Perhaps there are transmitters embedded in the speed limit signs or other street furniture that tell the car what the local speed limit is, and it honors the locally broadcast limit if present or isn't limited otherwise.

If we're imagining a universe where the political will exists to modify every car in the country to have a speed governor in it, we can imagine that the will similarly exists to implement a solution that doesn't have this requirement.

Totally. I assume these were rental priorities because it would be stupid to do otherwise.

And it places where it *is* legal, it occurs. In DC, a large portion of the house flipping is converting existing single-family to multi-family (often bumping up and/or back and then splitting into individual units).

(unless you mean they bought 17 properties just to let them sit empty -- that *is* worth penalizing, and many jurisdictions do, by charging much higher property taxes for vacant properties)

Every property available for rent is owned by somebody, and renters are generally the most affected by high housing costs and the most acutely in need of new supply. Buying up to rent increases purchase demand but rental supply, which might be net good depending on the market.

It's John Green who did the Policy Genius ads. Agreed that they're great, though. I think they started on the Anthropocene Reviewed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOe...

ChatGPT could likely even write this program for you (retrieving actual Bible verses)

Yes, but most national-security information is FOIA-exempt.

Anything this overtly liturgical felt weird, but if they absolutely had to, they could have used a different setting that didn't already have so much associated cultural baggage, and also wasn't so fire-and-brimstone. Maybe the Faure Requiem instead? The Pie Jesu and Agnus Dei are both really nice.

I don't think the point was "everybody should get their news from PBS" so much as "everybody should get their news from actual professional journalists, not social media randos, and an example of that that's free is PBS." There are lots of other options too.