There are countless sedans and coupes that are nice and capable conveyances. That doesn't explain people buying oversized pickups.
For myself, I bought a pickup because it is easier to repair and maintain. Changing the front headlights takes maybe 15 minutes, unlike say a Ford Fusion sedan where the entire front of the vehicle must be removed. Doing my own oil change does not take much longer.
The pickup truck market is distorted by federal regulations such that making smaller pickups is basically illegal.
When my 2002 S-10 was discontinued in 2003 or 2004, it was replaced by basically the same vehicle, but 500 pounds heavier and slightly larger to meet EPA requirements, and that has continued since so now my 2002 S-10 looks tiny compared to today's smallest new pickups.
I still have my 2002 S-10 but it is in good shape because I had to leave it in storage for many years. The smallest new trucks are huge compared to mine.
Let Big Tech build the data centers anywhere, but don't jack up the prices that average people pay for electricity. Put the burden back on them.
That is the political solution which ignores economics and created the current dilemma, but sure, let's repeat what failed before. Maybe it will work this time.
Next you will be claiming that the right don't intend violence and want to solve problems peacefully.
The guy who advocated solving problems peacefully through discussion got shot or something.
Or just attach a hub to the switch.
I have an old Netgear DS104 dual speed hub for exactly that sort of thing. It was very useful in the past for diagnosing network issues, but there are no Gigabit hubs that I am aware of.
What are the environmental costs of vaporizing satellites and other components in the atmosphere? The main plan seems to be to let them deorbit or encourage that somehow. Or blast them with lasers. What's that do to the ozone layer? Where's the toxic pollutants go?
What are the environmental costs of 48.5 tons of meteoritic material entering the atmosphere every day? What does that do to the ozone layer? Where do the toxic pollutants go?
Never page out the page in handler.
This reminds me of the movie Independence Day where Will Smith wakes up when the ground shakes and tells his wife there's an earthquake only for her to reply "It's not even a four pointer, go back to sleep".
I was bemused, if the earth moved even slightly where I live I'd be freaking the fuck out!
I had that happen to me several times when I lived in Southern California. It is a real thing to just go back to bed and plan on reading about it in the news in the morning.
When I lived in Missouri, I took tornado warnings much more seriously.
My cat rips open the belly and eats the liver. I think she leaves the body as a warning.
By 'Space Power', does that mean Macron wants to put more than one token into the hyperspace cone?
Meanwhile most people dont have the wherewithal to engage in such scrutiny. For all its imperfections mainstream media rarely results in such extreme and crazy shit like Qanon or the anti vax movement.
Iraqi WMDs, Hunter Biden's laptop, and the Steele Dossier were not as extreme?
I would include covering for Fauci's lies and the WHO covering up China's involvement.
What about "saving" the 2020 election? The mainstream media was proud of their lies.
I've had many Windows upgrades fail. Some of them resulted in an unusable system, others reverted themselves and only wasted hours of my time. And for that matter, just running Windows Update without an upgrade to a new Windows version very frequently breaks Windows Update so that it will not work, and on a few occasions has resulted in an unbootable Windows system. In fact even my work machine has rendered itself unbootable with a Windows Update, and I work remotely.
For the past couple years Windows 10 update has rendered my system unbootable almost every time. I had to move the boot partition off of my hardware RAID, and now have to disconnect all USB drives until the update works and boots. Then usually I have to reinstall the RAID driver.
Then I have to reboot about every 2 weeks because file explorer start crashing.
Ethanol might burn cleaner, but it produces more emissions than gasoline. Also, it can eat away at various parts of an engine if the engine isn't designed for ethanol use.
It is a difficult problem. Taking maximum advantage of ethanol requires higher compression, which increases emissions, so the extra energy is not available lowering gas mileage so more ethanol has to be burnt also increasing emissions.
At least that is how it works with my 2002 E85 pickup where ethanol costs more per mile.
Bottom line everything Biden tried to do was stopped by Republican extremists so that American voters would blame Biden for the chaos caused by republicans.
The Democrats controlled the House and Senate during the 1st half of Biden's term.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
