Actually I have an F150. I'm willing to replace it with a cyber truck (if my finances permitted). But puzzle me this. What is better for the climate? Me holding on to the old F150 and rarely driving it. Of selling the F150 to someone who most certainly will drive it far more than me and me owning a cyber truck that perhaps I drive more because it doesn't cost as much for gas?? I'd like to know how much carbon goes into making a cyber truck.

The huge problem is if consumers don't consume there is no economy. The other huge problem is that if a decision that negatively affects a group that finds their employment affected they'll never accept it no matter how "green" it is. But they'll certainly be sure to fly in to the local climate conference!

The solution?? Small scale nuclear everywhere. Make repairability easier. And tax the heck out of things forcing an upgrade. Coincidentally, I consider all these concepts to be conservative.

Dropping all the packets means that Russia doesnâ(TM)t have any contact with the outside world. Which is a boon to despotic regimes because alternative views aka âoethe truthâ gets throttled which only works to help keep whatever autocrat thatâ(TM)s there in power.

If you really want to kick Russia where it hurts donâ(TM)t buy any of their energy resources and work to bring down the price of what there is.

Perhaps people should demand a refund for the book. Thoughtful editing is actually a large part of the cost of getting a book published!

No. I'm not moving the goalposts. Anytime I hear "Americans don't want those jobs"...In reality it's the furtherest thing from the truth. It's that companies don't want to pay a higher cost on labor. I've worked in factories and I'd take a factory job tomorrow. I know I'm not the only one. If you or your party persist in these falsehoods they'll continue to lose more voters. The number of Hispanics that voted for Trump is astonishing. Do your research: "Invasion" on YouTube Red Pill America

People have complained about stagnant wages for decades now. The fact is there is no upward pressure on wages anymore because democrats are willing to import all the cheap labor any corporation could want - both legal or illegally.

Until people understand how they're being lied to their wages will only stay the same if not go down with inflation eating at their paycheck.

As horrible as Trump is, he's willing to defend jobs and close the border. None of which we saw in the last administration.

Nor do they want those jobs.

You mean I donâ(TM)t want the high paying electronics job shipped to China??? I guess you think yourself as some amazing Kreskin by saying that!

Iâ(TM)m sure that there are also a lot of programmers who were forced to train their H1B India replacements - they didnâ(TM)t want their jobs either right???

From what is suggested is that any job that can be done at a lower wage by some foreign worker illegal or not is a job âoethat an American does not want.â

This same level of baloney is exactly what put Trump in office!

For those that want to dig into this further find âoered pill America YouTube channel and the story âoeInvasion.â

Anybody that says that itâ(TM)s âoea job that an American doesnâ(TM)t wantâ deserves to be voted out of office immediately I donâ(TM)t care what party.

Itâ(TM)s along the same lie that âoecomprehensive immigration reform is needed.â No, it wasnâ(TM)t needed because we now have the lowest rate of border crossings in decades.

I donâ(TM)t like a lot of things Trump is doing and frankly heâ(TM)s dead wrong on any number of things. But hearing the words that âoeitâ(TM)s a job Americans donâ(TM)t wantâ bullshit infuriates me to the point of voting for him for a completely unconstitutional third term.

Really democrats, figure your shit out. All those Hispanics in the Southwest that supported Trump and gave him the presidency - and will do âoethose jobsâ - have figured it out!

If Trump accomplished anything itâ(TM)s showing the malarky about the border that was foisted on everybody!

Now when do we see an alternative to the visa/masticard oligarchy??

I wanted to get the instruction set (the old manual is online even) to a (60 year) old computer and it couldn't do it for "copyright reasons." Really?? What's more it's not allowed to say certain conteoversial words (not the 7 vulgar ones fwiw) and avoid them in a conversation. And it tends to be overly sweet. Not that I do t like flattery but it needs to be realistic. Also, it ends answers with questions to keep things going and it starts to feel smarny.

For these reasons and others it's not hard to see why somebody might move on to something else.

Indeed. The problem with Chrome is websites are increasingly not supporting other browsers and starting to limit access specifically to just Chrome. If Chrome were to become a paid product then suddenly the lesser used Firefox could become popular again.

But the interesting thing would be is if Chrome was sold as an operating system and not as a browser......

I've read the entire thread to this point and most of the upvoted posts such as yours infer heavily or outright blame the wealthy, and specifically Trump for creating a tax code that favors them.

What this amounts to is an religious adherence to a political ideology that is becoming defunct.

Let's be clear on this. Trump is not the cause, he is a symptom of what has transpired up to this point.

Blaming Trump and the wealthy and parroting Bernie's and AOC's talking points actually manage to obscure the truth. That the opposition party failed to put up a candidate that could actually close the border and work to find a way to end the Ukraine war before despot Putin made it nuclear.

If that comes at the cost of unwanted tax breaks for people that shouldn't have them? So be it. Maybe that gets corrected down the road. Along with fixing tax filing.

The sad truth that the wealthy-blamers completely ignore (even if they are right about them) is that with Biden's dementia problems and who knows what Kamala's probable substance abuse issues are, is that we just exited the most mentally impaired administration in the history of the Republic. And numerous organizations/people work hard to cover up that very sad fact by essentially scapegoating the wealthy. Right after, laughably, bowing down to those same people to support Kamala's billion dollar campaign. Oh, I get it, maybe there's "good" and "bad" wealthy?? Make me laugh more!

Hate him or love him, Trump is in office for reasons apparently very few want to really acknowledge.

That what serves as the political left is some form of unjustified religiososity that no longer works. I'd say the same for the old school Romney'esque neocons on the right too.

Hacking the IRS whichever way slashdot doesn't like needs to be seen as a cost to these other realities.

Find Victor Davis Hansen on YouTube with the "Daily Signal" and the YouTube channel "2way" to get beyond the smoke-screens cast up by whoever and learn the truth for yourself!