FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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Those countries don't have to follow flawed CAFE standards that make trucks and SUVs easy to build while holding smaller cars to much higher emissions standards.

The guy could have broken into the next house over and actually harmed someone. At least with the injury law enforcement was able to catch them.

The intruder had also already threatened to hurt/kill the kid, for all the kid knew the intruder could've planned on using the fence as concealment before using their own gun. Maybe the intruder was intending to come back later hoping to catch the kid sleeping and get some kind of revenge.

No civilian should be approaching a wounder intruder. They could have a concealed weapon like a knife or a gun.

When the intruder broke in, they probably had a tough guy attitude and that attitude changed real quick when they felt pain.

The kid is 11, they probably don't think much about the bigger picture in situations like this and hes probably just proud he's alive and wanted to be funny cause hes on camera. I'd probably rub the bad idea in their face a bit to if someone broke into my home and threatened my family.

It isn't like this kid just assaulted a random guy, there was a genuine threat here.

Breaking into a house and threatening a child is pyschopath behavior.

The kid is 11, he is going to need a long time to process what has happen. There was adrenaline pumping, genuine risk to his life and a culture of self defense. Did you expect him to suddenly grab a medkit and approach someone larger and older than him who may not be fully incapacitated and already threatened him?

Would you rather just let the kid be at the whim of the intruder? How much sympathy should a kid be expected to give to someone who broke into his home?

This could have easily turned into a barricaded suspect with a hostage.

Look what is on the roads in nearly any other country and you will realize that north Americans have way more personal pick ups and massive SUVs. If you ever see an american SUV like a suburban in a place like Japan or a european city, it looks super out of place compared to the other cars on the road.

The SUV costs more upfront, costs more to recharge, has larger tires which cost more and pollute more. The costs really add up fast if you are living on a budget.

Or are car companies only offering the bigger models because they make more profits?

Which is defintely a great strategy to reduce transportation emissions. And clearly everyone NEEDS a truck.

I'd be fine with the tarrif if there was a manufacturer actually trying to compete. Instead it feels like "nooo we can't have byds cars here, americans need the electric F250 supercab!!!"

I'd also be fine with the tarrif if there was going to be massive investments in public transit which could reduce the need to own a car and transit tends to be more effecient than even the best EVs and is more fair to more people.

As is the way of the "free market". Us automakers aren't even trying to compete, half their EVS are massive SUVs/trucks instead of smaller, lighter, more effecient designs.

A big concern here is ground water. If a tectonic plate movement damages the underground storage, the waste could contaminate ground water and it would be pretty much impossible to clean it up. One of the hardest challenges in my opinion of nuclear waste storage is the generational responsibility to keep it stored safely, although you could argue the same responsibility exists for landfills already.

So many people have never experienced decent mobility outside of a car that they can't comprehend it.

And every airplane seat

They knew Bernie might actually improve the lives of Americans and our rich overlords shudder at the thought of that.

The benefits of such a high frequency really makes transit so much more user friendly. In my area we only have buses, and risking waiting a full hour or more if you miss your bus cause it was a tad early sucks a lot and isn't even trying to compete with the convenience of a car.

A hole in the conductor seat that drops waste directly onto the rails

Truly being safety conscious would be doing things like traffic calming, removing through routes from side streets, lower speed limits and other solutions that don't revovle reatriction of children. This does a little bit to improve safety but mostly shifts blame to parents and kids by making it illegal to play in the street, which might be the only outdoor space some kids have access to.

Cars and car infrastructure are bankrupting cities, destroying our climate, and paving over our land. EVs don't really solve most of this problem. We need to stop prioritizing metal boxes over people.