I agree they're a trade-off, but they're a necessary middle-step in the process of getting off of carbon fuels while the battery industry develops enough to fully convert the rest of the auto industry.

I'd rather see every passenger-vehicle made after 2020 be a PHEV than a handful of guys driving around in Teslas and Lightnings with bloated batteries while 95% of new cars on the road are still gas-burners.

Their inkjets were always trash fire.

I mean all they have to do is add a 2/2/2 mode using the weaker open-queue tanks into the Arcade to say "look we've got OW1 as an arcade mode!"

Ah. I never got far enough in the classic games to see those weapons. It's just the new games had a serious tonal problem with "this is serious movie game and killing has real gravity now massacre 30 guys with an AR". It just feels like it would have managed to capture the grounded tone it was going for better if it'd stuck to the pistols and bow.

Podcasters are usually better at this than streamers. There's a Canadian political podcast I follow that's great for hour-plus interviews. Really good for "politics in complete sentences" stuff.

How do you do that? Let's say I buy a run-down house, spend 2 years dumping a bucket of money and sweat into it to make it into a nice place, and then sell it. That house is now converted and gentrified. That kind of "flip the house I live in" is how a lot of people got started into playing the housing market. And at slower pace that's just the normal process of how normal non-investment houses function as they go crazy-high in value, without even involving "investors".

How do you ban that? And more to the point why would you want to?

There are more empty buildings than homeless people

This is a myth. What "empty building" studies usually cover is buildings that have no usual occupant. That includes things like student houses where the occupants still have a "home address".

I have a Samsung Galaxy Watch, it has a button for that too. But also the Wallet app on the watch has to be manually opened to use it anyways, it's not passive background app. I think I might just disable NFC on my phone and stick to using my watch for payments.

"We" - as in the government or the taxpayer - don't build investment or luxury homes at all. Private businesses build them. All they need is permission to build them.

And they want to build them because there's demand for them. If you don't let them meet that demand, it will be met in a worse way: by rich people buying the homes of poor people and converting those into luxury investment housing. You can see that everywhere - flips, teardowns, gentrification, etc. That's what happens if you don't let enough new luxury housing get built: you think the luxury buyers are gonna stop buying?

So to solve the housing crisis, 2 things need to happen:

1. government needs to invest heavily in affordable housing and public construction infrastructure.

2. government needs to get the hell out of the way of the private sector that will happily profit from stopping the bleeding.

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Alternately, as boomers die and many of their homes go into REITs instead of younger generations as they reverse-mortgage to fund extremely expensive senescence more and more housing moves out of the voting public and populists get more and more power by catering to this disenfranchised group.

The question then is whether those populists do it with good policy or with scapegoats and hate.

Uh. You don't need to pay for the pass to unlock the new heroes. They're at the end of the free tier, and in the following seasons there's an easy street set of achievement-based challenges to unlock older new heroes.

So you don't have to pay for the heroes, but you will get them a month or so later than the paying players.

I mean it's a huge downgrade from OW1 where they were available the moment they launched, but it's easier than getting your desired weapon in tf2.