The ability for a car to call emergency services in the event of a crash, and thus the mobile / data connection required to do that, has been mandatory since 2018 in all new cars sold in the EU.
So there is no cost incentive not to have the internet connection in there, as it is a basic safety feature now, like seatbelts.
Yes, most cars have had their own data connection for a while now. If I know correctly, it's a requirement for Europe since you have to put that button to call emergency services in the car, so it has to have a GSM module, so effectively it has to have mobile data.
The Soviets in WWII are not really an image you want to be compared to. They actually did commit multiple genocides in that era. Not against the Germans, I mean they did murder and rape a lot of people, but they were not motivated by the eradication of the German population. Those murders and rapes were "simply" war crimes.
So the battle of Berlin was not a genocide. Katyn and the Holodomor arguably were. Killing innocent civilians is "just" murder, a war crime. When Ben-Gvir speaks of fighting “human animals”, making Gaza a “slaughterhouse” and “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth”, that makes it into a genocide.
It's the motivation, especially the explicit, professed motivation of the leadership that makes what Israel - and by the way, also Hamas, though less successfully - is doing genocide, not just "normal" war crimes.
Could they also include decision makers at big companies if their decisions are proven to be criminally negligent, self-serving, and result directly in a large number of deaths? I'm thinking like Boeing people.
It must have surely been a valid military target. I guess the Russians assumed that the Ukrainians also enhance their tank armour with random pallets and materials found at your local OBI.
At least the priorities are in the right place. Abortion rights have not been acted on for a century, climate change is hard, Ukraine can't be helped, but the fundamental right for everyone to use their private jet anonymously has been protected.
I wonder if they could get away with illuminating the whole bridge in red, since the normal street lights are white and the sky is blue. You know, for Labor Day.
The Ringling Causeway Bridge over Sarasota Bay usually lights up in rainbow colors for a week in June, and also marks other causes during the summer, such as orange for National Gun Awareness Month and yellow for Women’s Equality Day.
So I went WTF is "National Gun Awareness Month", I mean who actually needs a month long reminder that the US is full of guns? So I went and apparently it's National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Accurate reporting from the Washington Post, as always.
The money here ultimately comes from the company’s customers if they win (since it results in higher prices)
Prices have been divorced from costs and are more based on "what the market will bear". This only would be true if markets were actually competitive, and the fines encompassed a large amount of the supply side, neither of which is true. Fines like this are borne by the company books.
“When we have a new product that has elements that we’re not sure how people will respond to, what do we do as a corporation?” he asked. “We market it as much as we can — we do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out. I’d like to see the government doing this too.”
Under capitalism, production is obviously shaped by demand, and if something that is perceived bad is being produced, that is obviously because people vote with their wallets to do that. Obviously. See also why you personally are to blame for climate change for not recycling hard enough and paying for fuel.
The ability for a car to call emergency services in the event of a crash, and thus the mobile / data connection required to do that, has been mandatory since 2018 in all new cars sold in the EU.
So there is no cost incentive not to have the internet connection in there, as it is a basic safety feature now, like seatbelts.