No one is actually pulling out. The U.S. has made it harder for foreign companies to import them. But there are still domestic manufacturers of EVs, like Tesla, Ford and Stellantis. This is something very else: For the last decade, one big argument against EVs was "bad resale value", because EVs were seen as a novelty, and fear for dead batteries, fueled by the problems with first gen Nissan Leafs, made buyers wary of used EVs. Additionally, there were not many used EVs on the market to begin with, fleet operators did not have many young EVs to sell, and prices did not really average out yet.

Now, demand for EVs is rising due to high fuel prices, and a good public charging network making EVs a viable alternative for many people. And also people looking for bargains are hitting the market, and with used batteries not being the problem they were thought to be, used EVs have its own value proposition. We have here the normal effect of demand rising more than the available supply.

Let's be very clear, mass surveillance is exactly what this is.

1. It's being sold under the guise of license plate tracking (also in TFS), but there are Flock cameras installed in places where there is not a road in sight, such as in parks and on playgrounds. See for instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/Flock...
2. They automatically pan and zoom to faces and phones of pedestrians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (also, their security is apparently dogshit).

You mean the lawyers? Trying to prevent lawsuits from people who thrive on litigating away their own responsibility?

China censors stuff in the way you think it happens, but American companies are driven primarily by greed. If they could get away without putting in guardrails, they would very, very happily do so.

No, you are the first one to do so; You are very special.

1. The American political system is corrupt as fuck. _That_ is the problem in regulatory capture situations. You're trying to come up with a _workaround_ instead of fixing the core problem.

2. Anti-trust law works when it is applied hard. The EU has had plenty of successful cases where corporate behavior was effectively changed. But the organisations enforcing these matters are absurdly underfunded by decades of corpo-friendly right-wing governments throughout the Western world. Said differently: we haven't really _tried_ to do anti-trust well. Having said that, I am in favor of more structural changes like making corporate tax progressive, i.e. with multiple tax brackets.

3. Providing transparency is great, but the mistake in thinking is that people, even with full information _can_ realistically make different choices. On a geopolitical scale countries buy oil and LNG from heinous regimes because they have nowhere else to go. It is naive and wishful thinking that consumers will somehow force producers into behaving if only they had full information.

4. Counterpoints for nationalization: Your adversary _buys_ the companies that run your essential services, like utilities. Woops, should have nationalized or very, very, very heavily regulated them. Or: the industry is fundamentally unprofitable or profits more when society is doing badly. The US has a very, very wealthy healthcare and defense industry. Those fuckers are laughing all the way to the bank in times of war, prolonged and chronic disease, etc. The opioid crisis was/is a product of capitalism.
Nationalization doesn't mean "Soviet-style". There are many, many purely publicly funded organisations that work fantastically each and every day.

The key thing to realize is that the main strength of capitalism is in speeding up evolution. It _can_ do that, but we don't _need_ it in a lot of markets and 'late-stage' it favors stabilization and hegemony of a dominant 'species'. Again, it needs to be heavily regulated, so as to apply it precisely rather than seeing it as a blanket solution.

This. Too many free-market capitalism anti-government evangelists miss that most of the 'bad'/immoral bits of behavior by producers is completely natural and rational. A cartel is just effective cooperation.

The point is not to get rid of capitalism or free markets, but to acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses and effectively channel those. Given where Western developed countries are today, that means more regulation (and enforcement) and even nationalisation of certain aspects of society.

50 years of the US, West Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Japan signing treaties and international agreements to hurt their economy and citizen's economic future.

Asking, and using trade policies to encourage the rest of the world with its 75% of the global population to reduce their pollution and environmental destruction is a good thing.

Headline - Apple’s Smart Glasses Will Need to Overcome Meta’s Privacy Reputation

Fixed headline - Apple Executives and Legal Teams Delaying Smart Glasses Release due to Litigation Fears

The need to be part of something bigger, a cause, a crusade, a permanent protest or whatever to call it drops off when you hit 30 years old.

Many news sites, outrage of the day blogs, and other rage bait sites cannot rely on millions of views and ad displays by producing click bait rage articles void of new facts and a hash of rage inducing stereotypes.

There will be a bump when the researchers have identified the thousands (millions?) of people who actively poison the well in any dating, relationship, raising children, having children, or marriage related social media groups.

Far too many persons have a need for retribution disparaging all people of group X because a person of group X treated me badly, did not let me use them for economic or social gain, hurt my feelings, ...

Spreading and promoting as a virtue, the inability to have a civil discussion of issues, social discourse, or other topics is a net negative to society.

Another "let the industry self-regulate itself" again before the negative effects of the industry get taken to task by the government regulators.

During the 2008 global financial crisis, the only part of the USA which did economically well was Washington DC and the surrounding area due to massive increased in federal government spending.

It is not racist to point out the majority group and the majority ethnicity.

This is the not the large industry of agitators who constantly comparing the ethnicity / gender percentages in only high-prestige / high-paid jobs to the same ethnicity /gender percentages in the general population - yet for only for a favored ethnicity / gender.

That comparison is to divide groups, ensure the agitators have jobs, and keep the victim hood narrative in place to help win elections.

Dividing us into angry groups fighting with one another prevents us as a whole working on improving social conditions, family formation, family economic stability, job stability, job growth, and reducing social ills - crime, poverty, mental health issues, ...

Coral reef though to be dead is living and in good shape.

Versus the steady "we are all going to die" news the media pushes to get clicks.

The federal government should pass a law that smart devices have to have a hardware switch to turn off all the smart components and smart hardware.

The basic functions of the tv, fridge, washing machine, etc. should keep working without ever needing to be connected to the internet, activated, updated or registered. Likewise, there should be a way to use the device without needing a login, biometric scan.

And right repair including that the repair tech cannot download device usage data and send it to the home office.