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My concern is less about specific skills and more about the exponential increase in complexity of multiple automated systems attempting to predict each other.

In terms of vehicle electrification? yes, yes it is. Big vehicles are hard, and relatively rare.

Again, most edge case uses will come in time. Some truly edge cases may not. But they will be minimal in the grand scheme of things if we are to avert the utter disaster that’s looming.

I am ok with those things. It will be far far cheaper than continuing to burn fossil fuels.

We should have started this decades ago sure. But we didn’t.

they take too long to charge and run out of juice too fast

yep. recycling needs to be limited to Aluminum, steel/other metals, and paper and in that order.

You and I are most definitely ‘we’. There’s only one planet currently available.

Unions exist because of corporate malfeasance against workers.

Lithium is in fact far far far better for the planet than continuing to burn oil and gas. Are there issues? sure.

Wheat country is actually a pretty good supplier of all that needed green energy. Smart farmers would be building in free charging in exchange for windmill placement. Put in a few batteries and poof, your fuel bills just disappeared.

There’s a pretty significant shortage of drivers and has been for years. The argument that it’s really just a wage/conditions issue is like saying it’s not a drought, just a lack of rain.

Yeah truly amazing. 5+ feet and 100 kph winds. That’s the Trans Canada ‘Highway’ in the picture.

2003 blizzard up in eastern Canada.

Only thing with batteries is when work gets tough they’ll get used up faster. (I’m fully battery electric in my yard tooling). Only thing I still do corded is the edging and the power washing.

Again, we decided as a country to *not* do what was necessary to have safe in person schooling months/year ago.

1. The decision to be in person at any particular time was made weeks or months before with people’s behavior.

It’s reasonable to test yourself for future self behavior, but mostly it’s everywhere and just take precautions accordingly. More so with Omicron evading rapid test detection far more frequently.

“she’s getting zero support in Canada.”