To say a closeup of your face on the way in isn’t an escalation is what’s ridiculous

You think area coverage and face scans are remotely similar levels of scrutiny?

A as a step towards B man

Forgiveness is for our selves, change must be accepted 🧘

“A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project’s approval.”

because ousting half the local government over it isn’t a clear enough expression of the people’s will

Here’s a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he’s just a regular dog lol

Buddy fucked up lil “challenge coin” trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy “devil dog” marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable “n-word lynchers” shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out

Let’s be wildly paranoid lol

This is slander to excrement, a nutrient rich component of the cycle which sustains us

He did a lot to raise both funding and awareness for hiv/aids research and absolutely benefited from the finest, most cutting edge treatment our healthcare system has possibly ever provided to anyone. That was available to him at the time and not the people his charities would eventually serve because of his massive fortune. Can you really not see the point dude was making? Didn’t say anything remotely judgmental about him either

Won’t someone please think of the billionaires? They’re people just like us, deserving of dignity and respect… this man spent six years guiding a machine to squeeze pennies from the lonely and desperate, paying third worlders less than a sandwich a day to meet their sexting quotas, exploiting incel’s need for connection with a slow drip of synthesized hope. That has to count for something

I’m your new dad, the world has changed, and some idiot with a socket set and can-do attitude (hi) is 100% saving most of those junked cars. I’ve pulled motors with hand tools in gravel lots before and will likely get stuck doing it again. This is hell and the choices a lot of people face aren’t about which new thing would be better to buy. There is absolutely no sub–$5k EV market and if you’re clever and patient you can get a “junked” ICE car going for free

Lot of words, no sub–$5k EV listings. Again, my car was $700, 1 to own it 6 to fix the engine. Not at all hypothetical. I have a pretty solid idea what a used one costs and can find ICE beaters ~$500 all day. Post em if you’ve got em

Lot of downvotes, not one link to a sub-5k EV. “Anyone with their own home” and “batteries stay useful through 15 years” demonstrate an unimaginably privileged lifestyle from here. I rarely see vehicles that new and often end up sleeping in my car, which again cost less than a grand, a rounding error in your household budget. There are no EV options anywhere near this price point. The best deal I’ve ever seen was $950 for a Leaf self-estimating 30 miles of range. Refurbished small battery $4k, big one 6. The politicization is dumb as hell, both in terms of people they’d be a perfect fit for refusing to even consider them and the tribal immune response I got pointing out the high price floor has left me behind

They make a lot of sense for a lot of people, but less the lower end you go or more remote you live with a pretty solid floor ~$5k. Again, my car was less than 1

An internal combustion engine doesn’t just fall apart though. It’s a collection of smaller, less expensive parts that wear and fail and can be replaced. A monolithic, proprietary battery that must be replaced as a unit is much closer to what you’re describing. What you’re saying about sales and service is absolutely true for the first owner and there are even bonus maintenance pros like pretty much never having to do brakes, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Same as I told the other guy, link me the cheapest EV you consider usable. It’s going to cost at least as much a battery. If it doesn’t, it needs one. There are potential answers to this like battery standards, modular designs, recycling programs but no one seems to push for them, electric=green, problem solved, back to consuming

Statistically you’re using statistics wrong, that’s my directly observed experience of vehicle salvage and the extreme low end of the used market. Show me a $1k EV that’s still usable. Much less than 5 or so is because it needs a battery that costs around that. I’ve stripped packs for cells and know what even a dead core goes for/how common they are too. “Expected lifespan” is unsustainable nonrepairable anticonsumer bullshit whatever tech it’s applied to, some of us are still trying to use this stuff after the lease is up and warranty’s expired.

It’s not, but the robot doesn’t have morals or a conscience or alignment with human values to get in the way. Kinda like billionaires!

On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey

Everyone I know is jealous of EVs but can’t afford one. Regular cars break down all kinds of dumb ways and there’s great deals to be had if you can fix simple shit. EVs the battery just goes eventually and there’s an inevitable ~$5k bill so that’s kinda the price floor. Not much else to go wrong. 30 year old gas car I’m driving was $100 to haul out of someone’s yard and $600 to get back on the road