V8s exist strictly for the sound, they have no other purpose. Inline 6 engines have much less vibration and are more efficient which is why almost all big trucks use them. Its only when you get to locomotive size you start finding V engines due to packaging requirements for the displacement.

"The rest of the world is rapidly shifting to EVs"

Actually its not. The push to EVs is being pushed back against in europe and it looks like the EV only mandated year will be changed. Only Norway has gone full EV so far. As for south american, africa, most of asia except china and australia - forget it, they're happy with ICEs for the forseable.

Liquid fuels can be transported, high voltage high power electricity can't - you need upgraded infrastructure which costs plus you need the extra generating capacity and we're not talking a few percent on what exists already, we're talking a doubling minimum.

"Actually I find flights to Asia rather cheap and empty during that time of the year, so that's where i usually end up."

So clearly your conversion to EVs isn't for enviromental reasons then. Any flight is equivalent to each passenger driving a small car the same distance in CO2 output.

They have been ever since the dual clutch transmission was invented, but that rather misses the point. Shifting gears yourself is fun (ok, maybe not in nose to tail traffic but on the open road...) and makes you feel more involved in the driving process. Its not for everyone but some of us like it.

So taking out a murdering psycho who's killed hundreds of thousands , possibly millions of his own people is a crime? I'd take a good look at your moral compass pal.

Which particular crimes would those be? Be specific.

Thanks ChatGPT.

Given trump has won 2 elections that's a lot of people who agree with his spiel so not sure why you think these stations wouldn't have listeners for his brand of politics.

Let's just hope Trump doesnt pull his next punch like he did in Venezuala. He needs to finish the job, not recall the forces just because he nailed the geriatric psychopath in charge.

Scary how? Facial recognition is already used here in the UK and has been for a few years:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2F...

Its no different to what was before which was a load of people watching CCVTV screens. And guess what - a load of criminals have been nicked because of it. But hey, Freedom to ... [something[! More important, right?

As for AI weapons ... err , the military have been using image and other types of recognition for targeting systems for a loooong time. Its going to move to smaller footprint systems when you like it or not and if you don't do it then china will anyway.

Go ahead, mod me down, you guys don't like the truth unless it fits with your ideology. US left and right are 2 sides of the same worn out coin.

Could have been a number of things that suddenly occur, eg appendix.

To be fair, when DVDs were designed all TVs were CRTs and the outpht from the player was analogue. Because of this there was always subtle low pass filtering on video so the artifacts are less noticeable. With high precision LCDs it's a different story especially if it's a pure digital signal path via hdmi.

Sacking all the workers and replacing them with Altmans masturbary fantasy AI bots isn't going to make those people go away - they'll still be consuming the same amount of water and food so his whole argument is specious beyond belief.

Whenever I see the words "passionate", "proactive", "results driven", "team player" etc on a CV I want to barf and if I'm vetting them they head for the bin.