the constitution restricts the governments ability to conduct unreasonable searches, not people like google or facebook.

Cars go through places where people don’t live, and that is one of the best usages for cars.

where are there gas stations, let alone EV chargers every 100km?

think about what it would do to housing prices to have a large number of nice houses be suddenly available

if you classify being not a straight cis person as being a lunatic/crazy then the left might have more, heck even if you just go by diagnosed mental illness they might by pure selection bias.

that’s the entire point of fines, to internalize external costs.

If it’s still profitable after full enforcement of fines then either the fines were not correctly set or the buisness model is a net positive.

shocking no one, laws are worded in complicated ways that lawyers will take full advantage of.

I like how nova looks with normal sized tabs, but it makes the compressed (or whatever it’s called when you have too many tabs and they shrink to fit) tabs not have enough room for their titles, or at least ot feels that way.

insider information makes them useful predictions.

not too different than how oil futures are set, and those are a reasonable indicator for gas prices.

If I were in their shoes I wouldn’t either, reducing the cut now increases the chance you would need to increase it later which for a platform largely thriving off goodwill would not be the smartest decision.

isn’t producing better art the point of starving artists? or am I misunderstanding the phrase?

I remember looking into this years ago, desalination is a reasonable solution (for houshold usage in developed nations) at only a few times the ridiculously low water cost we have now. Agriculture is the issue because it currently depends on insane amounts of cheap water dispite there being more water efficient methods of growing crops (indoor hydroponics).

first result https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/how-much-energy-does-desalinisation

is it a nice leather club?

someone without knowledge of history can better point out idiotic decisions that were made for historical reasons, and will not interpret things in the same outdated ways

Conquest was common enough there are prehistoric records of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare

it looks to have 10 servers, which is hardly enough to be a useful resource.

those lightly used trucks will eventually become used lightly used trucks, and a few owners down might replace the 2000 something f150 for towing multiple tons for budget contractors.

headphones are perfectly normal

how could you feed anyone for that little (per year, let alone permanently)?