I was skeptical about your claims about weight having such an outsized effect, but it looks like there's merit. Seems like it's a super complex area of study, and we have observational data that gives us rules of thumb that transportation and pavement engineers use to estimate pavement damages over time. Thanks for bringing that up, I've learned stuff today!
I still don't think it's as simple as taxing trucks though. Registration is part of the solution, but so is gas/sales/tire/oil disposal taxes, weigh stations, tolls, parking fines, crush charges, etc etc etc.
There's a lot of things that would need to happen in order to effectively capture and recompense road damage in California, if that were a goal of the state. Unfortunately I have very little faith that California can do it - for all the good things about California, effective governance or municipal problem solving is not really on the list from what I've seen. It's a shame, because they really have the resources, it's just all such a mess.
I lived in California for 11 years and had out of state plates for the entire time, legally. Not even weird. There's so many ways and reasons that you can live in a state, or work in a state full time and legally be able to register your vehicle in another state.
Registration fees are simply not the way. There HAS to be some kind of equitable use tax or fee.
A gas tax seems pretty dang effective to me. It doesn't capture electric vehicles correctly, but honestly right now we WANT to encourage the use of electric vehicles so I don't think it's quite time to flip the table and try to implement a new system.
We're still in a transition period and we need to do everything possible to discourage gas powered vehicles, and taxing the shit out of consumer unleaded and diesel is an awesome way to do it. Honestly, anyone suggesting otherwise raises my hackles. There's not that many electric vehicles on the road in the USA, even in urban California.
I'm suspicious of any new laws that would reduce the costs of fossil fueled vehicles while offloading more costs to electric ones.
Not obvious, there's tons of holes in that plan and I'll throw down a couple I thought of while I brush my teeth. I lived in California for years.
-Out of state plates are not included. Sooo many out of state vehicles
-This has an outsized impact on shipping and industry such as work vans, small business trucks (can be argued that it should be, but I'm not convinced that the cost should be borne by those areas vs the bajillion people that don't carpool to/from LA everyday)
-A heavy vehicle pays a premium at registration, but what if it's only driven a couple times a year? Vs a lighter vehicle that drives 40k miles in a year. Has to have some kind of use component to plan.
I'd argue that it's way more complicated than any sentence that starts with "the obvious thing to do..." Everyone wants a simple and fair solution buddy life is not that simple and California's traffic, transportation, road maintenance, and road based industry is about as complicated as it gets.
Lists of real passwords are very useful for helping attackers crack passwords. Lists can be hashed with various algorithms and then the hashes compared against exposed password hashes. If a hash matches then you know the password, without having to actually brute force the password in order to try and match the hash.
Unique, strong passwords are the most safe. Reused passwords are for sure weaker if you use the same login/email along with them, but even if you use the same password with unique usernames, it's still less secure than unique passwords.
I can use pishadoot everywhere on the internet (bad for other reasons, but as an example) and if I use unique passwords everywhere, my accounts aren't any less secure, they're just all easily tied together. If I use unique usernames everywhere but reuse the same password, in theory ALL of my logins are now more vulnerable to attack.
There are countries where this is culturally how litter is managed. Japan is a fully developed example - bins are hard to come by, everyone brings their trash with them.
I hadn't really considered how much of the knowledge is local. That makes sense though, in a duh why didn't I already think of that kind of way.
I'm not ready to get started yet but I like reading about potential future hobbies or things I just find generally interesting, such as bee keeping, so the general knowledge will be fine for now.
Patron/vassal pyramid scheme experience gain system that incentivized helping out less experienced players because you got a % of their XP (at no loss to them) and their vassals, etc etc...
Back in the day when you didn't have an online guide for everything. World was HUGE and there was no real fast travel, but there was a crazy portal network. Random portals in the middle of nowhere that would dump you out at other random parts of the map. Portals exiting dungeons randomly take you somewhere else. I had a spiral ring notebook of portal coords and sometimes to get somewhere it was 7-8 hops through a few dungeons... Or hours running across the map trying to not get janked by high level mobs or other PVP players.
That era of MMO will never live again, and it's a damn shame.
There are no sources for that because it's so wrong and dumb I don't think you can even find one that would claim it.
-tons of natural resources (oil, precious metals, fisheries, timber)
-tons of undeveloped land
-unique landscapes for USA
-crazy strategic value to geography (Aleutian chain, proximity to VERY quickly melting arctic ice passages to other parts of the world that have historically been nigh impassable)
-it reliably votes red every general election, and most Alaska senators and house reps are Republican (even if they are more often the odd-votes)
The list goes on. The comment you're replying to is one of the dumbest trump speculations I've ever seen. Trump has enough we can speculate on, we don't need to make up nonsense.
You need zero poker experience to play it. It's not a poker game at all, just uses poker hands for scoring, and if you don't know them they're all displayed if you hit esc.
It wasn't for me either at first but I gave it another shot and it got its hook into me.
What helped me was looking up a scoring/basic strategy guide that helped me figure out what super rookie mistakes I was making - this gave me a better eye for strategy when I was playing, which in turn translated to me enjoying the deck building aspect (which is a mechanic I know I enjoy).
The game is good, and really great to pick up and put down in busts if you don't have a lot of time.
Hope you end up liking it eventually! I LOVE poker of all types, rogue likes, and deck builders so I thought this was a smash hit when I heard about it, but yeah, took a while to love it.
Maybe, but those questions are part of the normal daily zeitgeist. Everyone is exposed to those concepts and services through natural osmosis, but when I wanted to join Lemmy I got an app and I didn't realize until I started trying to use it that it was a distributed system. Then I'm like, wait what? And I had to go read some stuff about it. Wasn't anything too crazy but I was confused at first.
I wouldn't recommend keeping credit card limits low to only mitigate fraud risk - credit card companies generally will take the hit for unauthorized use, aka stolen information, and send you a new card. So keeping the limit low in an effort to make sure that if your info is stolen they'll only be able to steal $1000 or $2000 isn't really necessary, and only affects your ability to use credit and have a better credit score (because your % of utilization of your overall credit limit goes into your FICO).
Instead, review your purchases monthly and inform the card company of charges you didn't make as soon as you see them.
DEBIT cards are a different story. They're a direct link to your bank account funds and there's no intermediary that is willing to take a hit, it's your bank vs you, so if your debit card info (and pin) are exposed you're much more vulnerable. So I wouldn't recommend EVER using debit these days, there's zero reason to, but if you have to then your advice in your OP is more appropriate.
I can't speak for others, but when I joined I was definitely confused by instances, federated internet, moderation variances, and how to operate the various ~ 4 beta apps I downloaded at the same time.
I'm definitely not a tech normie, but it was still unfamiliar and I would never have migrated if I hadn't been fed up with Reddit.
Most people don't want to have to look up guides to figure out how a system works, they just want to download an app that their friends all use and move on with their day. Blocking instances you don't like? Doing research to find a "home" instance? Ain't nobody got time for that.
One of the advantages of going mechanical is customization. Don't want the LEDs at all? Remove them from your build. Even without PCB hot swapping: no one will stop you desoldering LEDs from your keyboard.
Yeah OP if you want to live the ultra elite mech keyboard life you should be totally fine with just buying something and spending a ton of time desoldering a crap load of tiny components off of it. That's the best part about mechanical keyboards, is spending hundreds of dollars on them and then also needing to invest in a bunch of soldering gear and time to make sure you can skillfully enough disassemble electronics at the component level to not damage your newly purchased expensive device.
I believe the word you're looking for is "comic"