Some things last a lot longer than they should. For example, his miserable existence

I get that you like Jellyfin but you don’t have to lie about Plex to make the point that this is a shitty move for them to make. Despite this decision Plex’s service works just fine. That may change one day but it hasn’t yet.

Yes, in my opinion, a simple but unfair (in a largely meaningless sense of the word) tax is better than a perfectly fair tax, especially when ensuring fairness comes with cumbersome compliance requirements that both eats into tax revenue and doesn’t provide a significant change in the amount owed. $150 vs $75 over the year is not meaningful so even a 50% reduction doesn’t change much of anything.

Well the article is about the federal government so your state laws are not the subject of the discussion at hand.

You said it was simple to collect odometer readings from all EVs. I disagree. I think that’s the most labor intensive solution we could come up with.

We meter every gallon of gas sold because that’s an easy thing to do at the point of sale. The gas station already tracks how much fuel you’re buying so they know how much to charge you which means there is no extra work required for anyone. You could say the same for DC fast charging an EV but using any other power source would require additional work by someone that does not currently have to happen. That adds complexity and cost to the proposed solution that is not necessary.

That’s a great idea that I fully support. Unfortunately, you and I both know it will never happen.

No, there are no annual safety inspections. Some states do emissions tests but mine does not and EVs would obviously be excluded from those anyway.

You could do that but it’s considerably more complicated than a flat tax. I would much rather pay a flat fee to not have to deal with inspections and/or tracking mileage.

Yes that system would work but I’m not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that “inspect every EV in the country” is simpler than “flat tax on EVs”. Running inspections at that scale seems multiple orders of magnitude more complex than a one time fee.

You’re talking about 5G vs cable or DSL. This article is about the upper bounds of wireless technology. Those aren’t the same topics at all. One is about physics and computer science, the other is about the business plans of telecom companies.

Other types of taxes are exactly what this article is about. A flat tax for EV owners is their proposed solution to the problem. Sure, other options exist, but people are commenting like this is an insane idea and it’s pretty vanilla.

Fuel taxes pay for roads. If you don’t buy fuel you don’t help pay for roads to drive your EV on.

It might be if we don’t turn around and elect Joe Biden or some other dinosaur again

OK, but that’s not what this article is about and that’s not what I’m talking about either.

That’s not comparing similar technologies though. Modern wireless like 5G would be more comparable to fiber optic speeds, which are way faster than 5G. Even if that wasn’t the case fiber would still be much more reliable and power efficient.

Wireless will never ever beat wired unless something about our understanding of physics fundamentally changes. It will also not be practical to do this kind of thing over significant distances inside the Earth’s atmosphere.

The data carrying capacity of any signal is proportional to the carrier frequency you use, the higher the frequency the more potential bandwidth. Additionally, higher frequencies bounce off of things (including water vapor and particles in the air) much more easily. In other words, you need to use high frequencies to transmit a lot of data but high frequencies can’t travel long distances without insane amounts of power, and even lots of power doesn’t work very well.

I disagree. They seem very trustworthy. Anyone considering taking this offer should have no concerns whatsoever

Don’t remove people’s agency. Joe isn’t some evil mastermind he’s just a meathead with a microphone. All those people chose to listen to him of their own free will.

You’re right, but that doesn’t make hotels suck any less

Hotels suck in comparison to renting a place. Renting may be causing other problems but it isn’t like they bring nothing to the table. If hotels didn’t want to lose out then maybe they should have stopped charging $300/night for a closet with a shitty bed in it.

You say that but Elon Musk is out there running like 46 companies right now so… I’m not sure I buy it