Including a (then) sitting congressman: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbn...

Allow me to posit the following: we could very well be minding our own business but still strongly influence the rest of the world. For example, if a company wishes to do business in America -- the world's largest and most lucrative commercial market -- they must comply with US laws. This is no different than any other country. You may not like it, but that's how commercial business works, and it'd be no different if someone like North Korea had the market everyone wanted. You'd just be complaining about a different country.

Don't like it? Don't do business in the US and you're free to do whatever you want. You'll be excluding yourself from probably 70% of the available market, but you're free to make that choice.

Don't forget, your argument can be turned around quite easily: you could mind your own business and stop trying to tell the US how to do business according to your wants/needs. Funny how that works.

You're blissfully unaware of how national sovereignty works.

Good luck getting the US to accommodate an Interpol extradition request for 4chan and its personnel. There's no reason the US would agree to it since 4chan has violated no US law. So long as 4chan operates in the US exclusively and violates no US laws, they are effectively beyond the reach of the UK government. They could presumably nab some 4chan executive if they ever visited the UK, but all one has to do to avoid that is just not visit the UK.

This is how international legal disputes have been handled since the dawn of international legal disputes. Don't trust me, look it up, I'm sure chatgpt can fill you in.

It's about time they admitted to something that was obvious to almost everyone: nuclear power is the only effective path to carbon-free base load power generation. Wind and solar make good intermittent sources, but base load has to be utterly reliable regardless of whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. That's nuclear.

Getting rid of the nukes was a knee-jerk reaction, not a smart technological decision. The pivot to depending on oil and gas from a potential hostile neighbor just added to the madness.

He financed, produced, starred in, and distributed the film completely independent from the "Hollywood System". For God's sake, how much less "sucked in" can a person be and still have the means to do it at all???

Give the man some credit.

The notion of an Islamic State would never be accepted

Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen just asked "What about us?"

Right, you did say ethnicity, and not religion (which ethnicity is 'Islamic'?)... and admittedly it is a bit tricker because Jewish is often an ethnic group and religion, while much of the Islamic world, complete with state religions have countries more based on a dominant ethnic group going back some time.

Heck, with Somaliland in the news this week (and it's recognition by Isreal), it's flag contains the Shahada, which is also on the Saudi flag.

A Plymouth Voyager. Being rather tall, being able to sit upright comfortably is important, rather than trying to lay in something smaller and less safe for my legs/head.

Animal blood is bad for the clear coat, so tying it down to the outside is bad for the vehicle and gets the animal dirty... a tarp in the back works far better.

What, in your unsupported opinion, makes the F150 Lightning "a piece of garbage"?

That was never my opinion, nor have I used the word "garbage" to describe it.

The claim earlier was "It is an excellent vehicle, all around great", some here disagreed, as did I, based on my experience at a Ford dealership. My only shared criticism here was the limited range in winter... how does that translate to me calling it "a piece of garbage"?

I have experienced zero issues over 50,000 miles. It is not a piece of garbage, it may be the best vehicle I've ever owned. I'm not saying its for you or for everyone, certainly not garbage. I wouldn't use it for towing anything very far.

You keep using the same word, over and over again here which only the OP used, once... either you grossly misread what I said here, or you are accidentally revealing your true feelings about the vehicle and expressing regret.

Given the market reaction to the Lightning, and Ford ending production... maybe not everyone is as happy with them as you are? I used to drive a Pontiac Aztek, and loved it (second best hunting vehicle I've owned), and was very sad when it finally died and had to be sold for scrap. I was a minority in that, and I recognize that, and that's ok.

Hmm, mine has a range over 300 miles, real actual miles.

In what climate?

My v8 2019 F150 doesn't flinch at doing 600 miles on a single tankful, in winter.

I bought mine used with 1100 miles, 20% off sticker.

And? You still probably ended up paying 2-4x what I did for mine.

You talked to a dealer that doesn't want to sell EVs,

In your unsupported opinion.

Why wouldn't a dealer want to sell to someone wanting to buy?

in place where most people don't like EVs.

Plenty of Tesla's in Sioux Falls, which includes at least 3 Cybertrucks... again, you keep giving opinions which don't help, or considering that the views you believe others have may have some basis in reality.

Are you surprised you got a low opinion?

No, I listen to what the opinions are of the dealer and consider it along with what else I know, without seeking to influence what they say.

Seriously, drive one.

What am I going to get from the driving experience? What untold amazement will I have that changes my mind and will compel me to go get one?

It is an excellent vehicle, all around great.

And owning and driving one is enough to convince someone of that?

I'll admit, I've never owned or driven one, though last year when shopping for a new pickup I saw one parked on a Ford dealership I was looking at. It was new so out of my price range, so I got chatting with the salesman (and didn't say my limits) about if it was any good. Turns out it was being driven by the manager, who mostly hated it. Max range he said, in winter was 100-150 miles. Maybe for city driving that's ok, but in South Dakota , a drive down to Sioux Falls for a Costco or Target run is going to give quite a bit of range anxiety.

That's 'all around great'?

Again, this was what I was getting from a Ford dealership!

I presume you're referring to the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal? I'll point out this was something perpetrated by the Chinese industry, not American. It was knowingly covered up with the complicity of the Chinese government to prevent it from embarrassing the ongoing Olympics. Only when the scandal became impossible to cover up did the CCP take any action.

As of December 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and former Mayor London Breed have both expressed praise for China and the relationship between San Francisco and Chinese cities.

But the West restricts EV imports, so the prices are much higher.

We do the same thing with light trucks, yet they still sell quite well domestically, despite the higher price. ... maybe price isn't the only determining factor?

Time to start visiting the Church of All Worlds!

Tron isn't in Tron 3... clearly the fight was lost.