It could be functional and fine (and largely useless), but the issue is one of these toadies is going to make it malfunctional, and therein lies the problem.

Meta pulls out their wallet, and gives a little charity to the poors.

Fine em 100 trillion. It would solve a lot of your problems, and they could probably still survive but would be quite contrite going forward.

It’s pretty hard to read. Journalism is so rough these days, and you don’t even know if you are reading a humans words anymore.

I’m about to check this Nivalis Nights game out. Thing was in self caused development hell for years and I don’t have my hopes up. But I’m invested as I liked its predecessor and I’ve been waiting for it for awhile, so I’ll at least give it a fair shake.

Why, are your feelings so hurt that you can’t create and form logical thoughts for yourself, but instead need to be guided by internet rage?

Do I like or agree with JK Rowling and her views? No. Do I think her work on Harry Potter had an absolutely large positive contribution to literacy? Undoubtably so.

Sometimes the people who create and leave the largest legacies and contributions to society, are also people with unpopular opinions and viewpoints. Again I’m not defending or trying to justify this woman’s viewpoints, but I also can understand the fine nuance that learning from and reading Mein Kampf doesn’t automatically make someone a Nazi.

If you get enjoyment out of Harry Potter, knock yourself out. It makes you no less of a person, and OP so much less of a person for trying to make you feel that way.

Sorry you can’t offer a contribution, and instead feel the need to act like an absolute child.

The thing with those new cars, is they very seldom actually ever make it to market in any sort of volume. I’ll be able to take the idea of the Slate truck a lot more seriously, when I start seeing them on the roads. Until then, it’s just dreams and concept exercises (which are highly important, don’t get me wrong).

I’m also more excited for the concept of the Telo truck, but I question how they are going to get it to market through the safety requirements. The slate truck was an exciting concept at first, but will almost certainly get more bloated between concept and the marketplace. The marketplace might also still realize their actual appetite for the most basic accoutrements of a base model vehicle is still pretty low. There’s always those few guys that want to roll the windows up, and crank over their engines by hands, but that crowd also doesn’t tend to buy new vehicles but once every twenty years. Once the trendy “cool” phase is over for the Slate, should it arrive, I worry about it having any sort of staying power. People bitch about those huge screens in their face, but I fear they also very quickly bemoan the loss of them once they realize they can’t LOL or cruise Spotify as easily as they are used to. It would be better for humanity if this happened though.

You’ll feel differentially if you ever travel a great distance somewhere, and spend some time there.

There exists a pretty good network of decent charging now on most main routes in North America for example. But it’s still the secondary areas that need work now. For 90% of your travels (more like 98% in our case), the home charger gets it done. But the whole charging infrastructure that we need is still not completely there yet.

We drove across the continent this summer. The drive back and forth across was surprisingly quiet and uneventful. But spending 4 weeks at my parents and at our in-laws, in a more rural town setting, was…painful. We have a mobile charger, but of course my in-laws didn’t have an outlet nearby, my parents do, but it wasn’t working. Our hometown has three public charging stations, all painfully slow (5+ hours). It made for a tough few weeks. Still doable, but I’d hardly call it convenient.

As for surveillance, that ship left the station a long time ago, and it’s not just EVs, it’s all vehicles. That’s a completely different topic though.

Absolutely zero, anymore.

It’s not enough. We leave such a large digital footprint anymore, it’s not hard to connect everything and everyone together. They almost certainly have some pretty crazy technology that we don’t even have access too as well.

The bigger thing here, is this is a supposed first world country using your personal information and communications to intimidate and threaten you. Heck to even imprison you. That’s third world country tinpot dictator-like behaviour.