Like all courtship rituals, the specifics imply generational awareness; your lack means you wouldn’t be nearly as successful if you were attempting to court someone of this generation. I’m certainly not going to be scoring any brownie points on the dance floor.

Because a man died for you.

Oh, we got lucky. The daughter wasn't a climber but my son was. We live in earthquake country so everything was already strapped to a wall.

Oh my god, just watching the videos was enough. You don’t have to play the game to instantly understand how a baby opening a tub of detergent pods under the sink is instant KO. Or that a toddler that figures out by leaning on a door handle and then pulling will undo the safety latch instantly undoes all your work in…

My wife and I laughed out loud at some play throughout of the game. This was more or less exactly how our life played out, except over the course of years. Learned to sit up, learned to crawl, learned to grab things, learned to stand up, learned to toddle, etc. Every time the baby leveled up we needed to upgrade the…

If you can't compete, invite the competition to fill your role.

Comcast?

Maybe holographic recorders can’t capture color. It might increase data requirements 4-fold, especially if there is 2 way communication occurring. In terms of local storage, perhaps the problem is that volumetric information is fundamentally infinite, up until you get to the size of a hydrogen atom, and then you’re…

It’s a win when it doesn’t look like an Acura.

Not sure your logic makes sense. You’re saying there aren’t enough people to buy an electric SUV, much less a hybrid SUV, and use as your defense the sales numbers of the most popular SUVs. Yet in your own words the $70k+ Tesla outsold the $35k+ Volt; you would argue that there is no market for the Tesla, yet it…

To be specific, I believe it is proper to tax people progressively and that those who make more have benefited, generally, more from the entire economic system. My combined state/federal tax bracket is 39% and my local sales tax is 9%, so it isn’t like I’m not already paying. At this point I think taxing gas is…

Low gas prices means no one will want to give up gas, it would be stupid to do so. Nothing we can do will really change that, short of boosting gas taxes to $3 a gallon. Good luck doing that. At least a small gas tax is more likely to happen than a $3 gas tax, and #2 absolutely means that EV tech continues to get…

Your point is still invalid. Diesel has gone up, and fluctuated, between $2 and $5 the last 10 years and never have our stores gone empty because of it. So the only valid point, that we both agree to, is that the gas taxes aren’t being used to improve our infrastructure.

Gas was more expensive last year. $3.79, vs $2.87, in my area. And money from gas taxes not going to infrastructure is a travesty. Also, diesel was more expensive last year too, stores did not go empty at all, so adding $0.20 per gallon to diesel won’t empty stores. Like gas, diesel was also $1 more expensive last…

I’m not trying to get rid of anything. If gas is cheap it makes sense to use it.

That is a real problem, yes, that I would be concerned with. However, I still wouldn’t reduce the gas tax, but instead force the money to be allocated towards roads, bridges, and freeways.

You bring up $70k+ Teslas outselling Volts as defense that expensive ESUVs will be outsold by too expensive?

I can hope for electric pickup trucks and SUVs?

I have no problems with that.

Clearly an alternative solution is necessary when EVs start becoming plentiful. Perhaps a tax on tires, which are a consumable that happens to correlate with miles driven? It would also make sense to remove federal and state subsidies at that point and make it an additional fee at point of sale.