Nonsense, I have it on good authority (from a Very Stable Genius) that this is the most transparent administration EVAR!!

This "change of direction" probably has more to do with Trump and Co. being able to wet their beaks.

A huge percentage of what's on Amazon is clearly drop shipped from AliExpress, and most of the rest of it was sourced from AliBaba. I buy the same shit from China directly for a third to two thirds of the Amazon price.

"The Commerce Department did not provide a reason for Fall's departure," reports Reuters."

These assholes clearly don't work for The People, or they would explain this shit. Who do they work for? Donnie Dipshit? Vlad?

Modern "innovation" is scams all the way down. From B. S. crypto to taxis disguised as "ride sharing" with no employees, only gig contract workers. Some countries are calling the scams out, while the grift thrives in most places.

Since there is monetary value attached to the account, yes they are.

AliExpress and Amazon are both cesspools, where thousands of sellers sell identical or nearly identical products under different brand names with different markup. And most of the products are trash.

Case in point, I bought a bunch of metric bolts and nuts at Amazon, and they wouldn't screw onto each other. They would get to some random point and the nuts would stop turning. Sometimes it was half an inch up, sometimes it was two inches up, but the failure rate was something like 40% and I budgeted for 20%. I ended up buying a tap and die set and rethreading all the bolts. It actually would have been cheaper to buy the bolts in 5-packs from Lowe's. (On the other hand, if it happens again, I don't have to buy the tap and die set again, so I guess that's a "win".)

I've reached a point where about one in five Amazon products results in a return, because the quality is so poor, the descriptions are inadequate, etc. I buy enough stuff that they tolerate my return rate, but it's a huge hassle that I wish I didn't have to deal with. If I want a high risk of fixer-upper hardware, I'd rather buy from AliExpress for half the price and wait a week. :-/

But LG wrote the malware that is being installed, so they are at least equally guilty.

Sorry about your vision and mental problems.

Oh, thanks. I misread per hour as per day. But at 5 miles per hour, you won't get 40 miles per day. IIRC, the full-sun-equivalent hours in the U.S. varies from about 2.5 to about 6 or so. You won't get the equivalent of eight hours of sun unless you're smack in the middle of the Mojave desert with no mountains nearby on a dry day. So depending on where you are, you will get anywhere from 12.5 miles per day to 30 miles per day.

You'd better evolve into something that cares about humans if you want to live, then.

I don't like Microsoft Office, but I don't like LibreOffice any better. They both mess up and do things in ways that I don't like by default.

Good luck convincing the owners of the parking lots to pay for it.

The average is quite low.

Google also abuses the standards-making process through Chrome.