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Lots of states have casinos, this country loves to gamble. My understanding though is the brothels are highly limited in Nevada. Like, they are severely limited to where they can operate. There's not actually any in Las Vegas, for instance.

It's hardly the model we should be copying.

To both sides. They need to work with whatever party is in power. On top of that the real Big 3 American companies - Ford, GM, and Tesla - have committed so hard to EVs they literally can't back out now, but EVs are popular with liberals, not conservatives. They've made it clear their business interests align with the liberal agenda, and at this point any regulation on emissions is doing them a huge favor, something they won't see from the GOP.

Our state GOP was totally hijacked by MAGA radicals and now answers to Karamo, who's an utter nut job and die-hard Trump loyalist.

But they've gone so far a lot of moderate Republicans feel alienated and with our new balanced voting districts Democrats will probably secure victory for the foreseeable future. It still will be a tight race, but I would not be surprised if Biden's margin in 2024 is bigger in Michigan than it was in 2020.

Yeah, the thing with phones is they're used every single day, and see a lot more wear and tear than say, a Kindle or a laptop. Not everyone wants to fork out for an OtterBox or some other ultra tanky case.

I try and go four years between updates, but for my Pixel 4 that meant a warranty replacement on year two due to a charging defect, and buying another used Pixel 4 off a coworker three months ago when mine got water damaged. The replacement just shuts itself off randomly multiple times a day, and that's fine for a couple months but I'm really looking forward to upgrading to the Pixel 8.

We probably shouldn't treat phones like leading cars, upgrading every year because something shiny and new came out, but upgrading regularly just due to wear and tear makes a lot of sense.

In most countries it still is and basically always was illegal. I wouldn't hold your breath for the US any time soon, since half the states still can't get their shit together to legalize a harmless plant, and the puritanical pushback from the federal level if a state attempted to legalize prostitution, especially with a conservative administration, would probably be swift and immediate.

Best case scenario estimates are a complete replacement by 2050 if energy consumption doesn't change. This requires aggressive investment in renewable production.

However, that's unlikely to happen, as energy consumption is increasing, especially as vehicles across the globe abandon oil-based fuel for electricity from the grid.

The largest hurdle to nuclear power is simply regulatory. We could have nuclear plants built by 2030 with a ~30+ year life that would guarantee us the ability to fully phase out fossil fuels in favor of renewables by 2050 even as demand increases.

Why do they care if it does? Creators get paid on a per-gold basis, which means people are paying reddit in the first place for gold. Whether bought gold is spent on bots or human users is probably entirely immaterial to the Admins. Reddit sees engagement and (ideally) spending go up.

Reddit could crack down on bots if they want to. It's almost entirely a separate issue. Adding money likely isn't going to change much since obviously bot farms already have a profit motive to spam reddit and the payouts aren't huge.

Because in 2016 it was a huge deal when they introduced a $5 monthly subscription for a few perks.

Now a $500 subscription triggers about the same level of response because we've all been worn down by subscription fatigue so much, so no one is really surprised, but we feel like we should still be really indignant and mad about this.

I'm kind of surprised that not a single state has yet.

Like the states that legalized weed have made a bonkers amount of tax money while the others continue to lose out to other states or the black market. And oh look, suddenly way less drug crime.

Legalize it, regulate it, then tax it. The Netherlands figured it out. Kind of surprised Nevada hasn't taken their shot. A state could legalize it and watch their tourist and tax revenues skyrocket while likely lowering human trafficking to boot.

There's nothing more capitalist than pushing coal and oil.

And any rational green energy advocate knows it'll take us decades to build enough solar/wind to fill the fossil fuels gap, but would only take us a couple years to fill that demand with nuclear and also produce fewer emissions. That's simple numbers.

So are you just irrational or a coal-snorting capitalist yourself?

Earlier this year a bunch of people got stuck on a 4 hour Amtrak ride for like 18+ hours, without power, toilets or water. Were told they couldn't leave and not allowed/able to transfer to another train.

I'd rather just die in an incredibly rare plane crash than trust AmTrak to get me across the country in days versus a flight which can get me there in hours.

Glad I fly Delta, even with the typically higher cost.