A lazy ideology, appeal to Eurosupremacy, and factual incorrectness all at once!

Trading one invasive monoculture for another isn’t really an upgrade, though you may get more utlity from mint. And your neighbors may set fire to your property.

Cars a combination of all kinds of shit. Rivets, welds, adhesive, clips, you name it. Aluminum frame cars use more adhesive. High-end applications where the heat of welding can cause dangerous warping also is a factor. The Lotus Elise, for example, uses adhesive rather than welds. Bolts or rivets put holes in things and that’s not always tolerable.

Lots of stuff on cars is glued. Your windshield, for one. The difference is correctly applying the appropriate adhesive.

Yeah something like the Oblivion Crisis would be tough on the commoners. But if I could just chill in Vivec City or even Whiterun for most of history it’s pretty safe.

If you take them at face value and not as a gamified abstraction, sure. “Pallet Town” having three buildings is unlivable but it isn’t shown that way in non-game media.

The organized crime is rough but that usually gets sorted out by a child at some point so just keep your head down.

It’s pretty safe to be an NPC in thr Elder Scrolls as long as you aren’t important or interesting and you’re polite to adventurers.

That’s a solid argument: we have several ways to achieve the same result and should limit the riskiest because market forces aren’t going to correct for them. Much better than “get rid of this one possibly risky thing because I don’t personally value it.”

That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way. The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater and it’s impossible to account for every conceivable risk. If a product is plausibly harmful under normal usage, sure. If it causes cancer when force-fed to rats in impossible proportions? Leave it be, study further perhaps.

You willing to apply that logic to every unnecessary decoration in your life?

Sure, but I’m unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there’s a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there’s gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.

We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We’d seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.

The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet’s ecology for humanity to go extinct, we’re too good at adapting.

That’s the urban/rural divide, same thing in every state.

It should be a hell of a lot higher, but the people with the power to change it are the only people who would be punished, so…

Not treated poorly enough.

“Just lay down and let bad things happen forever, it’s better to let a million people die than shoot a single villain.”

I’ve got bad news about every country on Earth.

The actual laws also don’t seem to matter, in all fairness.

Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it’s wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That’s what I’m talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.

It’s a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can’t imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I’m next to (let alone touching)