There’s a lot of things that lawmakers put into law to protect people from their own dumbass decisions. Places where wearing seatbelts are mandatory have less car related deaths, same with helmets on motorbikes. Both things people should have the common sense to do without laws, but they don’t. Furthermore, places where pool fencing is mandatory have less child deaths due to drowning, but that doesn’t stop some people from not having a pool fence where it’s not mandatory. There’s hundreds of “common sense” things like these, that if they weren’t actual law would be completely ignored.

So actual protections for children’s use of the internet being made into law isn’t necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. And if be all for them if they were reasonable and realistic, but they never are. No matter how much you want to make it so, expecting everyone to do reasonable things to protect themselves and those dependent on them without some sort of incentive is unrealistic.

Of course in saying all that, banning VPNs and all the laws people want to implement similar to it, have nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with controlling people.

And then the other people with guns will come and jack your shit.

It’s cute that you think age means wisdom. If that were true, then the older ruling class wouldn’t be absolutely fucking our planet.

Every problem that EVs have, there’s a solution for. People are actively working on them, and some government are pushing EVs for environmental reasons. Once the problems that they have are solved they will be objectively better than ICE cars.

Also, mobile phones weren’t always the objectively best choice. There was a period of time where landlines were the better option because of the lack of infrastructure supporting them. It wasn’t until the infrastructure started to expand to cover everywhere that the explosive growth really happened.

And your “physics problems” are also solvable, people are currently putting billions of billions of dollars into battery research. There will come a point where batteries are superior to a tank of fuel for most use cases. I don’t want to be the person saying “oh, solid state batteries are right around the corner,” because companies have been promising them “next year” for like a decade now. But they almost certainly will eventually be viable commercially, and they only need to be half as good as they promise to really push the viability of EVs for the majority of use cases.

Growth doesn’t have be a straight linear line always going up. We’re in a transitional stage where the big issues are currently being addressed. The growth in EV adoption has been exponential, i.e slow to start with 20 years of basically nothing then 5 years of some improvements with a bit more adoption. Then 5 years of explosive growth, and the next 5 years will likely include more explosive growth as we address all the issues that they currently have.

Pretty much all technology improves like this until they plateau. Just look at mobile phones, they first popped up ~50 years ago and had very slow improvements for about ~25 years until they started to pick steam in the 2000s, and then absolutely exploded in the 2010s.

You’re just an old person yelling at clouds who can’t read the writing on the wall.

Regardless, it’s still incorrect to be using it in English right now.

Men who hate women in generally will usually keep it to themselves in public for the most part. They’re not going to go on a tirade about how much they hate women to someone they don’t think is going to disagree with them, which might explain why you’ve not seen it personally.

And have you seriously never heard of incels? I’m not saying hating women is inherent to inceldom, but it’s pretty damned pervasive among them. Especially in online spaces.

Here’s some reading if you can be bothered.

https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/misogynistic-mass-violence-is-on-the-rise-why-are-we-ignoring-it

https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/domestic-abuse-is-a-gendered-crime/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/warren-farrell-mens-rights-movement-feminism-misogyny-trolls/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/mens-rights-movement-spreads-false-claims-about-women/

Why on Earth are you using the thorn like that? Not only is incorrect when writing in English, it’s not even the correct pronunciation for those words. þ is pronounced like the th in the words thorn or think. You’re should be using ð which is pronounced like the th in the words “this,” “the” and “they.”

Better to have a wait then to not go at all because you can’t afford it.

I can’t tell if you’re missing the joke or if I’m missing it right now. I’m Australian btw, so statistically, I voted in an Australian election.

No, Gam Gam must adapt.

It takes less delta-v to launch something out of the solar system than into the sun. Cheaper that way.

Hey, if you’re not reading too much into shit posts, are you really living?

How do I hold my phone while it’s sitting on a wireless charger?

That’s a nice personal anecdote. But your personal experience has no bearing on the general pervasive attitude that been dragged on from the days when women were in fact legally the property of their fathers and then husbands.

Of course this attitude has changed and evolved over time, but it’s still an attitude born from a place of extreme sexism and misogyny. And the amount of men who will ask a fathers permission or expect to be asked for permission for their daughter still comes from a place of still treating women as something to be possessive over due to their gender, is way to damned high.

Your personal experience doesn’t change the existence of the pervasive attitude of women being possessions.

Good for you and whatever culture you come from. But your personal anecdote is more or less irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

If that’s the question, why is it always the father they ask?

That whole rule is completely arbitrary and has no basis in reality.