It doesn’t. Public transportation only really works in dense environments. The rub is that the default mode of development across the US has been suburban sprawl, which basically makes the “last mile” - from the bus/train route to your house / business / shops - impractical.

Best we can do given this state of affairs is build good transit and densify around the stops with infill development. Continuing the pattern of sprawl just makes every problem related to transportation harder - longer commutes, more traffic, higher amount of energy consumed to get from point A to point B.

Anyway, hope this battery tech works out because a lot of us are stuck with expensive personal vehicles as our only viable option given the way our cities are laid out.

Why, exactly, should abortion be regulated separate from any other medical procedure? I would guess the vast majority of answers are based in an ideology with patriarchal underpinnings, where the fate of women is the business of the male-dominated state.

The vast majority of abortions in the 3rd trimester are medically necessary, often heartbreaking affairs. Roe was an antiquated compromise decision and should not be seen as a template for what is acceptable in a supposedly pluralistic society that honors the freedom of individuals to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

Ok this is the line. This is where we will clearly be able to see if the media chooses to uncritically prop up an old guard power player for ratings and clicks. Proposing any sort of restriction on abortion will demonstrably harm people and should be the definitive end of this man’s campaign — but I’m betting it won’t be. Remember when the 2016 Libertarian candidate (Johnson) didn’t know what “Aleppo” was and his campaign ended right then and there because he said something demonstrably stupid? That should have happened to Trump and it didn’t. That should have happened to RFK with his vaccine trash and it didn’t. The fact that he hasn’t been laughed out of the room by the media already does not say good things about the 4th estate, much less the critical thinking skills of the average American voter.