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My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.

(My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).

XBConnect! I 'member!

ICEs can refuel during a bathroom break. EVs need a long lunch. Turning every bathroom break into a long lunch makes a 3-day trip into a 5-day trip.

Chad/Virgin

Recharge every three hours?

Masochist.

And I can put in a leather gimp suit and have my partner spank me with a ping pong paddle. You don't shame me for my masochistic kinks, and I won't shame you for yours. Deal?

The overwhelming majority of us don't have a fetish for recharging stations, and don't want to spend 2 hours a day on our vacations to make short-range EVs seem feasible.

400 miles of range is 5 hours of driving (plus enough reserve to comfortably skip a busy, broken, blocked, or skeevy recharging point), recharge over lunch, and another 5 hours of driving. 400 mile range is where road trips become feasible.

400 miles of range, in the mountains, is 150 miles of range.

I reject the premise of your question: it was never worth the price.

Typically, less. EVs are consistently 10%-15% heavier than equivalent ICEs.

Weight is just not one of the advantages that EVs have over ICEs. This is not the hill you want to die on.

Fortunately, all the other advantages greatly exceed that weight penalty.

There is an app on f-droid called "shelter" that gives you access to Android Work Profiles. This is a sandboxed area of your phone that makes it function like a second phone. You can install apps that are only accessible from within that sandbox. You can install a second, sandboxed copy of an app. You can shut down all your sandboxed apps simultaneously.

I have a bunch of bullshit, garbage apps I very rarely use installed in my sandboxed "work" profile (Facebook, restaurant apps, and some other assorted trash apps) so they won't harass me at random.

To me It looks like a nightly routine of positive self-talk while visualizing myself getting up the next morning to carry out my planned agenda

All that visualization would have me excited to get started. I'd be up all night thinking about the plan, then be too exhausted to even get out of bed when it's finally time to actually get started.

That’s my point - I’m not making any profit from my ownership of the shares

We aren't taxing your profits. We are taxing you. That is the entire point of a wealth tax.

Personally, I wouldn't tax all forms of wealth. I would ignore personal property, intellectual property, real property. I would only tax securities. I would drive the wealthiest among us to pull their excess wealth out of the securities markets.

I don't have a problem with the richest among us acquiring all the luxury goods they could imagine. Want a mansion? Have 10. A yacht for every week of the year? Go nuts. Go put a bunch of carpenters and boatwrights to work.

The problem isn't their consumption. The problem is their frugality: they aren't buying those mansions, those yachts. They aren't employing those carpenters and boatwrights. They are using their wealth only to purchase the means of acquiring more wealth.

Instead of buying the products produced by a factory, they are buying the factory itself, and taking a larger and larger share of its revenue.

The fact that we have nothing to systematically disincentivize this behavior is the root cause of economic disparity today. A wealth tax is a first real step in solving this problem.