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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/16/25 15:57, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-16 16:25:28 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:26:16 +1300, Your Name    
   >> wrote:   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>> There have been news stories about idiotic self-driving cars />robo-   
   >>> taxis that have caused issues. There was one were lots of them   
   >>> all>seemed to congregate in a particular street, often honking their   
   >>> horns,>etc. which annoyed the people living there.   
   >>   
   >> This is a phenomenon mention in the film /I, Robot/: the tendency to   
   >> congregate.   
   >>   
   >> I see it most weeks at the laundromat: the wheeled clothes baskets   
   >> tend to end up in the same area. Sometimes there are little ones among   
   >> the big ones, looking a lot like a family. But of course they are not.   
   >>   
   >> Personally, I've always felt that a 3" mortar was the obvious solution   
   >> to such problems, whether from vehicle or house. But that's just me.   
   >>   
   >>>> Then again, I couldn't find out what vehicles run on in the future>>   
   >>>> Mega-City of "Judge Dredd" - they could be powered from the road -   
   >>>> but>> with a shortage of apartments (at least perhaps until a series   
   >>>> of>> catasrophes reduces the population cumulatively?), they just   
   >>>> live in>> their vehicle. And with not enough parking space either -   
   >>>> these are>> literal mobile homes.   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>> There are trials in various countries of electric cars that   
   >>> are>continuously charged driving along the road, but such a scheme   
   >>> would be>hideously expensive and distruptive while roads are dug up   
   >>> to bury the>cables and charging pads, so is unlikely to every happen   
   >>> except in>small specific areas.   
   >>>   
   >>> Another option being trialled is wireless charging pads in parking   
   >>> spots.   
   >>   
   >> Our city is installing charging stations along some streets. But I   
   >> don't think there is any "wireless" about it.   
   >>   
   >> As you note rather hysterically below, this is stressing the   
   >> electrical grid. The server farms and "AI" chatbots aren't helping any   
   >> either.   
   >>   
   >> One interesting factoid is that studies have apparently shown that   
   >> grazing animals (sheep, cows) actually do better grazing around   
   >> power-producing windmills. Which means the landowners can lease the   
   >> land twice: once for the windmills, and once for the grazing. Well,   
   >> maybe.   
   >   
   > Nope. Because the greenies are trying to force farmers to pay fart taxes   
   > for their livestock, so most farmers will simply stop bother to have   
   > sheep, cows, etc. at all. Of course, the greenies don't care because   
   > they're vegetarian / vegan anyway, but they haven't thought through that   
   > it would also likely mean the near-extinction of all those domesticated   
   > animals.   
      
   	As long as there are people willing to pay the cost of producing meat   
   including taxes at the market counter there will be farmers/ranchers   
   growing   
   meat animals for slaughter and sale.   
   	   
   	I am fairly green but am a obiligate carnivore.   
   	If I cannot afford to buy it in a store I might go hunting...   
      
   	bliss   
      
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