I was offered a job for pretty much a fortune in a country whose politics I disagree with and I declined. I'm sure someone else will get this job and consider me a moron for rejecting what's easy money.

Err...just out of curiosity, what country was this....and are they still taking resumes??

For how much again??

;)

All it would take is the U.N. declaring all of Israel to be a demilitarized zone, ordering the Israeli government and Hamas to both disarm, shooting anyone who refuses to comply, and then keeping those million or so troops in that region to help rebuild, slowly drawing down the number of troops over... say 200 years, so that by the time they are gone, no one alive still remembers the horrors of this day.

Look, while I admire your passion for what's happening over there, and your love for peace, your statement REALLY troubles me.

I mean, who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?

I mean, the UN is a place for the world to talk, but they simply have no power nor jurisdiction to go into a country and force anyone to do shit....

I mean, let's move it to another country for an example....the UN has no power nor would they have any to come into the US with an armed force and demand us to do anything. I dont care what happens, they are not the world police and have no hold over any sovereign country.

The UN has no power nor authority to declare anything.

I'm curious where you got this idea that they did....?

And wow..that part where you have the UN "shooting anyone who refuses to comply"....

Seriously???

I have not bought or have been given a book in the last 15-20 years I enjoyed.

It doesn't matter to most people out there, sadly...

The two latest generations can't fucking read anyway...

And they didn't come upon this out of the blue...their parents apparently weren't all that literate and didn't teach their children to sit still, obey and have an attention span longer than a gnat.

Yeah, but oh man you have to be pretty daft to not have seen this coming. No serious group of people thought there was a reasonable chance that hydrogen was the immediate future. They were gambling and they lost. If they didn't understand they were gambling? Just absolutely daft. A fool and their money. And yeah, I'd apply this to the first BEV users too. It wasn't certain they would be successful, and would have a lot of pain points.

The way they speak you can't understand a word they are saying, either.

Well, in all fairness...it wasn't always this way.

Before we started getting overrun by illegal immigrants over the boarder there you could count on most people being able to speak English to you.

Like the Fascist Orange man

I'm guessing you're talking about Trump?

A fascist??

You're calling a guy who cut citizens' taxes and allowed/helped them keep their 2A rights (guns) a fascists?

Wow...he's gotta be the worst one in the world at it...or perhaps he got the wrong dictionary definition of fascist.

At least by historical standards.

I still pay about $2500 a month

Wow....

Ok, I was about to ask how f'ing big is your house...but saw further down that it's about 3K square feet. Large, but not a mansion really.

Ok, a pool..etc.

But even with all that....$2500 a month for power???

Damn it must be expensive out there.

I live in New Orleans....where basically the AC clicks on in April and doesn't shut off till about the first week or so in November, and no I'm not exaggerating.

I do leveled billing, I don't turn off computers, or anything really to conserve power....I live in about 2000 sq ft I believe....and my bills monthly are in the $180 range...sometimes into the low $200's....

Again, I do not do anything to try to conserve energy....so, I'm guessing you either have an outrageous power draw somewhere, or it's just too damned expensive where you live for electricity...?

And you're saying that $2500/mo is even after you have solar running a lot of things?

wow...

A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

I would.

I'd at least have a few window units around for when I needed them....much like they do in older US homes built before central AC was a thing.

Until you are running your AC totally on renewables, you are part of the CO2 problem

Still.....better than sweating....

Seems like now would be a good time to get into the AC business in the EU....

:)

There's always a business opportunity if you just look for it.

Ok thanks for the info.

I've heard of car inspections, I'd just never heard the term "first roadworthy" before.

You claimed "EV sales over the past year or so have slumped". Now you have backtracked to "7.4% this year so far" which is trivial.

Er....BOTH things can be true you know.

We are still pretty new into this year (less than 3 months)....so, 7.4% down is true so far.

The statement is also true it is down for the past year or so.

Maybe you didn't watch the videos that were from 2023 largely.....where it shows that the EV demand in the US was largely saturated, and EVs were piling up on dealers lots taking MUCH longer to sell than their ICE cousins which were selling at normal volumes and speeds.

Or more recently, a mimic of Android which this OS is a fork of. They're trying to be the Google of VR.

Hell....Biden would have happily announced it was feed a cannibal day if they ran that one by him on the teleprompters.

That guy has no clue WTF he's saying, announcing or giving a speech about if it isn't on a teleprompter or big print, multi-page notes he's given.

You can readily see this any time he dares to go off script and potentially make "them" mad and get into trouble...

And hey, with regard to leather....it isn't like we're not going to be "harvesting" cows for food any time soon, so, using the hide for leather is just keeping from being wasteful and using the whole animal from nose to tail as the old saying goes.

And well, it's an organic product too....cows are carbon based life units.

So, hell, you're checking two boxes right there.

And it isn't like anyone is forcing the vegans to buy a leather option that may be offered....

So...why again did they do away with the leather option?