News is that the divorce has already started.

The EU problem is more that the regulations are way too tight making innovation and development harder. Many cases of regulations and limitations are caused by misdirected environmental concerns where the intent is to preserve the current state but with the result that everything just starts to decay instead.

I'd say that a more limiting factor is the electrical system rather than garage space.

Many homes and the local grid/transformers aren't dimensioned to handle that load.

Many countries runs out of water because during the last century there have been an excessive draining of wetlands to increase the areas where crop can grow. The downside is that the ground water table suffers and sinks all the time now because the water is sent off into the sea instead of getting enough time to get into the ground.

The AI is more wrong than right in many searches that should be simple so I have started to totally ignore those results and not even do a thumbs down because it's not worth my time to teach that AI what it does right or wrong.

I see that the potential for Godwin's Law exists on LLMs now.

That's what you get when you name your rear end by the name of a Greek god

Giveen that it must have had some pretty serious history given the axial tilt I'm not that surprised.

Never rule out that there is a successor that he has in his mind but it's in a sealed envelope and the successor don't have a clue that he's the successor.