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  • EVs have drastically reduced maintenance compared to most cars. It's fully possible they wont have to pay Tesla anymore money, especially if they opt for home charging or use non Tesla charging stations.

  • Full protective gear is not a step away from "full squid," unless that "step" is the difference between life and death. A biker in full gear a lot safer than "shirts and sandals." Comparing the two as equivalent just incentivies people to not protect themselves.

    Modern (i.e expensive) motorcycle tech includes airbag systems that inflate to protect the neck, torso, hips and legs.. You really can make motorcycles much safer than just a few years ago, but you have to gear up for it.

  • The difference in crashes between a bike and motorcycle are serious, but that just means you have to gear up correctly. Full face helmet, leathers or kevlar suit, full boots and armored gloves, etc.

    Riding an electric motorcycle with bike gear on is a bad, bad idea. Riding an electric motorcycle with motorcycle gear on and the danger evens out.

  • The entire local GOP party pointed fingers at every other person involved when asked why and who hired them. Literally each member had a different answer, some saying the chair hired them, some saying the sheriff, some saying they had no idea. The Sheriff claimed he didnt hire them, but was specifically directing them to haul away the protestors.

    They are charging them because it looks like no one "officially" hired them, and since no one will own them being the defacto security, they effectively assaulted and kidnapped these protestors.

    Basically, these goons are getting tossed under the bus to protect the local GOP officials who wanted goons, but off the books goons. Way to get rolled, dummies.

  • Ive been using pop-os for my desktop for years. Ive had no update headaches, roll back issues, or anything else that would compel me to swap distros for one that made these things better.

    So to answer your question:

    None of the above are compelling features that justify the work to switch off an already very stable distro.

  • They have been leaked. It happened pretty much instantly after people found out.

    Officer #1: Alexander Everett

    Officer #2: Caitlin Rochelle

    Officer #3: Jason Marchione

    Officer #4: Sgt. Scotty Bach

    Officer #5: Vice detective Michael Settle

    Officer #6: Jacob Briskey

    This is just some complex legal maneuvering for lawsuits from the traitor cops.

  • They had near 100% EV market share just a few years back.

    Losing half the market in 3-4 years is a huge change for any company, even if some of it was inevitable as rivals caught up and suprassed their offerings.

  • Context for those unaware like myself.

    Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks is widely seen as a measured figure who frequently calls out anything radical or removed from the center — but that's decidedly not the tone he struck in his latest article, calling for a "civic uprising" to defend American values against the assault of the Trump administration.

    "Over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life," wrote Brooks. "These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short."

    The Trump agenda, he continued, stands in opposition to all of that — pursuing only "power for its own sake" as it seeks to "make the earth a playground for ruthless men," tearing down any institution or cultural values that get in the way of that. This is the mindset with which Trump has forced universities, law firms, and media companies to bend to his will.

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    Because of the unprecedented scale of this threat, Brooks wrote, the American people must rise up with a similarly unprecedented dissent to stop it.

    "So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this ... is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans," wrote Brooks. "What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican."

    Specifically, what's needed is a type of collective nonviolent civil disobedience, wrote Brooks, of the type that drove British colonists out of India or forced passage of the Civil Rights Act.

    "These movements used many different tools at their disposal — lawsuits, mass rallies, strikes, work slowdowns, boycotts and other forms of noncooperation and resistance," he wrote. "These movements began small and built up. They developed clear messages that appealed to a variety of groups. They shifted the narrative so the authoritarians were no longer on permanent offense. Sometimes they used nonviolent means to provoke the regime into taking violent action, which shocks the nation, undercuts the regime’s authority and further strengthens the movement."

    "I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist," Brooks concluded. "But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains."

  • Yup, they cleared out a restaurant and likely gave him the clothes he was kidnapped in.

    Its a PR move. "Ohh look, he just lives in el salvador now, no biggie. He goes to restaurants! Hes not in a brutal, filthy supermax prison where youre in solitary confinement for 23.5hrs/day!"

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