TV's USED to be the one tech product I regularly updated. Now it looks like I'll be keeping my three yr old LG for awhile, there goes at least one sale.

Here's hoping he leaves for his new palace soon.

Not everyone carries an electronic device with them at all times. So what then? The device addicted among us always seem to forget that not everyone is so afflicted.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I expect him to declare himself Emperor (only because "king" is not grandiose enough).

What is "culturally obligatory"? Are you THAT subject to peer pressure? If you don't, or do, want to do, or say, something f*&k other people's opinions. Learn to stand up and be an individual for shit's sake.

At what point does a "drought" stop being a drought and become the "norm"? I've been listening to Ca officials and farmers talk about the "drought" for more than a decade with wet years popping up hear and there. I have to ask "is it a drought, or is Ca just becoming more desert?" 164 years seems like change not drought. And yes, yes, the climate changes, we all know that, lets not get into that here.

Actually most "organic" is not. Ag theft is a huge issue in the areas that grow your food. The roundup is stolen from one farm and sold to the next door "organic" farm. Then when it's "certified" there is no record of the chemical use. Suddenly the $100 per ton crop is a $500 per ton crop, it's magic i tell you! But hey, buy organic if it makes you feel better about yourself.

At least it doesn't make AI any worse than it was.

That's two things I thought I'd never here in the same sentence.

Your "pro" arguments are actually very good at explaining why Government mandates and artificial timelines are a mistake. The market will slowly move over to EVs as they become doable. In this case at least, let the market work itself out and keep the Gov out of it. I, as a minor example, have no problems with EVs in theory. I'm just not going to rearrange my life/lifestyle to make one work and I doubt that I'm that much of a fringe case.

Norway is only 5.5 million people. NY city alone is 8.5 million and Norway is the size of an average US state. Who really cares what they do, they are pretty insignificant to the world in general.

Gaming, Windows is still king for gaming. Steam is getting better but still not there. Until then LTSC is the way.

There is a reason that 'Utopia' by definition is referred to as fantastical, imagined, and/or hypothetical. It's an impossibility when humans are involved, some humans will always have the desire to subordinate others. Just look at religion, greed, rank, hierarchy, monarchy, etc. for examples on how they accomplish it.

That's why you buy fleet vehicles if you really want the base, nobody actually does though. The last truck I purchased I still had to spring for the A/C and cruise. Once you have had a couple of luxuries, it's hard to do without.

I'm not sure if you are naive or just an optimist, whichever it is I believe your are wrong. Remember the last shenanigans he pulled? These are just the sort of circumstances and conditions that start coops and/or civil wars. He will claim the American voting system is corrupt (again), that he actually won the election (again), and just sign a presidential order naming himself as Emperor for life. Then he will defy anyone to challenge it. Meanwhile he just sits there continuing being Trump. Best case scenario is he drops dead sometime in the next couple of years.