Yup - I also have a speech notch on my left ear. So I prefer cars with right hand drive.

Yelling doesn't work either. The problem is SINAD: Signal/(Noise+Distortion). Yelling amplifies the signal and the distortion and makes echos off the walls too. When talking to a deaf person like me, first turn off other sources of sound: TV, radio, lawn mowers, chain saws - get everyone else to shut up and then just talk a little more loudly and a little more slowly maybe as well.

Of course the gov has access. Read up on Snowdon.

End to end encrypted between all parties: You, your partner in crime and the NSA/CIA/FBI/...

Hmm, I used to build military observation systems and the few things I looked at are obvious lens reflections making dots that, if you try to chase them, keep moving as you turn. With complex lens systems, you can get multiple dots. I have even seen a big spot caused by my aircraft window when flying over clouds, so the effect is not limited to a camera system - an Airbus A320 window will also do!

These deluded commies didn't get the memo that the CCCP is no more.

Yup, the wealthy live on loans. They never pay tax. Tax is for the little people.

Canada, Norway, Azerbaijan and Venezuela sure are not complaining about oil shortages. Also, Saudi, UAE, and Iraq are making more money selling less oil from their west coast terminals and pipelines than before, so they are not complaining either.

EV milk delivery trucks were common until the 1970s.

That is why I use PCLOS - a rolling minimalist distro. I only install what I need.

At 231 billion, they sure are very focused on fraud.

Alternatively California could buy a new car for each family on the state.

It is the LGBTQ2C++ version of OPEC.

Hmm, the ages of Miracles and Ghosts were ended by the industrial revolution, modern science and electric lights. However, there is a large crowd in the Vatican and elsewhere who are still hanging on to Ye Olde Ways.

I have been here for more than 200 years and never saw any ghosts.