2.5) Build out mass transit that can handle the load of current car trips with a similar source-to-destination time. No, replacing a 15-minute car ride with a 2 1/2 hour bus ride that requires two transfers is a FAIL.

Doing 2.5 in a cost-effective manner is the tough part. In the area where I live, the government spent about US$1B building a new commuter rail line on an unused right-of-way, if the riders had to pay for it, the cost would be about $50 per one-way trip [$1B bond, 4% interest, 250 workdays per year, 800 roundtrips per day] just to cover the interest on the construction bond, never mind the operating costs. That's a tough sell when existing commuter rail tickets run about $10 per one-way trip

If only the government officials weren't under threat of being voted out of office for doing something the citizens didn't want them to do.

It's been tried before. The death toll in the last 100-odd years has 9 digits.

Just like the solution to the HorsePoopCopalypse, it needs to make life better for the common man. If you do that, you won't need a totalitarian government to force people to adopt it.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism, like <adjective> justice is not justice and soy milk is not milk.

The question is: who do you put in the place of Stalin or Mao?

You could move to North Korea and see how that works out.

They're trying to maximize the "If your ad interrupts my content, particularly if it interrupts the most interesting part, all it does is make me hate your product" effect.

They don't have to. It's the ones making the assertion that have to prove their assertion.

A satellite that lasts 5-10 years beats trenched fiber that gets paid for, but never gets installed.

For ICE cars, there are block heaters. The same solution is used in Alaska.

EV cars don't produce anywhere near as much heat as ICE cars, so they don't require that the engine be bathed in motor oil that can turn to gel at low temperatures.

... where you need an Internet connection to play the drums.

Getting the government out of places it doesn't belong sounds like the opposite of fascism.

Stop using "fascist" as name-calling for "someone I disagree with politically".

A vessel which deliberately acts to damage undersea cables (I see damaging undersea cables accidentally as all but impossible), measured as "ship in area of a cable, communications failure over that cable, monitoring vessel sonar scan (or some other scan) shows ship is dragging an anchor or something similar" is subject to seizure, either at a future port of call or at sea by the affected nation's coast guard.

The US should honor vessel seizure requests from NATO members. (the cable cut is considered an attack under the NATO treaty)

Hey website, tell me the hash value of the document at this URL.
If I find the hash in my local cache, and it hasn't expired.
....Use its static content (but it gets its own private data/cookie store).
Otherwise
....Hey website, give me the document at this URL.

This strategy will reduce requests of identical documents and scripts across websites, so long as the hash function is cryptographically secure against collisions.

Capitalism shines when there is excess production which goes into the creation of more capital, which results in either an increased quantity of what is produced, an increased quality, or both.

What will happen in this case (stable quantity of consumption) is that quality goes up, price goes down, or both.

A prerequisite for this virtuous cycle is a properly-functioning government that doesn't allow today's successful capitalists to prevent future competitors from arising, and potentially taking their place.

Socialist economies run in the opposite direction: they punish capital creation or saving in favor of redistribution, resulting in the steady consumption of overall capital. This is the basis of the statement "Socialism seems great until you've finished eating your seed corn. Then everybody starves."

Companies don't care who you spend your time with off-work, so long as you show up at your next shift ready and able to work

Companies will not shed a tear for you when you're gone, so long as you can be easily replaced or what you did doesn't matter all that much.

Companies exist to make things and provide services that other people and companies want to pay them in order to receive. That's it.
A company will employ you only because you help them make the things and provide the services that they make and provide.