Lesson apparently not learned. Back around 2000 either the state legislature decided or there was a Federal mandate – I forget which – to get 10% of the state’s vehicle fleet ULEVs. Electric autos being nowhere ready at the time, it decided to push for CNG vehicles.
It could have subsidized infrastructure, building CNG filling stations or putting CNG equipment in at petro stations. It decided instead to encourage purchase of the vehicles themselves and offered a tax-break for 40% of a CNG or propane auto, either as built in the factory or with a post-manufacture kit.
Anybody with two brain cells to rub together could have figured out what happened: Folks started buying behemoth SUVs and pickup trucks with a conversion kit and a tank with about 30 miles range. The expected cost for the first year was $10-million. When the plug was pulled in an emergency session after four months, it was at $450-million.
Elmo Mush and Ben Shapiro are apparently deeply concerned that one day an AI might have to say the N-word in order to stop a nuclear war and the wokes won’t let them do it.
I gotta say, I really don’t remember that episode of 24.
I’m not a nuclear-terrorist or anything, so I don’t really know how that sort of person thinks but… who puts a spoken password on a bomb? What if the bomb hadn’t been in the middle of a forest where the password didn’t make a sound and was instead planted at the Republican National Convention. The bomb would have been accidentally disarmed within the first two minutes.
Also, counter-hypothetical, what if the bomb was in a Florida classroom and Ron DeSantis happened to be visiting that day and the passcode was “trans people are real”?
Clearly we simply aren’t geniuses at the level of Elon Musk and can’t comprehend how obvious it is that a bomb would be designed to be disarmed through the use of a spoken or written passphrase, especially one using a racial slur.