You have to present ID to buy tobacco or alcohol in the states. These places do not store any information on your ID. They glance at it to verify your birthdate, then you put the ID back in your wallet.
There is not a snowball's chance in hell I am giving my government ID to a social media company that will undoubtedly store that info in their database.
> America is really big and things you need to do or places you need to go are rarely just down the block
The continental United States has about 3.5 million square miles of land. By comparison China has about 3.7 million square miles. Roughly the same, give or take a few. Observe the number of public passenger rail lines that China has and the timeframe in which they were built them.
The idea that America is just too geographically big for public rail or any kind of public transportation system and we must be beholden to the car is categorically false.
> My point is people want to drive to work, run errands, and conduct business
Driving is not a precursor to running errands and conducting business (unless your business is dealing with cars) in any established nation with a robust public transportation network. I have heard the argument that cars are necessary mainly from people who have lived their entire life driving from place to place and cannot fathom using public transit. Either because it is woefully underfunded in their area or it has the perceived notion of only being for the poor folk who cannot afford a vehicle.
> It is the same problem that presents with pushing everyone to electric vehicles, electric cooking, and electric heat. We can barely meet the demand now ... NYC has 4.4MM cars moving through it each day.
This is a strange argument. It doesn't take a genius intellect to see that the energy cost to move a person per unit distance travelled is far greater driving solo than it would be taking a tram, bus, or even cycling.
As a plus, we wouldn't need to use so much space for parking these vehicles and we could use the land for other projects that 1. generate more tax revenue and 2. serve a more useful purpose for the general public; i.e. shops, living quarters, third places[1], etc.
All in all, it would be nice to have the ability to go some place without needing the car. The removal of parking lots and reclaiming that space is the cherry on top. You can thank early automotive lobbyists for shaping the current state of affairs[2][3][4][5]
"When know what we're doing, this is is the way of the future, it's how we will implement our utopia" is what everyone said back in the 50s-70s when they were cooking up single family zoning, parking minimums and all that crap.
I'm very bearish on the idea that doing the same exact kind of micromanagement of property development but with a different set of values will generate results that of substantially different net value to society over all.
This is the strategy I use. I determine ahead of time how much money I want and distribute the hours such that it adds up, plus or minus a few here and there. It is all made up.
Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf
There is not a snowball's chance in hell I am giving my government ID to a social media company that will undoubtedly store that info in their database.