It would never happen specifically because many states know they are economically dependent on other states for one reason or another. The point of their politics is not to achieve the goal, it's the provide and unreachable dream for the gullible and then blame their perceived enemies for preventing a nationally suicidal actions. Why do this? To maximally exploit the system for their own benefit.

We tend to look at Japanese vehicles are durable and reliable. The Hilux is legendary for being nigh on indestructible. There was a British TV show that put one on the roof of a tower block and demolished the tower, then threw it in the sea, and with some new spark plugs it was still working.

At the rate Chinese manufacturing is advancing, if they set one up in the US by the time it is built it would be mostly robots and a few people to keep an eye on them.

The main issue with trying to attract manufacturing to the US is that it is not a politically stable country. Even if Trump does abdicate at the end of his term, the reality for the past few decades has been policies lurching back on forth every 4/8 years. People don't want to invest in things like factories when in a few years the US government might decide you need to sell your business or that your product is a threat to oil producers or something equally catastrophic.

As a European my perception of US cars is that they are fairly crap. A few models make it here and don't compare well to European brands. They tend to be impractical and inefficient. The EVs are half arsed.

Here Chinese brands are competitive, but our domestic manufacturers are making the effort and doing okay with it. Funny how when Chinese brands started gaining traction the European built EVs started getting 10k+ taken off the price, and still sold at a profit.

It is sound quality. CDs can be ripped perfectly and 99.999% don't have any DRM. The ones that do are defective.

The reason vinyl sometimes sounds better is because it can't be so loud. Around 1990 mastering engineers started using compression heavily. Compression makes quiet sounds louder - it compresses the dynamic range. That's what creates that "wall of sound" effect that is so common now.

CDs let you do extreme compression and it sounds awful. Vinyl limits what can be done because if you go too far the needle jumps out of the track, or the track walls aren't thick enough to be manufactured. They have to do a different, less loud master for vinyl, and so despite the additional noise on that format, the overall sound is much more pleasant and engaging. Drums have proper slam instead of sounding flat, you can pick out individual instruments, and the vocals aren't buried.

I would love to see rigorous standards for safety imposed but given the group who is currently in control of the US government, this has zero-percent chance of passing. Naturally, there is going to be a zillion idiots here saying, "CHINA WILL DO IT!" failing to recognize that the US is actually leading in having AI perform mental tasks while China has focused on AI robotics. In all cases, it's not gonna happen and idiots will stop it.

It sucks that they haven't fully reimplemented some features BUT one thing I was going to say was "unless they rewrote it in C++ using Qt then they shouldn't have bothered" and I was aghast to learn that is exactly what they did!

Considering the new possibilities opened by changing to Qt (people really underestimate it's power), I look forward to seeing what they do next.

You're missing the point.

Leaks of personal information like this are only possible because some company decided to collect and store it all in one place. It's never a matter of if, but only when, a database will be breached and data leaked.

The age verification laws will create even more vast databases of personal information; names, addresses, financial information, various service accounts, even deep information about each person's habits and preferences. All in the hands private businesses who were the lowest (or at least most corrupt) bid. It's never a matter of if, but only when, a database will be breached and data leaked. It will be a prize sweeter than any criminal organization or malicious state actor could possibly have dreamed of.

Let's stop putting everyone's eggs in the same basket against their will, hmm? Especially when it doesn't even solve the problem it's championed to solve.
=Smidge=

"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation... What age should you start to see public executions?"
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."
"You quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters... in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death."
Stoning gay people to death is "God's perfect law"
Trans people are to blame for inflation: "There's a direct connection to inflation and the trans issue. You say, Charlie, come on. They couldn't be further apart. No, they're exactly the same. They're the same in this aspect—when you believe that men can become women, why wouldn't you also believe that you could print wealth? If you believe that someone can change their gender, why wouldn't you also believe that money is wealth?"
Blacks "were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes." (yes, despite the Piers Morgan "fact check", while his reasons for believing black people were better off under segregation was unrelated to segregation itself, he very much did repeatedly argue that black people were better off in the 1940s)
"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’"
Juneteenth: "It is a neo-segregationist federal holiday, is what it is... The entire point of it, as per postmodernists do and deconstructionists, is to subvert July 4."
We should have "just took care of" trans people "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and '60s"
"The Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it’s only gonna get worse.. There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama, and they will become your masters."
"Haiti is legitimately infested with demonic voodoo. I’ve talked to missionaries that have gone there and they say they’ve seen the darkest stuff... people levitating and turning into cats at night."
"Jewish donors have a lot of explaining to do.. Because Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border neoliberal quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews. And now it’s coming for Jews.. It’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it."
Calling Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown "affirmative action picks".
Calling the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer an "amazing patriot" and called on people to bail out the attacker.
"Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge. "
"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more."
"MLK was awful. He’s not a good person... We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
"Transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids." Transgender identity is a "throbbing middle finger to God."
Gun violence as a "cost" to having no gun control: "I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
"The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality."
"The great replacement strategy, which is well underway every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different."
"Islam is not compatible with Western civilization."
"Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America."

On and on. Man, such a moderate centrist who never espoused bigotry or promoted violence!

The one being incorrect is you. Archie's representation is quite accurate, in the US context.

Yes, a very "middle of the road" supporter of far-right Tommy Robinson (who has a 17% positivity ranking among Brits). The guy who said "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." The guy who described diversity as an "ideological inferno", a "religion" led by "high priests". The guy who was so radical and repressive at Basecamp that at one point 1/3rd of its employees all walked out en masse. Truly, a remarkable centrist of our times!

This sounds an awful lot like the rhetoric that was spread about Jews before WW2, and which was used as the justification for the Final Solution.

To add some context, this false claim about London no longer being full of "native Brits" is... Well, if you add up all the people who identified as British at the 2021 census, it's 71.1%. It's just that only about 39% of them are white. There are lot of Black and Asian (which in English means from India, Pakistan, and countries in that region, not East Asian countries like China) British citizens there too. Lots of mixed race, because non-racist white Brits form relationships with non-white Brits.

That's why the far right in the UK has pivoted to talking about "native Brits". When you ask them exactly what that means, they tell you it's white with a long lineage of white ancestors in the UK. That would exclude our king, and one of our most famous Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill, as well as many other notable British people. They rely on people not thinking that hard about it.

So TL:DR it's a racist dog whistle.

They mean it's like a shitty Tesla with only one central screen that has the IC on it. If you want one in front of the driver where you don't have to glance to the side to see basic information like your speed, you have to pay extra.

Not that I was planning to, but that's Hyundai off my list of potential vehicles.