jonne

Nah, it's just the propaganda by the oil companies working. You'll also see people suddenly bringing up brake dust and tire microplastics in relation to electric cars (even though ICE cars have the exact same issues).

Not saying those aren't real problems that should be solved, but they're usually just brought up to stop renewable projects from going ahead.

You mean hostel and Greyhound bus money as opposed to just hostel money for one place?

They might have booked the trip before it was clear it was going to be so bad, and I doubt you can get your money back on a ticket for something like that. They probably rolled the dice and hoped for the best. It's always been a roulette of whether you'd get a 'good' border patrol agent or some guy with a chip on his shoulder. It's just that the latter feels more empowered now and there's nobody keeping them in check.

I doubt it's common. I've traveled to Australia and the US (and a bunch of other places) with just a few nights in a hostel booked, sometimes even without a return flight. Might be different if you've got a middle eastern name or something like that, but pretty much every backpacker travels this way.

Imagine booking 2 years ahead when you're on a writing holiday visa, that's just nuts.

Yeah, I've always travelled like this. You just get a ho(s)tel for the first few nights, and then you just stay longer if you like where you are or you move on to the next place based on what locals/other travellers recommend.

Probably as a fact finding mission.

Yeah, I really don't fucking understand these guys. If they spent only a fraction of the resources they spend on prepping on actually building an equitable society, they could just live normally and even walk down the street without fear of getting shot at.

Instead they build dank underground bunkers where they'll just have to live out their days like some paranoid Howard Hughes copy.

That's what Zionism is, so I guess it's apt.

BYDs are everywhere now in Australia. Not sure what alternative brands are available in the US, is it just Rivian?

Point is, they're big, impossible to hide from anyone that has satellites, and you just need to get a lucky hit with a relatively cheap missile/torpedo to give the other side a multi-billion dollar loss in one go.

I mean, carriers in this modern age probably are mostly sitting ducks against any modern adversary. They could barely take on Yemen.

If your adversary has satellites that can tell them where you are and a sufficient amount of missiles / torpedoes, there's only so much you can do.

All UBI proposals I've seen don't get anywhere near what you'd need to live off, and even worse, it's sometimes sold as a way to gut other social programs. We definitely need to do something if we really are going into a world where AI is taking jobs, but it needs to be something better (maybe just provide free housing, and other basic necessities if AI can provide us with unlimited stuff anyway?).

But the way things are going, the billionaires just want to make their own personal wealth grow and don't think what would happen to the rest of us in the future they're imagining.