If you can't sell off your old car at a decent price (and your car dealership also has the lot full of them), your calculation for the next truck has to include a higher deterioration, which makes buying your next truck more expensive. And financing the truck with a loan also might get harder, because your bank might also look into the resale value of your truck, because if they impound it, they don't want to sell it at too much of a loss.

Statistics. If you see a work trailer only on 1% of the trucks out there, you can be statistically sure that only 1% of all trucks are actually using their towing capacity.

I never understood the towing capacity argument. My tiny compact with a 1.6 liter Diesel engine has a towing capacity of 3400 pounds.

Wrong. It is not the cause of Global Warming, and it is not caused by Global Warming. So far you would be right. But it is a problem whose consequences get worse due to Global Warming. So yes, it has to do with Global Warming.

You are not here. You are at a place where a back-of-the-envelope calculation states is the minimum required. The real thing is probably at least twice as large.

An 18-wheeler was overkill.

Everyone knows that they should have used a station wagon.

Reaching Mars requires at least planetary escape velocity (11.2 km/s). That means you need a three stage rocket. Usually, the lower stage is about five times the next one. Starting from Mars requires only one stage (escape velocity 5.0 km/s). But still, you need a rocket large enough to carry a fully loaded ICBM as payload to get this one to Mars. A very small ICBM like the Midgetman weighs about 17 metric tons, the usual sized Minuteman twice that. Carry this one on a three stage rocket, your first stage has to have about 125 times the size of a Midgetman or Minuteman, thus between 2000 and 4000 metric tons. This would easily be in the size range of the Saturn V (2200 to 2900 metric tons).

In fact, the Atlas Centaur which carried Mariner 6 and 7 to Mars, weighted 136 metric tons while carrying just 400 kg of payload. At this ratio, we would need more than 300 times the payload, hence a rocket able to carry an ICBM to Mars would weigh between 6000 and 12000 metric tons or four times Saturn V.

Casted boy groups were nothing new in the 1990ies. There are examples of those going back at least 100 years. At latest with the widespread availability of recorded music, the marketable boy group was born.

As if an Xbox 360 was an Xbox turned one.

Our car even has pillar airbags for both head and body, and it has a 5 star NCAP rating (a small weakness at chest height was determined with a side pole impact though).

I don't think that the point of writing assignments is to produce documents as a product. It's to have the student go through the process of gathering, analyzing and understanding the material, in order for them to learn it. If they skip that work, they learn little or nothing.

In the real world, being effective in directing a computer to produce a bunch of text that you know nothing about is not a worthwhile skill. If someone comes back with issues related to the AI-generated content, how would you address the problems if you're mostly ignorant about the topic at hand?

My wife has a laptop built in 2014, and it runs perfectly fine. We upgraded it to 32 GByte RAM, a new screen with higher resolution (yes, it was possible to get a new screen!) and SSD, and with them, everything my wife uses runs fine and dandy. There is no reason to switch to another laptop, as this one is more than sufficient for all her use cases. In no way, it feels under-powered except for graphic intensive games, which none of us plays anyway.

And yes, our car has 110 HP (81 kW). It has a top speed of 120 mph. It gets up to 60 mpg. I don't see any reason to call this one under-powered or garbage. We are driving about 25,000 miles per year with the car, and there never has been a situation where I felt that there was a serious lack of power. It even has a towing hitch and is licensed for pulling up to 3400 lbs.

They don’t need them: they’re the redcoats!

Not too long ago, they were sending children to the gallows for the heinous crime of stealing bread

Basically, you are hinting that I should do an NPR and suppress my viewpoint to let the other guy's viewpoint stand, because my viewpoint would help the wrong people.

Or did I misunderstood you completely?

And there I was thinking that the free exchange of thoughts and ideas implies that you can freely state your thoughts and ideas? Those are mine. And my thinking is that to pinpoint a (geologically or historically) short term trend, it is sufficient to look at a short time period. I don't know how the climate on Earth will be in one million years, and my interest into the weather forecast for the year 10002024 is mainly academic. But I am very interested in the next 30 years, because that's what I expect to experience myself, and I am quite interested in the climate in 2100, because that's what my children maybe, and my grandchildren hopefully will experience. And for that, looking back 30 or 80 years, is very intriguing, while the climate at the time Homo neanderthalensis appeared for the first time is less interesting.