Los Angeles had a serious smog problem back in the day. I'm just old enough to remember flying in and seeing the "cloud" over the city being downright apocalyptic.

They still have a ways to go, but it's vastly better now than it was in the 70s/early 80s.

And yet, they have far more cars there today than they had back then.

Tire wear might be a factor, even a big factor, but combustion exhaust control can still make a big difference.

It's downright hilarious that a country with a very large and very active government-run intrusion team is now indignant that they have found themselves on the other end of a government-run intrusion operation.

The Onion ran a headline a while back:

"NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government"

It amazes me how few people on the right understand what's happening.

A government that demands obedience from journalists is a government that intends to do things that it knows it shouldn't do.

The Onion ran a headline a while back:

"NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government"

A government that demands obedience from journalists is a government that wants to do things that it knows it shouldn't do.

Great analogy.

I used to think of myself as a "car guy" like any other car guy, but the advent of EVs made me realize that there are a ton of "car guys" who obsess over operating pedals and levers and hearing noises (the quirks of the mechanism), rather than the forces that a high-performance car exerts on your body (the utility). Which frankly blows my mind, because I always thought of the loud noises and pedals and levers as a price that I paid for the opportunity to enjoy the really fun stuff.

It's weird how two-ton cars became the norm, and now a 3-ton normal is on the horizon.

I keep seeing ads about cars with high horsepower, like 500 or 600 hp... and then getting disappointed when I realize that it's going to feel like 300 or 350 in the sports car that I have now... which came with 400 from the factory, 20 years ago.

But on the other hand, I have no idea how much horsepower my EV has, but despite weighing two tons I can feel the acceleration in my face, and I get more opportunities to enjoy that because there's zero drama and negligible risk, even on wet roads.

We live in interesting times.

I've never worked for Google.

I turned it off in both browsers a long time ago, and haven't seen that permission request since.

I have no idea why it's broken for you, but I hope you're able to find a fix for it.

Just had a big fire at a refinery. Having read about Ukraine blowing up Russian refineries almost daily for the last few weeks, and Trump slowly backing off from his calls for Ukraine to capitulate, I have to wonder if that wasn't a Russian sabotage operation.

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Shit does happen. But the timing is suspicious.

Regardless, Russia is a terrorist state, and it needs to be made small again. The only question is how much additional pain we're going to allow them to cause before we force them to stop.

+1, Insightful

In chrome and edge, you can prevent sites from even asking for permission to send notifications.

This should have been the default, as Google's own usage data shows.

Not everyone has what it takes to get through law school, pass the bar, and then become a judge. Not everyone has the traits needed to take multiple companies public and become a millionaire many times over.

But the people who do have such skills do have a much better shot at finding workarounds for their challenges.

So if your message is that "they did find on their own, so everybody with autism / ADHD / etc should do find on their own" then I have to ask how big your yacht is. Because if your former boss can get that rich, then obviously anyone can do the same thing, including you.

+1, Insightful

I'm pretty sure you just mistook satire for sincerity.

To be fair, I did too, on first reading. But that was less of a reply than a meta-reply, describing the format of expected replies.

+1, interesting

Just to be clear, I didn't say pay would go down, I said "Ultimately, the hourly pay doesn't change much."

And we're not talking about demand going up - unless maybe you meant demand for drivers, as measured in dollars available. On that side, the increased does lead to an increased supply of drivers, because it becomes more profitable on a per-drive basis. But increasing the supply of drivers does not benefit any single driver - it means that more drivers are competing for the same number of drives, so each individual driver gets fewer drives.

It might even be a larger number of drivers competing for a smaller number of drives, if Uber raises their rates to offset the increased cost per ride.