China is also dumping excess production on the rest of the world. Lots of people have access to good cars at good prices.
I'd love to see these come to the US but our protectionist policies only allow us to buy expensive sub-standard EVs from US manufacturers.

These cars are available in Mexico (and maybe soon Canada). I'd love to buy one and import it to the US as a used car at a much lower tariff.

Good point. It drives me crazy too.
Adding extra zeros is just hype.

Looks like the biggest drop is from reporting student loan delinquencies. Biden's effort to reduce student loan debt has ended.
Instead of free/low cost education like much of the rest of the "civilized" world, the US puts everyone in perpetual penury with massive student loan debt so they have to keep slaving for much of their lives.

I can understand all of these concerns.
However, there is zero chance of any of these being addressed.
Our tech oligarchs run things and will steamroll any effort to restrict their control.
We are just the consumers.

The DOJ just removed a report from their web site which showed that the overwhelming number of political violence attacks comes from right-wing people.
Welcome to the 1984.

Standalone induction burners tend to have fan noise.
My (GE Cafe) induction range has only a very quiet fan that only comes on occasionally and no squeal.

There are induction burners that fit a wok or you can buy a wok with a flat induction plate on the bottom (I have one).

Yes.
Looks like things are worse now when only rabid syncophants are approved for government.

I just watched the movie "Idiocracy".
I highly recommend it. For a 20 year old film, it's remarkably prescient. The society of the future it depicts is very similar to our society today.
- reality show President
- total corporate takeover
- bread and circuses to "rehabilitate" anybody who has wrong thoughts
- incredibly stupid people everywhere

Events of the last few months have destroyed the myth of "I don't have to worry if I'm not doing anything wrong".
The government will use any excuse to detain you... just being in the same city where something bad happened (and then "fleeing" that city) will put you on the top of the list.

Of course you always turn your phone off while you're driving so its spyware can't track you?

The problem is that the capitalists will take all the profits from "efficiencies" in AI just as they have taken all of the benefits in worker productivity for the past thirty years.
Our resident Nazi tech oligarch, Musk, has told us not to worry since when AI takes over we will all have universal "high" income.
It's not clear how this will work since the ruling class has been using all of its political power to cut any benefits for the peons and transfer all wealth to themselves.
Musk himself was instrumental in the Dodgy program to cut billions in government spending that would have gone to help regular folks so that they could give tax cuts to the rich.

Just send in Trumps ICE agents and "free" the slaves.
These operations are not "a basic warehouse". They are large compounds with housing, offices and electricity, Internet and phone services. They are very vulnerable to police raids if anyone really cared.

We need to keep track of the peons so they don't slack off and decrease our profits.