I mean, clicking the 'I agree to use GameChat knowing that every time I use it, I'm going to be recorded' sounds an awful lot like 'giving consent.'

Oh shit, I remember this from Shadowrun lore.

> -You didn't address the fun of frequently shuffling cars in the uncovered driveway in bad weather.

Nothing to do with EVs, people with small driveways and multiple gas cars do this all the time. Or people shovelling snow out of their driveways. Or people with EVs who don't bother to buy EV chargers with multiple charging cables that handle power load balancing, such as, say, the Grizzl-E Duo.

> -What about installing expensive chargers in the yard for multiple cars?

See above.

> -What happens when they break? Are there charger service people? 'Sounds expensive.

"Sounds expensive" means you haven't actually looked into costs. Nor have you factored in that the savings of a single year of ICE car maintenance more than pay for a charger, let alone gas savings.

> -We have wild animals that like chewing wires.

Nothing to do with EVs; animals like chewing all sorts of power cables, fiber, and so on.

> -Strangers might trip on wires in our dim driveway (it's a dark suburb with no sidewalks).

And they might trip on your garden hose, a loose stone, or whatever. If your driveway's light levels are a safety hazard, address that.

> -I didn't even mention the charger-less street-parking found in the congested major urban areas.

Sure, the same way that back when gas cars were in their first few decades, there wasn't a gas station on every corner.

> -Copper wire theft will be rampant in some areas; they're already ripping pipes out of the walls of houses they break into.

Right, so....if they're already ripping out the copper in your walls, one extra EV charging cable isn't going to change their minds either way.

I always wonder if people genuinely think that when America was first colonized, the Mayflower people got off the boat, said 'wow, there's gas pumps, like, EVERYWHERE, I wonder what they're for.'

Every argument against EVs that have to do with 'infrastructure' was also an argument against gas cars. "Wait, you're saying that where I can just let my horse eat some goddamn grass, in order to run this 'automobile,' we need to pump oil out of the ground, ship it to a refinery, refine it, ship it to a local gas station, put it back into the ground, then every few hours I need to use fuel just to drive over to one of these fuel stations, put more gas in it, then drive around some more? Ludicrous!"

You can very happily run an EV charger on a 100a service; just don't run the charger, the electric stove, the electric dryer, and the air conditioner all at the same time.

Either set your charger to only run after hours when everybody is asleep anyway, and you'll still be full in the morning, or keep track of what other appliances you're running.

Or get one of the chargers that can measure total load, and throttle itself accordingly.

Your personal laziness doesn't obviate the fact that EVs are, in fact, way more easy for 99% of the population than gas cars are.

5) answer knock on door when FSB shows up at hotel to inquire as to why you immediately powered down your phone, and have been seen outside of the hotel.

This approach is much better than CarPlay, because you aren't trying to use a navigation app that doesn't (and realistically can't) know all the things your car does (range, state of charge, supercharging network support, supercharger speed preferences, etc.)

Except that CarPlay will quite happily take in anything your car cares to share, in terms of speed, fuel/charge level, estimated Distance To Empty, and so on. For example, CarPlay knows when the car isn't in park, and some apps use this to disable keyboards.

The War Against Boys was published twenty-five years ago.

And you could say that playing other people's music instead of writing your own is a 'sad lack of ambition.' Or playing instead of conducting.

You can always shit on somebody else's sundae if you try hard enough.

If, at this point, it's not being upgraded, it's because the users are demanding free labour.

Like I said, if it's important to you, it's a cost of business, and needs to be paid for.

Welp, then the users can pony up the cash to have the changes made.

If your embedded industrial systems are accessible by 'nation states,' the state of your patching isn't the issue, nor is it going to prevent exploits.

Oddly enough, the software already running on those controllers won't simply disappear, and the last working build will also still be available.

Yeah.

Fundamentally, you can take any living human being, and find something 'neurodivergent' about them.

That kid twirling their hair while reading? Stimming, clearly. That kid who would rather go outside and play than read a book? ADHD, clearly. That kid who'd rather read than play football? Social anxiety, obviously.

When I was a kid, 'autistic' meant you flapped your arms, and screamed when somebody turned on the lights wrong. Behavior that nowadays gets labelled as 'ASD' was..weird. Awkward. Shy. Introverted.

Honestly, I think we give too much accommodation in this day and age; kids don't get taught that sometimes, they need to manage their behaviors and bend to the expectations of the world, and they get rudely shocked when the real world doesn't bend over backwards for them.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child, and all that.