The fully electric cars available can do 200-350 miles on a full charge. Sure, not enough for those going on long trips, but my own commute of 135 miles round trip to/from work means that I could go with almost any full EV available on the market. My commute makes taking public transportation a really BAD option, a minimum of 15 minutes to drive to a train station, and I would need to transfer once, with a minimum of three hours each way(get on the train, go over an hour, transfer, take another 30 minutes to get to the station, then public transportation to get to the office. That doesn't take into account the extra time of getting to the train station early to make sure I can park, get to the train, any delays for the train, etc.

Trump always chickens out, and anything unpopular will be put on hold if there's nothing he personally benefits from.

The actual "article" starts with:
Thousands of American investors have lost millions of dollars to sophisticated pump-and-dump schemes involving small Chinese companies listed on Nasdaq, prompting the Justice Department to declare the fraud a priority under the Trump administration's white-collar enforcement program.

Because it brings the Justice Department into this and talks about the Trump administration having a "white-collar enforcement program", this certainly invites and even encourages people to look at the scams that Donald Trump and his family have been pushing, from a garbage crypto-currency scam designed to allow foreigners to bribe Donald Trump by buying something worthless, just to make Trump listen to them.

It's more that TDS applies more to those who continually defend and support someone who is clearly against what is in the US Constitution and refuses to even follow the directives of the US Supreme Court.

And Trump has zero good faith. Everyone knows that he is the most corrupt president the USA has ever had, but Republicans refuse to do what is right and hold him to the same standards they would hold a Democrat to.

We need ICE to pick up Melania and deport her due to her application for residency in the USA being done improperly(someone was bribed into allowing it).

You know that all of that nonsense about "efficiency" that reduced the teams that go after cyber crimes in the department of justice just encourages China, Russia, and North Korea to attack our infrastructure. So, Trump has all of this going on so he won't get prosecuted once he is out of office, but you also have foreign governments now encouraging hacking groups to attack ANYTHING in the USA they possibly can.

The big problem is that these studios are so afraid of risk, they don't even try anything different. Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Showtime, and the other streaming services do have more variety, which is why they are still around.

You can go a bit further into the problem, when they release 20 movies a year, three can do poorly, three can do really well, and fourteen of them can do "ok", meaning they don't make a lot, but they don't lose much either. The result is though, that people keep going to the movies because there is variety. Now, over the years, these studios have dropped how many movies they make per year, and that means they don't want to run a risk of even one movie being a flop. So, we get "more of the same", and that means, more people decide to just wait for it to become available to watch at home, because the options generally suck.

If you aren't willing to take a risk, then you will never get these movies that really amaze people because the story and characters are really well written. Nope, it's just bland garbage. Netflix cut back on their development, and will probably be feeling it before too much longer, because without a LOT of different content, many don't find enough to justify the monthly cost.

I can still hear it in my head, "Welcome to MoviePhone...."

There is a huge difference between AI that gives false information and AI that only provides factual information. If what AI comes up with is full of "that doesn't really exist!" situations when you go through to verify the output from AI, then people clearly should not be substituting AI for real workers. For lawyers, how many of them are using AI to generate legal briefs that cite cases that don't exist? If AI is giving you stuff that works, that's useful, but with the number of reports about AI just inventing things to please the user but that do not really exist, then AI can't be trusted.

Both of these things can be scaled up to deal with the issues at hand, but politicians are so limited in thinking about what will happen in the next 2-4 years that planning for things 20 years out is lost on them. This is why the issue is hitting us today, because of people who don't understand planning for the future.

Sea walls, while expensive, would help prevent cities from ending up underwater. Desalination plants to pull in a lot of water could be used to not only irrigate land areas that have been having issues with a lack of rainfall, but also to keep the rising sea levels from causing a lot of damage.

You must be relatively young. Back before the days of streaming, we had the challenge of checking through all of the TV networks and cable channels to find what new stuff was going to be coming out that looked interesting, but at the same time, the majority of them had VERY VERY little content that was original. Netflix having an insane amount of original content made it the go-to for streaming in the modern era, and while it doesn't offer quite as much, there's still a lot of content there. Amazon Prime as well, then you have the HBO and Showtime originals. So, things weren't too bad, until...Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, Peacock, Paramount. The thing is though, it's only been for the past five years or so that people feel they need to check Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, Peacock, and Paramount for original content.

There was also a dip in original content caused by Covid, so the 2020-2023 time period caused a lot of programming to either be delayed or cancelled.

You claim "The West", but when you have the Chinese government subsidizing cars just to allow for very low prices, that is the perfect place where tariffs would normally be justified. It's not the same as "in the West" where governments pump money into auto makers who then keep the prices high just to increase their profits. The safety regulations in many "Western" nations are much more demanding than what you get out of China. These Chinese vehicles, do they have more than two airbags for the front and nothing for passengers in the rear seats for example?

Frontloading sales happens all the time, and then the company has to deal with lower sales for the rest of the year. This is how the executives make their money, they dump shares between when the results are released and when the forecast for the rest of the year is released.

Sales tax, tariffs, and other taxes are how everyone is getting his by taxes. But, why do the so-called conservatives continually push for tax breaks on the very wealthy who pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes compared to those who make $50,000 per year?