Many people leave rural areas for urban areas for economic reasons, but high housing costs in those urban areas lead people to settle in suburban areas where car usage is often essential.

I don’t see any indicators that people are not getting driver’s licenses en masse; the number of licensed drivers has continued to increase, something that can’t fundamentally change without a substantial increase in public funding for mass transit or a decrease in the urban sprawl that characterizes many American suburbs.

That’s only a widespread option in urban areas with that have invested in mass transit. American suburbs are ultimately designed around car usage, and rural areas are too sparsely populated for mass transit to ever be viable there.

I’m all for less surveillance in cars, but American cars don’t have any less surveillance than Chinese ones, so using it as a reason to prevent their import is a bit disingenuous.

What more Americans could use are more affordable cars—particularly affordable electric cars—and competition with Chinese imports would help that happen.

“Liberty Counsel” isn’t a very good name for an organization that seeks to restrict the ability for individuals to freely express themselves.

Good or bad, most Americans need a car for everyday life. Particularly for areas that cannot be served by mass transit, electric car adoption is essential to reduce societal emissions.

Alternative to CBS.

Xi Jinping, Jack Ma, and Jackie Chan are three that come to mind.

UK blocks entry for podcasters Hasan Piker an Cenk Uyghur over Israel criticism

Typo in the post headline.

forcing prices to shoot higher

Reduced supply doesn’t force them to increase prices; market forces encourage them to do so by making it profitable, but they’re not forced to.

Armenia should leave the Commonwealth of Independent States and accelerate efforts to join the EU.

Individual gun ownership cannot hold a candle to the gross extent to which American police departments are armed and militarized. The notion of a ‘well-armed militia’ safeguarding individual rights from a tyrannical government hasn’t been relevant for most of the country’s history.

In the case of U.S. gun regulation at least, I don’t think a piece of paper from over two hundred years ago declaring firearm ownership as an inherent right supersedes the extreme level of gun violence that has long been occurring and largely ignored.

Limited and highly regulated gun ownership for hunting or collecting is one thing, but there wouldn’t be a need for people to amass arsenals of weapons for ‘self-defense’ if guns weren’t so prevalent in the first place. Other first world countries do not have the gun problem the U.S. has.

The teen’s father then informed police that he had 12 registered firearms in the home and assured detectives that he would secure them, the documents show.

No one in the world needs twelve firearms.

Since it’s unclear from just the title, Udmurt State University is a public university in Izhevsk, Russia.

If anything, they might even prefer for data on suspected illegal immigrants to get leaked to provide right-wing mobs with targets to harass with impunity.

More Russian state-backed propaganda from TASS. Given that civilians on the ground aren’t interested in Russian “liberation”, perhaps the Russian soldiers should be reconsidering their actions before a Ukrainian drone “liberates” them as well.

TASS is a Russian state-owned propaganda machine.

It’s kind of depressing that we’ve gotten to the point where that question needs to be asked…

Also using his finger to make a Hitler-stache removes any doubt.

If they’re going to continue labeling criminal gangs as terrorist groups, they shouldn’t forget about the one occupying the White House.