Now it is a desert. The climate changes. In the 90's during the Algore era of global warming, when the ice was melting, it uncovered an abandoned settlement somewhere up north, iceland, norway or somewhere up that way. Scientist were all giddy with the discovery. It was dated to the 12-1300's. NOT ONCE did anyone ask, hey! how was it warmer 7-800 years ago, to have a bunch of people living in a community, without "man made" global warming? Too much burning of whale blubber??

LOL, how many people died of blood clots, it didn't STOP the Wuhan flu from getting you infected and on and on. But, it made a TON of money!

And where does all the electricity come from to recharge the batteries? Coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, and a little from wind, solar not to mention all of the MINING that goes into making the stupid batteries.

Just like a "drug dealer"...give it away cheap, get people use to using it so they are hooked on it. NOW start stuffing ads into it!

In the USA, there was Zenith, GE, RCA, Motorola, Admiral that had the lions share of television sales. Then, the Japan came along and the USA television makers disappeared. This happened about the time of the switchover from tubes (valves) to solid state televisions. With the solid state boxes, you'd turn on the tv and didn't have to wait for it to "warm up". Labor costs also figured into this shift to the Japanese sets. American workers wanted more and more money after WW2 and labor costs increased. In Japan, reeling from WW2 was CHEAPER. As Japan modernized and their population expanded, the labor costs in Japan increased as well. Now the shift to CHINA where labor costs are LOW and for the most part, will REMAIN low as long as the CCP controls everything. Not like the workers can demand much of anything. There has been some push back to the labor problems in China, which has made some companies pull out and move to India. And the trend of corporations to seeks out more profit and cheaper labor continues. Once AI/robots improve human labor will be replaced with robots anyway.

Shoot, most of the new stuff doesn't interest me anyway. Pluto, Tubi, Plex, are enough for me.

Said no one.

I worked 911 and did a lot of ride alongs with deputies. In our downtown area, the traffic lights had this long tube above the light and if you shined the spotlight into it, it would change the light from red to green. It was obviously suppose to be for fire trucks etc, but once high powered flashlights started showing up and people would trigger them, they disabled their function.

In the USA, it takes typically 20+ years after sentencing, for an execution to be carried out.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989...Now wait just a minute! I was told that Al Gore invented the internet! /s

I remember when they started the Amazon stores. Thought it was the DUMBEST thing Amazon came up with. Apparently I was correct.

Yeah, tell me about that when the temperature since this past weekend has been between 0 and -10F with a wind chill of -20F. The global temperature has collectively been INCREASING since the last ice age. Heck, in the 70's, with all of the global pollution/smog etc there was talk of a new ice age. So, the globe got rid of most of the air pollution & what not, and now temperatures are rising. Then, you hear people like Bill "I know everything" Gates saying perhaps we should spray stuff in the upper atmosphere to block some of the sunlight to reduce the global temperatures. Just leave the Earth alone. It was here before humans and unless we blow it up, it will be here after humans are gone!

Was a flame thrower with the 5th Marines in Iwo Jima. Nightmares for years after he returned according to my mother. Would wake up in the middle of the night screaming. When the Japanese started really importing cars after "the oil crisis", he told all six of his kids that if I ever catch you buying a Japanese car, I'll never talk to you again. Hey, I get it...considering what he went through. Shoot, today, you see more Japanese cars that you do American. Plus, I read a report that showed the percentage of domestic produced parts used in manufacturing vehicles built in America a couple weeks ago. Toyota, Honda were at the TOP of the list. At the bottom? Ford & GM.

When I worked on TV's in the 70's, the "big" boys were Zenith, Admiral, RCA, Motorola etc. Once solid state took over, Sony, Panasonic etc came along and the American TV's disappeared. Sadly, it's just the name of the game.

I've seen way too many of these things zipping in and out of traffic! If you put a battery or gas motor on it, then it should be required to have an operator license & insurance.