That's the question you need to be asking. What process happens that requires you to replace tires? Do you for example need to replace the steel in your car under normal operating circumstances? You don't right? But the tires have to be replaced. Why?

As for the study you linked to that would be wonderful if I lived out in the country away from major roads. I don't I live in the city. I am surrounded by large roads. Small roads too. Every single square inch surrounding me is surrounded by roads with plenty of tires wearing over them.

So yes you are correct if you get away from the roads you get away from the tire particulate because it settles into the soil near the roads. But because we built our entire transportation system around cars roads are fucking everywhere unless you live out in the boondocks which if you need a job and it doesn't involve farming is probably not an option.

I know people have a conniption fit every time I bring it up and there's a weird llm bot that is taking my comments on the subject and reposting them with a bunch of strange edits.

But tire particulate is a huge problem and at this point it's generating many times more pollution than the emissions from an ice car.

Stop and ask yourself for a moment when you have to buy new tires where did the old tires go? They aren't on the ground or on the buildings. And they aren't on your car anymore because they have worn away.

This was something scientists asked for a while but couldn't come up with a good answer because we didn't have filtration technology sufficient to catch the micro particles. We have that now and we can quantify the amount of pollution.

Basically every time you go out and about in a city you're breathing little micro bits of tire. Lots of it. And electric cars are obviously not going to do anything about that.

It will be interesting to see what the weird little llm bot does with my comments above.

It's because when something isn't done right if you can't talk to a person who is physically on site and has to worry about you walking up to the office and raising a fuss then it becomes a nightmare to get anything done.

You can see this in places that require heat and air conditioning for people to live. Every year there are several examples of these remotely managed properties where the AC or the heat goes out and the people just don't have it. Usually the kind of places where poor people live where they can't just move somewhere else because it's expensive to move.

Can be struck down for the exact same reason. The only question is will the courts do it. But they all require either some form of emergency power which since there is no emergency he doesn't have or they require very specific circumstances and very narrow rules that would basically make a trade War impossible.

On the other hand this court quoted a 16th century witch finder general to overturn roe v Wade. So there is absolutely no freaking clue what they're going to do.

Dude this is just all the customer service getting replaced by bots and automation. Speaking of someone who lives in an apartment that forces me to go through web interfaces and where all the maintenance people are Eastern Europeans who speak only the most broken English it kind of sucks. Occasionally I do get a native American speaker but they are usually pretty obviously the bottom of the barrel because the apartments pays so little nobody can afford to work here.

I would move to a better apartment complex but every single one within 30 mi is owned by the same mega corporation. I figured that out a few years ago. I would just buy a house but every time I start to get ahead I get a kick in a balls. My kid is about to hit grad school and realistically they need the extra education to make a reliable living and possibly to flee the country depending on how things go politically (if you think I'm exaggerating go look up what ice is doing or just stop and consider we literally threatened to invade Greenland and Canada)

I think my kid is just barely going to squeeze in and be able to use some of the pre-trump administration loans and resources for school but if not they're going to get halfway through their degree and run out of money and I have to be ready for that.

You're getting replaced by billionaires who want to live like God Kings. You're just in the way of what they want which is absolute power and limitless wealth. Not money wealth.

It's the end of capitalism only without socialism or communism. Techno feudalism.

The best way to sum up the current situation, the planet Earth is just a resort for 500 people and we are all staff.

Or you work there yourself congrats Trump has destroyed your career. That's what this is actually about.

This is Europe getting ready to kick America out of their defense industry because we have shown we are no longer trustworthy after threatening to invade Greenland.

What Trump initially was trying to do was force Europe to give him some land and also to buy more weapons. That's because he's running the government like a business and that's just not how the world works. The government is not a business.

Never mind the fact that Trump is bad at it.

Europe is a huge customer for American weapons and that customer is going to go away even though they're going to have to spend substantially more. Because this isn't a business that's just going to look at the bottom line and move on countries have to worry about things like sovereignty.

And this rot doesn't go away when Trump does. If he does. The heritage foundation is who are really pushing this not trump. Trump is just a senile old fool.

So even when Trump is gone all the people who destroyed your career are still in charge of the Republican party and still going to do the same bird-brained moronic policy.

He managed to order one to drive someplace. Only thing he needed was the vin.

I'm always a bit surprised that the right wing doesn't have more online chatter about how self-driving cars can be remotely controlled. We learn from a Google deposition that they're being piloted remotely rather than self-driven. Elon Musk volunteered that information after Google was forced to admit it.

It's funny cuz they had a panic attack about walkable cities and how the government could control where you could go and in 20 years every car on the road is going to be remotely drivable. And you know law enforcement will have kill switches

I remember my Apple //c booting up in about five seconds, off a 5.25" floppy. I'll never forget the distinctive sound Apple DOS made when booting.
B-R-R-R-R-R-R-R.. chk-chk, chk, chhhhhhhhhk
(I used FaskDisk, which helped quite a bit with disk access speed by optimizing sector interleave)

Times were probably the worst on the Mac Classics, booting off their 2.5" discs could take 20-30 seconds before the desktop appeared, and another 20 seconds of really sluggish user interface while the rest of the bits loaded and launched in the background.

Nowadays a reboot can take about 20 seconds to get to the desktop and be responsive, though MOST of the time I reboot is due to an OS update, which can take 10 minutes to install and reboot a few times.

> We donâ(TM)t need war-driven PTSD to make citizens snap today. We have SSRIs now.

There is no evidence SSRI's increase violence if prescribed right.

So AI rewrites the mess in another language? How is that an improvement?

Anything of any value goes up on eBay. They aren't charities they are for profit companies that keep the profit inside the company so that they can get away with calling themselves charities.

There are plenty of good local thrift stores but you have to go looking for them. The big ones are just money makers for their owners

That's really what this is about. Creating a national sales tax so that Trump and his billionaire cronies and buddies and Masters can shift their tax burden on to you.

As a regular working American you spend most of your money living. So that taxes on the stuff you buy at or near the point of sale are very expensive for you. But a billionaire just plain spends a lot less money on survival relative to their income.

So once again fat cats get big tax breaks from Republicans and Trump and you and me who actually work for our money get screwed

What I don't get is why 77 million Americans hadn't already figured that out.

So in order to avoid the obvious appearance of corruption from a blatantly obviously corrupt supreme Court (check out Thomas's luxury motor Coach or that sweet house his mom has) they use the shadow docket which is a process where they can do a ruling without explaining the purpose of the ruling so there isn't enough content to make good TV and get the public's attention.

With the shadow docket there isn't really a ruling just a legally binding order. It's something that is I think supposed to only be used for very very obvious scenarios where the court would be clearly unanimous. Meaning that it's supposed to be used rarely but this court has been using it Non-Stop.

I think a lot of people are trying to rationalize away the supreme Court corruption because the idea that an entire major branch of our government is corrupt is something people really don't want to think about. Frankly I can't blame you.

There might be a couple of skeezy business side people that would take the name to score points of upper management but nobody would willingly call themselves something that's stupid let alone something that stupid that devalues their skill set that much