Depends on the ear ring.
But upvote for the truly unpopular opinion.
Hyperreality
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Chernobyl and Three Mile aren't irrelevant, because the public perception is that they aren't irrelevant.
See also: crime goes down, people vote as if crime is going up.
Better than ICE cars. Way more efficient
Not necessarily.
Just compare fuel consumption figures, and bizarrely a small car can consume less fuel than a relatively modest bike. Especially if you factor in hybrids or diesels.
And that's for a car that hopefully transports passengers at least some of the time.
Obviously, I am talking as someone who lives in Europe. While I assume they still sell plenty of small, underpowered and very efficient cars in Asia, I suspect there's less market for those in the Americas.
I suspect the safety problem is mainly a car problem.
They should have been first in line for electrification but instead they're lagging behind cars.
Depends on where you live. Asia and Europe there are plenty, although they're often scooters or slower speed bikes. Not that you need much more in an urban environment.
There's also the whole electric bike thing. Depending on where you live, at least some electric bikes are actually closer to motorbikes. And if they're not, the electric bike is often subject to less stringent legislation and regulation than an electric motorbike. That can mean the difference between having to get a license or not.
e: relevant FortNine video:
Yeah. I have a related degree. The NYT published the full results and methodology here:
At a first glance it doesn't look too shoddy.
Polls are easily, and usually are, skewed or produced in a way to get the desired result. Anyways… This one is garbage, too.
I have a related degree and have done polling in the past.
You're using an ad hominem about the New York Times being secret Catholic Trump supporters, because you don't like the results of the poll, but don't know enough about polling or statistics to attack the poll's methodology. People are upvoting you for the same reasons.
Anyway, the full results and methodology are here:
Here's a website that aggregates polling on Biden's popularity from multiple pollsters:
Of course a group of lgbtq+/women-hating nationalist Christians say the party that is against them is losing votes and doing poorly.
Why would they want to make it seem like a tight race and that Biden might lose? That's likely to increase turnout of voters who don't want that to happen.
If you want to depress turnout of democratic voters, you would produce polls that say Biden's almost certain to win.
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island didn't help, but yes.
It'd be darkly funny if this bill was sponsored and partially drafted by large corporations, so that they can afford to continue using child labour, affording them a competitive edge over small businesses which can no longer afford to.
Hyperreality:
Because the (social-)media simulation of reality is more influential (on voters, society, politics) than actual reality, in practice the simulation is often more 'real' than reality. If crime rises, it only matters if the simulation of reality convinces enough people that crime is rising. In fact, crime is falling across much of the western world, but most people think the opposite thanks to media, so the false reality has more influence on politics than actual reality.
Lower than under the Lettuce.