It does seem like a business model where human drivers take it from the loading dock to the highway to let it drive itself to the next city where it is met by a local driver to take to to the next loading dock would make a lot of sense. The local drivers could likely keep reasonable working hours (along with the people running the loading/unloading facilities) while the trucks run 24/7 and wait in a big parking lot near the highway.

Then again, spending resources setting up this system and fine tuning it for efficiency, might end up being wasted if a few years down the road (ha! "down the road") the automation is able to do the city driving without issue. Your competitive advantage could be gone in a short time, before you've had the opportunity to profit from the investments you made in the now-out-of-date system.

It's probably easier (and cheaper) to just pay women to have kids and if they don't want to keep them, they would give them to the state orphanage.

I'm not saying this would be a "good" idea, but probably better than full-on enslavement or artificial wombs.

The lack of migration to Siberia and Northern Canada are not persuasive proofs that climate is not a driver of migration - as neither place is particularly friendly in the "local climate" aspects of living there.

Canadahelps.org allows you to donate to any registered Canadian charity, if the charity has not set up a Canadahelps.org charity account, they just mail out a cheque for anything that is donated using the registered charity's registered mailing address.

A crucial difference is that Canadahelps.org is itself a charity, subject that the oversight that entails. I think it is a great value to the charities who use it since it can greatly simplify the charity's accounting and official receipt generation requirements, at the cost of losing out at a closer connection to their doners. From the point of view of a doner, it certainly simplifies things to have a single place to do all your donations, potentially combining multiple tax receipts into just one.

Some people do not use a phone case. The monsters.

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Or even just include the information in the plain text of the email message.

"See attached document for the time and place of the meeting."

Our society also needs a bit less economic disparity. Maybe going back to a minimum wage of $12.50 per hour like it was in 1968 (inflation adjusted) would be a good idea.

"Because I perceive this one example of a conflict of interest, this other conflict of interest is not important."

Is that really your position?

Maybe a better position would be "I think the everyone should be bound by conflict of interest legislation that is effective." or "I will not support anyone's conflict of interest actions."

BTW, didn't the Republican-led congressional inquiries into Biden wrongdoings in this area lead to nothing? When the political opponents can't find much to pin on somene, maybe there isn't much to find.

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As a society, we are getting richer collectively - just not necessarily on an individual basis. Our overall productivity has been increasing for a LONG time. We have enough resources and are going to have even more in the future, we just have not decided on a system to distribute it equitably.

Each generation is collectively more affluent than the previous one, its just that each generation concentrates that affluence more and more into a smaller fraction of the whole.

To be fair, MOST of the money spent in "foreign military assistance" is money spent on local arms suppliers, and works to keep the USA military equipment up to date and fresh and to keep the USA military industry humming along and benefiting from economics of scale.

Like the "poor folks food aid" (both foreign and domestic) is mostly subsidies to the American agricultural sector, foreign military aid is mostly subsidies to the American defence sector.

I was thinking the same thing. Wind+solar seemed to actually be a tiny bit more than hydro.

A third of a billion people might agree with you. About 7.8 billion people don't feel that way. Are there no good wordworkers in that group.

I don't doubt that YOU prefer non-SI measurements, and feel that it works well, but you should not deny that A LOT of other people seem to be doing OK with SI, and that perhaps your minority opinion might not be so well grounded as it feels like it is.

You lean on “better” like it’s objective, but it’s not. It’s your value call: less CO2, quieter streets....shoved on everyone via state power. I say let people decide what matters to them, cost, range, whatever. If EVs can’t stand on their own, maybe they’re not as great as you think.

Well, individual choice on externalities like CO2 and noise do not really work that way. If I don't want you to pollute, the only way I can really influence your behaviour is to convince enough people to support public policies that make you not pollute, or at least discourage you from doing so. So, when enough people value clean air and quieter streets, they hopefully manage to make it more costly anyone to pollute it.

In this particular case, it looks like the new ICE numbers in total are falling from a peak in 2018, which seems pretty surprising to me. Perhaps those EV's a greater than many think.

I may be missing your point, or maybe you were being sarcastic? Copper is easily recycled. The scrap metal dealers are currently paying between $2 and $3.75 per pound according to a good search for prices in Los Angeles.

I suppose we can "make more oil", but while "synthetic" petroleum products can be made out of basic elements using the magic of chemistry, doing so is energy and cost prohibitive compared to digging it out of the ground, which is why we are in the atmospheric CO2 mess we are in.