“in a modern society, that’s not a thing.”

THIS is literally the definition of car-brained. Where you’ll make any and every excuse on why cars are necessary and prioritize cars over changing habits. 

It seems like hammer-nail thinking: our urban planners in North America saw the rise of the private car as a panacea for actual planning work: rather than working with the geographical constraints to build urban centers that prioritized accessibility for all (including those without cars) to reach a wide range of…

But if you take the car out of the equation, the crashes stop.

I know. And, I get it. But as someone who has volunteered with alpine and backcountry Search and Rescue for years, we don’t go looking for people based on moral considerations. At the end of the day, these are lost people and we go looking for them. Period.

Everything I’ve read and heard is that charging people for being rescued is, across the board, a bad idea. This is a cost we should just be willing to accept. As soon as you implement a ‘pay for it’ policy, people are reluctant to actually ask for help - and that leads to more complicated rescues, increased risk to…

I could be wrong about this, but I think I saw in another article that the sub can’t be opened from inside, so even if it did surface, they could be having oxygen issues. Can anyone corroborate this?

This situation is nightmarish enough, but at this point people have to be realistic. There’s less than a half-dozen submersibles on earth capable of diving to that depth, and it’s been said none of them are within 20 hours of being at the site. And even if they were, I don’t believe any of them have to ability to…

Glad to see my tax dollars are going to paying for major search and rescue operations for foreign billionaires.

20 hours of air for 5 people is, presumable, roughly 100 hours of air for 1 person.

They went down to look at the wreckage. They became part of the wreckage.

On it’s own, nothing. That’s just a way of referencing which one I’d rather not be in. What does concern me about its design is this quote:

I mean it’s done the dive before, so it was clearly capable of doing it. How the design held up after multiple 4000m dives is another matter, I suppose.

You might as well be on the moon. They’re toast.

Ugh, this guys has a trans daughter. He’s literally directing his audience to hate his daughter.

Holocaust denialism isn’t illegal (in the U.S.) either, but that doesn’t excuse a Social Media site that allows it. So go fuck yourself Elon Musk, and may Twitter be reduced to the largely irrelevant smoldering pile of White Nationalist hate you seem to want it to be. $44 billion up in smoke.

From personal experience, it is less a matter of how many are selling compared to how many are actually available to buy. I looked for an EV before my last vehicle purchase, every one I liked was either not available or marked up way above MSRP. Can’t complain about sales if supply is restricted and pricing is skewed.…

I say this as someone who is in a two EV household personally: they’re too expensive, they’re too hard to get, people seem to want 400 miles of range before they’re comfortable, the charging infrastructure in the U.S. is a joke (even here in Washington where we have a pretty decent EV adoption rate) and basic consumer…

Not according to regressives trying to deregulate EVERYTHING in the name of their god, Supply-Side Jebus.

If we’re too busy for safety, it seems like we’re doing shit wrong.