It's weird because I watched a Youtube video the other day where some guy who has a long-established UK car channel had collected all the registration data from DVLC for EV sales in the UK and showed that they'd dropped significantly in 2025.

Is this a case of classifying hybrids as EVs or something?

That, however is a temporary issue. Obviously a far longer term issue than the government cares to consider, but it is one that can be overcome.

The economic issue cannot.

You think Democrats are going to run on an open "Send all your jobs to China!" platform?

That really only works for cars at least maybe 10-15 years old. Newer cars are packed so full of electronics and other complex hardware that can't be repaired that they're simply not going to last very long; once the manufacturer stops selling those parts, the car will be scrap once one of them breaks.

The reason parts aren't made in the US is cost. Maybe you think "OK, tariffs and outright bans will mean they have to be made in the US".

The problem is, those foreign parts cost fewer American dollars to produce. The cost of the parts goes up and cost of living goes up, or American wages go down, and the relative cost of living goes up.

There is no solution to this where your cost of living relative to your wages remains similar. Standard of living goes down. No political slogan can overcome this.

When I was a kid, we were going to run out of oil by the year 2000 and nuclear fusion was only twenty years ago.

Now we have governments telling us we can't burn all the oil we still have because of the dreaded CO2 and fusion is still only twenty years away.

All these forecasts are nonsense.

We reduced our usage of coal by sending our manufacturing jobs to China where they run their factories on... coal.

It's almost like the Chinese bribed our governments to ban coal so the crooks in power could justify sending those manufacturing jobs to China.

I'm just old enough to remember when we were heading into a New Ice Age. Of course, Millennials tell me that never happened, but since I lived through the New Ice Age scare I know it did.

It's all been nonsense all my life. If you check even older newspapers you find "Climate Change" scams going back a hundred years or more. If it's hot, we're going to melt down, if it's cold we're going into a New Ice Age.

Bill Gates no longer cares about "climate change" because AI is the new hotness.

You can't build massive numbers of new power plants if you're banning CO2 because of your last round of scare stories.

"I like things simple. I really don't deal with milage, or all the other things I consider minutiae. I deal with simple numbers. What this means is not filling out milage reports and the other stuff that clutters up to work. Perhaps I'm eccentric. But I like simple because my actual work is quite complex."

As is my work -- however, my mileage report isn't "minutiae". It' averages $300-$500 every two weeks (I do a lot of driving --- particularly for projects). And the process isn't complicated. Basically a date, destination and total miles per line. In a text file. No clutter -- just a review of my travel calendar for 5 mins every two weeks and another 2-5 mins to transfer that to my expense report. Automagically appears in my pay check 8 days later.

No they're not. You're exaggerating. The majority of these developments are still empty. China's declining birth rates coupled with the increased mortality from COVID have thrown in a monkey wrench into their planning. Up to 80 million units are still empty, with slim prospects for ever being bought or even used as social housing. Most of them are just crumbling ruins at this point. Even where people have moved in (often with heavy government subsidies, essentially turning units into an eastern Section 8 housing project), occupancy is still under 10%. They simply built too many units, and there aren't enough people to live in them. Some developments are being reclaimed for agriculture, with farmers grazing livestock and plowing fields on the strips of land between crumbing concrete structures.

I'm a fan of the Alien franchise, but not such a fan I don't call out stupidity where it's deserved. I made it through two episodes before quitting in disgust. The outright idiocy on display in practically every scene had be wondering if the writers or director even knew the history of the Xenomorph at all.

Utter dreck, and later I understand they made the Xeno into a pet. Way to take one of the most terrifying creatures every unleashed onto the silver screen, and turn it into a puppy.

No way. This series, as well as the Predator franchise need to be buried.

I won't be at all surprised if Valve start selling ARM games as well as x86. I'm sure they'd like to not be tied to x86 in the future, just as these devices help to break the ties to Windows.

Having used wireless PC VR there's no way I'm going back to a cable. If I can play FPS games with wi-fi there's no need to have to drag a cable around and try to remember where it is so I don't trip over it or accidentally pull it out.

Good for you. Maybe Valve could have provided 2.5 Gb for those four markets across the US.

I can get gigabit here but it's twice the price of what I have and it would mostly be idle. So why pay another $1,000 a year to download Steam games a few minutes faster?