No it burns pretty easily too. I wouldn't recommend trying it though, if you inhale too much of the smoke you might end up looking like this "woman".
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But isn't that the whole point. The working class becomes the new rich class. That sounds like equal distribution of wealth.
This comment is so depressing. The comic isn't about politics, it's just pointing out that human nature is irrational and we're influenced by how a message is delivered as well as the raw facts. Yet you have to find a political bias in it. Would you feel more positively about the comic if you knew that the author was on "your side"? (Which I'm guessing is the left)
But why is it less weird to suck on rotten plant ovaries? That's what alcohol is. Food is fucking weird.
Absolutely, there's lots of possibilities. But I don't think that negates the point that the most sensible approach to any unknown situation is to be cautious and lie low until you fully understand the situation.
Of course, flawed as we are, we're not doing that, as we aren't responding to other potential existential threats.
Have you heard of the Fermi paradox?
The best estimates of how many intelligent civilizations there should be suggest that the galaxy should be teeming with them. If any of them evolved mere millions of years before we did, given our pace of technological improvement they should have figured out interstellar travel by now, and they should be broadcasting communication across the galaxy like we're doing. Yet we've detected nothing. Why?
A possible explanation is that an advanced civilization is exterminating all other civilizations, perhaps to avoid competition. It seems like a sensible approach to lie low until we can figure this out, just in case.
Running is an underrated mode of transport. For some reason it's socially acceptable to exert yourself hard while on a bike, but not running. When combined with public transport it can make all the difference to be able to make a tight transfer by sprinting for it.
They weren't gaining anything with the free service, now they might get a bit of money from it.
Is this really substantial? With a skilled manual driver or a clever automatic gearbox, the majority of braking should be engine braking. It seems to me that regenerative braking is typically replacing what would be engine braking, the unplanned stops still use friction brakes.
They also reduce noise pollution
Only at low speeds. At high speeds for a modern car the tyre noise is louder that the engine noise, and since electric cars are heavier they would be noisier.
And reduce the propping of petrostates
Replace mining oil with mining rare metals. Not a big improvement.
They also help normalise the usage of renewable energy (this is a factor that shouldn't be overlooked, imo)
Why? Electric cars are causing a huge load on the grid and will continue to do so. In countries that haven't managed the load and invested heavily in renewable capacity, those EVs are powered by fossil fuels.
There's nuances here, but in principle you are incorrect. A car can be assumed to be infinitely heavier than a pedestrian. That means that every part of their body that's in contact with the car will be accelerated to car speed. So it's not that with a larger area the force is spread out, there's actually just more places that have force applied. In other words, a low car will break your legs, a high car will break your legs and torso.
If you take this argument (socialism) to the extreme, grocery stores shouldn't profit either. Only the workers that produce the thing can profit off of it. I'm not sure of the logistics of that, I guess the government has to own the stores?