Oh but there are “checks” and there are “balances”, don’t you know! They would never let something like this happen!

Here’s one local to me. Slightly old but quite relevant.

Occasionally, but I work from home and my wife’s commute is fairly short, so we can often time the roughly once a week charging so it’s during the day.

Oh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn’t helping anything, but don’t call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don’t doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.

Oh, I agree it won’t be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.

I’ve heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there’s likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it’s all one network open to everyone.

Also it’s a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because “it’s socialism”. It’s already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.

Your grid is, perhaps. And I happily charge my EV from my installed solar most times when I need to charge.

Rather than doubling your system generation size, it would be better to store the generated electricity. You can have a massive system, but it still won’t generate anything at night.

Hey guys, many other countries have figured out that healthcare doesn’t have to be a privatized, for-profit nightmare. Perhaps that’s an option worth exploring.

The asterism gives me big Splinter Cell vibes and I’m definitely OK with that.

I think the context is more that this is first person Amnesty International has named as such, not the first person who could be considered more generally a prisoner of conscience.

The OP article seems to confuse this. The source article from Amnesty is more clear.

Definitely an effective way to make a political ally.

However, it’s possibly intended to be that way. Now he can tell his base that he asked the NDP to join him and they refused.

He is saying, “idk what I saw but maybe it was something,” though. He’s telling of his experience, he doesn’t say “yes, they most definitely exist”, but “I’ve experienced something that was nothing like I’d ever experienced and I know of no animal that could fit the experience I had.” Him being a very experienced bushman brings quite a bit of credibility to that statement.

He’s not challenging people on whether Saskquatch exist or not, he’s challenging whether you think the multitude of people who have had such experiences and are sharing them with others, like him, are all lying about what they’ve experienced, completely fabricating a story of something that just happens to have commonalities with stories from others across borders and generations.

I wouldn’t say he latched on. Maybe the directors commentaries provide more of that background than the actual episode, but he’d often call Todd out if he would say, matter of factly, that something was most definitely Saskquatch, and he didn’t appreciate that sort of thing when trying to make an objective, more investigative film.

At the time, I imagine Todd was one of the more available resources Les had, so at least it was somewhere to start.

Les Stroud’s (aka Survivorman) series on this is quite interesting and I think his stance on it is rather appropriate. He has no proof to confirm or deny the existence of such beings, but goes on to say that to flat out deny their existence is to call each and every one of those with stories to tell, including him, a liar.

I’d recommend anyone interested to check out his Bigfoot series. It’s all available free on youtube.

I heard a podcast with the author of this book and the conclusion was similar. He recommends no smartphone before 16. Dumb phones for simple communication can be whenever.

I haven’t read the book yet, but the podcast discussion was fairly informative. I think it was Hidden Brain’s Escaping the Matrix episode.

Here’s an article that’s probably most helpful. Looks like the stated prices are for base models.

An e-bike probably.

In seriousness, you’re not going to get a very valuable answer with such a broad question. They can be quite cheap, but have little range. Elaborating on what you’d want in an EV would help people provide better answers.

Even problem #2 can have a net positive return when the societal costs of homelessness are factored in.

Interesting. Yes, it’s definitely not black and white. I didn’t find the income inequality argument quite as confusing though. While it is good for existing tenants to be able to stay, I feel that increased inequality could lead to richer tenants putting pressure on poorer tenants, or their landlords, to leave, as they don’t “fit” in the neighbourhood, which is a negative effect in my opinion.

Of course, that then brings in all the intricacies of how to properly manage gentrification…

I was curious why as well but then saw the community name and I came from browsing all.

It’s definitely not black and white though. And perhaps some well-planned and well-written rent control legislation can avoid the negatives that are commonly found.