Don't remind me. If I didn't know the state would come take my fucking house away I'd not be paying s penny in taxes, but alas the fuckers have me by the short and curlies. Not much choice.

If we let the Chinese evs in they would out sell too many ice or hybrid cars and reduce our consumption of oil, as well as bring too much competition to our "free" market. We can't have that, think of all the money spent in lobbying to keep us dependent on oil! And people might not buy electric cars from their favourite eccentric Nazi if there's an alternative and that absolutely cannot fly! Ugh it's the same story over and over again with American companies. Perform like dog shit, piss and moan that sales are tough because of those pesky foreign doing it better, tarrifs the competition out of competition and beg big govt for a nice bail out. Been happening over and over since at least the 60s in at least automotive industry. People who use USA as an example of capitalism = bad are totally missing the point that USA is socialism for rich people at the expense of capitalism, as a real capitalist would love to buy BYD in USA. Capitalism needs to be constrained with regulation sure, but not in a way that benefits your "representatives" favourite private corpo

To be fair in my small town alone there are 2 fields with solar panels. No crops, no animal grazing, just mowed grass and panels. People here act like that doesn't exist and every green field with pannels is agrivoltaics, which isn't strictly true. Maybe their newer installations and need a few years to mature? Idk the case was the same last 2 states I lived in, ma and ri both had fields with pannels that were very much single use. I thing agrivoltaics is freaking sweet, just like I think covering car parks, roofs, etc is sick. Why waste any space? ESPECIALLY spaced we have already wrecked, no reason not to have pannels on every roof. I say that without having my own but some day soonish...

Unfortunately your being downvoted by the echo chamber participants that have to make sure you know that your opinion is wrong and theirs is better. AI is a tool, just like my impact gun. Yea there are times where you absolutely should not use an impact gun on something, but it's THE tool for some situations. And yea, using an impact gun where you should t will get you in trouble just like using AI in situations you shouldn't will get you in trouble. There is nothing new on that front!

I mean better nuclear than burning coal. I don't get why nuclear has such a bad wrap, it's a reliable zero emissions way to produce power, takes up way less space than a solar or wind farm and the only down side is the nuclear waste produced. Its not the best option sure, but far from the worst! Lots of fear mongering about melt downs, but if your gonna cry about that u better not advocate for electric cars because God forbid those batteries can light up too once in a blue moon! Hell just a few weeks ago an electric car and seperate incident an elec bus burnt down a set of toll booths not too far from me. Then then one lit up again while on the roll back. Can't remember the last nuclear melt down around here though ;)

To be fair, once fuel prices go up the cost of EVERYTHING also goes up. So no it's not just about pain at the pump, it's pain at the grocery check out. Pain when the oil truck comes to deliver your liquid heat. Pain when you buy anything plastic, anything grown with fertilizers. People don't realize petroleum is in almost everything! And if it doesn't use a petroleum product in manufacturing, it certainly does in shipping.

Has always been this way. Back in the late 70/early 80s, Harley couldn't compete with the Japanese bikes so they lobbied to daddy fed to make sure all the foreign bikes got tarriffed out of existence over 700cc. So the Japanese said "hold my soju" and made 699cc motorcycles that still made more power than the gargantuan Harley bikes of the time. USA has always tried to give US based companies a leg up over objectively superior products. Our tax dollars are why there are any American car companies left, sure Ford didn't get a direct bail out but we use them for police and other service vehicles across the country which has helped keep them afloat. Plus obviously Chrysler and GM taking govt bailouts and still flailing desperately while making trash vehicles and wondering why they don't sell. The American auto industry doesn't struggle to keep pace, it has NEVER caught up to or even compared to the rest of the world. They have always been 30+ years behind any European or Asian vehicle.

Right and infidel doesn't carry any negative connotation either?

Yea it's not the addiction or even the brainworms that disqualify him, it's simply his stupidity.

Ford can't hire techs cuz they don't pay shit. No robot with any amount of ai nonsense in it will ever be remotely capable of replacing a mechanic. When is it ok to get the acetylene torch out? How does the bolt FEEL as you undo it, is it about to snap? Do u need to pump heat into it and feed it some wax? Did you spill brake fluid on the customers paint? Was the customer concern duplicated before determining what the repair was? Who did the diagnostic work? Was it test driven and quality checked afterward? Was the customer made aware of any other potential issues down the road? Ai and robots may be able to help in menial and manufacturing tasks but would never be capable of repair in automotive, especially not anywhere rust is common !

Curious to see how unglued this country gets after pissing on Trump's parade, I have a feeling we're in for quite a treat

This is the sort of adoption we need to bring Linux into the mainstream