Ded

They would have to seize new land, build new tunnels and bridges and essentially start from scratch to build functional rail, and if you want it to pass through major cities that gets extremely expensive. Flock relies on existing mass produced tech (they’re essentially a bulky cell phone with fewer features, a small solar panel and a pole. They already had the land, just needed govt permission to use the existing easements. And Flock is making money vs spending trillions with no ROI.

Many of the people I know are of the opinion that the climate is changing, unsure how much is just a natural cycle or caused by us. But one thing they feel confident in is that the people in power only want to use it to gain money and power, and that there will be no climate impact to giving them money and power. They also don’t want to live under strict rules when other nations are burning trash or sending it down their rivers into the ocean.

It was probably written by a 65-75 year old American. It was once the style. I run into people who still use it but they’re always in that age range.

Hey communists, when your ideas are forced it always produces authoritarianism and mass death. (I’m just following the meme’s instructions).

Voluntary communes generally fail too, but at least they don’t result in millions of deaths. If you want communism, you are free to find a group of like minded people, pool resources to buy land and give it a try. Please keep me out of it.

Yeah the US EV market is stupid. I could just about get by with a four season golf cart for getting around town. I still need a gasser for long drives I have to do pretty often, but we have four drivers so we need more than one vehicle. Give me a $15k EV!

As an American, I can imagine. But I’m still making 2003 money so I’m not buying anything this year.

The US auto industry lobbied many hours and many dollars to set up protectionist laws so that startup companies and foreign competitors were at a disadvantage. These have been the laws so long it hurts.

Well not for Ukraine that’s for fucking sure.

And it’s amazing

How is it “overriding my freedom of expression”? Both parties can express themselves however they want, that’s the point of the first Amendment.

I don’t completely agree with all of your sentiment but I agree that individuals filming is far less of an issue than government and corporate surveillance. If we want to stop surveillance we don’t like, let’s remove all government and corporate surveillance first.

Yes Europe’s laws on this are very different. Europens in the US often get upset when someone is filming on the street and haven’t asked anyone for consent. Sometimes they throw a fit about it - threaten violence, or call the police. But it’s perfectly legal and they can publish it even if you specifically say you don’t give consent. A lot of that content ends up getting tons of views, so people going up to the camera to say I don’t want to be on camera is kind of a running joke in the first amendment community. If they had just ignored the camera no one would have ever seen video of them.

The EU is one of the most toxic organizations on the planet. I don’t even want to visit while it is still in power. It’s like the reverse of the Trump reality, and not in a good way.

Totally. I’ve lived lots of other places including the Netherlands. But bikes are not an option for me.

If I rode a bike near my home I would be injured or killed within a few weeks if not day one.

Europe heatwave shows they need to buy their grandma a little AC unit.

As long as I’m being held underwater by a slender brunette young woman in a Baywatch style red one-piece, I won’t complain.

Many people can’t floss. Me personally, I got experimental orthodontics in the '80s and they filed between my teeth and flossing has been excruciating ever since. I still have all of my teeth though, minus two wisdom teeth that were removed to create space (it wasn’t enough space)

Backwards? There is nothing backwards about these memes.