One thing is for sure, you'll never see an electric vehicle try the Cannonball Run across the country.
That Wikipedia link has an entire section on cannonball run EV records...
Maybe you should re-evaluate your stance on this one?
I drive an electric car in New England. The 40% figure isn't that far off. I went from 3.7m/kwh to 2.5m/kwh. About 33% loss in range. No change in driving habits and I remote start the car when it's plugged in to warm it up so I don't have the heat cranked up when I'm on the battery.
If they're on TV and making money, they are doing it for the money. They may have other motives as well. They may, in their heart of hearts, be doing it because they believe that money is going to a good cause. But it doesn't matter if you're a true believer or if you're a scam artist. In an ideal world we would stop people from profiting off of lies.
I believe the employee used the customer's phone to post her photos to her own Facebook. No outside electronics were used.
Nobody is stopping them. There's a difference between "loudly declaring" and actually doing it.
If they were socially responsible they'd do it. Instead, they yell about it so that low-IQ people on the left will think they're virtuous. It's why we call it "virtue signaling".
Gates and Buffet believe that the best case scenario is that taxes on the wealthy go up. They would pay more, personally, but that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the overall increase in tax revenue. This would be a systemic change that would improve society on a fairly large scale.
Because that isn't happening, the second best thing they can do is to spend their money on the charities and research projects that they think will best serve society. This is what they are doing.
To voluntarily pay more taxes to the government would be pretty pointless. It accomplishes very little.
To be clear, I'm not shilling for the rich. I think we should be taxing billionaires to the point where we no longer have billionaires. Heck, I think we should be taxing multi-millionaires to the point where we no longer have people with a nine figure net worth.
Cops should be recorded every second that they're on the job. If someone doesn't like it, they shouldn't become a cop.
The public entrusts cops with a fairly large bit of power, up to and including the use of lethal force. I feel like being recorded while you're on the job is a fairly trivial check on that kind of power.
Yeah, the Instagram live thing could definitely be annoying, but unless it is getting in the way of doing their job, I don't think they should be able to stop it. The only reason people are trying things like this is that cops have lost the public's trust due to rampant corruption and abuse of power. Reform the police and you'll have less Instagramming.
You said:
And yet none of the people arrested so far had Parler accounts...
Someone replied with pretty solid evidence that people arrested did have Parler accounts.
At this point it would be possible to support your original point by just admitting that people who were arrested did have parlor accounts, but that those were not the people who actually planned the whole thing.
But instead you resorted to an ad hominin attack.
If a website allows anonymous posts, hold the website accountable for the content of those posts. If you want to host a site where anyone can promote conspiracy theories, or racist ideology, you're free to do so. But if that results in violence, you bear that responsibility.
If a website requires accounts linked to real identities, hold the users accountable for what they post. Real names wouldn't have to be visible on the front end, but would need to be available on the back end and discoverable via legal action. This allows things like facebook or reddit or whatever to continue, for the most part. But once you start using Facebook to organize a fascist takeover of the US government, you risk getting your door kicked in.
This does of course not include "criminal speech" such as incitement to violence (in many countries).
Who makes the call over what is incitement to violence? Is saying
Proud Boys, stand back and stand by
A call to violence?
I'm sure you've heard this before, but I'll do some back of the envelope math. I'm getting all my numbers from: https://taxfoundation.org/summ....
Total taxes paid: 10.2T
Taxes paid by the one percent: 3.8T
Effective tax rate on the one percent: 26.9%
Total adults in USA: 209,000,000
Give everyone $1000/month
Total cost: 2.5T
Total wealth of the one percent: 3.8T/.269=14.1T
To afford a 1K a month UBI, we just need to tax the one percent enough to pay for it:
3.8T+2.5T=6.3T
6.3T/14.1T=.447
It seems like that if you tax the richest one percent of Americans at 44.7% and you will pay for $1000/month for every American over 18, without adding any burden to the 99%.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the savings for getting rid of all other forms of federal welfare. And, if you put more effort into this, you design it so that anyone making around $100,000 (or something) pays $12000 in higher taxes than they do now, and gets back $12,000 dollars from UBI. So they net zero. If you make more than that, you're paying into helping folks who need it. If you make less you're benefiting.
Ideally, UBI replaces all other forms of welfare and acts as an absolute security net for all Americans. No one is quitting their job for $1000/month (or at least, very few people are). It just means that if things go suddenly bad, you don't have to worry about dealing with signing up for welfare or whatever.
Also, implementing universal, single payer healthcare would be a huge step forward as well, and is much more important than UBI. Right now there is an industry (the insurance industry) that acts as a middle man. They contribute nothing and only act to siphon off money.
How about the long history of Black Lives taken by Black youths, which has been suppressed by the police over the last 20 years. Do those Black Lives Matter?
Really? This kind of "whattaboutism" is disgusting.
Black youths don't have a union that protects them from any consequences for their actions.
Black youths are not supplied with military grade weapons by the government.
Black youths are not directly funded by my tax dollars.
The NRA has been a blatant right wing org since at least 1967, when they supported a bill specifically designed to strip 2A rights from minorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by then governor of California, Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party
The NRA was in full support of this bill.
No one would be threatening to pack the courts if republicans were sticking to their word about not confirming a new justice in an election year. Not to mention a justice who is a religious extremist and refuses to answer even the most basic questions at confirmation hearings.
Also, you're delusional if you think Harris is a far left politician. She was a tough on crime prosecutor...
That being said, I hope the courts get packed with socialists.
And really, I hope we manage to accomplish the rest of it too!
Why are you anti immigration?
Why do you want to keep the filibuster?
Why are you in favor of the electoral college?
Why don't you want DC and PR to get statehood?
Do you have any other source for the claim:
I remember what happened back in 2016 when I was boarding a bus to travel to another city, which happened to be on election night, and then out of nowhere saw scores of protestors block the freeways and streets. I wasn't following the election at that moment, and I didn't realize what going on at first..
I can't find anything online that supports this happening anywhere, aside from your personal anecdote here on slashdot.
The West is fucked. Fundamentally, undeniably fucked!!! All of these protests, the anger, the rage.... What you're witnissing is the chickens coming home to roost after generations of self-loathing indoctrination that essentially sets the stage for people to hate their country, their own skin color, and the culture of Western civilization and all the bounties it has provided the world over.
Do you really not understand that the BLACK LIVES MATTER protests are about protesting the racism that is inherent in the systems we've set up in our society?
When you go to an established Uni, you're tought to hate yourself and that of your fellow man. And in doing so, it's cultivated in an atmosphere of narcissism based on falsehoods.
When you grow up in an established religion, you're taught to blindly listen to chosen authority figures. Which has cultivated an atmosphere of stupidity based on falsehoods.
Now, they're at an age where they will run the world. And run it into the ground they will, with hate, rage, and goals that will end in the destruction of the world as you know it.
Actually, I hope you're right on this one. I do hate most of the the racist, money hungry, and utterly corrupt politicians and oligarchs who currently run things. The state of the world today does enrage me when I think about the injustices that so many people face on a daily basis. And my goals are definitely to tear down the systems that prop up the wealthy few who thrive on inequity at the expense of the many.
"....but but but...it's the boomers fault...."
Well, most of that generation sure as hell isn't part of the solution.
And so no one will accept responsibility, and so nothing good will come out of this.
Who should accept responsibility? For what exactly? What does this mean?
Ultimately, China will rule the world (so long as they don't piss off India to the brink of war). Not because their ideals are better, but because the West decided to perform cultural seppuku.
Oh, I get it! You're angry because we're taking power away from old white men! Is that the culture you're talking about?
The sweet smell of societal decay. Such a lovely bouquet, is it not?
Burn it down.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
