Cars from the late 80s and early 90s are still fine today if produced; relatively safe, good fuel economy, air-conditioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(fourth_generation)

Heck, 4/5 people would be happy with a side by side ATV as a form of transportation in urban/suburban areas. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/

A golf cart is suitable for at least 50% of people currently driving in cities, as the majority of small cars are just grocery getters. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/

Something is fundamentally wrong with the transportation; size, power, cost of cars.

This is such a crazy situation, who knows how it’ll end up. It might spiral out of control, I can picture all copyright/patent/trademark international agreement being shredded in the next 3 years during the remaining term.

If this was based on scientific research, you bet that the creators would be pushing the academics that formed the policy to endorse this. This is just junk pseudo-science. Serious researchers would do small sample testing before rolling out a wide program, especially for something like this

Any large scale plan, involving teachers, and students needs to be boiled down to extremely simple concepts that can be taught in a few words. Most kids have a hard time with subtraction and division. This will become simplified and resented.

It’s not even libertarianism at this point. I don’t have a name for it; part stupidity, part bravado, no compassion, no responsibility.

You’re right, people do have rose colored glasses, when it comes to the past.

I’ve added the ‘anymore’ statement because I think that we’ve fallen below a ‘critical mass’.

Bowling isn’t a good example because it isn’t popular anymore, but I’ll use it as an example anyway. If there aren’t a core group of people that can consistently pay to play, the bowling alley goes bankrupt. That hurts the people that, because of a financial constraints, may have gone only occasionally. Even if there are a handful of ultra-wealthy people in a community that can go whenever then want, there are too few of them to really sustain a bowling alley, as they won’t be going everyday.

Everybody, and every corporations jumped on the landlord bandwagon, rents went crazy. Now there is nowhere to go, most small cool places, with live music, or a kitschy theme, have either closed or have become too expensive.

This is bad. At least in the 1990s when the economy was hard, someone could afford to rent out a small place and make a fun bar.

Everything is too expensive. People simply can’t afford to do things anymore.

What Canada really needs is a massive drone program. Drones from the size of a 747 to the size of a dime, and everything inbetween. The entire Russia-Ukraine war is a drone war.

In reality you should put free phones everywhere in prison. It’s literally the cheapest way of keeping somebody occupied.

The US got left behind the global CAR race in the 1980s, when the Japanese and Koreans started to produce cheap fuel efficient cars.

This will not cause inflation at all. /s

Western Canada has always talked of separation, it’s a nothing burger.

Since at least the late 80s record labels sucked, not the streaming services suck. Time to just get rid of copyright on music and audio recordings.

How much do you know about Francis II, that last Holy Roman Emperor? A few people read about him, but he’s not that common of a name.

I think the opposite with happen with the same results. Everyone’s DNA will be on the books. It’ll be revealed that we’re all related somehow. You’ll be able to orient the database any way that you want to see how you’re related.

I barely think Trump will be remembered. In 600 years we’ll have a completely different economic/political system. I can’t image our quaint ideas of ‘nations’ lasting much longer. This economic/political system was a flash in the pan from just after the Napoleonic wars till about now. I’m not sure what will come soon, but we’ve been stuck with an antiquated system now for over 70years.

I wonder when the first one will happen?

I’ll watch one video of someone I like. Randomly another video starts playing right after, before I have a chance to click away, my feed degenerates into some crazy slop.

It’s getting bad. Almost unwatchable now. Google is screwed.