The main benefit of AM is that it propagates very, very far. For emergency use you only need one transmitter working, to cover a very wide area. Not the multiple systems that you need for Starlink to work.

We had a small resurgence in some workers cleaning cabins, they switched protocol to using liquid before cleaning to trap dust from feces. It's never really contained.

Many EVs support vehicle to load, so you can run appliances off them in the event of an outage. The issue is more to do with the planning that needs to happen for things like that to be useful. If you are going to rely on a battery, you need to make sure it is charged when you need it, which precludes also using it for general driving.

It's more of a nice to have.

No. Trump was overleveraged and the last bank that would do business with him was Deutsche Bank until he made whatever deal they made with the Russians... Pedo Jr. and Eric both told us they were banking with Russia.

I doubt this very, very heavily. If it were so they would have told us so already as their excuse. These days the typical radio antenna is an amplified module mounted to the roof, this is now cheap and it gives better reception without the sticking-up aerial or with just a short one.

There is absolutely no safety benefit to having an AM radio built into your car. I could not have been clearer about that in my post. There is absolutely nothing a car's AM radio can do that an emergency AM radio in the back of your trunk can't do just as well or better.

The only reason to insist on having AM radio in a car is so people can listen to it while they're driving. Either for political reasons because billionaire right-wing extremists have taken over AM radio and have for some time or just plain old economics because a bunch of people make their living off of a captive audience of people driving places in a car.

So you can fuck off with your straw man argument that because I'm a left winger I should always back government regulation that appears to be for safety on the face of it. There's this magical thing called nuance that can be used to make decisions that are more complicated than black and white. You ought to try it sometime. But being a right winger you're probably physiologically incapable. I mean that. Multiple studies have shown that right wingers have overactive fear responses and while it's possible to train that out of them our civilization does the exact opposite. So it's all about the knee jerk reactions.

It is kind of funny that you follow my posts enough that you recognize me and know I am a left winger. I frankly have no idea who you are I can only tell that you're a right winger based on the particulars of your post and the rather nasty tone in it. It's that overly high and mighty tone that right winger is always take combined with the love of discovering hypocrisy without actually understanding what hypocrisy is enough that you could figure out that there wasn't any actual hypocrisy in my position. Did you vote Trump all three times or just the two when there was a woman up on the ticket?

Can a person apply a license to code they don't have the copyright to? The answer is no. This code is either infected with a mishmash of copyright from its original sources, or it's not copyrightable at all, and courts haven't decided which but they are both bad.

It has basically functional mass transit, but last time I lived there my commute was 15 minutes by car or 1 hour and 15 minutes by two buses linked by subway. I could probably have walked faster. Now I would dread parking in either neighborhood but then it was feasible.

This is an incredibly short sighted argument for someone calling someone else short sighted. Someone might need updates while evacuating, and their car's radio will have better reception than the portable they are using inside of the car. AM radios work OK inside of cars, but still not as well as a car stereo using the external antenna. It's easier to use and hear while driving. It's a small addition to the cost. Yes, people should have a portable radio for emergencies. Having the car stereo pick up the AM broadcasts is still also useful in emergencies.

In a real emergency, it is usually worthless, unless maybe it has an FM radio receiver. FM isn't worthless in an incident, it's just not as useful as AM.

AM is good for sending out information during a disaster which includes power outage, when the cellular network will crater whether it's affected by the outages or not. And it will be, because some sites' generators won't work, or they don't have much fuel to begin with. Everyone can have solar and hand crank generators for their phones and still have them be worthless.

Classic Slopdot, I got modded down for my comment while he's using Claude to "write" the code.

Every accusation is a confession with you lot. People whine about imaginary problems? Fed up of being told you are a bad person for your beliefs?

Good luck with this. Shaming people for being fat worked so well, I'm sure belittling them will get them to have more kids too. It certainly worked when people pointed out the deficiencies in your behaviour.

In order to get the numbers that they want it they have to include break-ins not just thefts. Yeah 24/7 surveillance will make it easier to catch somebody who steals your car. We won't do it of course because why the fuck would we but it does make it easier.

But you can't get the numbers from the study with just stolen cars and if somebody breaks into your car no having all that surveillance isn't really going to help. It doesn't help that they know your license plate when your window gets broken in.

As for why the drop in crime besides the fact that crime is way down and keeps going down right around this time the police did a huge huge push going after car break-ins. A shitload of manpower was put to the task that's all this is. Yeah if you want to spend a boatload of money on police to keep your car from being broken in you can do that but the window is going to be a lot cheaper than the taxes you're going to pay for the army of cops needed to enforce that law at the level they're at.

Incidentally they won't be able to keep this up forever so eventually the crime numbers will go back up and when they do I'm sure that we'll get another article somewhere where the police talk about how crime is on the rise and they need more money...

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm so fucking tired of being lied to. And in such fucking obvious ways.

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks. One company bought virtually everything. AM radio is mostly right wing talk shows now. FM radio is the same handful slop music shoved in our faces whether we like it or not pretending to be local radio while owned by clear channel.

You can't shitify a product that much for that long and have anyone give a shit. Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away when it's the exact same content because it's from the exact same mega corporation?

And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more if you're buying a electric car because of the Herculean engineering task needed to make them work around electric car motors.