In my day, to plug in a mouse: We took the box apart, installed a proprietary bus card, and then tried to figure out non-conflicting spots for the I/O and IRQ jumpers. Then we typed a bunch of gibberish into AUTOEXEC.BAT. And we liked it!

While your hypothesis looks nice at first glance, it has a glaring hole: Experiments with turbine powered cars had ended before the first NOx legislation. The Chrysler Turbine Car dates from 1963. At the same time in the UK, Rover debuted the P6, which was engineered to host the Rover gas turbine, which was tested in a Rover P4 as the T2, T3 and T4 prototypes, but it never came to pass. Then you have some experiments with gas turbine powered race cars until 1968. The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act was enacted in 1965.

The experiments to put gas turbines into cars for sale ended two years before NOx mandates were enacted. They were continued for race cars, which aren't affected by the mandates, but fizzled out a few years later.

And this is called the amplitude.

Not at all. Free citizens picking lettuce on a corporate-owned ranch is the American Dream!

It's better than medieval serfdom was because you're FREE!!! You could even prove it by wearing a giant bald eagle and flag T-shirt while you work!!!

A whole bunch of opportunities have recently opened up to US citizens for picking lettuce.

Depends on what you are talking about. Are you talking wavelength or amplitude?

The Nissan Ariya is based on the same platform (AmpR Medium) as for instance the Renault Scénic E Tech and the Renault A390. It was formerly known as Renault–Nissan Common Module Family (CMF) EV. It is a shared platform with Dongfeng Motor Corporation. In July 2025, Dongfeng and Nissan formed Dongfeng Nissan. One of the products coming from its assembly lines is - tada! - the Nissan Ariya.

The question being: Will you be able get an U.S. or Japanese EV then which is not based on Chinese technology? And does it make sense to keep up a mindset adapted to internal combustion engines in an era of electrical cars? Do you know which parts usually wear out and fail in EVs, and after which time? The Nissan Leaf is not a good example. It was prone to battery wear far above the expected rate. Newer EVs have battery wear far below the expected rate. And do you know when the innovation in EV design slows down so far that it makes sense to keep parts for 15 or 20 year old cars? 15 years ago, Tesla was selling the Tesla Roadster, basically an EV conversion of the Lotus Elise, co-developed by AC Propulsion and Lotus. Do you need spare parts for a Tesla Roadster? The first EV to ever sell in large numbers, the Tesla Model S, is not even 15 year old right now.

My prediction is that you will buy an EV just because they will be cheaper to get and cheaper to operate than a comparable ICE car, and repairs far into the future will be a very second thought. At the moment, we have price parity, that means the same amount of money gets you the same amount of new car in both worlds. In five years time, this will also be true for the used car market.

At least Nixon had the class not to force his minions to take all of the credit for the Apollo missions in their press releases.

That's what Trump did here: Same as usual he took all of the credit for other peoples' work.

You wonder why he gets under peoples' skin? It's because essentially everything he does is some kind of asshole move like this.

Yeah, that's why everyone gives Nixon credit for putting a man on the moon.

A lot of it has to do with the requirement to have flight logs for each outing. There is not much that is better documented than an US Airforce flight.

But there might still be people who buy the camera despite the celeb endorsements. I actually liked the old PowerShot models, and I have one myself.

A kitchen is a factory. A chemical factory, to be precise.

So you are of the older generation and wonder why your children are the way they are? They are your children after all. So who is to blame?

My take is quite different. The Gen Z has found out that whatever they do for money, the largest share of their productivity will go to the shareholders of their employers. Hence the Gen Z optimizes their life away from money earned and towards something the shareholders can't get their hands on. Gen Z is the direct product of a shareholder economy.