....so when I get home, I drive into the garage, come to a stop, car kills.
So I press the button to turn the car off 1 sec later, it restarts ... so it can then shut off.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

Here's an idea: let me, as a consumer, decide if that "energy savings" is worth my hard earned $0.000266 ?

I don't even think people would mind much if it was installed by default. It's the "automatically on whenever you start the car" that's bullshit.

But...ecomarxists know better than the rest of us.

Quick question:
I apologize for questioning a fundamental tenet of the eschatology, but if the majority (something around 90%) of earth's history has been SUBSTANTIALLY warmer than today, how will slight warming now "suddenly turn into a runaway process" ?

Routinely, over the last 5m years, about every 140k or so there have been rather sudden warming increases, with a general decline thereafter. Where did that mechanism go?

"it's not socially acceptable to point out that Republicans are bad"
In what universe?
Link me 3 posts you've made in the last year that don't, somehow, outright blame Republicans for any bad thing or suggest it.

"Obama never lied"
Jesus Christ.
- "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs"
- He promised, and then routinely claimed, he 'tried' to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- "You can keep your doctor"
- "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls"
- The Benghazi attack was the result of an internet video
- "Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration."

So, ironically (but unsurprisingly) your post is...full of lies.

Misleading.
Largely those stats are the result of red states hosting military bases, and adding that military spending to "federal spending in that state".

But half-lies are more or less the propaganda machines' stock in trade.

Fortunately, half the US public doesn't belong to your religion.

Oh, wait, no, I've got this: "they're stupid, obviously I'm smarter than all of them". Am I right?

I understand the point you're TRYING to make but the reality is that US manufacturing hasn't been competitive except in certain (usually very high added-value) niches for 40+ years.

There's a reason nearly everything is manufactured in China, Vietnam, etc.

US auto making - like almost any other 'hard' manufacturing you'd care to name that persists in the US, remains here because of massive subsidies and tax breaks. Hell, the tariffs THEMSELVES are subsidies delivered sideways. That slashdot's preferred tech is no longer on the 'favored' list is merely a matter of specifics but the general facts haven't changed at all. Aside from food and - weirdly - mattresses - something like 90%+ of whats in anyone's home is imported.

I expect that rather soon manufacturing will move to Africa (although I understand even the Chinese are having trouble with bringing up the peoples of those regions to even "3rd world factoryworker" caliber).

Is it warming? Probably (hard to tell with all the 'smoothing' and 'adjusting' of data going on, but I'd agree it probably is.)
Is it driven by humans? Utterly not, though almost certainly we're aggravating it.
Is it faster than ever, historically speaking? Utterly not.

That said, this sort of nonsense catastrophism is welcome; it shows to everyone how hilariously unhinged the doomsayers have become.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... = 90% of the last 500m years has been warmer than today.

For the last 5m years we've routinely had warm spikes followed by a decline to Phanerozoic 'norm' - if anything, this proves climate is NOT chaotically sensitive outside of some magic average (which just happens to be the 20th century, weird!) but in fact astonishingly robust. If you STILL insist that somehow the climate is going to spin into some Venusian disaster, please explain how whatever feedback mechanisms that have 30x-50x canceled the warmth surges have now somehow broken down and won't work this time?

Looking forward to the responses. There are a lot of people on slashdot who seem to have a lot of psychoses invested in global warming being irrefutable.

Countries in which women have full control over their reproduction (ie full access to abortion) population growth has tended to fall below replacement values.

... are just as pathetic as male gooners.

Whenever anyone says "everyone should do this thing" there are decent odds it's bullshit, spread by well-intentioned but ignorant people, or by not-so-benignly-intentioned people that know better but benefit from the outcome.

Meanwhile, if one is informed and tries to speak against the herd, it's pretty amazing in an anthropological sense how aggressive and angry "white knights" will pop up with no vested interest in the subject, only apparently in the argument itself.

And social media -which in any subject is vastly ill informed- has made it worse.

LOL sure.
"Canada's Automotive industry going independent of the US"
Next a news article about how your appendix going "independent of the rest of your body."

Canada doesn't HAVE a car industry. They are the outsourced production shop for the US car industry.
And, if you're capable of 2nd order thinking, ask yourself why so many US manufacturers put some parts and assembly work in Canada?

Per AI:

US carmakers established factories in Canada primarily
to bypass high Canadian tariffs on imported vehicles in the early 20th century, later expanding to benefit from lower labor costs, a skilled workforce, and integrated supply chains under trade agreements like the 1965 Auto Pact and NAFTA.
Key reasons for Canadian manufacturing include:

        Tariff Avoidance: Early in the 20th century, Canada placed a 35% tariff on imported cars, forcing companies like Ford to open factories in Canada to sell to the Canadian market, as well as to other parts of the British Empire which gave preferential treatment to Canadian-made goods.
        The Auto Pact (1965): The Canadaâ"United States Automotive Products Agreement eliminated tariffs, allowing the Big Three to integrate production, making it efficient to produce specific models in Canada for the entire North American market.
        Cost and Logistics: Lower Canadian wages compared to the US and favorable exchange rates (lower Canadian dollar) made production cost-effective. Close proximity to Detroit (Windsor-Detroit corridor) allowed for easy logistics.

Wait, so you're saying Canada put up....prohibitive tariffs blocking US goods? To drive manufacturing into Canada? And it worked? I thought only the Orange Baboon did things like that to friendly neighbors?
And then after those tariffs went away (in 1965 I guarantee it wasn't "for the good of consumers" lol) that the artificially-propped-up US dollar effectively benefited Canada's economy and workers, the same way the same action benefitted who else? European postwar manufacturers as well?

I know most of you are raging and will be unable to even see this paragraph but I think Trump's fight with Canada is stupid and egotistical. If he hadn't been such a moron, Poilievre would have won handily and the US & Canada could be - as usual, as natural - cooperating on bigger, more important issues.
But let's not pretend the US hasn't since WW2 deeply & generously advantaged other economies, and it's no longer a postwar world. The US can't afford to keep buying everyone lunch, not when we borrow 25c of every dollar from the future. That's dumb. I also think it's dumb to start fights with everyone like an egotistical child but whatever.

Plus, if even that teeny bit of loosely flapping material measurably helps, maybe women would get closer to mens' performance?

Feels like a win-win.
I guarantee the Olympics would get much, much better viewer numbers across all events.

This is an awful thing, granted but "Eric and Emily never go out without wearing hats now, for fear they might be recognised" is ridiculous - there are 8.3 BILLION people on the planet.

Eric & Emily I 1000% guarantee your sex antics are utterly not noteworthy nor memorable enough that the sorts of pr0n addicts that subscribe to these things would recognize you if you were sitting across from them at dinner. Guaranteed.

And you look like you're reasonably fit, healthy people.
Me, they'd pay to never see me in their feed again.

Meanwhile they use Chinese electronics and buy energy from Russia.

TDS is a powerful thing.

I don't think it's a lack of expertise that's the point.
The EU of course has ample technological resources.

The problems are the incessant bureaucrats. The EU is suffused with and mired in endless bureaucracy.

The obstacle to replacing Microsoft will not be the code, it will be the necessity of ensuring every country gets their participation, gets their say, that every special interest gets served, that everyone has a piece of whatever is created.