Oh boy, you have a strange twist in your brain.

Militia didn't mean a bunch of retards with John Wayne complexes either.

They are now. But they used to be a solid brand that you could get at Costco. I think back in the 90s they even sold computer monitors.

Thanks for the box recommendation. Does a Mi Box work with local media (on a NAS)? I switched from Roku (tired of the ads and constantly added apps) to Apple, which solved those annoyances, but it doesn't play media off the local network.

The last Vizio I bought wouldn't let you past the screen-covering EULA without signing in or creating an account. Which is why it went back to the store and it's the last Vizio will ever buy. It also lacked a sleep button on the remote... and required 8 button presses EACH time you wanted to use the sleep feature.

Years ago, they were my favorite brand of TV, worth paying a bit extra for. Never again. I'm so tired of the enshittification.

Aw, MAGA has moderating points :)

The present high price of fuel makes a lot of people reconsider.

So for the first time in a good year there was some logic in the house :)

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.

Build the chargers, don't let politicians in the pocket of Big Oil stop you.
Range anxiety is still a real issue but with future better batteries and sufficient chargers this should not stop us now.

Indeed, and until fusion comes to age we can use all the renewables to lower CO2 output.
BTW, coal has the highest output of CO2 so it is at all times a no-no.

It is a well reported problem Finland faced a recent unusually long period of 'Dunkelflaute'.
What you guys need is transmission lines to equalize the power over longer distances.
Also, Finland and neighboring countries are very thinly populated giving hem plenty of space to build wind farms without 'destroying' much of their countryside.

Your life is simple :)
Yes there are moments wind and solar are locallynot giving us what we need but when they work they are great ways of lowering our CO2 output.
I was just looking at the present electricity costs in The Netherlands and Denmark, two countries with a lot of offshore wind power and these costs are extremely low due to a storm over the North Sea.
On regular days the wind farms get their money from producing electricity for common use, during this storm they don't make any money but the consumers have a great time.
What we need is more storage for the still days like part of the Danish surplus is send to Norway where it is used to pump up reservoirs.
And the plans are to at least double the amount of wind and solar, all to lower our CO2 output.
In a world suffering more and more of global warming using oil and gas for the base load is so stupid.

The US being a large country should also invest more in long distance transmission lines to equalize the power between different zones.

Wake up and start thinking.

Indeed, the problem is them knees...

I wish William a happy birthday and good health.