That is me, since If I sell I don't think I could afford to buy again with what happened to used car prices. But ownership does not equal use. My neighbours car has sat dusty and neglected for more than a year, where towing warning was issued.

Schwalbe sells tungsten carbide studded tires. I commuted on them to work for two Ontario winters. As for traction anecdotes: I passed a few stuck cars on the way to work--they had trouble with inclines, and one coworker with pickup called in that he couldn't make it out of his driveway, my manager said "If the guy on the bicycle can ride in, I'm sure your truck can make it" LOL

Not necessarily, that is a false assumption. Before the pandemic every coworker had a car to get to work, during COVID and since the company has had Work From Home. So I have driven my car maybe 3 times in a year. Me owning a car doesn't mean I wouldn't give it up.

Is Israel going to charge themselves?

It really depends on where you live and where you are headed. We have one car and if I've had to go to another city 45 km away and wife has to work, then I jump on the bus, it takes about 1.5 hours and a bit of walking either end (10-15min), but driving it takes at least an hour anyway during rush hour. But there are areas not served by busses and its always the chicken-egg thing: we don't see enough ridership in that area, but if you don't build it then people can't use it

That sucks. we have had Shaw since 2009, and it has been reliable and staff have been helpful. Their XB6 and XB7 routers are junk though and they want you to admin through a phone app. I just had them bridge an old cisco one they have and use my own router. Now they are with Rogers they call each month trying to get me to lock in to a plan that is more expensive.

I had the luck of working at two places where HR took the real meaning of Human Resources to heart. One place saw their role as maintaining the "resources" in good stead like they would for their machines or tooling, since a broken resource can't further your company goals. They offeres check-ins to see how things were going, any gripes, any way to spread workload.

Current one has been great too. I had one employee being quite toxic about other employees as an odd way to create internal allegiences and it was creating a difficult situation. I talked with HR rep and they took care of it. That employee now acts professionally.

Sometimes HR is OK, but read the company culture first

People often do things they enjoy when connecting with others, tlhinking that is what others need--especially extroverts and mostly when they aren't self-aware. e.g. when my wife heads out with friends she tries to plan things for me to do (or even friend hangouts) so I won't be bored. But that is her as an extrovert thinking how she would be if I went out. I have to reexplain each time that I won't be bored--i will catch up on reading, podcasts, bike ride, etc, enjoy some solitude, and if I felt the need then I would reach out to a friends.

You may need to have a candid chat and explain that as an introvert you need quiet alone time to recharge your battery--while extroverts charge their battery by being busy or outgoing.

At the Cancer institute they offered me CBD pills for nausea. People smoking weed is terrible, like they learned nothing from everyone on oxygen tanks after cigarette smoke destroyed their lungs

This guy fawkes

Lots of technologies could be used to improve things, but corporations just look at profit, not improving the human condition. Just like Ford patenting the system to listen to you in the car and serve you better ads, AI will trend toward making more ad sales, and models trained will lean to this always. It is why OpenSource stuff is so important, its the unpaid or low paid people doing cool stuff to solve actual problems that innovate to a goal of solving , not to goal of monotizing. Like Windows 11 is ad bloatware. The amount of tech and money MS could leverage and instead they build an ad OS, that they are now backporting to Windows10.
Meanwhile OpenSource devs build a linux distro that turned my 13 year old laptop (that choked and died on running W10 (was OK on W7)) into a peppy machine that handles web streaming, zoom calls, and opening files as fast as a brand new laptop. When money is not the end goal lots of good things happen