It's worth noting that collusion wasn't really collusion, it was a 2 year agreement they made after Trump threatened them with massive tariffs, and the Saudis with losing access to US military equipment sales.

Nah, they announced their plans to go full electric, regardless of that. The regressive attitude pushed by the right wing and oil companies in this country, followed by MAGA completely upending the most important thing businesses depend on - predictability. The worst part is all these companies making incredibly shortsighted decisions are just putting themselves further behind and ceding leadership to China. Jim Farley gets it. The great tariff firewall will only last so long. Someone's going to partner with these Chinese companies to build here someday.

Deflecting suggests they're not making material changes. Reconsidering in the face of backlash and making changes because of it doesn't strike me as deflecting.

what protections prevent email, web browsing, youtube, and the like? This is a little FUDdy.

There's a new announcement on this on the main page right now. They've heard the calls and are now going to make sideloading possible for experienced users with the (very reasonable) goal of making sure average users aren't, in their words, "coerced" into installing shit from bad actors. I am curious how they do this, but this sounds like an appropriate balance.

This is a woefully shortsighted and somewhat oversimplified view. Every cell still comes from China. Lots of panels are manufactured there, but also in the US, Singapore, Korea - all using Chinese sourced cells. What this regime has done is put a double whammy on the US industry - not only killing the incentive for business and consumers, but throwing tarrifs on the supply chain that is currently contributing manufacturing (and installation) jobs here. The tax incentive has been driving demand, and the demand has been contributing to increased efforts to domestically produce more. This will decimate all of that, and likely hands the market to China on a silver platter, while also increasing power costs for US consumers. There's quite a few projections of substantial price increases simply from all the increased demand (largely from data centers), and this will increase those pressures, not relieve them. It has nothing to do with anything except politics.

*facepalm*

The 30% tax credit is key to making this work. The entire point of the IRA credits was to get the industry ramped up and operating at scale, which will drive prices down to the point where they'll be fine. We're absolutely not there yet. This bill will cost many thousands of jobs and decimate the US solar industry. MAGA is handing science, technology, energy, cars, education, favorite reserve currency, the whole lot to China. It's so mind-bogglingly stupid it is hard to fathom.

I don't. That's your view.

I'm in my mid 40s. Never owned anything but a manual. I will get an EV for my next car. The nice part will be the instance response and knowing exactly what my car is going to do when I push the (!) gas. But I do find myself FAR more engaged with everything around me driving my car versus my wife's automatic. I don't even consciously do it, but after paying attention to it, I realized I scan and take in way more data, and make way better predictions in my car. There are times it is not ideal - traffic is more frustrating certainly, but I will keep my 6MT TL a long time.

Ironic, then, that he built a company around making everything overpriced, premium, status-symbol, and walled-garden. Also, as Improv said, Woz was the engineer. Jobs was the asshole that screwed Woz out of his fair share of profits.

Made up my mind? Eff yeah. I've tried. I'm tall. I could diagram it for you but your seat makes the laptop screen point down, it doesn't work. But you know, screw everyone else, as long as Cusco gets to recline.

Depends on the seat, many don't. And regardless, you can't actually USE it when the seat is hovering directly over it.

If the airline provides a tray table, the person in the front does not have the right to disable that feature.

hear! hear!