Better order Mayorkas dismantle or sell off every ICE camp and piece of equipment and fire every single agent before it’s used to commit further inhumane acts.
I mean, they kinda got it figured out. They don’t even have to acknowledge climate change, if hurricanes threaten Florida they can simply redraw the path of the hurricane with a sharpie. Checkmate, liberals.
SCOTUS can say that your constitutionally protected right to privacy doesn’t extend to your health. So yeah, they can say whatever they want now. They have destroyed any semblance of credibility they once had.
I dont think you are wrong in the ‘why’ of why they are doing this; also, if a crime has been committed, i’m good with this.
However, “Trump Bad” as a campaign strategy is losing Democrats this election. If this is part of some longshot campaign approach, its idiotic. Trump led an insurrection against the United States of America. Maybe return to that. Bribing executives is peanuts.
Being on the take is an important part of communicating what’s going on here — Trump is part of a revolutionary attack by the super-rich to make sure they can keep picking our pockets.
Yet, how do you do that? Cost to produce said tonne? Societal cost of damage? Ecological cost, estimated in terms of reduced biodiversity? All of these costs change with time too. It’s a tough one for sure.
New vehicles of any kind are the height of financial irresponsibility, and represent a horrifically bad “investment” in both the short term and the long term.
The age at which any vehicle flips into being a good investment - 10-20 years old (the global minimum of purchase cost + ongoing repair costs) - is the time frame in which EV batteries become exhausted and require complete replacement at many tens of thousands of dollars, completely negating the financial benefits of a used vehicle.
So unless electric vehicles come with batteries that have lifespans in the 30-50 year range, a purpose-built electric vehicle of any age just isn’t a responsible financial decision for anyone who isn’t looking to burn their money for a vanity purchase.
The reason It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) holds up so well is that George’s line, “You know how long it takes a working man to save $5000?” has somehow not aged even slightly.
an ICE engine car will cost much more than $4k to maintain over the life of a Leaf battery
To maintain??
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What kind of shitbox cars have you bought? I’m on my 12th year of a 2001 Mazda 626, and a look at the Quicken category for it shows all of $1,834 spent on essential (non-cosmetic) parts beyond fuel, oil, and tyres. And yes, that’s across a dozen years, to the tune of about $152/yr.
Granted, it’s only around 200k on the odometer. But it sees almost daily use.
And EVs will be much harder on tyres due to being double to triple the weight, and so will require either much more expensive tyres or more frequent replacement.
The fact remains that 12 years in, I am still financially ahead of any brand-new vehicle, ICE or EV.
That said, no car is an investment, in terms of it appreciating in value. I’m sure you know that just I’ve seen some comments along those lines when people talk about electric cars depreciating.
I would never buy any vehicle that’s 10-20 years old if I have any other options available. A lot of shelf life used up at that point.
I bought a used 2023 bolt this year with only 5k miles on it. My previous car was a new 2008 Kia and I figured out with inflation I paid about the same for that one as I will for this one.
I would never buy any vehicle that’s 10-20 years old if I have any other options available.
If you cared anything about your personal privacy, you wouldn’t touch anything made after 2006 (and a surprising number of vehicles after 1996). They all have black boxes that record all of your driving history, and many models squirt that data back up to the corporate mothership to have your personal and private driving behaviour monetized without your consent. Plus, even what stays on your car is encrypted such that you have zero access to it, and your insurance company can trivially gain access to that data to weaponize it against you in case of an insurance claim.
I would never take a post-2006 vehicle even if it was free, except to immediately re-sell it. Modern vehicles make the Stasi’s surveillance system look like rank amateurs.
This is exactly where non dairy cheese should be tested. If they’re able to surpass a ‘real’ cheese in a blind taste test, that’s awesome. I wish it wasn’t a blue cheese though personally haha
“There is no service that is covered for a cisgendered person that is not covered for a transgender person meeting the same criteria,” Caleb David, an attorney for West Virginia, told judges on the appellate court during the oral argument.
Big ‘gay people have the same right to marry someone of the opposite sex that everyone else does’ energy right there.
They’re getting smarter about this. Instead of charging Trump immediately they’re saving him for after all his conspirators are convicted. They know that Trump will leave his people out to dry if he thinks it won’t impact him, and by leaving Trump out of it the guilty verdicts become significantly easier to achieve. Once they’ve got a whole slew of air tight convictions to point to their case against Trump becomes really simple because they just need to show be was working with all these people which is practically a matter of public record at this point.
The issue here is mainly that two laws conflict: one, a complete abortion ban at the state level. Two, a federal law, EMTALA, that requires Emergency Departments assess and stabilize any patient that comes in. EMTALA has a few other requirements, like not asking about payment until after treatment and preventing unnecessary discharges or transfers. This is the law that makes it so that uninsured people go to the ED/ER when they are sick, since regular docs can deny you for not being able to pay.
The key part of EMTALA here is that assessing and stabilizing a patient. If someone comes in during a crisis and the only way to stabilize them is to terminate the pregnancy, that is at odds with Idaho’s abortion ban. Basically, SCOTUS now has to say whether saving the mother is important enough to warrant terminating the pregnancy.
Yeah but in this case the doctors on the ground are at legal risk for performing an abortion and therefore don’t risk it even if they think it’s necessary, but a federal mandate will protect them. That’s actually kind of the point here.
Tire dust is a problem, but i’m not sure it counts as a very big one when compared to the sheer scale of the damage to both people and ecosystems climate change will do. Between ocean acidification and the subsequent collapse of marine life, more frequent and intense hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and droughts, it would take a lot for microplastics to enter the same scale of devistation wrought by over a hundreds of millions of cars dumping more than five metric tons per year of CO2 into the atmosphere.
To reduce microplastics in North America your looking at fighting the car obesity ecidemic, improving tire lifespan, convincing people to be more gentle on the accelerator, fixing the god forsaken mess that is trying to ship anyone less than a thousand tons of aggregate by rail, and of course reducing the number of people who try and use a car to get around a city by expanding rapid rail transit/ increasing telework opportunities.
Outside of maybe some incidental improvement in tire lifespan and chemistry though, I’m afraid I really don’t know how you expect a raceing circuit to be able to help with any of the above.
Trump is struggling to stay awake. His eyes were closed for a short period. He was jolted awake when Todd Blanche, his lawyer, nudged him while sliding a note in front of him.
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