>"which think is deliberately misleading."

Yes, I think MANY car companies are doing it intentionally to mislead consumers. Especially when they have no BEVs. Honda did it, Toyota did it, Infiniti, many of them. I know, because I encountered it a lot when doing research.

And to the people who claim hybrids "are EV's" I would retort with they "are ICE". Because they are just as much ICE as EV.

>"hybrids as I see them as the worst of both worlds."

As do I. Although a PHEV (plug-in hybrid) is something I think could be very useful for some people. But even those I certainly do not think of them as the "best of both worlds" due to the complexity/maintenance when compared to a BEV.

>"This is a common enough form, so it's fine."

It is "fine" if you want to sound uneducated. Like it or not, people can and will judge you on the way you write and speak. So if you say/write "There is three people", then you will appear less educated. This may interfere with advancement or even just validity of what you are trying to say. In a perfect world, it might not matter (more focus on what is meant), but we aren't living in that world.

>"Right, because nobody's ever been mugged at a gas station. It's well known how safe and secure they all are. /sarcasm"

If you don't have the option to charge at home (thankfully I can and do), you are likely to spend much, much, much more time "trapped" at a commercial charger than the 4 min to fill a gas tank and be off. Many of them are not as well-let or in as well-trafficked areas, often with no attendant oversight or even cameras. The more time spent at such places, the more likely there will be a negative encounter. So the OP does have a valid point.

>"Hyundai's Electric Car Sales Surged 50% Over July 2024"

No, Hyundai's "electrified" vehicles sales surged. That includes hybrids.

I wish people would be more specific. To 99% of people, if you say "electric car/vehicle", the assumption is that the conversation is about BEVs, not hybrids. Most people (me included) would not regard a hybrid as an "electric car."

>"Actually, it does.[...] So, popular use is precisely what determines meaning and correctness."

Well, tell that to your English teacher and see if it manages to get you a passing grade when you say/write very popular things such as: "I is going to the store", "They had went there", "You and me should get together", "I seen them do it", "Where did you put it at."

>"This is extremely frustrating, and hard to accept, for certain kinds of people"

I guess I am one of those people :)

>" "There're" ??

That is a valid contraction. But it is strange. Much easier to just say/write "there are."

>"Your grammar Nazi license has hereby been revoked."

I actually thought it was a funny/witty posting, seeing the construct and subject (exams, education, AP, subjects). Sorry you think it is "grammar Nazi-ism", it wasn't meant to be that way. I do have better things to do than go after incorrect grammar- that would be a futile, full-time job.

>"There're is annoying to pronounce, so "there's" is often used in spoken language.

And yet "there are" is not annoying to pronounce and easy to write. So using the correct words isn't difficult.

>"That usage is moving into written language."

And spoken, as well. But that doesn't make it correct. It just looks/sounds completely uneducated and jarring.

"There", "their", and "they're" are confusing to many (for some odd reason). Just because we see them used incorrectly frequently doesn't legitimize using the wrong words.

>"There's tests in 38 subjects"

But apparently not including English. Next up, English primary school exam!

"There's tests" = "There is tests". "Is" is singular, not plural.
Correct answer is "There are tests" or "There're tests."

>"Something like Windows on TPM is the gold standard for losing control of your hardware to some random software vendor."

LOL! So perfectly-worded :)

>" it's difficult to see a world where iPhone's not living in it," Cook said."

Really? Because I have never had or used an 'iPhone' so I can easily see such a world...

Unless you mean "smart phone", then that is different. Apple didn't invent it, despite the rigamarole. I have been using smart phones for many years before Apple released anything. They did contribute to the evolution, for sure. But so did many other companies.

As for AI toppling smart phones, I seriously doubt that. Humans are very visual creatures. There will always be a place for a portable, interactive display device. I don't think "smart glasses" or whatnot are going to take over, certainly not anytime in the foreseeable future. If anything, many people are looking for ways to DISCONNECT, not to have more stuff take over their lives.

>"with the goal of locating immigrants."

No, the goal is locating illegal aliens, not "immigrants". There is a big difference. You might not like the goal, but trying to mask it as all "immigrants", like most of the media does, is disingenuous.

The agreement is for demographic information only, not medical information.

>"The insight that I have is that America is an Oligarchy now"

It isn't just "now". Where have you been? It has been that way for decades. Not just corporate but special-interest groups folded in. And Congress outsources their power to their unelected agencies and to the Executive so they don't have to make or be accountable for any difficult decisions. Then wrap up all the decisions they do make into massive bills that nobody reads or understands, that melds everything together so, again, no single important issue gets voted on, ever.

Without ranked-choice voting, there will always be effectively only two parties, both of which have been "captured" for a very long time. All the partisan bickering just blinds everyone to what is really going on below.

>"When I walk into a specialist's office, I should be able to click on the health info sharing app, select WHAT data to share, tap the NFC device on the receptionist's counter, do the MFA shuffle, then OK yes share that data with that provider."

There are MAJOR problems with the current data sharing, as you point out. Where I am, *ALL* the hospitals and tons of other facilities use EPIC. And if your data is in one, every other site has access to *everything* about you, without your explicit permission or control. And nearly all the practitioners have access to that system, even if they are not using it in their practice.

This might sound like a good thing, and in some ways it is, but in others it is not. Just because you go to a specialist or some doctor for a specific purpose doesn't mean he/she should have access to anything and everything related to you from everywhere for all time, and without your knowing. There might be unrelated or sensitive information, or incorrect information in there. And THEY have access but WE don't. At most, with lots of effort, we mortals might have access to SOME of the data in "digested"/"sanitized" form in some "portal".

And yes, you are correct that Epic is a huge "bully", do it their way and with their stuff or go pound sand.

>"For years I had flagship Samsungs, a few of the Pixel models, even the Nexus (Which wasn't necessarily a flagship, but was the reference model for what an Android phone should be). Without fail, every single one of them crapped out shortly after the warranty expired."

Ancedotes.

I have had multiple HTC's (HTC Evo, Evo 3D, Evo LTE), Nexus 5, a Moto G5+, and Samsung A 52 (current phone) over the many years. And I keep/use them a LONG time. Not a single one ever failed. I still use my ancient HTC Evo LTE , 13 years later, every day, as my alarm clock and MP3 player bedroom. Original battery. Charge it, use it in bathroom for music, and dock it, every day.

So no. There is nothing magic or all that special about Apple hardware in my mind.

>"I'm pretty sure this feature already exists, at least for Apple phones."

It does for Android as well, at least in Samsung, and there are apps that can do it as well if not built-in (the send unknown calls to voicemail function).

In Android, there is no way to TOTALLY block calls on an unrooted phone. All you can do is send to voicemail.

My problem is that wasn't good enough, because all these people and machines would leave messages. And that is just as annoying- it will cause a notification that interrupts me, and then I have to spend effort going into the VM app and deleting that crap.

The solution was to record a special/hostile voicemail greeting that tells people they will have to wait through the tones and silence, then is as long as possible, complete with disconnect tones first, then static, then long silence. It is about 95% effective at preventing automated and human spam voicemail. I am sure AI will ruin that for me at some point.