Sounds like a “malicious compliance” teacher with backing of the ACLU should post the real 10 commandments from the Bible, and then get the state to sue the teacher stating that they need to display the Fake 10 commandments instead.

…only if you HAVE onedrive account it can reach.

This is a fantastic use case for NOT using a Microsoft account and instead a local account. No Microsoft authenticated account, no Onedrive.

“Join the army they said…!”

There was some social commentary in that golden casino planet where the rich lived in excess while the poor barely got by (pay no attention to the Jabba behind the curtain)

Good world building, but it did nothing to move the story forward. The entire casino planet could have been cut and the story would be unchanged without any social or story impacts.

If they were going for social commentary, they could have set it up to find out that rebel weapons like the X-wing fighters and whatever macguffin they needed so save the main plot line were built by slave labor.

Semi-evil procurement character: “Yeah, I understand what you need. I can have it built in a day. Its an extremely toxic manufacturing process and because I’m not set up for that work, 20 or 30 slaves will die but thats no problem. Yeah, I can get it for you in the day you need it.”

They would have had to make a choice between save the slaves or getting the macguffin. They could have still chosen to not come away with the macguffin because they chose to save the slave labor and at least that would have given purpose to the whole distraction of that storyline.

And, of course, they cast minorities in leading roles!

I liked that part. John Boyega, among others, was a great actor. Kelly Marie Tran did as best she could with the bad writing.

“It doesn’t get any better than this!”

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

I think you can ultimately blame Compaq. It was the first “pc clone” that showed the market that a PC not from expensive IBM was viable. After that even if you weren’t buying a Compaq your own generic clone was “good enough”. So You could access hardware and software built for a $4000 8088 IBM PC with your $1200 clone.

Amiga never was commodity hardware. It was always expensive. It didn’t get cheap enough fast enough. Amiga 500 came too late.

Just because a Ford truck weighs a lot doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address EV tire wear.

I agree. However, this started with a highlighting of EV tire pollution. Arguably mainstream EVs entered production in 2012. F-150 and other trucks of equal or more weight have been on the road since about the late 1970s. Why is it this is an EV tire pollution discussion only?

Do a lot of people own trucks that shouldn’t because they don’t use them as trucks? Yes.

We agree.

I’d argue that’s a completely different argument.

How so? Are you arguing that a truck that weighs the same the produces equal tire pollution is okay, but an EV that weighs the same with equal tire pollution isn’t okay?

This isn’t an EV only issue, but it is highlighted for EVs because they go through tires faster than equivalent sized (not weight) vehicles.

Isn’t this following the same flawed logic that trucks shouldn’t have to get high MPG efficiency because they are trucks, while ICE cars are held to higher efficiency standards? Your logic seems to suggest we could solve this EV tire pollution problem by simply eliminating EV cars and only driving EV trucks because then they’d get a pass on tire pollution like current ICE trucks do.

In the end I would hope all vehicles would be equipped with tires that don’t kill aquatic life!

I agree, but your other statements prior seem to give a pass to ICE (or EV trucks).

A model 3 to an f150 is absolutely apples and oranges.

Seriously. We are talking about tire tread compared to weight.

Are we? I thought we were talking about tire particulate pollution. Why have I never heard the conversation raised that truck tire pollution is a problem? Why is it only EVs that its suddenly an issue?

Why not just compare the model 3 to an 18-wheeler then? Those weigh way more. Would have made his point better.

And it’s a completely meaningful comparison, as long as you throw away the fact that different vehicles are used for different things.

They’re designed for different things. While I’ll agree that the many F-150 drivers are using them for their appropriate grade of work or towing, I’m guessing there are more F-150s that are used as grocery-getting-pavement-princesses than all the Tesla Model 3s ever sold.

In that way, F-150 is identical to Tesla Model 3 as far as use case.

It’s going to be all about the price.

EV or not, price the pollution into the cost of buying the tire. Then the economics of a non-polluting tire would be the primary driver for adoption because they would be cheaper than polluting tires.

And now to make lighter EVs that don’t wear on the road so much.

Tesla Model 3 Long Range (as an example) weighs in at 4,034 lbs, while the Ford F150 is 4,391 to 5,863 lbs.

Shouldn’t we start with the majority of ICE vehicles which already weigh the same or more than EVs?

The Federation be sprayin’ that shit everywhere like its DDT in the 1950s.

Inverse tachyon pulse from the Deflector Shield, obviously missing.

Never talks of raising taxes on landlords and empty units tho.

Canada passed this law in 2022 addressing that:

Underused Housing Tax

But on the other hand, all of that stuff could be insured against.

Thats exactly what PMI (Private mortgage insurance) covers. However if the insurance company doesn’t think you’re a good risk, then you might not be able to get that either. I have never looked at what criteria they use to grant or deny PMI. I’ve also never known anyone personally denied PMI.

because we all know that Biden will ship harder for Netty-Boo

Don’t forget your fight is also with the House of Representatives now. Biden did stop shipping some weapons to Israel and Congress forced the shipments of weapons to start again.

“House passes bill to undo Biden’s partial Israel weapons hold”

Since the collapse of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in April-May 2022

This was just 2 to 3 months after Bucha massacre and this rag has the gal to call what Russia has ever offered as “peace”. Total bullshit.

Likely lots of hole in the guy from shrapnel and he would bled out in the next 15 to 60 minutes.

It wasn’t smart on the part of the russian killer. We’ve seen UA Defenders drop grenades on injured, but living invaders. This russian killer just freed up another UA drone and operator to go after able bodied invaders.

While an FPU (Floating Point Unit aka math coprocessor) would be nice, the 386SX is still a 16-bit CPU. The 386DX is a 32-bit CPU (and would still need a 387 for a dedicated FPU). In the 486 line SX meant no FPU, while DX meant FPU inside.

The lawsuit centered on the objections of a coalition of small businesses

One business and a few individuals apparently.

From another source:

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor focuses on claims from Braidwood Management, a Christian for-profit corporation owned by Steven Hotze, that its rights were violated by the mandate under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

And that complaint is:

But Hotze, whose company provides health insurance to about 70 employees, argued that offering coverage for PrEP drugs encouraged “homosexual behavior” and violated “his religious beliefs by making him complicit in encouraging those behaviors.”

So some old fashion christian homophobic and even heterosexual shaming is the basis for this law suit.