And that’s one congress he couldn’t browbeat into submission...

So Google Voice is being killed off, and users will be directed to use Google Voice ... what?

The “terrible human being” answer is: get a fun car that fits your needs, and rip out all the seats and the radio in the Rondo and give it to your daughter. Bonus points for turning the car into a faraday cage and festooning it in reflectors. Passengers and/or distracted driving are probably bigger risks than a 12…

YouTuber boils tubers for YouTube video for you?

If you’re talking about AMD, it’s more like “Make Slot A 1 thing again”

But you don’t really know how much other manufacturers spent to make their cars, either, you only have the price of the car as delivered to an American consumer.

So we know that it’s already like $4000 including all the import duties and then the unbilled destination labor in the back of the Jeep. Really, that’s $1400 bill of materials and like $3000 import costs/duties and then maybe another $500 destination.

I think they’re admitting an even greater vulnerability: deep down, even the racists know that the racists aren’t the majority.

Part of the problem is that for a lot of social safety net programs in the US that are means-tested, is that you literally cannot save enough to have the upfront cash to rent an apartment, or you’ll lose your benefits.

There might be consumer grade cars in the future, but if the “childless urbanites” are all opting out of car ownership, there would be fewer units to amortize over for development. One of two things might happen:

A/C vents made of metal are way better than disintegrating plastic if your car is half a century old. Nobody else keeps their cars for that long, though.

You’ll get that soon enough, you just won’t own it. As autonomous cars become more mature they will eventually become something like small mass transit cars, with lifetimes measured in decades.

I wish I could zoom in, I think one of those might be me!

The “incentive” is that the UBI would be a flat amount indexed to how much the “poor” pay in gas tax, and that any individual action to reduce gasoline usage would be money in the pocket.

The idea is pricing in the negative externalities of gasoline consumption into the pump price. The UBI would make those who need a vehicle to get to/from work whole, without continuing to subsidize fossil fuel use for the rest of the country.

Maybe the shorty-Explorer that’s rumored? If Chicago is running at capacity, a second plant that could handle Explorer/Aviator production would be good. New Edge (I’m guessing “Explorer Sport” since the TTV6 has been moved to the ST nameplate) + PI Utility for Canadian market ought to do it?

And that’s why a massive gas tax should be paired with a UBI that will make it overall revenue neutral.

At least those two weren’t sold in the same market at the same time.

They do, that’s the whole “covid affects black and brown people worse than other groups” because of preexisting inequities in health care access and chronic conditions.

What I meant was that in the last century, drivers, medallion owners, and consumers have collectively figured out an equilibrium that works for the people who depend on the service. Now Uber/Lyft comes in and convinces the entire public that they can provide better service for less, but that “improvement” comes on the…