When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Remember that the police are not in charge of your safety, you are. If you don't feel comfortable then you need to do something to make that situation better. Depending upon the situation that might be "don't do it" or maybe get your CCW. Those are two of your many choices. Your safety really depends on you.

Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.

California doesn't? Really? As a California native, I've seen rolling blackouts, wild fires taking out power lines, wind storms knocking down lines, snow storms knocking down lines, tornadoes knocking down lines, etc. PG&E was forced to invest into "green energy" and their lines weren't upgraded as they only have limited funds to do simultaneous projects. Between the governmental interference/ineptitude and just natural issues, California has had many power issues.

It's not injecting any wealth into rural communities. It's injecting wealth into a single or a small group of large landowners, who upon receiving said wealth will immediately pack up and move to a large city somewhere and live the high life until they go bankrupt a year later.

They are just trying to coerce you into using the Hotmail web client in Edge instead of the classic Outlook app, which they no longer want to spend the money to maintain.

"likely to push printing toward cloud-locked, subscription-based systems"

And there we have the real reason for passing this law.

Yeah, it must be a falling birth rate. It couldn't possibly be decades of assault on education and progress on equal rights by the far right and the current administration. Not at all.

Because they have to get everyone to click through a waiver that prohibits them suing Verizon for anything that has happened or may ever happen.

It takes a large amount of pesticide to grow cotton, and the Boll Weevil has become resistant to most modern pesticides, which means you have to use really nasty ones to grow clothing-quality cotton. Those pesticides are not removed that thoroughly because, why bother when profits are on the line?

Damn, I am glad to learn this. I just consider myself lucky that my washing machine dumps into the sewer rather than into my tomato garden. I feel sorry for all those people that are using washing machine discharge to irrigate their agricultural soil.

I really like my OnePlus.. I started with an 8T, drove that for 3 years, and then upgraded to the 12T last year. The 8T still worked great but the battery was starting to wear out so I retired it. I still have it in a drawer as a backup.

The 12T is great and I've been very happy with it.

Depending on your perspective, Northern Wisconsin or Southern Ontario... Same thing here it seems.

Why is it that you assume that government subsidies are the only way to build out the infrastructure required for electric vehicles? Or that there is zero benefit to an electric vehicle without the government subsidizing the cost of an electric car? Tesla built out an international charging system. Yes their cars here were subsidized but at a tiny fraction of the actual cost (model S price was rather high and the subsidy rather low, basically free money for rich people). There is no need for governments to waste money on charging stations when the companies making the cars can figure it out themselves. The benefits of owning and operating electric are here and not up to the whim of your current dictator of choice. Billions of dollars wasted on unbuilt charging stations is not the way forward. Commercial chargers can make a profit just like gas stations have for a couple generations.