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.

I deal with paper cut all the time. It can be a real PITA! Something else a lot of people don't think about is when you make color prints, a VERY light row of yellow dots are printed along the top edge, and the left edge. Those dots are in a specific pattern. That pattern denotes the machine serial number, date, time etc. which can be traces back to the manufacturer, who can trace back to the distributor, that can be traced back to the retail dealer, who can trace it back to the person that purchased it. (unless you bought one used). It's mostly for copyright purposes. Most printers now won't copy "illegal" things like money, securities etc, but something else that "knows" what you did.

Ever since cellular phones came along, I've always used a BT headset. Even on my first flip phone, which did NOT have Bluetooth I used one. Plantronics made the M1500 which was a two piece headset. The headset was wireless, and the other part plugged into the earphone jack on the phone. I've always used either handsfree or BT headsets when using the phone. Not out of caution, but back then, there wasn't speakerphone mode or connecting it to your car. So if you needed to answer a call, you had to hold the phone up to your ear, which wasn't really a good thing to do while driving. Especially when your work vehicle was a manual transmission. It's just habit now to pop on the BT headset if it isn't already on my head.

You can drive across each country pretty much in one day. It takes MULTIPLE days to drive across just the state of Texas, and there are 47 others in the continental U.S.

I use to be a 911 dispatcher for over 20 years. LOL, one of my dispatcher groups said they were getting a lot of SOS text messages from people wanting to know why their phones were not working. Yep, people are THAT dumb! If we had an EMP or Carrington event, the world would collapse!

These chatgpt things are like crack dealers. They "give" it way, get people hooked and then start injecting ads.

They had 100% import tariffs. By cutting them, China reduced tariffs on Canadian farm equipment. So the tariff worked?

It wasn't that way up to the 80's. Colleges, save for the "elite" ones, were not that expensive. But when the government started offering student loans and what not, the universities started charging more, because the money was pretty much coming from the government. Couple that with the woke nonsense in most universities where kids come out with LESS intelligence than they went in, can't spell, can't add, can't tell you who one the civil war and yes, kids don't want to go into debt for that.

The Boeing/MD11 was nothing more than an updated version of the DC-10 that Douglas made The crash in 1979 in Chicago was pretty much the same problem. Engine came off but they only lost one engine. The reason for the crash was when it detached, it took out the slats on the port side. Once airborne the port wing didn't have the lift, it rolled and crashed. The SAME type mount was found to be an issue, due to non approved way to remove the port engine during maintenance which weakened pretty much the same bearing. Douglas was bought out my McDonell to become McDonell-Douglas, renamed the aircraft the MD-11. There is a LOT of torque on that bearing and improper/lack of maintenance on a VERY old aircraft with a LOT of cycles and there ya go. Even the military got rid of the KC-10's, which was the military version of the DC-10.

It will work about as well as the 3,504,949,394 gun laws. CRIMINALS don't obey the laws.

Look at all the material they have dug up for their massive solar farms in the desert areas. Solar panels that will require MORE material as they wear out, and need replacement.

It's called a CYCLE. It's been going on for thousands of years. It's cold for a few hundred years, then it gets warmer for a few hundred years. Heck, I remember back in the 70's they said because of all the pollution, we were headed to another ice age. So, since we got rid of that, the Earth has been warming. I guess that accounts for all of the cloud seeding to dampen the sun to cool it off LMAO.

THEN DON'T OWN ONE! Or hire a chauffer! AI can't do crap, but you want to let the stupid thing operate a multi thousand pound vehicle driving down the road at highway speed? Not that human drivers are the best, but I'd rather have a human (non intoxicated) than a stupid computer that might need to "reboot" or crash.