1. unfortunately, everyone who said they would be making EVs 5 years ago is categorically incompetent at it.Hyundai perhaps excepted.

2. Polievre’s plan would balance more production to Canada and US vs Mexico, but with anti-EV, incompetence, mandate.

3. EVs are better cars, and Chinese ones provide value. Just as you might enjoy the variety of Mercedez, Ferrari being available to you, you can have a better and practical Chinese car.

4. National unity (or divisiveness) vs individual freedom are key social questions/values, but ones where we didn’t see individual freedom so compromised before. Manufactured divisiveness for unity among supremacists loses on both freedom from collective oppression, and individual consumer choice.

5. the future of auto industry is far less labour anyway. We should stop pretending local/US profits matter, and stop BS that we must join every US war, including the future one on China. It’s a great idea to have open/audited firmware/software with local data security free from all foreign attack vectors, but it is only traitors who would highlight a greater security risk from China than the US.

Yes. Very few photo ID options have citizenship status, and the combo government photo id (drivers license) and birth certificate combo affects people with name changes. 15%-20% of Americans lack the primary ID requirement, and there are fees to obtaining them. The lack of ID would skew towards lower incomes who don’t need passports (realID is a domestic travel passport).

There’s already massive voter suppression of urban areas through long lines, and specific agitation to increase voting time by challenging voters, Skewing voter eligibility to air travellers and 5 mostly blue states that include citizenship on drivers license is likely to harm rural bumfucks that don’t travel, and not obviously benefit GOP. Still, legal challenges will likely block it before mid terms, though the politics of “Democrats want massive (nonexistant) voter fraud to let illegal pet eaters vote” is probably the point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyon_Yong-chol

Most DPRK stories are written as biased DPRK fan fiction from outside enemies. He may just have been fired from his post.

Iran does have sea drones, and they have made giant holes in tankers at sea level with them. Iraq claimed that 2 of them were used to turn 2 real tankers into 2 giant fireballs in their harbour. I have seen AI of 20 simultaneous missiles hitting downtown Tel Aviv, but a bigger problem than AI on Israel is that Israel is criminalizing the sharing of strike information, with selective permission after for whining about civilian areas. There is a lot of damage every night in Israel.

Trump said the rallies in big square of Tehran are also fake, and even the hits Israel/Israelis admit to are fake. Same with GCC hits that GCC acknowledges.

If using AI for fake news, there is a Netanyahu video out early today, where his wedding ring fades in and out. He should then give death penalty to IDF/Netanyahu (he could be hiding instead of dead) for fake news.

It is next level, Hitler’s bunker, and losing, to be resorting to this level of desperation.

Fun fact: While Roman Catholic church erased Jesus from Christianity in year 390, and 900, they decided to change Easter schedule to be different than Passover in order to not be strictly about old testament divine rights of kings for war.

I say we change the time every day such that sunrise is 6am in Toronto. Fuck your/my microwave clock. Permanent standard time would have some post 8am sunrises.

I want global coordination on either 0 or whatever time changes done simultaneously.

The most absurd class of prediction market bets are those where 100s or 1000s know the result before it is reported/finalized. This is one such event due to reporting delay. The 2nd most absurd class are where propaganda and “house interpretation” of outcomes can provide significant profits to those who can influence turning a $1 into a $0 outcome.

There is a price between $10m/kg and $100m/kg that Iranians sell enriched uranium to US to satisfy US denuclearization aims, and Iran gets its reparations/reconstruction concession, and full trade access to the world. Of course Bibi will keep saying they are 2 weeks away from a weapon, but you have to fuck bibi.

collectively, many new cars are bought each year. about 16m in US.

Both US and Russia have tactical nuclear weapons that would allow continued settlement outside of 2-5km (better being upwind) blast radius, with Russia (Iran for that matter) having Hypersonic delivery. So there is a “no other state” solution. Air burst weapons limit long term radiation in earth. Hiroshima (air bursted) was deemed habitable after the fires shut off. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki (area) had normal life expectancies for those who moved there after the event. So an “empty the other state” solution exists too.

The economics for new energy as a slow transition were already there at $50/barrel. Geopolitical extortion means that fuel dependence means energy insecurity from enemies foreign and domestic (the monopolists and oil companies that corrupt our government). At one point this week, Trump said America (just its oil companies) will make a lot of money from destruction of all Gulf contries.

The geopolitical extortion case for having secure/fuelless energy existed yesterday, and will exist as long as US can be bribed to make oil more expensive. It should not be “oh wow, who could of thought some oil facilities could have ever gotten blown up, I better look at EV websites today”

On an individual basis, your demand for the best affordable EVs and energy indepdendent of the nationality of the company/workers who might provide it for you, should be not on comparing cost vs $2/gasoline a month ago, but on the fear of $4 or $6 gasoline, your government will enable, and on the fear of a $3/gallon carbon tax (paid as dividend to citizens/residents) as the only solution to global warming and energy transition.

It’s that $300/ton carbon tax that will speed transition. Overall, people are too dumb to realize their extortion and oppression is forever, and rooting for oil facilities destruction, as part of any solution, doesn’t change that it was going to happen anyway. When facility is rebuilt it is emissions, and lost oil obtained elsewhere to fill the gas tank it was already going to be used in, is more emissions.

right. democracy’s only right outcome is pursuing prosperity through war on Russia. More education, but don’t learn about Hitler and Napoleon. We see what kinda guy you are.

voter fatigue?

You get to delegate/redelegate your vote as often or rarely as you want to, instead of every 2-4 years.

UBI only works for the “little man”. It doesn’t solve anything for Big Business and CEOs who make six to eight figures.

UBI makes the rich richer, even with high taxes on the rich. Instead of government protecting the wealth of the rich through extortion power, the rich need to invest/work (or hire more) harder to collect back all of the tax money they spend. UBI saves money for society/taxpayers because war on (against???) poverty costs huge a huge bureaucracy expense, and while only essential role of governance, is a pointless distraction that would contribute to voter fatigue when all political capital is entrenched to make poverty a practical threat to oppress workers.

how about you first read about democracies in other countries? Read about France, Spain, Sweden, even Poland with all its shortcomings.

These are at least dysfunctional as US. Even more Russophobia and foreign (US) bootlicking control, with ultra cheap CIA/Atlanticist control of every political party allowed to run and all media. Democracy might as well be defined as how much a country supports genocidal US/Zionazi regime, because the correlation with “legitimate government” is absolute.

Liquid democracy, and perhaps even more, UBI makes truth and freedom more powerful for pluralist outcomes, because of the multitiude of personal freedom, including the freedom to promote social prosperity outcomes, without the corruption of money/media making truth/progress impossible. Constitution, and electoral theater, is absolutely worthless. There needs a military coup in order to evolve progress, because corrupt power politics ensures corrupt oppression.

Your genuinely absurd grasp to protect existing corruption and dysfunctional lack of any progress, saying the magic solution is better education and news fatigue, doesn’t even have a path to more education, or more hate programing when the educated pick the less evil binary choice. You are simply disgusting for whatever dementia made you write this.

No. Complete opposite. Not just full emissions from the buring oil, but replacement oil “needs” to be dug up.

What do you do if you delegate your vote to X, X delegates their votes to Y, Y delegates them to Z and you realise that Z goes completely against your views?

You withdraw your delegation from X, and lobby for others to withdraw support for Z, and introduce recall/revote resolution to overturn a bad law if you care about the bad law.

just have a group of couple of hundred employees whose only job would be to vote along the “zionazi oligarchist corporation’s” line.

That’s going to be far less than the 50% voting margin required to institute evil.

Generally, UBI means an alternative to any corrupt giveaway to a lobby group has the alternative of increasing the UBI. Business/Employees can still get rich by making something useful for the larger consumer base instead of lobbying government to extort employees, consumers and tax payers.

that’s just representative democracy with extra steps.

Corrupt representatives that ziosplain why you should suffer and die, and oligarchy needs all your money, instead of responding to people’s needs, occurs because of the 2-4 year election cycle, and distractions during election time. You only need to fool most of the people on one day.

The DNC is a Zioninst Supremacist organization with primary mandate to ensure Zionist first rule over the US. “Donor pressure” to not endorse Mamdami, or Chuck Schumer’s “my job is to gaslight the left into supporting Israel”, or every Presidential candidate since Carter having Zionist absolutist devotion is simple proof of bipartisan subjugation to Israel’s interests. DNC may well have preferred Trump in last election. They only solicited money instead of volunteers to help turnout. Even Bernie calling for a big tent party between genocidal Zionist supremacists and the genocide-concerned is an incoherent DNC first political position. Zionist/CIA controlled colonies are even weaker than DNC in opposing US/Zionist empire.

Poor relations with Iran, with only practical objective of destroying Iran rather than reforming it or befriending it, is part of US’s 45 year greater Israel project. The Great Satan is only a Satan because it is a pure demonic asshole towards Iran and any group that has received support from Iran, and extreme unchallenged propaganda from US, includes that the Lebanese barracks bombing was done by a Lebanese group while US ships were shelling Lebanon.

The bipartisan/media warmongering in service of Israel means no mainstream voice condemning Israel’s supremacist murderous/genocidal objectives. Only criticism of process and results is allowed, to avoid contemplating the fundamental evil of the US, its Zionist subservience, and the US’s impending collapse.

The path to saving the US through UBI, and liquid democracy, is a military coup, but long term political platform of exterminating Zionazi influence over the US by delegitimizing politicians with Zionist views, and zeroing out financially all oligarchy supporting them. Nationalizing oil and weapons and media not out of a Marxist/DEI motive, but from an anti-treason perspective.

Still, the process of achieving maximum evil (complete destruction of Iran instead of any reform/relations to make Iran more successful) had the significant miscalculation in assassinating Ayatolah (very old and ill), and school bombing (no DNC criticism of even this), to unite Iranians behind IRGC, even if IRGC was still going to mount same defense, to allow same destruction level. “Surprise attack” strategy was categorically absurd and increases certainty of failure. Begging allies for help 2 weeks after start is an impeachable offense of failure of duty to Zionist ambitions. Process needed to be a long propaganda and bribery campaign targeting axis of demonism to prepare for a united collapse and failure.

The discussion is about liquid democracy. It is only form of democracy that doesn’t result in zionazi oligarchist corporatist supremacism, but generally, the privilege of voting on every pardon is not the main appeal.

My, bestest, form of liquid democracy is that you have the option to delegate your vote on any silo of topics/legislation to anyone who can delegate all the votes they “control” to anyone else too. So voter fatigue is not a real argument. You’re not obligated to vote. If you had delegated your vote to someone who voted for pardon in OP, you might be pissed off at them, and “recall” your support immediately.

Digital ID is only reasonable under guarantee of a non evil state. Liquid democracy is both a great use of Digital ID, and only permitted imposition of it.

Navies are still useful for blockades and threatening areas without drone defense. But the days of winning Navy on navy battles followed by sieges and DDay landings are done.