A crack house at least has a sustainable economy, a purpose, and a business model. The US is more like a lemonade stand set up by a 4yo who made lemonade by picking grass and mixing it with hose water

Can someone please explain what Talib Kweli was doing there and didn’t punch a Nazi?

I thought the cars were mediocre at best and overpriced. The more I learned the less i liked them.

• Primary door function being completely electronic with a warning that using the manual release could damage the car.
• Proprietary navigation, so traffic data only comes from other Tesla’s.
• Lack of lidar, which has been the standard for accident avoidance tech since forever.

To me those are not mutually exclusive.

Subscription based navigation? Want to use your car’s navigation system, there’s a fee for that? Want to fly a drone, that’ll be 9.99/month. Hopefully there will be a carve out for emergency systems.

This will also allow Tesla to up their traffic game. If everyone is using the Starlink GPS for navigation they’ll have all the data.

Very true. One thing that struck me about the last 8 years was how beholden the Republicans were to Trump during this entire time. It was batshit and I cannot remember any other time the legislator was so beholden to a President. We need them to be an independent branch, not scared of one man.

Add to that, would also be great if we actually had proportional representation that matched population growth.

While I agree that first past the post is the worst possible option, we need national reform as well.

STAR or RCV has the potential to break the 2 party system where votes are counted, but it comes up short against the electoral college system. As long as the electoral college is how we choose our President we will only have 2 viable candidates and the parties will have elevated power to not only choose our candidates but to elevate their preferred down ballot candidates which hobbles alternative voting mechanisms.

The electoral college combined with citizens United gives the parties practically unchecked power.

I did this 3 years in a row sword fighting with sticks all 3 times.

Reading this article, there is an underlying feeling that the women and children being tested are of a certain socioeconomic group. Seems to me they are being targeted by staff who have some strong biases.

Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.