAIK, this is untrue. Do you have a citation?

I think Pete "Signal" Kegseth and Robert "Antivaxx" Killemdead Junior are poster-children for the incompetence you get with DEI (you know, promoted because they're white dudes willing to suck Trump off rather than because of their qualifications.)

I wonder how other countries manage?

Oh geez. They don't seem to have school shootings at anywhere near the rate of the US. I wonder what could possibly be the reason for that?

Who would win? Nobody. The US would be destroyed.

And a blue-haired gender queer with an RPG is just as deadly as a redneck with an RPG.

There is no Canadian ban on foreigners buying houses if the foreigners have a right to live in Canada and plan on living in the houses.

Taxes in Canada are higher than the US... though by the time you add in medical insurance premiums, the difference is much less. And corporate taxes in Canada are not much higher than in the US at all. (I ran a company in Canada for 19 years, and not having to pay expensive health insurance for employees gave us a big competitive advantage over US companies.)

Our health care system is overcrowded and has its problems, but I'll take it over the US one any day of the week. We have higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rates despite spending less per capita on healthcare than the US.

And it's not a wish. It's something that's already happening.