Trying to make a moral argument for canceling a race in a series that features events in the US, Brazil, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, etc. seems like a huge stretch to me.

Your freedom ends where it impinges on mine. Very simple thesis by which all of these should be adopted, as well as making it IMPOSSIBLE for cars to go above the speed limit on public roads. 

Yes, the US does do all of those things. 

In this thought experiment, McDonald’s would be ending operations in the US, consistent with their “values”. 

I think the issue with proprietary input devices like on the Mazda is the time it takes to master it. We had one as a rental and I HATED it because it was insanely distracting to use compared to the interface I’m used to. Ultimately, all infotainment systems are distracting whether it’s touchscreen or touchpad or…

Long haul trucking is dumb. It’ll be dumb if it’s done in a hydrogen-powered truck or a BEV. The solution is trains! C’mon people!

Frankly, Graham’s place is a shallow grave, so, not quite in his place, but a good start!

I wasn’t really making a comment on the likelihood of a sensible transition, just talking about what it would look like. My comment was essentially pointing out that the “free market” has done a piss-poor job of allocating resources if resource allocation is judged by anything other than satiating the desires of…

Sure, but many people shouldn’t be driving trucks. They’re bigger and heavier and thus more dangerous and produce more tire pollution, which arguably is more damaging than tailpipe emissions at this point.

It’s easy to imagine something more chaotic than millions of people fighting over a desolate charging infrastructure, yes.

Right, and it’s also obviously not the goal. If everyone were to switch to an EV tomorrow it would be utter chaos. Not to mention the fact that we don’t even have the capability of building enough EVs for everyone.

Look up “Tendency of the rate of profit to fall”.

Endemic has an actual definition and Covid does not meet it. It’s a pandemic still and plenty of people can’t be vaccinated and boosted. We also know vanishingly little about the longterm consequences of infection, much less repeat infections. Sorry if I’m not champing at the bit to get a disease that can result in a 1…

The unvaccinated are not the only ones getting it or getting it multiple times. Kids under 5, the elderly who don’t mount as big of an immune response to the vaccine, immunocompromised folks, and people who are vaccinated but many months out from their booster. All are getting it, all are contributing to new mutations…

He said the pandemic phase is over. It is, in fact, not over by any scientific definition of the term pandemic.

A picture of the vehicle it will be based on, and therefore look like, would have been cool.

I would buy this immediately if it were sold here. The lack of factory camper vans in the states that cost less than $60k is ridiculous. 

This is a common fallacy. Getting sick does not in fact make you healthier. Quite the opposite!

Big if! But again, if you’re sick with Covid, even if mild, you shouldn’t go to work. The idea that lifting mask mandates on flights wouldn’t lead to more sick days for airline employees seems like it requires one to believe masks do nothing.

Can’t say whether what you claim is true or not, but it’s sort of irrelevant. If someone gets sick and finds out it’s Covid, I’d guess they’re not going to work unless they have no other choice, regardless of severity.