I’m not sure if this is available everywhere, but in California you can put up a bond in lieu of insurance with the DMV, either with your own money or with a surety bond company.

So you can do it, they just require proof in the form of the bond that the money is available when needed. They won’t just take your word for it. They might take the word of a company with a $1.3 trillion market cap, which is probably a bad idea. You get hit with one of these fuckers and instead of the admittedly shitty but known process of dealing with an insurance company, now you have to deal with a huge company that doesn’t want to admit their dumb camera only system is at fault.

What is there to breach? You’re already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren’t something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.

I’d have to give it some more thought, but I’m not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn’t say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn’t post it either.

We’ve all heard “it takes money to make money.” But rich people know it’s better to use other people’s money.

From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.

WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?

Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.

And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.

That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.

My grandparents house built just after ww2 had, what was for a long time, a standard two car garage. Enough room for two land yachts from the 70s, lawn care implements and various other stuff and you could still open the car doors all the way and walk around. My parents’ house built in the 70s was the same. It’s more recent construction in built up areas where they are shrinking. They’ve been getting smaller as developers try to cram more liveable sqft on smaller amounts of land.

You’re right, being poor is expensive, but that doesn’t really apply to charging a vehicle.

The term “being poor is expensive” is generally applied to situations where you don’t have the money to pay for something upfront (a quality product, bulk purchases, preventative maintenance, preventative healthcare, down payment on a house) so you have to spend smaller amounts of money repeatedly and/or have a large unavoidable cost as a result (multiple cheap products that wear out, multiple small purchases with a higher per unit price, a blown engine, a root canal, rent), which can cost a lot more over time.

The electric bill is post-paid, not up front. Not being able to set aside the “$10 every few days” to pay the higher bill at the end of the month with money left over is just poor money management.

That being said, the higher purchase cost of electric vehicles preventing poor people from taking advantage of lower operating costs that would more than offset the higher purchase price after some number of years is an example of it being expensive to be poor.

The unexpected part is the increased surface salinity. Previously it was thought that the fresh water melt would stay on top of the denser, saltier deep water trapping some heat and salt below and allowing some refreezing slowing the overall melt, but still melting. They’re finding unexpected vertical mixing bringing up saltier water from the deep, causing more melting, causing more mixing; a feedback loop.

The article doesn’t really explain why this is happening, only what is happening. It does link to a paper but I’m still trying to parse it. I think I need something a little dumbed down from the paper in plain language but with a lot more info than the original article to understand it.

It follows the normal pattern where everytime we learn more about climate change we find out it’s even worse than we thought.