Sorry 'bout that. Let me pull out the part you missed:

Not really. Throw everything you can at the issue. It's flat out dumb to use only one technique but not the other. Reducing and capturing gets you there faster than just reducing. It also gets an offset where reducing isn't possible.

You've not understood the extent that China "subsidizes" their industry. No company in China pays anything close to their manufacturing costs. The US can't compete because it's simply not possible without the government writing all of the checks. However, China's practices are catching up with them rapidly. Their real estate economy is teetering on the verge of collapse because their real estate developers overbuilt, by a lot. When I say a lot, they built so much housing that it's estimated they have enough empty units to house up to 1.4 billion people. Some estimates are as high as 3 billion, or enough to house everyone in all of the EU, the UK, the US, Canada, South America, Russia... and more combined. Basically, over 40% of the world's population. Including their own population, they have enough units, both empty and occupied, to house more than half of the world's population. That overbuild combined with COVID after-effects is putting China in a pretty bad recession. Banks are collapsing. No money means no subsidies, which means cheap BEV's days are likely numbered. Not BEVs, cheap BEVs. The US has some flexibility in printing money because it has become more or less the standard monetary unit of the world. China doesn't have that luxury.

Be sure to pack up your stuff and leave everywhere on earth because everywhere consists of people who migrated from other places.

If you live the life of Joe 6 Pack, money matters a lot. Spending a ton on a BEV vs $800 on a used car is definitely not a better choice. Buying into a used BEV is also not a better choice as every time you drive it, the expected range decreases. Buying a used BEV that needs a new battery pack isn't feasible as the new battery pack costs thousands and Joe 6 Pack can't afford it. So what "better" is is clearly better. Meanwhile, we can gradually increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline, ensure the ethanol comes from better sources than corn and we end up a potentially carbon neutral fuel.

Buying a cell phone is not a selfish and short-sighted choice. It offers a better alternative to a land line. There was absolutely no mandate to force people to use them, and yet nearly everyone has one now. Choice works, but the alternative has to offer something better. Putting somebody at an EV station that requires a lengthy recharge isn't better than a gasoline based ICE. Ford's CEO tried a road trip in an EV and at the end more or less stated that he got it, that is why people don't want them. Putting well sourced ethanol (not corn) or hydrogen into an ICE provides an equivalent experience, and if ethanol is done right, more horsepower and a potentially carbon negative fuel. Brazil it a model for ethanol done right as it is sourced from sugarcane.

What choices for the end user? For the power industry, natural gas is now used far more than coal and it has a smaller carbon footprint, which helps everyone. The power industry also invests in wind and solar. But for the customer, the product has to offer a viable and better alternative than what you want to replace. You have to look beyond being an eco-oriented person who will just do it. Solar is still expensive (I have 15 solar panels myself), BEVs are still expensive, etc. Go up to Joe 6-pack or Mr Farmer and tell him to pay a lot more for a car that costs way more than the $800 he paid for his car or the thousands that it costs for his tractor that needs to be recharged, making planting on schedule next to impossible. We're not there yet and it's doubtful we will be there by 2035, the goal of the Biden administration.

And that's problem #1. Thinking it's about force. People respond well to choice and when given choices, they will pick the better of the options. When forced, people will respond with resentment and opposition. "You have a choice, you can do A or you can do B" will get you a lot further than, "Do this. Do that."

Taking a step back, isn't this just evolution at work? Survival of the fittest? Corals that can survive the warmer temperatures will evolve and spread? Yeah, we're definitely part of the cause of it, but an asteroid millions of years ago caused dramatic climatic change as well. From 110,000 years ago until 11,000 years ago we were in the middle of a pretty substantial ice age.

I should add two things. First, the maximize feature to the edge of the dock has worked on and off through different OSX/MacOS versions due to bugs when it's on the right side. Second, I learned to love live tiles on Windows Mobile. I'm still upset it's no longer supported. I really liked it. There are a few Andriod simulators and I use one, but it's not quite the same.

I have always been a fan of live tiles. I don't like half the start menu being taken up by recommendations. It does the same annoying thing that Windows 3.x did: keeps shifting things around so I have to search for things every time I open something. Maybe the positioning might be helpful, I don't know. I use a Mac for work and that dates back to my days using NeXT. As a result, I still put the dock at the right side of the screen. I still wish I could make the doc take up the entire column it sits on with maximized windows only taking up the screen up to the edge.

I'm personally not a big fan of the new start menu on Windows 11 and a few other annoyances. I'll stick it out on Windows 10 with the annoyances I already know, so likely including the paid period.

Population of the US in 1992: 255,175,338. Total Amiga sales in the US from launch in the mid-80s until discontinuation: 700,000

Population of the UK in 1992: 57,509,239. Total Amiga sales in the UK from launch in the mid-80s until discontinuation: 1.5 Million

I can't even find concrete stats on the Atari.

So yeah, the Amiga wasn't popular. Neither were popular. And I understand that the Amiga was better known. I get the whole getting caught up in a cool but relatively unknown computer. I had an original NeXT cube for years and only sold it a few years ago because the demand for them got so high. Go find somebody off the street who was alive in the era of these computers what any of these are and even if they were computers and nobody will know. Go ask any of these people if they realize that their macs or their iPhones are descended from a NeXT. Nobody will know. Irony: the NeXT cube was designed to be easily upgradable and it was. The motherboards and add-on cards could just be put into a different slot. No cables. Now iPhones and Macs generally can't be upgraded.

How many countries really are parallels? 3? Canada, Australia and New Zealand?

The Apple II GS was on well on it's way out in 1992 and discontinued late that year. The Mac, meanwhile, had strong sales figures by then, and hard drives. And while you may have liked one or both of them, like Bleeding Gums Murphy and Dr. Marvin Monroe, the Atari ST and the Amiga were never popular.