That's more LA than the full state. Living in SF, for example, doesn't require a car (though has its own share of problems, like all places)

Air conditioning and swimming pools

My beef with them is it gives a comment an artificially high "vote" which tends to dominate the discussion (people feel it's a higher quality comment point), even if the content on its own doesn't merit it.

Whoa whoa whoa - let's not get ahead of ourselves; what is America if not the exploitation of the critical working class?

I dunno... this has rings of Libra (now Diem?) to it. Given engagement on Meta is down, it feels more like a playbook to tap into the zeitgeist and capture the shift in traffic.