This.

It works in Africa because there are no incumbent producers whose market is being threatened.

It could happen in the USA, but for the structure of the utilities' capital financing. You may _think_ you are paying so much for a kilowatt-hour. In reality, a good chunk of utilities costs are fixed. And the rate structures are designed to recapture those, concealed as energy rates. Now here come the micro solar and wind producers, expecting to use the grid as their marketplace. Buying and selling energy across it and hoping to break even or possibly squeeze out a profit. But that won't pay for the system, so the utilities will rewrite their rate schedules to get people to pay for the infrastructure they use. Which means that your solar buy/sell rates drop to near zero. And most of your bill becomes a fee to connect to the system, independent of which way the net power flows.

Now calculate your ROI on solar panels.

That's not the conspiracy that they've been hiding.

They missed a few important ones. Like the one about the aliens. Personally, that's the one I'm waiting for.

"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly

And yet, I can still get parts to maintain my 46 year old truck. Still stocked at the local parts store. So I'm going to keep driving that, polluting stink bomb that it is.

eVTOL man-carrying craft (flying taxis and flying cars) are not yet economically viable -- and won't be until we have a whole new generation of batteries with higher energy densities and cycle-lives. At the current cost of operation, these are a solution looking for a problem.

Hell, China can't sell all the EVs it makes so the chances of them selling any of these is....

This.

Why have phone numbers not devolved into something similar to IP addresses? Then one could use an 'enhanced' DNS service to map real names (and aliases) to an actual number.

... directed Sam to scrape 4Chan instead. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

The cited article says two in five claim to have been hacked. Sounds like a reasonably credible allegation.

Why would anyone store their primary banking credit card info on a hackable electronic device? I have a low limit card through a bank that I do no other business with. Hack it and charge maybe $1K before it limits or you get caught. Not attached to an account with a balance, so nothing to drain.

... use those points to buy stuff at the Apple store?

Wait! Never mind. It turns out that I can buy an infinite number of Linux installs with them.

And your dog will play with you because you have a pork chop tied around your neck.

This.

The Emperor's New Clothes is quite applicable here. It's not enough to point out that he's naked as a jaybird, but that this has become "common knowledge" and one is now safe to act on it without negative consequences.

Just try to step up and say that your company isn't going to bite on the AI bait and the market will knock points off your share price.

There's an interesting book out on that topic.

... Pittsburgh is my favorite team!

... put it in the bid specification. Spare parts, maintenance manuals, etc. It's what the commercial airlines do.

Can't get anyone to bid on such terms? Well then, you let too many suppliers merge, creating an oligopoly that isn't in the best interest of the nation. Or if its collusion between the manufacturers, set a trap for them and then it's off to prison. Goodness knows you've got enough FBI agents sitting in bars, waiting for some dirt bag to walk in and hire a hit on an enemy.