Other countries have safety inspections like we mostly don't in the USA.

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 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?

EV sales over the past year or so have slumped

You're just making all that up.

No, not making it up.

CBS: EV sales down 7.4% this year so far. (although hybrid sales are up some).

And here, you can scan through it, is a CNBC "marathon" about EV sales down in the US.

(The first episode in that marathon is only about 17 min).

Just do a little YT search, and you'll see this is a common them from several news sources even the left would admit is reliable.

No normal EV owners I know have put any maintenance on their car beyond the first roadworthy (due here after 4 years for a new car).

I'm not familiar with the term "the first roadworthy"....what does this mean?

When I tried gentoo the first time, it worked. Last time I tried it, I used only innocuous USE flags and the build broke fairly early on, in stage2 of gcc IIRC. There's also no good reason to run it any more now that all PCs for ages have been amd64, it's not like the old days where we still had K6s.

Found the noob who can't find the DontZap option, which by the way is now the default.

Also found the noob who leaves himself logged into console sessions. They're the same noob!

#skillissue #fixedbyskill

There were people. They left to go do Wayland. 15 years later it still doesn't work well or even do badly all the things they said it would do. So yeah, it's a people problem. And those people are in charge of Wayland.

All credible projections for AGW show an overall reduction in arable land.

This is not just because it takes more than warming to make a cold place a good place to grow crops, but also because weather is becoming more chaotic, so you can't count on having a growing season anywhere... But especially at higher latitudes, where the lows will be lower.

SElinux is not a kind of Linux. It is a feature of Linux.

I disagree. I was just having a discussion with my dad about this yesterday. As much as the marketeers keep telling us they make SUVs because that's what people want to buy, every time I go to the grocery store, half the vehicles in the parking lot are cars. At least in the New England area, there are still tons of cars everywhere -- but they are all foreign brands.

This may indeed be a regional thing.

I live in the south, and when I go to the grocery store, the parking lot is filled with trucks and SUVs....cars by far are the minority.

I've never owned anything but 2-seater sports cars all my life....and trust me, my car quickly gets lost in a parking lot., especially if I try to park near the door of the store.

I tend to park further out in the lot so as not to be surrounded by trucks that might not see my car and plow into it (has happened before).

>> are pre-disposed to liking them

And you know this how? Maybe most people will think EV's make better financial sense, they like a quiet ride with instant acceleration, they are tired of gas stations. Any number of reasons.

Well, considering that EV sales over the past year or so have slumped....and EV inventories piling up on dealer lots tend to indicate that the EV market is saturated at this point.

The people that want them, have them...the rest of the US really isn't providing a demand for them....at least nowhere near what the current US federal administration was counting on....

The feds are pushing US car makers to ramp EV production and they're all finding that the current US demand is just not there

Is that your way of saying people in the US don't want to drive EVs?

Well, current sales figures seem to point to a conclusion that most of the people that actually WANT an EV, already have them, and the rest of the folks in the US really are not feeling compelled or want an EV....this is reflected in the drop in EV sales and EV inventory piling up on dealer lots over the past year.

Of course this may change, but to date, pretty much everyone that truly wants an EV has one, and the rest of us out here..."meh", not really that interested in an EV for a number of reasons.

Lol, why would they push their car to a charging station? Plug the thing in at home.

Not an option for a VERY large number of households in the US.

People in apartment complexes.

People in apartments in very urban areas (NYC for example).

People in houses with no off street parking.

People renting homes, with no permission from owner to re-wire and install chargers...that they would have to leave when they moved...etc.

Range anxiety is a real thing....and across the entirety of the US, the charging infrastructure is not there, not even close.

And no....not everyone has a single family dwelling that they own where they can install a home charger and "just plug it in every night".

There are many, many folks out there in large apartment complexes with large lots where no charging is available....and even people that have single family homes, etc....in areas with no off street parking, where do they charge?

So, there's some of the reasons that of late, in the US, EV sales have started tanking with inventory starting to pile up on the lots.

At this point, the people that want EVs in the US...have them, the rest of the folks (self included), just aren't interested in them.

Of course this may change....but this is the reality in the US currently.