I was going to ask "well who the fuck else would do it". But it is entirely possibly it was just buggy code or a server that was down.

Or their families that still live in China, for workers in other countries.

pro-China trolls are out in force today, I see.

Western nations have court systems. It isn't always fair, and dumb laws like the Patriot Act get passed all the time; but it isn't "do what we say or gulag" from the government.

But what they would actually do is collect a subscription AND sell user's data.

You gotta be trolling, bro. Not even an libertarian can be this stupid.

As George Carlin said "We don't have a homeless problem in this country, we have a houseless problem!"

I was under the impression that most of the "digital nomads" in the US are working out of an RV. They usually pick a state with low taxes as a "home location" P.O. Box.

The US and Soviet Union/Russia did these decades ago. Plenty of time for China to have stolen/bought the technology.

How do you know when Uniting Missouri is speaking?

Mike Parson's lips are moving.

Consumer cameras were a tiny part of Olympus' business. It was spun off early this year.

I think it is that we need to do more than just change how we generate electricity. The grid needs to be upgraded to a point where the majority of vehicles can be powered by it.

Large industrial vehicles being electrified are not even on the horizon yet.

Shipping? Forget about it.

And even then, can we switch over to entirely fusion for the grid on existing load, much less the load of what we will need with mostly electrical vehicles and the growing population in the next few decades. Not even close.

Fusion isn't going to save us. Fusion plus a whole bunch of other shit, might.

Jesus fucking christ. I just checked their site to see if there was anything new, and they actually have a god damned riding mower now.

It looks like the same cheap but heavy-duty plastic the lawn mower is made of. It actually takes the same batteries too, which is pretty interesting. But holy fuck is it expensive. Of course about half the price of the thing is going to be the batteries.

I duno if I would buy a first gen one, but it is pretty interesting.

The Ego ones are decent, depending the tool. Nothing professional quality, but if you have a normal suburban lawn you will do fine with them. I haven't had any fail, though the first couple of batteries I got are nearing time to be retired.

The self-propelled walk behind mower is significantly more powerful than any gas powered one I have used. As long as the blade is kept sharp you can chew up long grass or wet leaves one problem. You can "drive" it without the blades spinning, which is handy. I never use the bag, just obliterate it with mulch mode. Unless your yards is tiny, you might need 2 batteries, however.

The hedge trimmer works just as well as any other hedge trimmer, gas or electric. The leaf blower is pretty awesome, and pretty quiet.

The other tools are not great, but good enough for once a month home use. The string trimmer is not going to plow through brush, but it does fine, but a gas one is much better for a big job. I usually need to swap batteries on it half way through. It will get stuck if you let the weeds get out of control.

The chainsaw is fine for trimming branches, but don't expect to chop down a big tree with it. (the electric chainsaw is terrifyingly quiet)

The snowblower is pretty terrible, I would avoid it. I have the original non self powered one so its only slightly less annoying than shoveling manually. Its single stage and unless you have some kind of magical snow that isn't wet at all its going to clog about every 30 seconds. I have a tiny sidewalk and driveway so it gets the job done for me, but only because I bought one used without batteries.

There is a new self-propelled and supposedly more powerful one, but it is even more absurdly expensive. Electric just isnt there for snow blowers yet. But as battery capacity goes up and price goes down, someone will eventually invent a good 2-stage electric snowblower.

Since the batteries are all interchangeable, its easy to swap them. If you order online you can get them without batteries for pretty cheap. (Home depot is pretty lazy. 2 of the ones i bought without batteries came with a battery anyhow. They didn't bother to check)

Most of the expensive of electric lawn equipment is in the battery packs. The batteries don't last as long as the equipment, so you can swap them out and get more life out of the gear.

But being stuck with proprietary battery packs allows them to extort the prices as an oligarchy. It also pushes people to get all their tools from the same company. I have a bunch of ego brand gear so I bought a bunch of the eqiupment with no battery at all, since I never need to use the mower, trimmer, chainsaw, hedgeclipper, snowblower all on the same day. So I can get away with only having a few batteries.

Nearly every pack contains 18650 cells anyhow, so they really should be user-replaceable. Though I wonder if there are companies that referbish packs to swap out any dead cells?

And the electric leaf blowers don't run the motor when you aren't pressing the button, so it makes no noise, creates no pollution, and uses no power at all unless actively being used.

Reminds me of the Mythbusters leaf blower hovercraft.