Exactly! And like in Canada with debanking protesters against 2 years of COVID lockdowns, because it is tied to government ID they will be able to prevent individuals from age verifying themselves, likely effectively blocking them from using any social media.

You are confused. Small government does not mean weak government, it means government limited in scope of what it is allowed to do. What you describe is anarchy or corporatocracy, that is more likely to be the end-result of overbearing government getting corrupted.

I am surprised you have yet to understand that personal freedom and small government is about countering exactly this. The more you expand the government and regulation, the more room you create for someone connected to run these scams.

None of the Net Zero plans I have seen survive any kind of rigorous scrutiny. It is either green-washed via highly dubious offset credits or green-washed via outsourcing emissions.

Costs of such drones, at least for now, is substantially more expensive. In a war of economic attrition, which is what is happening in Ukraine, that matters a lot.

Russia might have all kinds of ambitions, but they failed miserably in Ukraine, why do you think they will do better against NATO?

So they run out of other people's money already? So much for socialist utopia.

Where I live, most recycling gets diverted into garbage or incinerated. This is because soiled paper (e.g., pizza boxes with oil residue) or laminated paper (e.g., juice container) are not recyclable. This is because plastic is theoretically, but not in practice recyclable as there are many more types of plastic than can be readily recycled AND sorting is a problem that hard to solve without human labor.

I think most push back to recycling is about paper and plastic and not metal or glass. If Green people actually cared about recycling, they would have pushed for universal ban on plastic packaging and not some half-measures as banning drinking straws or plastic bags. Then our recycling programs could become self-funding by doing glass and metal.

Absolutely. I am not against touch screens in general, I am against them for any function that I need to do while driving.

I would never buy Tesla because of controls (and the fact that it cannot be easily disconnected).

I hate touchscreen control in cars, will never buy one unless HVAC temperature, defrost, and volume controls are all actual physical dials and/or buttons. If that means I have to drive mine into the ground, well mechanics bills are still less than a new car payment.

There is a third possibility - he is a flawed human being that sometimes capable of greatness, that is prone to following idiotic spur of the moment impulses, and that is trying to do what is best for US, but only if it is not too difficult.

As crazy some of it reads, I think dinky actually believes most of what he posts.

You are right, you can't rely on eBay for parts you need, this is more of building up stockpile to keep your classics on the road. I keep an eye out for vendors that purchase and part out cars, most of their inventory would be from something newer but now and then they get a classic. Obviously, you gamble with what you get, but occasionally you score almost-new parts.

I still use eBay for classic car parts and various hard-to-find items, but only for categories that are not swamped with Chinesium knock-offs.