What the heck is a "wired" phone? I'm asking because my house doesn't have a phone line much less a device to plug into it.

Congrats I guess. You know there's no reason you can't chose when to be available with a mobile right? In fact I think the difference between you and me is that if I rang your phone right now it will likely ring, whereas if you rang me I won't even notice since it's set to silent. I have far more control with how reachable I am on modern technology than the old analogue system.

There is no decline in smarthomes any more than vinyl is the most listened to music format. This story is (much like the last one) about a new wave of hipsters looking for something else to be analogue after they got bored of their Polaroid cameras.

Smart appliances are still selling just fine, and virtually all modern houses have some degree of smarts in them as a requirement for efficiency and health of the occupants - e.g. CO2 / PM2.5 controlled automated ventilation systems.

No that's now how it works. Once the video is entered in as evidence you have a court process to go through. This is *NOT* 5 minutes worth of work. It's clear you've never had any involvement with the legal system at all.

And it's not the prosecution who will give it to you. You will get it issued to you formally via the court.

The information is presented in a podcast because it's how morons who spread misinformation and don't know how to write concise reports like to operate. The reality is the actual reports disagree, as do the people who worked for DOGE.

Please stop feeding yourself a diet of intellectual rubbish.

At 0F a typical normal Rivian gets about 20% range reduction. Much of that comes from initial battery conditioning on a trip, something that delivery truck EVs don't actually worry much about since they are driven constantly. Incidentally this is why some companies suggest you pre-warm the cabin before going somewhere - it often also warms the battery pack so you don't suffer range loss in the initial part of your trip.

Different car designs require different tech. Rav4s have an engine to backup their heatpumps and are designed accordingly. Different cars in different market have different designs too. -18C? Congrats that you have heating, my car has a heatpump which bottoms out at around -5C, a temperature which it will rarely if ever experience where I live. Apparently the same car ships with a different heatpump in Finland.

Err no, the final delivery is a critical part of emissions. I can't smell an international freighter, I can't hear it, it's not idling in my street, it's not producing NOx emissions or particulates known to cause cancer in front of my house.

Not everything is about climate change. Even if climate change is a complete hoax there's frigging HUGE reasons to switch away from burning gasoline and diesel in population centres. The impact directly on my life of delivery companies having switched away from smelly diesel vans is far greater than anything the freight industry could offer me.

It is Germany. By a factor for more than double they not only produce the most cars in their factory, but they also produce the most cars per capita in their factories, and are home to the two largest car producing brands as well.

The problem with writing like an arse with unverifiable claims is that the one thing you said which we can verify just turned out to be complete rubbish. So ... I'm guessing your entire post is complete rubbish.

Sorry if you were being sincere, we have nothing else to go on other than the rubbish you posted.

Yes I'm sure the wealthy ultra rich are shunning smart homes. Why do you need AI when you pay people to cook and clean for you. I don't need no WiFi connected washing machine. I don't even know what a washing machine is, Jose just does something in the room in the house we don't go into and clean cloths magically appear in my wardrobe!

None of the people in the industry that would be interested in their product think they died. You think they died because you're not the target market and therefore you're not marketed to. There's a lot of products out there from companies you've never heard of and never will.

On the flip side I've seen their speakers at the local computer store along with big flashy advertisements for an RGB soundbar to go with those people who are into unicorn vomit. Beyond that they fill a niche between wanting good sound card capabilities with physical controls but not wanting the complexity of a pro external audio interface.

Based on your posting history, none of this likely interests you in the slightest, so why would they put any effort into marketing to you?

People without imagination often struggle to understand problems they haven't come across, nor can they imagine solutions to problems they didn't realise they had. I take it you don't do much on your PC? I mean a system for executing programmable macros is standard on many gaming rigs. Likewise a system to switch audio inputs / outputs at a push of a button is pretty damn neat, especially if you're playing the type of games that easily crash when going to desktop to change a system setting.

You didn't get burnt, you got precisely what you paid for, a possible investment in something which may lead to a product. Some don't materialise, countless do. I burnt myself today adjusting the daisy wheel on the BBQ. It would be simply stupid to say I'll never BBQ again as a result.

Means letting them go takes down the rest of the us economy. They're not a bank and only have 8k employees.

They can go by by and it won't matter in the slightest.

Now the fact that we're all basically held hostage by the banks is something we ought to deal with but we a scared of socialisms so that ain't happening

E bikes, including e cargo bikes, are rapidly growing in number as well. Further down you describe these as the bottom of the chain in the UK, but I think that perception is shifting quite rapidly to be more like the Netherlands, at least in London, because cargo bikes have such significant advantages over large vehicles. It's all good, though. I always get a small bit of pleasure when the DPD and UPS guys deliver to me, because their vans are electric. DPD van is a mid-size thing, but the UPS van is an absolutely massive beast. So it's fantastic that it's so quiet given its size. Between delivery services, cars and all the electric buses, and Lime bikes etc, London streets are getting notably less noisy.a

I think he's implying most goods originate overseas. I don't think that's actually true in the US, and it also ignores that overseas packages are typically delivered by ship, not plane.

So far after 4 or 5 days they show back up but in the meantime they don't exist and it's safe to say it's only a matter of time before it goes from 4 or 5 days to permanent.

America has given up a lot of Liberty for the promise of a little bit of security and a whole lot of punching down

You weren't paying attention. I think we are seeing it more because crime rates keep going down but the police keep getting more staff so they've got to start going after people higher up the totem pole.

But the cops have been using nasty little tricks like this for a very very long time and calling it police work. There's a little new technology but in the old days they would just use what's called broken windows policing to hassle poor people in order to hit their quotas for arrests.

When crime rates were higher that was easy to do but his crime rates go down and down and down but the media keeps telling you that Portland is burning we get more and more cops on the street with less and less for them to do.

So they are starting the hassle the general public instead of just the lower classes. That makes the news outside of left wing goofs like John Oliver so you're going to notice it more.