Trumps Oligarchs, he’s just copying Putin

Because the people who are profiting from it spend part of that money to protect their interest.

Think about the suffering that we were forcing on people by not allowing people to choose to die.

Life is important, but living with constant pain or a useless body and no way to improve is barely living.

People should be able to make their own choice about their situation.

Not really. The jury will decide if this particular person is guilty or not, but either way a man was murderer and that’s an illegal action by whomever did it.

It doesn’t sound like it was self defence, even if you stretch the meaning away from the legal. His life wasn’t directly threatened by this organization.

He did it on behalf of others, which eliminates the self in self defence.

They weren’t rushing to the house at speed. The accident occurred when an officer was driving his personal vehicle to the department so that he could get ready to respond to the situation.

The lady who died pulled out from a parking lot in front of him, and got t-boned on the driver side.

I’m pretty sure that was part of the point.

Legally, the murder was wrong. Full stop. There’s no legal argument here that it wasn’t. It may not have been the guy they caught, but someone was murdered and legally that’s wrong.

Morally though, it’s a lot more gray. It’s pretty easy to prove that health insurers policies have literally been killing people thousands of people a year at at a minimum and even if it’s legal for some reason, that’s also still morally wrong. Attacking someone who’s attacking other people is usually called defending.

When the police show up to investigate your murder, and they ask “Is there anyone who would wish to harm your Husband/Wife?” and your spouse just turns over your entire database of your clients, you’re the bad guy/girl.

Lol, they’re literally the state that needs weather modification the most. Just ask the remaining home insurers.

This is hilarious.

I will bet money that doesn’t happen. Even republicans have a line when it comes to giving power to immigrants. They’ll find some figurehead to put up instead and Musk will just pull the strings from behind them.

Very unlikely the US passes a constitutional amendment just to allow him to be. Constitutional amendments are hard to pass even when a majority of people agree on something, and a lot of people would not support allowing foreign-born presidents.

Reasonable is great when it comes to this kind of thing.

It’s an interesting example of something called an eggcorn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

Its when someone misunderstands a word and replaces it with a different word or words that sound similar and could also have a similar meaning.

It’s a cease fire, not a seize fire. Just for the future.

Um? Yea…

It’s just going to take a bit of time. They’re focusing on luxury right now because it’s the highest profit per unit, and you always want to exploit the highest profits as a corporation. As they scale up, they will overflow the luxury market, which is why were starting to see cheaper options start becoming available. It’s a profit maximization strategy that has been around for a very long time for the introduction of new goods.

The housing thing is a different problem, because that’s dealing with a finite supply of land in places people want to live and the fact that people want things to stay the same “in their neihbourhood”

I own an EV, I will never buy another ICE vehicle.

That being said, they don’t make sense for everyone financially speaking, even if they come down in base price. They also don’t make sense for certain use cases, like towing long distances.

In places with high electricity prices, the cost to charge an EV one can be the same as paying for gas. Where I live, electricity is super cheap. It costs me about 2 cents per kilometer to drive my EV (I pay a little under 10 cents per kwh) and a gas equivalent model for my EV would cost a little over 10 cents per kilometer with current gas prices.

If I had to pay the electricity rates in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, etc. around 0.30 USD per kwh, that would mean I would be paying about 10 cents to drive a kilometer, the exact same as the gas price.

Blanket country wide adoption is not optimal in my opinion. Push EVs into the places that benefit from them most, congested commuting in cities with low electricity prices where they’re cheaper, more efficient (EVs are better in traffic), produce less emissions near where people live, etc.

Use that demand to give the industry time to solve the upfront pricing issues to get them on par with ICE vehicles. Once they come down to the price of a new ICE vehicle, then mandate those people in higher electricity areas because it won’t cost them more to do so.

Albertans heavily cheered on Trump up here in Canada.

Ready the leopards, faces need eating.

They won’t just pay in the meantime, the local companies have very little reason to try to undercut foreign imports by a significant margin. Not enough manufacturing will come back to generate enough competition to drive down prices on most items.

I think he’s referring to international citizens using the Canadian-US border to illegally enter, rather than Canadians themselves.

I’ve heard (through the news mind you) that there is some number of Indian nationals flying to Canada ostensibly for tourism because it’s easier for them to get a visa for that in Canada and then walking across the border.

As for the drug use, there is definitely a massive problem going on here, the drug overdose mortality rate in British Columbia was 45.7 per 100k, which is about 50% higher than California (but still lower than a dozen “bad” states)

We just don’t have quite as much violence associated with the drug trade, but there’s plenty of addicts and overdoses.