It feels good briefly but hurts worse in the long run. It just means Ford and GM are circling the drain and the new kids on the block (Tesla, et al) will end up replacing them.
Step 1: Find a young entrepreneur with agency. Step 2:.... Step 3: Profit!!!! Except they are purposely leaving out step 2, which is: Pump 20 million in startup cash into the company with the goal of goading other rich VCs into pumping it up as well. Get the company up to 1 billion and then you sell out your shares. Step 3 is now complete. All you had to do is be the first one and then convince everyone else to follow suit.
School has always discouraged people from getting into reading by forcing students to read books they hate. I did read a ton of sci-if books in high school but they were books I wanted to read. I did not like the books the teacher made us read. BTW, I graduated in 1999 and I had to read full novels in English class.
They just need to switch over to taxing by mileage. My state has yearly safety inspections already. Just charge an additional fee at inspection time that is based on current odometer reading minus previous reading from last year.
Nobody cares about seeing your face. No one at my work uses video in Zoom calls. All of our meetings are always audio only and we get things accomplished that way just fine.
Should my employer pay me for my commute to the office? What about when I take a shower and brush my teeth? They should pay me to get dressed too. I mean if I wasn't going to work I could just stay naked.
Nice try but no. Ironically it's the lefty nut jobs who call themselves "progressives" who are holding back progress in this instance. Most Christian conservatives in the US agree with animal testing.
You can already turn off the transparency by going to settings, accessibility, display & text size, reduce transparency. I did it immediately after upgrading to 26 and that made it much better.