What has three wheels, one seat, runs on electricity, and costs $18,500?
A “Solo” (shown here).
How well will this do in the market?
It depends on people’s appetite for owning more than one car, with the commensurate costs of insurance, registration, maintenance, parking, etc.
Unless you’re the type of driver who never carries passengers (are there any?), this probably won’t work for you.
Here’s a combination of self-deprecating humility and raw truth.
In particular, these folks are surrounded by cowards. What other description applies to people who know goddamn well that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, but don’t have the guts to say that openly? Their spinelessness has America on the brink of civil war.
Right.
Republicans are absolutely fine on terrorism committed by white people.
School shootings? An insurrection? No big deal.
We’ve all seen clever memes that attempt to explain Fox News in a few simple words.
Perhaps my favorite: “Fox News–Making People Mean and Stupid Since 1996.”
Blair Imani is a: “writer, mental health advocate, and historian living at the intersections of Black, Queer, and Muslim identity.”
The point she makes here is spot-on. There are no crises that are going to affect the filthy rich. Foul air and water, fierce heat waves, catastrophic storms, world hunger, and tyrannical governments are disasters that affect others.
Of course, it’s still possible that humankind can achieve a sustainable civilization before it’s too late, but that will require moneyed interests to participate in finding solutions to our physical and political woes.
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics.
We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular.
It gives one a sense for what the geopolitical globe will look like once we have removed oil as our source of energy in the transportation sector.
The sickening truth about the unprecedented flooding shown here is that no one in the moneyed class could possibly give a s*** about it.
To them, whether it’s happening in Australia or anywhere else, the slow but steady destruction of life as we know it on this planet means that the world’s poor are perishing in agony, leaving more room for additional country clubs and polo fields.
Obama is 100% correct here. As few as 10 years ago, Republicans stood for conservative principles that offered, at least purportedly, real value for those who shared these political philosophies.
But if you happen to flick on Fox News right now, it’s all Democrat-bashing: Biden’s supposed senility, weakness on crime, “open borders policy” (whatever that means), inflationary spending, handouts to lazy poor people, limitless generosity to the Ukrainians (with whom the American people have nothing in common), defunding the police, affiliation with BLM and Antifa, lavish spending on the climate change hoax, school discussion of critical race theory, promoting baby-killing in the form of abortion, and politically motivated persecution of an honest and effective former president.
America is a country peering into a future in which the gap between the haves and have-nots can only be expected to widen as time passes.
The demise of public education represents a significant aspect of this decline.
What a shame. It could have been avoided if more of us had stood our ground.
