He didn't quote Florida numbers I did, and you do realize that if Florida succeeded in massively under reporting their COVID deaths so as not to embarrass DeathSantis their death toll is way north of 50 k which makes the carnage in Florida way, way worse than I said it was. That being said Florida's deaths per 100k were 404 people while that of California was 256 per 100k so whatever California did they must have done something right Vermont did even better than both with only 149 deaths per 100k and so did Utah with 165 deaths per 100k. Most of the US red areas (Utah being a notable exception) and the anti-vaxxers, Ivermectin preachers and other quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers that inhabit them were, and still are, one of the biggest COVID virus incubators on the planet. None of this changes the fact that adopting strict measures, implementing them with discipline, doing so early, locking down your country and cracking down hard on COVID incubating anti-vaxxer morons like Japan did will massively reduce the death toll. The EU's reaction to the COVID pandemic was anything but exemplary but their total deaths per million rate was 2827 while that of the US was 3594 (assuming US COVID death statistics from red states can be trusted), Japan had 597 and a bunch of EU countries that can be better trusted than Florida to provide accurate COVID death statistics came in at under 1500. I shudder to think what will happen if we get something way worse than COVID, like a highly contagious strain of Ebola and the bleach drinking red hat crowd start going anti-vaxxx again in the name of FREEDUMB!!! because Ebola death rates range from between 50-90%.

Bullcrap! You count the COVID dead in Japan, count the COVID dead in Florida, compare the population sizes, population densities and observe that the Japanese don't take medical advice from qacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers, Floridans do take medical advice from quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers and then compare the death tolls of those that got vaccinated and followed pandemic protocol to the death-toll among those who didn't. There is no room for 'interpretation' on the basis of 'deeply held beliefs' here, misinformation related to COVID that was deliberately disseminated by quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers killed tens of thousands of Americans completely needlessly.

I came here to point out that Japan has 124 million inhabitants, they lost 57,262 people to COID. Flordia has a population of 23.37 million, they lost 51,240 people to COVID. Florida could have reduced that death toll to ~9000 (probably even less because their population density is lower than Japan's) if they hadn't listened to anti-vaxxers, Ivermectin preachers and other quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers. The death toll Florida suffered is quantifiable harm done by deliberately disseminated misinformation by psychopaths who think their little grift is worth more than a human life. Freedom of speech is a laudable ideal but your freedom of speech ends when human beings are dying because of what you are speaking about and I am not going to cry any rivers over the state intervening by muzzling quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers if it saves lives.

More like losing $4 billion in market cap and lord know how much in subscription and amusement park revenues after groveling before his most orange majesty by attacking free speech is now being offloaded on the customer.

Why? There are many cities round the planet that have as much or even more cultural vibrancy that NYC.

... and that, children, is why capitalism is waaaaay better than communism (;-D).

Awwww ... aren't Orange Daddy's tariffs hurting you enough?

It is possible, China and several European countries are doing it as we speak by transitioning to BEVs and retiring obsolete ICE vehicles. The only place where eliminating fossil fuels is a physical impossibility is by the laws of physics in whatever parallel Lala universe you are posting from

Immortality through organ transplants? So that's why Trump was throwing a tantrum over not being invited. It must be seriously creepy and downright traumatic to be a translator for these people.

From my point of view as a non US American, this is just another four years the rest of the world has gotten to put the US even farther behind it in the rear view mirror on the road to next generation energy generation and transportation tech than the US already was. This is all about prolonging the agony of shedding the legacy industrial burden of the US than it is bringing industrial production back to the US and forging a path into the future of technology. These old moss backed conservatives with their longing to return to the 1950s will be remembered as the people who lost the US it's technological lead.

Not the Japanese ones.

... and here I thought that shooting himself in the foot by cracking down on mail-in ballots was enough foot-shooting for the Orange Slug Emperor for the time being, then this nugget popped up. Fun fact: Red states lead the rest of the US US in solar and wind power production. Specifically: Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas.

Tesla doesn't build buses so that is not an option because this Tesla/Boring company 'transport loop' system is a giant Tesla publicity stunt funded by the tax paying citizens of Nashville so obviously there have to be Teslas in the tunnels. If, however, you decided that the tunnel should to be able to accommodate buses which would certainly be able to shift worthwhile numbers of passengers then that would quite make a bit more sense. However the tunnels would then have to be (A) quite a lot bigger than the one in Las Vegas, which (B) increases costs even if (C) you'd still probably save a whole lot of money and increase throughput quite dramatically by buying decently sized off the shelf electric buses from China instead of anything Tesla can lash together (because the world's largest electric bus manufacturers are BYD and Yutong who enjoy considerably economies of scale in that market). Sadly that's not an option because, remember, there have to be Teslas in the tunnels and because: "Orange man says Chiiiiina bad".

Sure, but the criticism isn't that this tunnel boring system is more expensive, it's the inefficiency of then putting a bunch Tesla passenger cars into the tunnel. A subway from the central station to the airport with only a few two or three minute stops can travel at least as fast and it can transport one heck of a lot more people per trip. Even making the tunnels a bit bigger and using electric buses would be more efficient than 70 Tesla model Ys. If these tunnels with Tesla passenger cars in them were so much better than subways they'd be everywhere by now and yet, at the time of writing, there is exactly one.

... and obviously nobody could have foreseen this.