California has done enough to kill that proejct even without Elon/Trump. For the amount of time and money invested they should be operating the entire line from San Diego to Oregon as of a few years ago.
As an American I've never heard of a place so dangerous that things get stolen from the back at a traffic light. I know carpenters who leave all their tools in the back when they go to bed and never have a problem. Maybe you need to clean up the crime problem in your country. There are pros and cons to a van vs truck. That you come in on one side does not make the other side wrong, it just means you have lack of vision to understand theirs.
Have you ever tried to rent a truck? I know many people who tried and discovered the place was all out that day. Then when you find one read the fine print - often you cannot haul your fridge in one. Mean while because I own my truck it is there when I need to do something, no thinking required.
A small block V8 weights 680lbs. While there are larger engines, that is still a big engine, most cars have much lighter engines. Transmissions have some weight too, So do electric motors.
Vehicles are expensive. Having one for each need is expensive. Renting is expensive (and renting typically comes with no using it as a truck restrictions). If you need a bed for 2% of trips it is often far cheap to own and drive a truck for everything. Particularly if you can use the bike for a lot of trips that makes just owning a truck for everything compelling if you must have a car.
Kohls doesn't have it always on sale. They carefully rotate stock each week to half their stuff is up front and on sale, while the other half is in the back at normal prices. The staff will direct you awat from the normal priced stuff - they don't want anyone to pay the normal price, they just need to have it as normal price once in a while so they can claim to have a sale. (they fear if you buy the normal price you will be mad enough to not come back and repeat sales are worth more than one full price transaction)
There are a few people in the world who have no native language anymore because they forgot the language they were born using. Some of them are terrible in any language and so cannot be said to have a first language.
If someone is fluent in some second language is it fair to call them a native speaker - this is a philosophical question with no objective correct answer. Some would say yes, some will say no.
I have personally switched my answer over time - I started out with native is a strict definition and so you can't be native if you were not born to it. These days the anti-immigrants are using that same argument and I'm in favor of open immigration, because native speaker is currently an issue I'm switching my position because previously it was a matter of naming that didn't affect anything else, while now it is a political issue.
Homes are not built onsight with raw materials. They are built with heavially processed things like plywood and 2x4s. Both of the above are mostly precut to the exact length needed.
I finally gave up. iiwant to keep in touch with what distant friends are doing. Finding and sharing memes is not doing something and that seems to be all I ever saw. Some people need to get a life. (unless you are confined to a hospital bed there are better things to eo with your life.) Too bad - I miss the rare contact with those distant friends.
Even in iowa you see them all over. There are so many drivers any car make other than the most exclusive will be seen soon if you fixate on it (read look).
Stastics show tesla is a tiny brand by market share. However they are wer the only ev brand until reciently so people focus on them.
high end and luxury need not imply quality. For that matter I'm aware of some of those logs houses and calling them prefab implies a lot more factory than they have - they are built (at least for the one I know of) just like any other stick house then left to dry for a year.
Yes I do i, I have had neghibors who lived in them. all notedethat even the good ones make quality compromises over the better site built. Which isn't a surprize as site built gets nost things pre cut to size and to there isn't much room. A site built house just brings the factory to the site.
Clothing is about not only your personal comforte, but also showing respect for others. There are cultures that allow full nudity, and cultures that have very strong cover the whole body norms. You should show respect to the other cultures around you by not offending them where possible.
Now sometimes you have to say "no I'm going to offend a culture" for whatever reason. However it needs to be an intentional reason that you make clear to everyone in some way. If the culture is significant in your region you should expect to be removed from society for your offense. Society only works when the majority of us respects our differences and that will sometimes force you to do something even though you don't believe in it.
It takes a lot of thought and research to come up with a good opinion on some subjects. Some subjects are easy because of values, but you need a lot of study to understand other subjects.
You need to have an opinion on things you don't understand. There are people for and against vaccines - this is a very complex subject and both sides have what sounds like science behind them, and both also have real medical doctors. You are affected though so you better get to the bottom of it as both sides will tell you the wrong choice is a disaster.
We have been doing this. Beijing used to be Peking. However all that really does in many cases is change from one wrong pronunciation to a different one. The sounds often do not exist in the other language and so the speakers cannot pronounce it correctly.
How would you prevent it? Spanish has an international committee who's job is to define correct Spanish and they haven't be able to do anything about regional accents. France has a similar thing for French (AFAIK Quebec isn't part of it), and they often end up failing in their fight to keep french pure.
What other side? Sure there are always a few rational people. However the vast majority choose a side and then blindly oppose anything the other side says/does. When their side happens to have critical thinking on their side they are for that, but that isn't a factor in why they choose something.
Trying to convince yourself otherwise proves that you are ignoring the issues on your own side. If you really were a rational thinker you would have to choose your side separately for every single issue - nobody has time for that which in turn means you sometimes rely on someone who turns out to be irrational but because they have proved rational in other areas you trust them here too.
California has done enough to kill that proejct even without Elon/Trump. For the amount of time and money invested they should be operating the entire line from San Diego to Oregon as of a few years ago.