1 can never happen, at least if you’re defining “normal” as currently fashionable sunglasses. AR maybe, but VR needs full color displays at a certain distance so the eye can focus and it needs to block out other light sources. And then the power source and computer needs to connect somehow. Maybe, as in sci-fi maybe, we can develop a superdense high-definition display that beams directly into the retina while compensating for the lens, variable focus, and general motion of the eye so it can sit an inch away and look crisp, but I can’t imagine that being realistic this side of fifty years (and it doesn’t solve the energy or processing problems). VR is either not going to be mainstream in our lifetime or everyone is going to accept wearing a shoebox on their face for the experience.

2 and 3 are reasonable requests, there should be headsets that are as attainable and compatible as a standard monitor.

Don’t mind the downvotes, you’re streets ahead.

Dee Snider at least had the conviction to stand up in front of Congress (Along with John Denver and Frank Zappa) to defend against music censorship (fuck you Tipper Gore). He’s not exactly a radical leftist but he’s been consistently pro-Ukraine and vocally opposed to Trump (and George W. before that)

1000% yes, it’s absolute madness. Should need a CDL for those.

We don’t have to pick just one criteria, I’d also have a “large vehicle” stamp to cover anything longer than a stationwagon or taller than ~6 feet. The relevant highway acceleration is more the 40-75mph range, but there’s definitely a relationship between quickness and safety. Crucially, I think that relationship only exists for competent and practiced drivers. Faster acceleration in the hands of a teenager is not safer on the highway. And “driver’s responsibility” is clearly not working.

I don’t think “Leaf bad” undermines the actual point that a 3 second 0-60 time is wildly unnecessary and dangerous for the average driver, it was just illustrating that not every EV is performance-spec. I’d personally gate anything faster than 6, maybe 5 seconds under a “sport” license and traffic violation penalties should be more severe in that class of vehicles to more accurately reflect the relative risk to others.

The context of this thread is healthcare for children.

Only in a social framework that rewards greed. “Human nature” is almost impossible to understand because it can’t be studied with a control group.

Blah blah ecofascist doomerism. We can live harmonically with nature and have for most of our history. Our current consumerist society isn’t compatible with sustainable and responsible practices but that isn’t a forgone conclusion or intrinsic to human behavior. That’s not to say that we aren’t on a bad path, we absolutely are and a great many organisms are going extinct because of us, but ascribing a moral value to our very existence is the wrong move.

Nissan Leaf 0-60 in 7 or 8 seconds depending on model. That’s about the same as a standard Mazda 3. The Tesla Model 3 can do it in half the time. Not even close to the same tier.

It’s not a compromise it’s the cost of a functioning society. Measles. Smallpox. Polio. Whooping cough. There are extremely real costs to “personal choice” in the face of disease. Those costs are quite often passed on to children. Rickets. Fetal alcohol syndrome. I don’t think parents should be free to make harmful choices for their offspring.

Faith is the compromise. I wish that every single adult had the education, interest, and wherewithal to make ethical and well-informed decisions about themself and their dependents but that’s not the world we live in.

Corporate Average Fuel Economy, sets emissions limits based on vehicle size. Bigger car = lower standards. So rather than make more efficient engines we just make bigger cars and market the hell out of them until Americans think they need a Canyonero.

Oh man I would be all over tiered licensing. For size and performance, the basic license probably shouldn’t cover that can accelerate like a Tesla.

It’s less the pay and more the conditions. There isn’t really a wage that would justify making aomeone work like that.

Nah, I’m perfectly ok with “forced medication” when the societal benefit vastly outweighs the side effects. Mandatory vaccination, nutritionally supplemented food for children to aid in development, minor things like fluoride that reduce healthcare costs and promote long-term health, bring it on.

Giving credence to unsupported “skepticism” undermines the necessary faith in public infrastructure. Faith is a careful word choice here. I don’t expect the average person to really understand the benefits and chemistry and p-values, as much as I’d like them to. Some things just need doing because you trust the authority saying so. (And right now there are precious few American authorities worthy of trust.)

Vitamin C supplements are mostly bullshit anyway. Almost nobody needs them.

Well that’s just wildly misunderstanding political definitions, can’t help you much there bud. (You probably think of all communism as Stalinist Authoritarian Tankie Communism with a paranoid autocrat but there’s a whole spectrum in the anarchy/libertarian direction that really puts the “community” in “communism”)

House on my street recently sold for a bit over a million. 3 bed, 2 bath, ok view of the ocean, on a quarter acre. Ludicrous.

I’d go so far as to attack the idea of a corporation. Letting a business own property or act as a liability shield for human choices is clearly bad for society.

Feasible? Only in smallish communities surrounded by arable land. The urban and suburban life needs large scale industry to function at all.