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Electric cars are as zero-carbon as the cost-equivalent space of a freshly paved asphalt concrete highway or parking space. If not more than that due to the more special materials required to make them.

Also note that, due to much heavier weight of electric cars, asphalt concrete surfaces will be damaged a lot faster. The relationship between vehicle weight and its damage to the road surface is exponential, not linear.

Says zero-carbon, proceeds to show single-family detached homes in a suburban setting, mostly accessible by car only.

P.S. The concrete foundations look far from zero-carbon.

Let's monetize and scale all forms of humanity. For sure, this will not decrease trust between people in the vein of what happened to the "salesman smile".

There are jokes this that go like this:

- lawyer to defendant [in private]: tell me the truth. how much did you steal?

- defendant: not much, just [enter small sum]

- lawyer: then i won't be defending you

Well, you could say the same about all dictatorships, whether organizations or countries: if you don't like it, leave it (unless you can't, e. g. North Korea). But I think this argument is flawed, to say the least. After all, an employment contract (and labour law in general) acts both ways - it's not a subordination of an employee to an employer.

Warriors of the OpenBSD tribe.

I also find it horrifying that HN folks downvoted you for your well-founded opinion.

I'm European and weigh around 70 kg but a bottle of wine is definitely not a light drink. To me, it's somewhere between medium and heavy drinking, depending on how fast I drink it and the ABV.

Also, uneconomical use of urban land.

Now imagine you're hiking in the woods and, all of a sudden, you reach a fence with a sign "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING". Years go by and even more rich people build such homes in the woods. Now you're hiking in the woods, constantly passing through gravel roads leading to these properties and hearing traffic noise of a more major road where some cars from some of these houses went to fill the propane tank, buy food supplies or whatever.