So how come you can build a custom kit car and drive that legally? Maybe the Chinese can sell their cars here as kits comprising a car and a decal that you stick on yourself.

The CEO of Ford bought a Chinese EV (Xiaomi SU7) and after driving it for 6 months said he "never wants to give it up". Check out Marques Brownlee's review of it. Not cheap at $40K, but apparently equal in quality to US cars at $75-100K price.

Right. Ultimately the only way to fix this is strengthen privacy laws and enforcement. The tech bros have a lot of influence; their brown nosing and corruption was really on display when the orange manbaby came back to power.

The enemy are companies making money of your data; business models championed by the likes of Google and Facebook. You could argue that they're just exploiting weak privacy laws and enforcement. The FBI aren't at fault for accessing publicly/commercially available data, unless there's some American law that forbids even this. Stop giving your data to companies. Stop supporting these businesses that don't respect you, your data or your privacy.

Windmills don't kill corn. Windmills don't kill clams. They might scare some fish initially due to low frequency vibrations but they will probably adapt. The bird-killing issue is a thing but they've found that they can minimize it somewhat with different paint on the blades.

Yes there are negative issues, just like any other infrastructure project, but you have to weigh them, and you can't let your own ideological alignment get in the way.

Trump hates windmills because he hates how they look near his properties. He has a particular issue and then builds an ideological theme to support it. People get roped into ideology and stop weighing the costs and risks in favor of being a *movement*.

Opposite side of the isle it's just as bad, they're terrible at seeing the benefits of nuclear on ideological growns. They hate burning fossil fuels so bury their head in the sand at plastic incineration being more efficient and overall less carbon intensive than recycling programs.

Offshore windfarms aren't any more harmful than offshore oil rigs, and in practice offshore oil rigs are beneficial for the local ecosystem by adding a habitat (excellent fishing btw).

The printing on the keyboard is minor. The UK and US English keyboards are physically different:: e.g. just look at the enter key, which are orientated completely differently.

> Manufacturing will catch up to demand, but we probably will not see the abnormally low prices again that we were enjoying for RAM and hard drives again.

These aren't "abnormally low" - they are market prices that are profitable for the manufacturers. Unfortunately there is currently more demand, from AI, for memory than the industry has capacity for, so those that have longer term purchase agreements, or are willing to pay more will win, and until supply/demand gets back in balance we're going to see higher prices for things like laptops and smartphones.

> The only reason prices would go up is if the supply cannot keep up with the demand.

This may well happen for a while, it is hard to ramp up SOTA chip manufacture very quickly, and the industry is notoriously boom and bust, and the chip companies (incl. memory) have learnt their lesson - they are not going to ramp up as hard as they can (which is anyways limited) to meet a short term demand bubble which they expect will level off.

It was already building for Arm platforms. Iâ(TM)m sure they have NEON optimisations somewhere in there.

It's not like we didn't have police, just not what we think of as a modern police force. We had organized law enforcement consisting of sheriffs and constables, with the power to deputize when needed.

This is much the same as we didn't have organized fire brigades, instead we had government officials with the power to organize a response to fires by recruiting more manpower from the populace to fight fires.

Asking if we need a police force because we didn't previously have one is like asking if we need a fire department because previously we only had an informal volunteer fire department. These things only worked in the past because the need was small enough that we didn't have the economy of scale to support a professional firefighting or police force, but with growth, the professionalization required necessitated the formation of these things.

Also the "cops are just slavecatchers" thing is a largely made up and exaggerated talking point by the far left that they repeat ad-nauseum. The first professional police forces in the US were formed in northern cities like Boston and were decidedly *NOT* slavecatchers, but rather organized out of groups normally deputized to enforce the law, turning them into professional employees -- in much the same way a volunteer fire department becomes a full time employer in cities that grow enough to need it.

Some early southern professional police and sheriff departments *were* constituted out of slave patrols, as these were people who were often deputized, but these were not the first police departments, nor did they constitute the majority of them, not even in the south.

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France also does it because it benefits their military nuclear programme.

Maybe some are like that, but have you seen Marques Brownlee's review of the Xiami SU7 ? High end, high quality. Priced at equivalent of $40-45K, and in Marques opinion competitive with anything here at $70-75K point.

Tesla's aren't exactly flawless in this respect either - plenty of reports of fires and recalls like Cybertruck glued-on body panels falling off.

Trump doesnâ(TM)t want Europe to lose its dependency on foreign fossil fuels because he wants American companies owned by his buddies to profit from this, not Russian and Middle Eastern ones. Why do you think heâ(TM)s so against renewable power? Itâ(TM)s not just about the view from his Scottish golf course.

> First they claim this is because of tariffs...but aren't vehicles with final assembly in the U.S. free from most tariffs?

Does that apply any more? It used to be that "made in USA" cars might actually have less actually "made in USA" content than a "foreign" car due to these bizarre cross-border rules, but Trump's tariffs are/were anyways ADDITIONAL on top of pre-existing tariffs, and generally so high that they dominate.

SCOTUS recently declared Trump's tariffs illegal, but Trump responded same day that he would just impose tariffs under a new excuse. Maybe in a years time SCOTUS will shoot that down too, and in the meantime nobody can guess what is going to happen.

> Then, they claim their product is not competitive with Chinese competitors...with a vehicle they were going to assemble in the U.S.? That also makes no sense. Why wouldn't the manufacture it in Asia?

China's level of factory automation is insane, and they have the whole supply chain there which is a huge factor. It may well not be possible for another country to compete unless they can match these advantages, even if based elsewhere in Asia.

You would imagine Honda has been keeping close tabs on Chinese EV developments, but it seems they are making very progress, and I have no idea how long the planning cycle would be for Honda to create whole new lines. Presumably whatever sunk costs they have made sense at the time.