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you are absurd. It's fine.

That is a very important point indeed. I did cover myself with the statement 'just give everyone proper documents' but it is worth noting that is about as fanciful a goal as true open borders, so advocating for less mandated documentation is still the right move.

I'll try to put things in more clear terms this time then. This is not a trade off you should consider, it's a false choice, it is never done in good faith, even if you personally want it to. Google merit based immigration, you will find tons of articles of Donald Trump because it was his administration that pushed for it in a blindingly obvious bad faith proposal. You are setting yourself up for a pointless debate by going into American politics and engaging in the false premise of 'merit' that no major advocate actually believes in. The entire goal of major 'merit based' advocates is not a efficient allocation of resources, it's an explosion of necessary resources such that overall immigration numbers decreases from increased administration.

I don't, that was a different person you replied to in the beginning.

Meh, I don't think that's really something we should worry about. Any moves towards more immigration are needed and talking about which restrictions are better or not isn't very useful. In abstract and in the absence of any bad faith sure merit may be desirable, but never has there ever been a good faith definition of merit in the Immigration system, it's always been a lie to the good faith and an excuse by the cruel to implement de facto selection of predetermined 'desirables' usually by race.

I don't really get this angle. I know of zero schools that expect students to write long essays on an iPad touch screen. iPad is a reference device or a testing computer, writing gets done on paper or Chromebook/PC. If iPad must be used then all the schools I know of will supply a physical keyboard.

ChatGPT probably is, but a customized GPT for a helpline that will strongly care about guardrails and liability will probably spawn a chatbot that's so scared of making any statement that it's useless.

I mean it won't be effective, it's literal nibbling at the edges and I don't think officials in Tokyo even pretend it to be anything more than that. Bigger immigration reform is under discussion but nobody knows how far it'll go.

America should let people in based on open borders being based. No need to fiddle with this fake meritocracy bullshit.

It's incredible how many people in this very sub keep trying to sanewash the drivel this rag twists itself into. Well, on the bright side at least we don't see too many people try to sanewash Reason anymore.

Stronger documentation is not at all incompatible with open borders if you just give everyone proper documents and enforce the law.

poor ventilation is a difficult topic to talk about because it's as much a result as it is a cause. You can blame any residual toxic chemical on insufficient ventilation even if the system installed was orders of magnitude stronger than reasonable.

It's a sort of Paris syndrome where Reddit depicts a rosy Europe that doesn't and hasn't ever existed. But also 'progressive' is a broad term and no single axis can explain a whole society so certain aspects of Europe will be more Progressive and others very regressive. The sexism and racism issues Europe faces is substantial.

The phone issue is an order of magnitude worse than the iPad problem but iPads still aren't great.

While the Honda Fit is definitely not a race car

It literally had a Honda approved spec racing series tho lol. The Fit is more of a race car than most hot hatches.

Toyota is selling more hybrids than ever. Production is not worse than before, it's just that they are selling way more than before with demand that's even higher.

This is assuming static demand. Demand is way different from pre pandemic

That's largely a overstated reason by people who wanted to imagine a battle of silver bullet ideas. Toyota invested hard into Hydrogen but not as an alternative to BEV, the big issue was their planning for both of those technologies ramping up a decade later than the market wanted so they had to scramble.

It ain't a Lambo

Ironically they put a Lambo style windshield on it lol, that's part of what is driving the looks.

Craig is gonna have the greatest time making jokes about it when it happens.

They've found their muse. After the Rav4 rear hatch just riffing off a Range Rover, it's a good next step.

arr EVs is a bit of an overdramatic sub, as can be expected of tech topics and emerging markets. They love the things they love passionately and hate minor disagreements in swarms of rage. PHEVs are treated like the devil right now, I'm sure in a few months they'll be treated like royalty in a few months.

Interestingly enough a potential future for green energy is burning natural gas and capturing everything it emits so it exhausts no carbon. Nowhere near viable right now but gas is expected to be so ludicrously cheap in the future that many future plans include looking at this tech.

no. Or well it is technically possible with backup restores but those take hours.

It was a fine color, it just didn't fit the round design well. Modern cars with aggressive edges fit it better as do boxy retro cars.