I remember when Firefox was a browser, with announcements of new browser features instead of hobbled VPNs and some novelty cloud gaming service horseshit.

Who asked for this?

Many are made by Chinese companies with names like MBXRZ and take 6 weeks to ship to the US to avoid tariffs. Many of these companies do *not* put much effort into making their drivers robust and well-tested.

I find AA too limiting. My apps are not all AA friendly. Haven't tried carplay, but i expect more of the same. I need to drive a slate to be sure about buying one, but I think it has tremendous potential as a daily driver and overlander. I love smallness. I think the upcoming Ford EV is too big with not enough bed, and it doesn't have the modularity that would allow a somewhat bigger interior for sleeping inside with the AC on overnight. It also costs more, and if it's a hit, prices will be awful. And I don't want all the irritating tracking features that new cars have. The irritating screens. The irritating controls. I have that shit in my other cars.

The problem is that there aren't enough of the little appliance-size batteries to economically recycle, but there are enough that sometimes they cause fire.

How many batteries per week do you think people in Britain discard?

We would have to require manufactures to include safe and simple recovery processes.

And regulating businesses is filthy Communism, so maybe that will fly in the UK and EU, but never in the good old USofA.

It's a lot easier to pass social policies when you see your neighbor's as people like you that you want to help. We don't have that in the United States.

I don't think as many people have that mindset as you think. I see lots of people that look like me fucking over almost every facet of this country and I don't feel any connection with them. The problem is economic inequality - the people at the top are fucking over the people in the middle and the bottom. If people in the middle and bottom are too preoccupied fighting with each other based on inane nonsense, such as "why should I help that person because they don't look like me" then nothing is going to get better.

That situation reminds me a joke. Three guys just split a job and then sat down at a table. As they're seated, the manager comes over and pays them their wage: $100 in one dollar bills. The first guy immediately snatches 97 bills and gets up to walk off before the other guys can react. The second guy saw that and quickly grabbed two of the remaining three bills. The first guy saw the second guy take two bills and proceeded to lean over to the third guy and say "are you just gonna let that guy take that extra dollar?"

The idea that social policies don't work in the U.S. because we have different races and cultures is bullshit propagated by the rich to prevent the masses from voting for policies that can benefit them, because the only way the U.S. could pay for those policies is if we made the rich go back to paying their fair share of taxes. And they've spent decades having the tax laws rewritten and finding loopholes in the remaining laws to ensure that they never have to do that again.

At the end of the day I'll keep voting for fewer taxes

If you want lower taxes in America, you'll need to make a lot more than 70k. Dems won't reduce taxes because they know we can't afford it with our national debt and Republicans will only lower taxes with any significance if you're rich or a corporation.

If only there was some way to process these flammable batteries in a way that their components could be reused again for batteries, like some sort of cycle that goes again and again, a "recycle" if you will.

I dunno, I'm just spitballing here.

Mathematicians invented imaginary numbers because they refused to admit they were wrong which logically means that AI will invent hallucinated numbers to explain why they gave a non-sense answer to a basic math question.

That's fine because now everyone should be getting an EV which solves the engine reliability issue.

I want lots of things but I choose what I get. People need to take some responsibility for what they buy.

Those are ancillary luxury features that are not critical to driving. You have eyes, don't you?

is spoiled.

Europe isn't socialist. They have some social policies. Much of which are under strain as they are increasing their military budgets, now that they can't trust America to keep up the World Police act.

And Mamdani isn't trying to replace capitalism with socialism - he's trying to generate similar policies as the ones you mentioned in Europe.

Ask Germany how that Russia gas is. Seems odd to directly support Russia while they attack Ukraine, but I get it. Germany has no choice but to fund the machine.

And what does a European country buying gas from another country at fair market rates (aka capitalism) have to do with socialism or social policies?

My taxes might go up. I'll still get NOTHING from the government, since you know, I'm fucking rich at 70k a year in San Diego.

Why would your taxes in San Diego go up because New York City is enacting social policies that benefit their citizens on the other side of the country?

Must be nice to live in a country of 10 million that all look the same, talk the same, have the same cultural values and the same religion. You can't remotely compare that to 330 million diverse country that America is. We have every culture, religion and creed here. With all our diversity, we are constantly striving to understand each other.

Just what in the hell does racial, cultural, and religious diversity have to do with an economic system?

Besides, if you are talking about Norway, they are exporting global warming to make their 10 million citizens lives much more peachy.

Does your vehicle not run on putrified dinosaur juice? If it does, where do you get your sense of moral superiority?