See, it's that sentence there that gets trotted out from time to time that reveals bullshit-thinking. EV sales weren't stable. They were steadily rising until something happened.

What happened, you ask?

The President of the United States of America removed the incentives that put EVs on roughly the same footing as ICE vehicles, to the benefit of - get this - the subsidized oil industry. That's when growth of the EV market stalled. It would be a staggering coincidence if it just happened that the demand for EVs was satisfied at the exact same time the government declared war on them.

Bonus; as for the countless used EVs on the market, how does one explain the countless used ICEVs on the market?

Even if that were true...

We (Canada) scrapped a tax on digital services that would've meant American companies like Google that take Canadian citizens' money had to give some of it back... because Donald said so or else he'd take his trade negotiating marbles and go home.

We're the country whose trade negotiations were aborted by Donald because he was upset we paid for an ad that played Ronald Reagan saying things about tariffs that Ronald Reagan said, and Ronald Reagan made clear by other words and actions that he believed. Apparently quoting the man's well-established beliefs were "lies.".

Point here is that there's a penis-potato (dick-tater) to our South that we have to be really careful about fellating just right or he'll raise the tariffs another 10%, 50%, 100% of whatever dumb-shit number he feels like at the moment. When that happens, we have a harder time selling our product to you because we have to raise the price to compensate, and for some strange fucking reason America is like "but we don't wanna pay more." Well, your domestic supply isn't cheaper so figure it out, eh?

We're on edge because our nearest neighbor went psycho and has been talking about burning our house down (blah blah 51st state) and we have to pick our battles carefully.

Geary would probably just get sued again if he automatically acquiesced. :-)

Can Kim Kardashian pass a bar? :-)

Ironically, the ads will probably be for TV shows like "911" ... :-)

Not all Nvidia exports to China are banned by America.

Even older Nvidia chips are superior to what China can produce domestically.

On a related note... Way, *way* back when I was still in college I opened the door to a knock and found a guy holding a U.S. Marshal badge asking for me. My mind raced thinking, "What the hell have I done?" He was there to do a background check for a friend's security clearance. Whew!

Also, other than them both being around now, not really sure what ties AI (or the "AI Generation") and Crypto -- except maybe both (perhaps) being scams that mainly help the rich get richer (at, probably, the expense of others) ... -- oh, wait ...

I'd be confused too if Windows told me that I had reached EOL. :-O

Trump will pardon them in 3... 2... 1... then say, "I don't know who they are." (Then continue complaining about Biden using an Autopen.)

'No idea who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon CZ

You can thank the federal DOT regulations for a good part of this. When every car is required to meet a very long list of requirements, like rear-view cameras and accompanied display, the cost is passed straight on to the consumer.

There are many vehicles kept out of the US market by these regulations. I own a Suzuki Samurai (you know, the little "jeep" thing from the 1980s), and there is actually a very large group of people still fixing these up and running them. Well, they still make them (called the Suzuki Jimny) and they are fully modernized, and start under $20k USD. These things would sell like CRAZY in the US, but they aren't legal here. Basically everywhere else in the world, but not here. Because there is some requirement (IE extra expense) they are not meeting to allow them in the US market. There are many affordable vehicles like these out there that can't be sold in the US.

Just like with the NX-5 Planet Remover

Have you read the summary? This woman was denied access to the footage until after she went through rather a lot of hoops to get their attention. It's my contention that she should never have been a person of interest in the first place. She should not have had to do any of the footwork she did. The police saw data they liked, and they stopped thinking. That's not okay, and the firehose of garbage input is a large contributing factor here.

While that may be true - and I do thank you for it - there's zero chance I'll remember in the future because a} "dead dinosaurs" has a certain ring to it, b} I'm old and unlearning things is harder than learning them especially when c} it changes the nature of the discussion in no appreciable way.

No snark intended. It's just sort of like when some people are having a discussion about vegetables and someone lists what they like in a salad and it includes tomatoes and someone pipes up that those are fruits... and everyone goes back to completely ignoring that fact for the rest of their lives.