Interesting anecdote. We still don't have decent V2H enablement in the UK. By the way, Australian sentiment on EVs has shifted pretty rapidly. While there's obviously lots of loud-mouthed whiners, EVs are now 26% of sales of new cars, which is pretty decent, all told, and is actually a doubling of market share in a single year. Petrol and diesel saw really chunky declines. It helps that solar and battery are spreading so rapidly, so there's significant benefits in fuel savings to be had. The Electric Viking on YouTube covers EV developments generally, but has a lot of Oz-specific stuff because he's Australian.

There is absolutely no safety benefit to having an AM radio built into your car. I could not have been clearer about that in my post. There is absolutely nothing a car's AM radio can do that an emergency AM radio in the back of your trunk can't do just as well or better.

The only reason to insist on having AM radio in a car is so people can listen to it while they're driving. Either for political reasons because billionaire right-wing extremists have taken over AM radio and have for some time or just plain old economics because a bunch of people make their living off of a captive audience of people driving places in a car.

So you can fuck off with your straw man argument that because I'm a left winger I should always back government regulation that appears to be for safety on the face of it. There's this magical thing called nuance that can be used to make decisions that are more complicated than black and white. You ought to try it sometime. But being a right winger you're probably physiologically incapable. I mean that. Multiple studies have shown that right wingers have overactive fear responses and while it's possible to train that out of them our civilization does the exact opposite. So it's all about the knee jerk reactions.

It is kind of funny that you follow my posts enough that you recognize me and know I am a left winger. I frankly have no idea who you are I can only tell that you're a right winger based on the particulars of your post and the rather nasty tone in it. It's that overly high and mighty tone that right winger is always take combined with the love of discovering hypocrisy without actually understanding what hypocrisy is enough that you could figure out that there wasn't any actual hypocrisy in my position. Did you vote Trump all three times or just the two when there was a woman up on the ticket?

It's a victim of its hype. I enjoyed it fine, but I got exactly what I expected. A nostalgia trip, and a pretty decent one.

Comparing it to WFRR isn't fair. That cost almost $200M in 2026 dollars, and I believe it was the most expensive movie in the 1980s. And that's not even comparing fairly. A dollar, even adjusted, doesn't go as far in moviemaking as it did then.

In that context its rating is maybe overblown, sure. But it hit the mark it was aiming for. It's worth watching.

My bias is that while watching these cartoons in the 70s, while my family used the road runner shorts as pee breaks, I loved them the most. Slapstick was my jam.

I was in the 2nd grade when that happened. From my perspective, it was a great novelty and meant we got to take (mostly unnecessary) flashlights to school that we used in the morning walking to our bus stop. It was a hit with the kids I knew. We were disappointed that the "experiment" was stopped.

Meanwhile, in the northern-most states, the kids go to school in the dark now part of the year.

U.S. Banks have managed OK opening after "business hours" start and closing before they end for pretty much the history of the U.S.

Even a few places where it doesn't actually rise in June because it didn't set in the first place and won't for another month or so.

In order to get the numbers that they want it they have to include break-ins not just thefts. Yeah 24/7 surveillance will make it easier to catch somebody who steals your car. We won't do it of course because why the fuck would we but it does make it easier.

But you can't get the numbers from the study with just stolen cars and if somebody breaks into your car no having all that surveillance isn't really going to help. It doesn't help that they know your license plate when your window gets broken in.

As for why the drop in crime besides the fact that crime is way down and keeps going down right around this time the police did a huge huge push going after car break-ins. A shitload of manpower was put to the task that's all this is. Yeah if you want to spend a boatload of money on police to keep your car from being broken in you can do that but the window is going to be a lot cheaper than the taxes you're going to pay for the army of cops needed to enforce that law at the level they're at.

Incidentally they won't be able to keep this up forever so eventually the crime numbers will go back up and when they do I'm sure that we'll get another article somewhere where the police talk about how crime is on the rise and they need more money...

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm so fucking tired of being lied to. And in such fucking obvious ways.

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks. One company bought virtually everything. AM radio is mostly right wing talk shows now. FM radio is the same handful slop music shoved in our faces whether we like it or not pretending to be local radio while owned by clear channel.

You can't shitify a product that much for that long and have anyone give a shit. Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away when it's the exact same content because it's from the exact same mega corporation?

And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more if you're buying a electric car because of the Herculean engineering task needed to make them work around electric car motors.

We spent the last 50 years building out infrastructure for radio. It's called a cell phone. You don't need AM radio in your car anymore.

Yeah sure go ahead and have one of those little radios that you crank and run off batteries. You can even keep on in your car if you want. They are cheap.

But I don't need a bunch of extra expense in my car because a bunch of politicians want to keep talk radio around because it's political useful to them and a bunch of broadcasters want to keep it around because that's how they make their living.

I noticed that people are all in on the market until it's costing them money and then all of a sudden they get real socialist real fast and start running to the government to protect them. The farmers have been doing that for a while. All the small farmers are long since gone because after decades of engineered recessions those guys have long since lost their land to Rich assholes but those Rich assholes keep pretending they're small farmers to get your taxpayer money. It's called the Red Barn illusion.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Definitely yes in this scenario... Maybe it should make more noise... Damn I am blaming the three here. OK, I will shut up.

You get a lot of people with a lot of different views some of which are just fucking stupid and they're only there because the other side wants to murder them.

The Republican party is basically composed of three groups. You've got the racists, you've got the religious lunatics and you have the ultra wealthy who want to screw us all over. That makes them a lot more cohesive and it's less obvious when there is corruption because being corrupt doesn't conflict with the goals of any of those three groups.

The Democrat party is everybody else. That's because America has first passed the post winner take all voting and that means you've got two parties because if you don't you just have one party and a bunch of small parties that keep losing elections.

In the Democrat party when the party is in good shape this kind of corruption is irrelevant because it doesn't make it very far. You'll notice that it's the Democrat party machine in San Francisco that's all in but they're not really going to be able to do much of anything at a state level let alone in national level by themselves. The corrupt elements of the democratic party will partner with the entire Republican party to screw you over.

But if you took out the Republican party the corrupt elements of the democratic party would be pretty fucking weak. It is only by crossing the aisle that they become a problem. This is how you get fuckers like Kirsten Sinema and Fetterment. And they are a problem only because so many people vote Republican that the Democrats have weak majorities if they ever get one.

Too long didn't read, stop voting Republican and the problem solves itself

Ask Jack Smith, but you should wait until the GOP in the senate is done embarrassing themselves trying to perjury trap him.

This is more like worrying when someone successfully brute forces a 6 bit RSA key (which has been doable for a very long time. 6 bits isn't much space to do an exhaustive search in).

>"A browser that does not support ad blocking is a non-starter. You simply can't use today's Internet without ad blocking in place."

I agree. It is why you should use Firefox + UBO, or one of its forks (LibreWolf, WaterFox, whatever). But that is why I said the use case is for things like a wiki, documentation, appliances, or for testing. The same type of things one might do with Dillo.

You have to put up with shitty software for at least 5 or 10 years while your guys catch up.

As crappy as Windows 11 is Teams mostly works now. Microsoft kept getting their asses handed to them by other software companies and because they have limitless money from the office and windows monopolies they can just keep plugging away until they get it which they did.

Other software is still better but teams has finally achieved good enough. And good enough is always good enough.

When you start I new a software package out it is not going to be good enough. So you are the pour money into it until it is or you just force everybody to use it until eventually it gets fixed.

Or you stop using it and you go back to the Monopoly from a nation that is rapidly becoming fascist and hostile to your Nation...