VW also builds charging infrastructure, their subsidairy Electrify America is building 36,000 stations as part of their settlement over dieselgate.

And if such revenge is successful, there's nothing to stop us from getting our own revenge, which won't necessarily stop with "cyber".

That's how it started. I'd read during the commercial break, and if the book was interesting, I was slow to put it down, especially if the show was not that good.

Of course, with DVRs and Netflix, I seldom have "commercial breaks", but I might still reach for my Kindle if the show has a slow part (most of them do).

That would be a crappy way to go!

For me, it's a mixed bag. I don't pick up new things as quickly as I used to. However, a lot of stuff is similar to stuff I already know, so I'm not starting from zero.

Maybe on the weekend. On the weekdays, I'm at work at 8. I eat breakfast at 6-6:30.

I start ranting about how Trump is getting a raw deal with this impeachment stuff. Same result.

Your remembrance brought me to tears.

I am sorry for your loss.

Maybe shellfish and pork are outdated, but I'm pretty sure that eating polyester can still kill you.

If ten doctors tell me I'll die in a year and I don't, and they keep saying next year for sure, by year 10, I'm not going to take them seriously.

I can go to the nearest WorstBuy and get any Windows machine. Or I can go into the Mac section and get an OSX box. But where are the Ubuntu machines? If I want Linux, I either have to hunt for it on the internet or install it myself, and 99% of the public can't/won't do the later.

I've seen rents on not very decent apartments in Missouri, of $500-600, so I figure about 1,000 if you want decent. At least twice that in California or New York.

Does it count when I fall asleep during those boring meetings at work?

Does that help with RSI, or does it add more wrist stress?

That is rather amusing because you can't see beyond the fishbowl. Nearly everyone in the US today believes in liberal democratic thinking.

James Burnham devised a test to distinguish liberal-progressives from conservative-reactionaries in 1965. You will find that conservatives today agree 100% with the liberal point of view on 39 of these questions. That is how successful the left has been in reshaping the values of US citizens. This wasn't true just a few generations ago.

https://www.gotoquiz.com/james...

Historically speaking, the political left advocated for equality. The right preferred monarchy, with a hierarchical relationship between people and classes and supported blasphemy laws.

K-12 and colleges teach the values of the age of enlightenment and the scientific revolution for the 17th-18th centuries. The same liberal values I am referring too of reason, equality, tolerance, skepticism, liberty, and progress. Thinkers like Locke, Hobbes, Rosseau are covered in education at the high school level as part of understanding how our founding documents.

Today children are taught that everyone is equal, that there are no "natural betters" (i.e nobility, the monarchy), and that this also applies to social class, as skin tone, sex, gender, and sexual preference. Today most conservatives would agree and will happily call the small minority who disagrees racist, bigoted and sexist. Most religous figures also teach the same, whereas they did not do so in the past. Hence, in the educational system, biological and genetic differences polite discourse and research are essentially taboo. They would also agree that segregation was wrong. Conservatives widely praise Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his vision.

Today, despite most still being on the books, blasphemy laws are no longer enforced, which protected the power of religions. Most don't even understand the constitution allowed for the states of have established churches, religious restrictions on office and that states even had established churches until the 1840's, with the establishment cause's actual purpose to prevent conflict due to different established state churches. Most conservatives today would not support established churches, nor would they call for blasphemy laws to be enforced.

As strange as it sounds, left and right in the USA fundamentally agree on the basic premises because as it stands both conservatives and liberals are... liberal.