This reminds me of the movie Independence Day where Will Smith wakes up when the ground shakes and tells his wife there's an earthquake only for her to reply "It's not even a four pointer, go back to sleep".

I was bemused, if the earth moved even slightly where I live I'd be freaking the fuck out!

Meanwhile most people dont have the wherewithal to engage in such scrutiny. For all its imperfections mainstream media rarely results in such extreme and crazy shit like Qanon or the anti vax movement.

I've had many Windows upgrades fail. Some of them resulted in an unusable system, others reverted themselves and only wasted hours of my time. And for that matter, just running Windows Update without an upgrade to a new Windows version very frequently breaks Windows Update so that it will not work, and on a few occasions has resulted in an unbootable Windows system. In fact even my work machine has rendered itself unbootable with a Windows Update, and I work remotely.

Ethanol might burn cleaner, but it produces more emissions than gasoline. Also, it can eat away at various parts of an engine if the engine isn't designed for ethanol use.

Bottom line everything Biden tried to do was stopped by Republican extremists so that American voters would blame Biden for the chaos caused by republicans.

Because I can follow lots of news accounts, I dont have to depend on one source for news and paywalled news sites get blocked so I dont have to see their posts ever again (washington post & new York times are blocked)

We're basically trading traditional media which at least has some sort of oversite (however imperfect) for social media which has even less. This isn't good.

Candidate A: hardworking successful and respected prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President. Exemplary record of promoting health care, voting rights, and reducing gun violence and crime. Full understanding and adherence to the rule of law. Well educated. Articulate as a court officer should be.

With literally zero immigrants since 2010, California's population would have shrunk by one tenth of one percent per year. Significant only if you're trying to make some political point about the state.

For example China largely has control through predatory pricing. For example a rare earth mining operation in California shut down due to China offering rare earths below their costs. With no rare earth exports from China, mining in California will now be profitable. This may also be the case in many other areas.

Control via predatory pricing requires that you keep shipping products, stop shipping and that control is lost.

We've seen such behavior before, with oil for example. Increase the price and various exploration and acquisition operations becomes viable. Ex offshore oil drilling becoming a viable option with higher prices.

I expect the PHEV to make the "pure" ICEV obsolete. Clearly you see otherwise. We shall see which proves more popular.

What I don't like with PHEV is that you get a small battery, yes sure enough for daily commutes, but you have to recharge it every day.
While for the same price you can usually get a real EV with 400 km of range that you could only plug once a week.