Here in the UK, as you will know, the state, lead by Starmer, whose father was an ultra Communist, has abused its power, cosied up with the enemy (Islam), and you can be assured, that if he does not resign tomorrow, he will use Ai and the cameras already installed all over the UK to have his minions monitor anyone who is a threat to his hegemony. And likewise, if Trump was to lose the plot or someone else in authority was to abuse their power, this is going to be misused. I argue the case for a trust based society that starts at the home, and with cops on the beet. Reject dystopia. Technology should be opt in, and for our convenience only. Yes, CCTV to record goings on in case of crime, but not real time monitoring. That is for profit law, and encourages companies to pay corrupt politicians and cops to go easy on crime, release criminals, so that the public then demand said surveillance. What future do you want? Demolition Man, or Star Trek? I'll take the latter.

Love his older movies, Close Encounters being the best by far, but I wish actors and movie producers would stop expressing their opinions on politics and science. Because, well, they have spent their entire lives in a career that exists around make believe. I spent my youth obsessing about UFOs, The Bermuda Triangle, Peruvian alien runways and so on. It was all explained by science. Yes, it's possible intelligent life visited us in the past, but not in the last 1000 years or so. Not a single viable iota of evidence, other than from somewhat questionable 'witnesses'. Area 51 was and is a research facility. Next gen fighter aircraft that the public have never seen would class as a UFO, but not extra terrestrial.

Right wing? Here in the UK, it is us on the right who OPPOSE all the surveillance! Am I to assume in the US, it's the reverse? Either way, here in UK, I'm opposed to surveillance, it indicates a zero trust society and profits made from fear. Saddens me that small town America has become a Chinese style dystopia. Someone in power will be profiting from it, like the bent British cops who retire and start or work for CCTV camera companies.

Here in the UK, I saw the Mach-E in person years ago at Goodwood Festival of Speed and I think Everything Electric show in Farnborough. The front 'grille' is horrible! Why they used the Mustang brand name in a frumpy SUV is anyone's guess, and the stuck on volume knob was a UX fail. Not a bad idea to have a tactile dial, but the execution was poor. The Lightning got everything right, except the range, as Cybertruck has proven too. Trucks need range because - tow! I am amazed Ford could not tell what they needed to do. On the contrary, Renault have had fantastic success with the Renault 5 EV here in the UK. Looks great, affordable and the range is not too bad for a compact vehicle. Ford should have electrified the Focus and waited for larger batteries to electrify THE Mustang, without changing the body style. Grilles are everything! As many have predicted, China., Kia and Tesla are going to bankrupt legacy auto whose arrogance and lack of imagination is off the scale. Only BMW have done it right. Controversial design, but great range and funky interiors. (i3 and iX3)

... What are they talking about? "Gladis, look out, there's a Japanese whaling ship heading in your direction!" "Where's a transparent aluminum tank in a Klingon warbird when you need one!?"

I went to see Project Hail My Beloved Mary Oh Saviour of the Sun at the Brighton Odeon the other day, Having pre booked, I intentionally waited outside in the foyer cafe until the last moment for this very reason. Most ads in the UK are woke anyway, 90% black characters, white males relegated to dimwits and so on, which makes me swear out loud in the theatre. Anyway, even this didn't work, the trailers were played at the last moment, but at least I missed the woke ads. I won't comment on the movie, but it was woke too, and I almost walked out. Great concept and the music was superb, but FFS, be done with the in your face minorities in 90% of scientific positions and hugs with aliens, I want science and realism, not fantasy to meet DEI and diversity tick boxes! Anyway, Sony boss is right.

And as I knew when buying it, (saw a close-up of Brad Pitts helmeted face on a Bravia 8ii in a Currys store because they were showing clips from the F1 movie on it, the realism and detail where outstanding), the Bravia 8 ii is probably the best TV ever made by anyone ever. And I've been into AV since the 1970s. But the software on Sony Android and Google TVs has always been sluggish & gets worse over time. So when I suffered this with my previous TV, a Sony 49", I bought a 3rd gen 4k Apple TV. A game changer! Fast as heck, great UX and excellent image quality too. It's time more high end TV manufacturers (Panasonic, Samsung, LG, TCL/Sony etc) started to treat TVs like monitors and just let us plug a box into the TV and choose our own 'TV OS'. Will probably reduce the cost and increase reliability too. I only use my TV for streaming, Playstation 5/XBOX and good DVDs/BluRays. I never watch off air TV. It's terrible here in UK now, and I don't want to pay the woke BBC for a licence. Off air is dead anyway.

If sales of ICE drop in Europe, then that affects brands sold in the US. Prices will rise for cars, parts and servicing. Be like selling VCRs, 5 years into the streaming revolution. Honda's cancelling of their innovative cool looking EVs is a massive mistake, that Toyota will relish. They are only a year or so away from going full on with EVs, with solid state technology and 500+ mile range. Imagine a fully electric new style Prius, be a massive hit. Trump is doing good with his no nonsense sort it our foreign policy, but making a big mistake encouraging a move back dirty energy. You cannot undo change when it's better than the old way.

Predicts all this.

Black Magic Design and Luma Fusion video editors are the last two companies holding the pay once own for life fort.

That are doing this in the UK too

Am a Brit who lived in California 1991-2000. I love America and Americans, but like the UK today, the country has been broken for decades, with the loving family unit ruined by liberals, leading to youth who commit massacres. I was in the path of the Hungerford Tragedy gunman in the 1980s here in England. What he did to his victims (on par with a similar brutal massacred in Oz) was horrific. This, Columbine and others all had the same thing in common, loners, often without a father. All this breach of privacy through surveillance is just big money for the equipment makers and a huge waste. We have CCTV here in UK everywhere. It does NOTHING to stop a huge increase in shop lifting, knife crime, property theft and terrorism. Nothing! Why does someone who is about to kill or rob or other care about being videod? They either wear a face covering, or don't care if they get killed or caught by the authorities. End liberalism, re build the nuclear family, and the killing will stop. QUOTE ME ON IT!

This entity has been brilliant in the past at discovering and highlighting the unstable jet streams, that have made the weather, here in the UK anyway, very unpredictable on a day to day basis. 16 degrees one day in November, then down to 5. (Was never like this in my childhood.) HOWEVER... The rediculous woke aspects, highlighted in the UP are, like DEI and other nonsense, a waste of tax payer's money. I hope the Trump admin retains the NCAR after pruning it, or creates a new entity with more science based goals.

Why do we need brighter tellies? Watching in the day? Mine is ok. 3-4 year old Sony backlit 49" LCD. Looking to upgrade to an LG OLED 65" 2023 model that has great reviews, Means I save £1000 over latest. As long as it makes Playstation gaming great, with the odd streaming in betweenm we're good. We shut the blinds anyway to prevent reflections on the screen, so don't need increased brightness. Only high brightness displays needed are for digital signage / video menus, like HEYYU Sunshine. IE, >1500 nits. Ideal for viewing in restaurant windows facing the street.

Thank you! I was about to post the very same. This from X earlier today: https://x.com/SamaHoole/status... (Text below in case you're unable to access X.) Sama Hoole @SamaHoole 10h 1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne. Within months, he issues the Forest Laws. Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death. Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning. Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point. These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations. The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow. The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal. The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order. A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel. This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class. The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation. The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3". Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat. The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.