These assholes are way past due for some jail time. They are rife with CIA pass-throughs like the EcoHealth Alliance. They've likely been funding and offshoring illegal bio-warfare research. These guys were a nasty circus during CV1984 and I'd personally love see many of these "researchers" in jail. We saw during CV1984 that the NIH is a massive criminal enterprise full of liars, spooks, and self-serving thieves. Send the research money back to the taxpayers and turn out the lights on these criminal fucks. We also need to jail Fauchi. I realize his massive corrupt pardon will make it more difficult, but it's still possible and greatly needed. Throw that piece of shit into the deepest faggot pit of a prison one can find. In fact, I'm fine if we convict and send his dumb ass to El Salvador's mega prison to hang with MS13 after a bit of waterboarding.

No dude, he nailed you. You're a fucking idiot and he's got you dead to rights. You've always been a fool.

They are playing a game where they are trying to squeeze American companies just enough to get their massive fines, without taking away the profit motive. If they get more aggressive, the calculus could easily change. Europe needs to remember that they have invented almost nothing for almost forever now. You faggots didn't invent the Internet and couldn't engineer your way out of a paper sack. All you make is regulations. So, if you do run off American companies, you can pontificate your rules to China or someone else who will ignore you and have you fuck off with even less worries.

Let's face it, you sure as fuck won't be engineering anything or setting up homegrown alternatives. All the EU can do is make up rules. That's what Socialists do: they make up rules to fleece anyone under their control and dumb enough to be productive. Problem is, you guys are low on folks to fleece and high on brown Muslims with their hands out. Enjoy that!

Get me to work on a boat under false pretenses, slave me 22 hours a day, and keep the boat at sea for months? I'd definitely kill you. I'd kill you, feed your dumb ass to the fish, then about 100 meters from shore in some random area, they'd find your boat on fire and sinking quickly as I swam ashore. If you have guards and are much better armed I might have to wait till we get back onshore to kill you, but either way it's going down. Who the fuck would put up with that?

Same. Mother fuck Broadcom. I will advocate against them forever. I already hated them for their stupid firmware / binary blob games with NICs. They are free to eat the entire bowl of dicks at this point. Proxmox is a better product in most ways, anyway. It's been both more secure and more stable in our environments.

Seems like you are oversimplifying and you keep posting the same shit like a robot. Are you shilling for mommie who used antibiotic hand soap and got you amoxicillin every time you sneezed?

That's because you and JSR are both leftist partisans. Of course you have a convenient memory! So, we've got Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Skippyjon Jones, Little House on the Prairie, Gone with the Wind, The Berenstain Bears, Adventures of TinTin, and the list goes on for a WHILE. Then there is the fact that leftist partisan shitbags were all super happy about social media censorship when Parwag and the rest of his turdlets owned Twitter during CV19. You gotta be kidding if you think religious idiots on the Right are the only happy censors. All you "team players" for the Uniparty are censors and you both can crawfish all you want. I can keep tarring you with examples.

Those camps are real. Reports from multiple sources, including human rights organizations and governments, describe a system of mass detention camps, often termed "re-education centers," where over a million Uyghurs and others have been held since around 2016. These camps allegedly involve coerced labor in industries like cotton, textiles, electronics, and solar panel production, with workers subjected to surveillance, restricted movement, and indoctrination. Programs like "Poverty Alleviation Through Labor Transfer" are forcibly relocating rural minorities to factories across China, often under exploitative conditions. Beyond Xinjiang, there is forced labor in other sectors, including private factories and organ harvesting from prisoners, particularly Falun Gong practitioners. China’s role as a global manufacturing hub should concern folks about tainted supply chains, with goods like polysilicon and auto parts linked to these practices. The Chinese government denies these allegations while restricting access to Xinjiang for independent verification... of course.

They are simply having a commie-news-media powered freakout over Trump cutting foreign aid (and fuck your aid, pals). They don't have much in the way of tech companies in the EU because few are dumb enough to put themselves under the thumb of those bureaucrats & censors. The EU is best at producing regulation, not software. Well, that and they also appear great at annulling democratic elections they don't like. Don't worry though, you can still immigrate to the USA and write all the software you like, like Linus did (and Bjarne Stroustrup, Rasmus Lerdorf, Guido van Rossum, or Anders Hejlsberg, Louis Pouzin, and others). We're fine just taking your programmers and engineers, since you hate freedom. So, keep whining and kvetching over Trump while we work circles around you... like always.

Your rosy take on government as the first-world fairy godmother doesn’t hold up. Private grit and markets built a lot of what you’re crediting to the state. Roads? Privately funded turnpikes were humming in the U.S. and England long before taxes paved the way. Schools? Pre-1900 America had rising literacy through local efforts and charity. State compulsion came later. Clean water? Private companies in 19th-century Britain piped it in while government dithered. Look at Manchester’s waterworks. You claim everything’s ‘massively better’ with government, but that’s selective amnesia. USDA let tainted meat slide in the 2000s: E. coli outbreaks, dozens dead, while preaching food safety they failed to deliver (even with huge wasteful budgets). TSA’s 95% failure rate catching weapons at airports mocks ‘security.’ Public housing? Decades of neglect turned projects like Chicago’s Cabrini-Green into crime dens; hardly a win for the poor. Don’t get me started on the Fed printing cash to tank the dollar’s value; 40% loss since 2000, while wages stagnate. Then there's our tax-dollars-for-more-worthless-nukes, issue. I could go on forever covering so many failed/backfired government efforts.

Third world woes aren’t just ‘weak government’, they’re often overbearing government. Take Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s regime seized farms, crashed the economy, and sparked hyperinflation: $1 trillion local dollars for a loaf of bread by 2008. Private farmers fed the nation before that; state control starved it. Lack of resources? No, it’s centralized power choking out voluntary fixes.

Government’s not some flawed-but-fixable person: it’s a coercion engine. Democracy’s a shiny wrapper on the same old theft and bungling; voting doesn’t make it accountable, just louder. I’m not asking for perfection. I’m asking why we keep thanking a system that screws up what people could sort out without a boot on their necks.

‘Musk’s on drugs’ doesn’t critique his ideas. It’s a personal swipe at his quirks, not his reasoning. You claim it’s ‘judgment-free’ and ‘factual,’ but pinning ‘bizarre’ on dope instead of meds still skips the substance for a cheap shot while adding a mix of smug tediously-verbose lectures and shaky obvious backpedaling. Logic 101 fail: no professor needed.

Hmm yeah okay (glances at wall of text without reading a word). As I said, you work for me, now (and it's hilarious). Feel free to write another zillion-word reply nobody will ever read. Mission accomplished.

You’re still missing the forest for the trees. I’m not denying EVs might edge out ICE on some metrics, lifetime emissions, maybe noise, but you’re glossing over the core issue: why should government bureaucrats, not individuals, get to decide what’s “better” for us? Freedom’s not about technocrats picking the “best” tech; it’s about letting people choose based on their own lives, not some central planner’s spreadsheet.

Sure, 16k miles sounds snappy for an EV’s break-even point. MIT pegs it closer to 20k for a Tesla Model 3 in the U.S. with today’s grid mix. But that’s not the slam-dunk you think. ICE cars aren’t static; efficiency’s crept up. Think Prius hybrids at 58 mpg. EVs need a clean grid to shine, and coal-heavy states like West Virginia run counter to that. Point is, the gap’s not so wide that it justifies state coercion. People can weigh their own carbon math and driving needs without a nanny.

“Orders of magnitude less damaging” than fossil fuels? That’s a stretch. Lithium brine sucks up 2 million liters of water per ton in places like Chile. 65% of the Atacama region’s water gone to mining. Cobalt’s a mess too. 40,000 kids in Congo mines, per Amnesty. Oil’s dirty, no argument, 34 billion tons of CO2 yearly, but EVs aren’t clean; they just shift the mess elsewhere. Liberty means owning those trade-offs, not having them swept under a subsidized rug.

Yeah, noise bugs people. Studies link it to heart issues, fair enough. But urban noise isn’t just cars; it’s construction, sirens, jets. Animals adapt. birds tweak their songs in cities. Humans cope too; we’ve built mufflers and soundwalls. Forcing EVs to fix this ignores cheaper fixes and assumes government knows your ears better than you do. That’s not freedom; that’s control.

“All government action” isn’t justified just because something’s “significant.” That’s a blank check for tyranny. Ban sugar, mandate kale, why not? The U.S. Constitution limits power for a reason; the Commerce Clause isn’t a free pass to rig markets. Transport matters, sure, but rigging it with taxpayer cash isn’t serving the public; it’s serving agendas. If EVs win on merit, great; don’t need a thumb on the scale.

Oil’s $20 billion global figure is spread thin. U.S. direct subsidies were $4 billion last year. EVs? $15 billion in U.S. credits since 2010, plus $7.5 billion more from the Inflation Reduction Act. Oil wars? Trillions, yes, cut that too. Bailouts? Both sides got them: Tesla’s had loans and tax breaks. Neither’s pure; both distort. Small government says kill all subsidies, not redirect them to your pet tech.

Powers vs. rights: Fine, it’s “powers”. That's still not a license to meddle endlessly. Transport policy can mean roads, safety: neutral stuff. Picking EVs over ICE isn’t neutral; it’s favoritism. You ask what policy doesn’t pick winners? Easy: one that lets markets decide. Tax breaks for EVs, CAFE standards punishing ICE... they’re not “policy”; they’re manipulation. If EVs are superior, consumers’ll figure it out sans force.

You lean on “better” like it’s objective, but it’s not. It’s your value call: less CO2, quieter streets....shoved on everyone via state power. I say let people decide what matters to them, cost, range, whatever. If EVs can’t stand on their own, maybe they’re not as great as you think.

Sounds to me like you slept through civics. The debate isn’t about denying government’s existence. It’s about its limits. When it uses taxpayer cash to strong-arm preferences through subsidies or laws, it’s not ‘governing,’ it’s playing puppeteer. History shows unchecked control breeds inefficiency and resentment, not progress. Take it from Thomas Jefferson: "I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." That’s the real civics lesson; governments serve, they don’t sculpt.

Exactly. It's government policy that we go backwards. They prevent the free market (I cannot buy a BYD) from working with import restrictions and tariffs. They protect bad actors and cheaters. They rig the rules to stomp on the little guy and maximize the profits to their buddies, not who competes the best. They protect & enable the unions who extort producers and drive up prices without adding any value.