Yeah, and the Sahara desert use to have lakes and streams. Climate changes! Blaming it on man is just another way to control people by government. 25-50-100 years of data is NOTHING compared to the age of the planet. If "climate change" was such a big deal, then why haven't the "millionaires & billionaires" moved AWAY from the coasts and continue to move there and build huge homes? I thought they were suppose to be the smartest ones on the planet?

Unlike the people that don't want their farmland gobbled up by solar panels or having wind farms that make a lot of noise?

excluding taxes, title, license, registration, governmental fees, destination charges, documentation fees, and any optional equipment, So, slap on another 40,000 dollars LOL.

I don't! But there are millions that read something on Wikipedia and believe it as gospel! It's a left leaning site, pretty much has been for years. A lot of teachers tell their students to NOT use Wikipedia when researching subjects. When you have pretty much a anyone-can-edit-anything-they-want website, that is controlled by really no one, that is what you get. SLOP.

The first thing I would do back then when playing computer games was to turn that ANNOYING music OFF!

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

Smartphones are so far ahead of what people use them for, perhaps some are not upgrading every year like they use to. Given the price of the upgrades, inflation and everything else going on, maybe people are keeping them longer too.

Yeah, how much did the smart phone industry pay for them to say that?

The UK has had such an influx of FOREIGNERS there were either from Europe or elsewhere, that it wouldn't surprise me.

40+ years of shutting down coal fired plants, shutting down nuclear plant & building up wind/solar. Instead of BOOSTING the power grid, we "just kept even". And, with energy generation that can't "increase" output like a coal GENERATION or nuclear GENERATION plant can. WOW! Perfect time to start building AI data centers too! Brown/blackouts in the future!

Good lord! If he says I've never even been there, couldn't they at least check his cell phone location data? Unless it is turned off, it would show where he pretty much was.

Medicare caused a LOT of rural hospitals to close. I remember growing up in the 60's. Small town at the time 2300 people. We had a 30-40 room hospital where most people in a 30 mile range were born. When medicare came along, the hospital would have been forced to make a TON of "mandated" upgrades to qualify to be able to take medicare patients. They closed the hospital, the doctors stuck around for a few years then they left too. After that happened, if there was an emergency, instead of being a couple minutes from an ER, you were sent in an ambulance 25 miles away. Not only that, once medical insurance, medicare/medicaid came along, RATES for doctors visits, hospital stays went through the roof! Companies started buying hospitals, doctors offices and what not. Now, in most towns & cities, there is ONE hospital and all of the doctors are "owned" by the hospital. So you can't really shop for a less expensive doctor. Other than the urgent care places you are really screwed.

...a lot of people online were saying there was an upcoming event called The Halvening that would change everything.

I guess this is it?

Seems to me 'dead' for a taxi isn't 'dead' for a static power bank. If I'm running a taxi I've got hard limits on how large my battery can be and how heavy, and I want to maximise the mileage I get between charges, because while my taxi is charging it's not out on the road earning money. When that battery is keeping only maybe 80% of its original design charge, and now I have to schedule one recharge too many per working day? Bang goes my business plan, so I'm replacing it.

If I'm storing energy for the grid I'm a lot less worried about that. It only stores 80% of what it did when new? Better than nothing, and the taxi firm is selling them off cheap. I'll stack them up!