Coolkidbozzy [he/him]

LED headlights can be many times brighter than incandescent bulbs with no significant impact to life expectancy. Physically, incandescent bulbs produce light by heating up an element which decays relatively quickly. LEDs directly convert electricity to light.

In the US, there ARE regulations limiting how bright headlights can be, but aftermarket LEDs can be bought which exceed the limit. I’ve heard the EU and Asia already widely use adaptive headlight technology so it’s a uniquely american car problem

As of now the law seems to be that you’d still need to show a physical ID to police, this wouldn’t be seen as valid. Tbh this doesn’t seem useful

the cold war turned every civil war into a proxy war with at least one large power (the US) prolonging conflicts and fuelling large death tolls by supplying weapons to the right-wing, if not directly intervening

vietnam/cambodia/laos, both afghanistan wars, angola/namibia, liberia, sierra leone, syria, ukraine, both congo wars, occupation of lebanon, libya, yemen, and the years of lead are some examples of this

less nations legally declare war on each other now because declaring war requires UN backing, but the cold war was a violent extension of imperialism that never ended and a lot of people have been killed

I haven’t read the full article but yes, this goes back to post-war Stanford University under Fred Terman creating the virtuous cycle between universities receiving DoD funding for research, companies subcontracting out professors to develop intellectual property, and products from the companies benefitting the government. It created silicon valley out of ICBMs. It became the model all schools followed because it gave access to near-unlimited government funding, and there is no escaping the cycle of supporting imperialism without a new funding mechanism

I slept in this town once when I was temporarily homeless. I was lucky enough to not be harassed by cops. Letting people sleep in public spaces doesn’t harm anyone except landlords, the housing market, and the hotel/airbnb industry. How the fuck is an unemployed unhoused person supposed to eventually afford rent if they’re fined for existing outside?

Until my state has a cheap and quick train/bus system that can take you to state/national parks, I need a car. My next car will likely be a prius because I doubt the promised big expansion of charging stations will actually happen

If you don’t go on road trips, you don’t regularly drive long distances, and your city lacks decent public transit, cheap EVs are great relative to your other options

so many people are saying this

what lmao he would have bombed iran

He pointed to recent comments from World Food Programme Director Cindy McCain that a famine is imminent.

the fucking mccains are more humane than biden

To be clear, this came after years of explaining all the ways Israel is awful, and them not giving a fuck

Lmk when you figure out the answer. I’ve stopped talking to them because they’re all rabidly zionist and I can’t get over them denying genocide

maybe if the US practiced long-term planning we’d have our own belt and road initiative

divinity??

US Strengthens Its Internet Controls in Critical Year for Biden

Facing a fraught but uncontested election this week and fallout from John Barnett’s death and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the US has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by Nazi Germany.

South Africa, famously a place that doesn’t need land reform

oh they mention it

Almost all children’ need mental health support Crickx also said the mental health of children in Gaza was being severely affected by the offensive, and that a million children in the Gaza Strip require mental health support.

Children in Gaza “present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite, they can’t sleep, they have emotional outbursts or panic every time they hear the bombings,” he explained.

Before the assault erupted, UNICEF estimated that more than 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental health and psycho-social support.

More than one million children in the besieged Gaza Strip now require mental health support

that’s the entire child population of Gaza

I feel like a reasonable but controversial answer to this is cows