I urge you to head over to Conservative gathering places like r/Conservative and see how they think these theatrics in inability to even stay on his own message are signs of his political genius,.

MAGA is a religion, a sort of neo-Pharaohism, where Trump is given the same god-like powers as kings like Ramses or Alexander the Great. He is incapable in their eyes of anything short of complete brilliance, so that even when it's clear he's a moron, they take that evidence of intense terminal stupidity as a sign of just how powerful his brilliance is.

Who they are owned by is what they actually are. Everything else is window dressing. Welcome to Capitalism. Money makes the rules, money enforces the rules, money calls the shots. They are Chinese companies with Swedish or British designers.

That's abject nonsense. American Bison failed at being easily monetizable food, or put another way, at being compatible with crony capitalism. That's why we killed off damned near all of them except a herd in Yellowstone which later was bred out and provided the genetics for all of the now-extant Bison ranching operations. They were a threat to fences for cows and other livestock, and to farming operations, and a food source for native tribes, so our government paid to exterminate them.

Yes, and "all" you have to do to manage it is put it in a bag. As in one of those bags they use as water "tanks". And then you use a membrane to separate the methane, and flare off the other gases. Let it sit for just a few months and it becomes harmless (the pathogens are destroyed by the heat of decomposition) and valuable fertilizer.

Obviously this is only practical in feedlots and similar, but there's a lot of waste from those which is currently put into a holding pool and then flushed into a waterway after an inadequate period.

When's the last time anyone offered one of those?

The F150 lightning isn't selling because it's expensive, but still is shitty at doing truck things. Towing range is piss-poor for example. People who buy expensive trucks absolutely do tow with them, because they own boats and travel trailers and whatnot.

The new Chev/GMC electric pickups might do better, because they have something more like adequate towing range. That remains to be seen though, since they are just hitting the market.

No, it's because it won't have to compete with any foreign-built vehicles, because of the chicken tax. They're not going to let any Chinese brands in here* any time soon, so long as the big American automakers pay the right bribes.

* Except Volvo of course, since that was already here.

The connector will be an OBD-II connector, by law.

We can of course disagree over which protocol will be used with it instead.

Everybody is locking down their PCMs now even on ICEVs to prevent tuning. Ford was actually one of the last holdouts, but even they started doing it recently.

It's still called extortion by anyone who is not a maggot cultist.

My lady is a supertaster. She can taste many notes in various foods that other people cannot. It doesn't make her hate everything. Her sister hates everything — she's also a liar. No clarity on whether her aversion to everything is neurosis or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. I'm only sure she's a liar.

About ten years ago I was working late at night on a server switchover at my office. Starting maybe around 9pm I start hearing this beeping that sounded like a UPS on battery. I poked around the office, when into the server room, looking for this damned UPS. I decided it had to be next door, so I went on with my work. I went out about a half hour later for some fresh air, and there was a guy on the front steps with a laptop and a very large UPS. He apologized, said he was using our wifi (we had a public SSID for clients), and his laptop battery was dead so he'd borrowed a UPS. Here he was, UPS alarm blaring in his ear, a 25lb UPS, sitting on a concrete step in the pitch dark for free Internet.

The next day I set the schedule on the access point to shut down Internet at 5pm.

(P.S. And yes, you're right, I wrote that backwards previously. Apologies. The salient point is that they merged memory spaces that were formerly separate and that's what made NT unreliable all those years.)

That's not true at all. It's just scarce and therefore expensive. For example every report I've ever read of the flavor of the meat of big cats has been positive. But they tend to be protected species, and anyway there's just not enough of them for us to all eat. Carnivore meat is desirable but inefficient.

I agree that it's economic reasons, but if those are only "promotions" then they are temporary improvements. They will need to keep the low-cost options to keep the customer traffic. Almost nobody eats at McDeeznutz because it's their favorite food, at least once they grow up and discover that there's real food that's a lot better. They eat there because it's cheap. I stopped eating there when McChickens were no longer $1. The only reason I ever ate there was that it was cheap, I stopped when it was no longer the cheapest option.

Wendy's figured this out and instituted "biggie bags" which are basically kids' meals for adults, there's no toy in the bag but they are cheap and they're based on items they can still make a profit on. McDonalds had it figured out, then forgot, and now seems to have figured it out again.

Neither of you have shown that these are not purely psychological preferences. This doesn't mean that people's preferences aren't real, because our brains are real and our minds are in there. Subconscious associations matter, you can't just hand-wave them away, so I'm not arguing that people's preferences are wrong or fake because they are psychological. But on the other hand, even at least some genetic preferences are mutable, for example people who are genetically disposed to tasting cilantro as soapy can change their perception through exposure.