Most EU countries dont allow military aircraft to break the sound barrier except in times of emergency. That's not the case in the USA, so ask yourself why they banned a supersonic passenger aircraft.

The EU didn't exist in the 1970s. Other than that, great comment.

Amusing you insulting the OP about lack of IQ when you dont even recognise that well known quote.

Cowboy Neil writes my code.

Back in the day Boeing and McDonnell Douglas were handed their arses by Concorde and didn't like it so yes, part of the reason was US protectionism. Would the ban have happened anyway? Possibly, but the US aircraft industry certainly helped swing it.

You think smart engineers and programmers only work at week old start-ups full of pink hairs and ping pong tables? Think again mate. IBM is almost as old as Ford and is at the cutting edge in a number of spheres of research.

Never underestimate just how deep some people can bury their heads in the sand.

Trump is dipshit in chief so no surprise. Politics aside, the guy is a thin skinned narciscist who cant handle people or organisations who disagree with him or refuse to toe the line so funding removal was in a sense inevitable.

The most important difference in all your examples is things like tooling and equipment are either strictly necessary to complete the job, or produce so much value in terms of productivity that they are worth the cost. Also, most tooling and equipment lasts longer than an AI token so the cost tends to get spread our over several jobs...

Using AI coding agents has not proven to increase quality or productivity in any meaningful way - increased volume of code does not mean productivity unless you're a middle manager. It's known that it is not strictly needed for the software engineer to do their job. You are not improving the engineer's workflow by mandating AI use, you're just making it more expensive.
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No, it really wont. Anything that simple can be automated using standard scripts. Anything more complicated and its guesswork on the AIs part.

"That manifest"? What a crass phrase to describe people. You related to Bill Winters by any chance?

Earlier in his career he had a law firm with Michael Tang

It's conspiring because those loopholes exist on the behest of the manufacturers to begin with. They didn't 'react' to the legislation, they helped in crafting it.

It's not even a 'take' - it's literally what happened. It's reality.
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> Meanwhile, that CAFE standards put in place by Bush and Obama mandated ever larger trucks and SUV

It absolutely did not.

The regulations had an exception for trucks and work vehicles. The auto industry then conspired to sell more trucks as high end personal vehicles in order to keep building vehicles without having to meet the regulatory requirements.

The lack of a small vehicle segment is entirely, 100% on the shoulders of auto manufacturers who desperately do not want to build them.
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Thats a unimog - an actual truck for actual work, usually off-road. Looks like some halfwit with too much money has converted it to be his penis compensator.