Watching various mechanics on YouTube, American cars now have the same problem, no parts availability along with shit manufacturing with plastic parts. Even simple stuff like tranny fluid is not available or on back order. Things like trannies no longer having dip sticks too, want to check the level, hope you have access to a lift. Of course this stuff is supposed to be good for the life of the vehicle which is now maybe 5 years.
I know someone who inherited the family drainage company, basically ditch digging and burying big-O pipe on farm land. He has millions of dollars of equipment, GPS, lasers for getting the slope right and such. At the end of the day he still needs a couple of guys with shovels for various reasons from the excavator getting tangled up in some unforeseen manner (buried wire often) to finishing the ends of the ditches.
As usual, 98+% can be automated but there's still that 1-2%.
As a revolution, the American revolution was a complete failure at overthrowing the British government, got no where near Parliament. It was a very successful war of secession which resulted in independence from the British government. There has been other successful wars of secession, though many such as various ones in Africa ended up authoritarian.
The Russian revolution resulted in an Authoritarian State with brief periods of democracy and is still authoritarian.
The French revolutions, as you state, resulted in a mixture of democracy and authoritarianism.
A good example of a successful revolution was the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which actually had little violence as revolutions go and resulted in neutering the power of the King in favour of Parliament, with Parliament slowly getting more democratic since then.
Would that kind of user even be interested in Notepad++?
You should check out the abandoned well situation in Alberta. Likely to cost Canadian tax payers up to 100 billion to clean up as those companies shouldn't be expected to clean up their mess. Some of those wells are also giving off toxic fumes. Also check out the unpaid land taxes in Alberta for those same wells, because why should oil companies pay land taxes.
Not to mention the massive amount of land given to mining bitumen.
Only 49,000 Chinese electric cars getting imported into Canada right now. This is likely to increase if America screws up the CUSMA deal as looks likely.
You don't think that how the environment, things like plastic being similar to estrogen, affects vertebrates is important? Perhaps you need to learn some biology or at least recognize your lack of knowledge.
given that Canada is quite well aligned with America on aggressively hostile and badly designed road infrastructure.
It's a big country. OTOH, 3 of the 4 best transit systems in N. America are in Canada, with only NYC doing better.
There's one western nation that has slavery enshrined in its Constitution.
So they're much like Christians, except a better heaven.
Except they're taxing at a much higher rate compared to the average gas tax, at least in America where the gas tax is generally very low. Politics.
Some states are taxing EV's at a few hundred a year already, much more then if paying the gas tax. https://taxfoundation.org/data... look at the middle column. Somehow it has become political.
Perhaps your one of the people that electric doesn't work for you, what with one of your main pleasures being driving.
Me, I hate driving now, my leg hurts from the clutch, my hip hurts from sitting and I'd rather not drive any more then needed. Last road trip, I found myself stopping at every rest stop for 10-15 minutes to stretch and everyone of those rest stops had a couple of unused level 2 or 3 chargers, so I'd love to be able to afford to go electric. Obviously you and I are quite different when it comes to driving and electric just doesn't work for you. I was the same when young, jump in the truck and go on a multi day drive, often where there weren't hardly any gas stations.
The American auto companies are much more scary then the Chinese ones. It is America who keeps starting wars, threatening to annex various countries and waging economic war on friendly countries. It is also American companies that have the profit motive to sell all the data they can and likely will happily sell to the Chinese government as well as other governments.
All great discoveries are made by mistake. -- Young
