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The status quo is people driving poorly.

It's not people driving poorly, as much as it is horrible city planning, poor traffic design and, perhaps most importantly, not requiring people to be educated enough before receiving a driver's license.

This is an issue seen practically exclusively in underdeveloped countries. In Europe road accidents are incredibly rare. Nobody here even considers self-driving cars a solution to anything, because there's nothing to solve.

This is nothing but Tesla (et al.) selling a 'solution' to an artificially created problem, that will not solve anything and simply address the symptoms.

Anything is better than Roblox.

Or evidence of what they did the year before.

New ARM laptops coming out right now have their bootloaders locked. So yeah...

In short: those are pretty much the two only solutions.

Of course, there are different types of depression and they can all be cured in different ways. For some of them there's no cure at the moment.

Matter of fact I had seen a study that suggest a very high percentage of people are drug treatment resistant (meaning that there depression would not get better with any prescribed drugs).

Therapist =/= drugs. First of all, a therapist cannot prescribe you anything. That's the job of psychiatrists. Both a therapist and a psychiatrist may recommend drugs for depression if they deem it appropriate, but it's by bo means the default or the go-to option (or at least it shouldn't be). Sometimes depression is a natural response to events like death of loved ones and drugs do nothing to cure it.

I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.

Both of those things are commonly recommended by regular people as well as therapists, because they're known to be effective, and more importantly - they are completely free. For 99% of people, absolutely nothing is stopping them from doing a few pushups or walking to a park. The cost/benefit ratio here is insane. As for 'fully curing depression' - that would highly depend on the type of depression. Also, keep in mind depression is rarely cured with just one thing.

To summarize: people recommend a therapist, because a therapist is usually the best option for any mental problems, though it may not be cheap. While exercising, or just walking and interacting with nature, are basically free and always help, but may not produce noticeable results.

From Europe it has already looked like a 3rd world country for at least a few years.

Why yes, I'd love to pay an additional $250 fee to be shipped off to a gulag.

Except the 'least bad' party gets 0.8% votes and almost all the votes go to worst and second worst. What most people mean by 'least bad' is simply 'less bad', as in 'less bad than the other one'. And even that 'less bad' classification can be troublesome to wrap your head around.

This is precisely why it's every government's top priority to cripple the education system. Or if it's already crippled - either cripple it further or just keep it as is, depending on the circumstances.

Personally I live in the EU, so it's not nearly as bad for me as it is for Americans. However, even in Europe most politicians and their parties get elected simply because people don't know better and follow whatever their preferred TV station says.

A lot of Europeans also have difficulties separating personal feelings from politics. You criticize one politician and suddenly everyone is mad, because that means you must be a devoted supporter of their opponent. Sometimes it feels like everyone is brainwashed, because they can only do 'white' or 'black', as if there were no other shades in between.

Found the husband!

Sounds like a massive overreaction and abuse of century-old laws.

If those devices are so bad, why not forbid selling them in Italy, instead of punishing people who buy them completely legally. Imagine going through all of this because you bought a laptop and posted a review online.

Right after? Depends on the scenario. For shorter trips like grocery shopping (depending on your area) it may not make very much sense to take a bus or tram.