To be clear cars aren’t the problem because its an inanimate object it doesn’t drive itself off the lot. We can’t have safe streets for the same reason we can’t have most of what you mentioned because of drivers.

In the US EV are about 2% of cars and will be the majority around 2000 never due to lobbyists also EV actually create lots of air pollution via their tires even without emissions.

Also most parts of the country just isn’t that walk-able outside urban core. I live in an area of 75k adjacent to a city of 700k… In the smaller burg I decided to walk from POINT A -> POINT B 11 miles for fun to see if I could do it. It was only possible in the dead of night because of how many death traps had neither sidewalk nor even a walkable shoulder like if a car had come at the wrong time I would have had to jump in a ditch full of sticker bushes. There were I think on the order of 14 parts of the walk that were crazy dangerous in 11 miles.

In the larger one there are less but not NO insane spots more side walks but many places that were theoretically traversible but actively very dangerous due to design.

There is nothing wrong with the link but I separated them for easier clicking

What wildly popular things are they not doing? Expecting a state county or town to solve universal healthcare for instance is nonsense they don’t have the resources to do it at the state level.

which don’t?

Are you drunk? Solar and wind is better now and eventually fusion will be.

Regulating Meta which is truly accountable nowhere is like trying to find a good place to store radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years. Everyone outside the US should just ban them.

It is. Not genociding any group of people there absolutely isn’t complicated at all.

You can’'t because 1TB of storage forever isn’t free for them why would it be free for you?

Basically what you want is all files you own should be on more than one drive and computer. Not just raid where the raid array can be damaged or the file overwritten by a careless mistake.

Basically my local files are incrementally synced daily from my computers -> a single board computer with 2 3.5" slots and a big ass drive with zfs. Because ZFS/BTRFS support incremental syncs it normally takes 1-3 minutes daily to send changed files per computer. ZFS also knows when its own data is corrupt and if I find any I can resync known good data from the known good copy.

If the big ass drive dies all the data is on the other machines and I can just replace it and resync.

If the big ass drive isn’t big enough or gets old I put a second drive in the other slot and sync A->B and get rid of or repurpose the other drive.

If I want greater reliability I can add a second big ass drive in mirror mode.

If I want even greater reliability I can buy a second such setup and put it another parties house.

If I’m worried about the drive getting lost/stolen encryption makes it so nobody at another address can read shit and I can still do incremental syncs.

This of course isn’t free because why the fuck would it be but you can do a ton with just a single machine and drive

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/

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$250 Presumably good for 6-10 years or as little as $25 a year 4x as much storage as specified

The folks most concerned about such a change are those who live in the US since I’m assuming only we are exposed to this stupidity eg European providers aren’t renaming shit based on a lunatics directives. For us yr.no is hard to adjust to since it supports the english language BUT only uses Celsius. I’m aware metric is superior but at least for me I have to mentally translate from A->B and celsius is used nowhere but in the sciences here. EG its not a great alternative

You mean the one time they had a super majority for like a single 10 month period out of the last 26 years in which they were trying to respond to multiple crisis vs the other 25 years 2 months most of which saw the Republicans controlling either the presidency or one or both houses making any legislation impossible.

Hell during almost all of Obamas presidency they wouldn’t even let popular things enough of both sides would have passed come to a vote.

Why do you think literally every mapping app on earth shows a projection onto the given x pixels by y pixels rather than a 3D rendering of a curved space again?

You said

“that even though computers should be rendering the world as a globe,”

They shouldn’t a projection is actually useful for most people in most instances. Your screen is flat and rendering a 3D image within it would actually mean you can use less of it and see less information in a more confusing view which would ultimately be weird and pointless to the people viewing mostly what is in fact stylized data like which roads cross.

For most navigation people are going less than 50 miles projecting it onto a virtual globe would be pointless and not in any way shape or form beneficial.