You have to understand that environmentalism is a luxury belief. Poorer everyone gets, shorter planning horizon gets - this way for someone struggling to afford rent and food what happens years down the road gets pushed into "do not care" category.

Gen Z have catastrophic issues with unemployment, earnings, and student loans. They are not into EVs the same way they are not into private jets - they can't afford them and can't afford to live where one could charge one.

Going from memory - backup camera, offset crash minimum performance, front collision detection/warning. I don't remember specific dates for each one of these, you can always dig into FMVSS for details. Also, pedestrian automatic emergency braking is soon to become mandatory. What does it mean for an economy car price? It means manufacturers have to include entire category of safety systems, such as front-facing pedestrian detection camera and hardware supporting it, to every car. THAT is what makes economy cars not affordable. Versa is discontinued for these reasons, so your mom will have to buy more expensive car the next time.

You came so close to getting it. The American cars are so expensive... but not because car manufacturers have an ability to dictate the car prices, they simply don't (COVID was exception due to supply issues). Cars are so expensive because of all the government requirements they have to meet. All of the cheap cars available elsewhere in the world would be illegal to sell in US. More so, iconic historic cars, like VW Beetle, would likewise be illegal to sell as new. Some of it due to emission standards, some of it due to safety and crash ratings, and some of it due to various historical tariffs (e.g. chicken tax) and sales regulations.

One of the key issues with EVs is that they are not affordable. Deregulation is how you solve this, not subsidies that are just transfer of wealth from everyone to well-off people that can afford to buy a new EV.

I think layoff getting rewarded was a vestigial artifact of 80s thinking, where layoffs meant computerization of more processes and increased efficiencies.

I am afraid there is a lot more of this in our collective future. Having GIGO algorithm making managerial decisions seems like inevitable future of tech. After all, they will have to find some use for all that unwanted AI (might as well replace equally useless consultants with AI, right?).

You need to differentiate between hypothetical scenario and presented facts.

If there exists a cure for aging, opposing it on a hypothetical that it has some unknown flaw and will kill everyone is not reasonable response.

You could argue caution, you could argue that we don't know all the details, but unless you have some facts that were not presented, you can't rationally oppose it on a basis of conjecture and speculation.

Sure, but that is not what happening here. Criticizing Trump for making it more expensive to bring H-1B workers, it turn making the abuse of the program to bring in cheap IT workers to take US jobs and suppress IT wages, is universally good thing for anyone working in tech. So criticizing Trump for that IS deranged.

Setting it to a fixed $100K will make it less effective deterrent overtime due to inflation.

You are unreasonably optimistic. My prediction is that TDS will win out and many /. posters will turn out opposing this, while others pointing this change benefits tech workers as a good thing will get moderated down.

This is because you are a hyper-partisan reflexively opposing anything Trump administration does. If instead you paused to consider the highly publicized negative effects (e.g., training your H-1B replacements, wage stagnation, etc.) that are being addressed by this change you'd agree this is a good change.

No, it is not in this context. H-1B is currently used to suppress tech worker wages by bringing foreigners willing to work for a lot less to get a chance at a green card. This benefits nobody except shareholders that get cheap labor. This is not how H-1B was intended to be used.

There is also a third possibility - there are exist facts that are incongruent with your reality.

I have issues with most censorship, the only exception I'd draw is brainwashing children. I don't like them attempting to censor your side, but it is a lot less frequent than what Democrats did when they were in power. Don't confuse defunding your causes with censorship.

If Russia wants to waste money on pointless projects, more power to them. Or like they say - Flag into their hands.