We had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.
Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn't even see it download before it was done.
I had a three year bender with OpenBSD back in 2001-2003 or so. I even started building my own kernels and doing a tiny bit of hacking on the code. There's all kinds of interesting tools and systems out there if you start exploring.
Statistically, US children's non-health related mortality causes are sitting with firearm deaths at #1 and vehicle related deaths at #2. That said, it's not just school shootings for the firearm deaths, so they're more likely to die in a car crash to and from school, but firearms overall throughout their lives.
Both of these categories are climbing year to year, with firearms growing faster than car deaths.
Overall, cars are the third highest reason US adults die after cancer and heart issues.
The hierarchy concept is exactly the framework the conservative mindset is based upon. The original idea was for it to be about fighting (war, duels, etc), but as civilization progressed they had to settle for money as a scoreboard.
This is great work by the city leadership. It's taken decades to get this system in place and the city sorely needs it.
Congestion charges work. It's not a new thing nor an untried approach to mitigating extreme congestion from unfettered use of the city streets.
The weird part about all of this, to me anyway, is that tools and congestion charges are very much an economic and Libertarian style solution, but strangely conservatives often fight them tooth and nail. Isn't their whole schtick that the market driven solutions are best? The city owns the streets. The use of the streets are in high demand. So, the city puts a price on a resource. That's just econ basics.
It's so they can look cool and make it harder to tell when right wingers actually execute terroristic efforts. It's a way to muddy the waters and reduce the impact of the term in the future.
Cars are dangerous in general. They're explosive, fires, impacts, poisoning, dementia-causing, environmentally disastrous, and the #3 reason US adults die (direct causes, with many other indirect contributions to other categories). But Tesla has done a pretty good job of mediocre build quality across the board so extending that experience to their batteries isn't unreasonable.
Given time they'll either disabuse us all of the impression or not.
If I was a company facing possible tarrifs I'd raise prices now. Just a little, say 5% or so. Thar way, if tarrifs hit, I can bump up a bit without being a full hit in the moment. It also means I can get the money now as pure profit. If the tarrifs don't happen I can either keep the 5% or drop it later to look good and undercut competitors.
All wins if I charge more now. Just the chance of a market disruption can be a benefit.
The rest of the world might need to bring the US to heel. We're exporting hate and racism as a means to build fascist states around the world. Our rich are so rich and protected by the US military that they are becoming untethered from all remaining constraints about law and sovereignty for other countries.
The NYPD spent 10's of millions chasing turn style jumpers on the NY Metro in one year. They recovered around $100k in citations doing it. It's not about financial sense when it comes to oppressing the poor.
Now, when the USPS can't "turn a profit" we'll have to immediately destroy it, of course! That also helps bring equity to our society so it needs to go.
Nothing for the conservative is about helping. It's all about preserving the hierarchy and hurting people who aren't rich to begin with.
So after years of "cartels this and cartels that. Immigrants are bringing the drugs!" It once again turns out to be corporations killing us for a profit.
Surprise! It's unbridled capitalism that's destroying your life. (Well, not really a surprise at this point unless you're a complete idiot.)
The calories are very much what matters. I'm relearning that the hard way right now:
"You gain muscle in the gym. You lose weight in the kitchen."
I'm current adjusting my diet for a lower calorie intake and slowing my junk food tendencies. Hopefully a long term change will pay long term dividends.
We had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.
Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn't even see it download before it was done.