Mains electricity is highly regulated because it can and regularly does kill people and start house fires.

I love Linux. I use it wherever I can. I don’t use Linux on my primary gaming workstation, for the simple reason that the display drivers, specifically mixed extended desktop and screen mirroring is just straight up ass.

The amortization length affects proportion of principle paid down, but it doesn’t eliminate it entirely. At the same interest rate, you end up having paid more in interest at maturity of a longer amortization, yes. In practice, this can be mostly mitigated by negotiating a lower rate, or negotiating and exercising prepayment privileges.

More importantly, with a mortgage, ownership of the property is yours entirely, from day one, not the lenders’. What you owe is cash, not the property. The property is merely collateral in the event of default of payment.

BTW, multi generational loan agreements are not new. They are somewhat common historically and in other places of the world. For the same reason that multigenerational housing is the historical norm.

I hear they are a solution to the problem of increasing mileage/efficiency. I am no fan of Tesla, but we have to admit, there is some merit to that argument, however debatable the efficiency benefits are.

That’s not to say safety isn’t a serious issue. The biggest problem is the reliance on electronics. Now if someone can reinvent the design with a highly reliable mechanical system, with multiple redundancy.

Define “never”. Never in as in never in the history of 21st century America? Pretty tame assertion. Never in the anthropological sense? That would be completely farcical.

AI, crypto, just like .com, are very much very real, valuable technologies that have and will continue to stick around and be used until we destroy ourselves, or something even more advanced comes along.

What was/is a grift, is all the stupid money and people around it that don’t have a damn clue where the limits of the technologies actually lie, what kinds of real problems are solved and have been sold lies stop lies without doing their due diligence.

I don’t do online gambling, so maybe I am missing an important detail here, but there’s no recent development that would explain why online gambling would have an effect now, and not a year ago, or even 15 years ago.

An AI message for dating? Have people just given up on living?

To be fair, this is much deeper than Trump. The cancer runs deep, in the veins of all the legislators, judges, advisors, and voters who enable this behaviour unchecked.

Interesting prediction. Here’s mine: American companies will see the isolationist policies and chaos as bad for business, and just pack up and leave.

You sidelined US companies the moment you enacted tariffs (among other things), you turd.

If it could be broken so easily then WTF is your administration using it in the first place, dumbass.

Deny, deflect, diffuse. That’s all they do. Lie, lie, lie. Anything to avoid any kind of accountability.

Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won’t face political consequences.

It has to be this fucking stupid, because the weapon of choice against democracy is idiocracy.

You, the people, out in the streets, rioting, en masse. That’s how democracy was won, and it’s what is needed to maintain it.

Why, the same people in support of Netenyaho, of course.

US policy doesn’t get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That’s the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.

There’s only one reason to get a cybertruck, the one thing it is excellent at: grabbing attention.

Mission accomplished buddy.

Blocklist and allowlist are much more intuitive, so if we ignore all the cultural baggage, these changes are rather sensical.