Air pollution control is incredibly expensive and I'm pretty sure nobody will pay for it given the cheapness of life in India.

This is a lie.
Covered in their FAQ (https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/consumer-reports-car-reliability-faq-a1099917197/)

"They use a weighted system that prioritizes issues based on severity, safety, and potential to cause a vehicle to be taken out of service."

I have a friend who is a big Rivian advocate and will talk your ear off about how awesome the brand is while admitting that his actual vehicle is an unreliable piece of shit.

I ... didn't know how important penile oxygenation was until you mentioned, and it appears to be so.

I will certainly be showing my wife this important research.

0.9, way way back, 1994. It actually worked, mostly, and i was hooked. At the time I was keeping 2 SCO systems working, despite the app vendor lock-in so deep you could not change printers without a new license. And, no, we never moved the clients to Linux, they abandoned the app and moved to a NT Server solution.

....so when I get home, I drive into the garage, come to a stop, car kills.
So I press the button to turn the car off 1 sec later, it restarts ... so it can then shut off.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

Here's an idea: let me, as a consumer, decide if that "energy savings" is worth my hard earned $0.000266 ?

I don't even think people would mind much if it was installed by default. It's the "automatically on whenever you start the car" that's bullshit.

But...ecomarxists know better than the rest of us.

Quick question:
I apologize for questioning a fundamental tenet of the eschatology, but if the majority (something around 90%) of earth's history has been SUBSTANTIALLY warmer than today, how will slight warming now "suddenly turn into a runaway process" ?

Routinely, over the last 5m years, about every 140k or so there have been rather sudden warming increases, with a general decline thereafter. Where did that mechanism go?

I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.

Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.

Fuck IP.

"it's not socially acceptable to point out that Republicans are bad"
In what universe?
Link me 3 posts you've made in the last year that don't, somehow, outright blame Republicans for any bad thing or suggest it.

"Obama never lied"
Jesus Christ.
- "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs"
- He promised, and then routinely claimed, he 'tried' to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- "You can keep your doctor"
- "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls"
- The Benghazi attack was the result of an internet video
- "Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration."

So, ironically (but unsurprisingly) your post is...full of lies.

Misleading.
Largely those stats are the result of red states hosting military bases, and adding that military spending to "federal spending in that state".

But half-lies are more or less the propaganda machines' stock in trade.

Fortunately, half the US public doesn't belong to your religion.

Oh, wait, no, I've got this: "they're stupid, obviously I'm smarter than all of them". Am I right?

I understand the point you're TRYING to make but the reality is that US manufacturing hasn't been competitive except in certain (usually very high added-value) niches for 40+ years.

There's a reason nearly everything is manufactured in China, Vietnam, etc.

US auto making - like almost any other 'hard' manufacturing you'd care to name that persists in the US, remains here because of massive subsidies and tax breaks. Hell, the tariffs THEMSELVES are subsidies delivered sideways. That slashdot's preferred tech is no longer on the 'favored' list is merely a matter of specifics but the general facts haven't changed at all. Aside from food and - weirdly - mattresses - something like 90%+ of whats in anyone's home is imported.

I expect that rather soon manufacturing will move to Africa (although I understand even the Chinese are having trouble with bringing up the peoples of those regions to even "3rd world factoryworker" caliber).

Federal regulations are stupid level: they are owned by lobbyists and megacorps.

Send this to the states.

Fork it. Not that it hasn't beendone already...

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

Is it warming? Probably (hard to tell with all the 'smoothing' and 'adjusting' of data going on, but I'd agree it probably is.)
Is it driven by humans? Utterly not, though almost certainly we're aggravating it.
Is it faster than ever, historically speaking? Utterly not.

That said, this sort of nonsense catastrophism is welcome; it shows to everyone how hilariously unhinged the doomsayers have become.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... = 90% of the last 500m years has been warmer than today.

For the last 5m years we've routinely had warm spikes followed by a decline to Phanerozoic 'norm' - if anything, this proves climate is NOT chaotically sensitive outside of some magic average (which just happens to be the 20th century, weird!) but in fact astonishingly robust. If you STILL insist that somehow the climate is going to spin into some Venusian disaster, please explain how whatever feedback mechanisms that have 30x-50x canceled the warmth surges have now somehow broken down and won't work this time?

Looking forward to the responses. There are a lot of people on slashdot who seem to have a lot of psychoses invested in global warming being irrefutable.