Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.

The Biden Administration was “Round Two”, the return of Trump will bring Round Three.

50s / M / North America and I lived “Ye Old Days” when A/S/L was created.

Another vote for Reolink, especially the models with ONVIF support.

Now they’ll move away from EVs with support from the federal government.

Nah, the Big Three have quite a few EV and PHEV models coming over the next 24 months plus Volvo with PoleStar and VW with Scout and several more. EV’s aren’t going anywhere.

According to the sales data I can find Norway has about 130,000 new car sales a year. That’s about 1/4th of California’s 35% goal.

California is much higher scale and that was the point of my post.

I don’t understand the comments attacking Toyota when no auto manufacturer with the exception of Tesla can even get close to the goal. There are approximately 1.6 Million new cars sold in California every year so %35 percent of that is 560,00. Then the next year in 2027 the goal is 43%, and the year after that it’s 51% until by 2035, just 11 years from now, ALL new vehicles sold in California are required to be ZEV.

To give you some scope Tesla makes about 1.6 Million EVs a year globally and the “Big Three” made a piddling 200,000 or so COMBINED in 2023.

So the 2025 goal would require nearly half of Tesla’s entire global output to be sold exclusively in California and by 2027 it would require that PLUS the combined EV output of Ford, GM, and Chrysler. There literally wouldn’t be a single EV for sale anywhere else in the country.

We can scream and fling poo about the domestic auto makers dropping the ball but that doesn’t change the impossible nature of California’s regulations. I don’t see any way at all to meet the 2025 goal and nothing will have changed by 2026.

All this law is going to do is force buyers to out of state dealerships. That’s it.

Which is ironic because the United States has been dealing with the reverse problem for at least two years now! People get to Canada and then walk across the northern border and grab a bus / cab / uber into New York. Cash Jordan, a youtuber in New York City, did a video on this earlier in the year.

Huh, this is pretty interesting. I wonder if there’s a way to set an Android device to auto-reboot if it hasn’t had a network connection or been unlocked after a preset length of time.

It would be nice if it was but they needed to stop production for 18ish months while they retooled the plant and more importantly put some polish on their ultrium driveline.

Yes I do.

People are correct in not wanting to die for politicians and imaginary lines on a map.

It’s a great philosophy but if all of your neighbors don’t follow it then you end up being forcibly hijacked.

I wish the United States would end it’s embargo with Cuba. The moves toward doing that were, IMHO, one of the bright spots of the Obama Administration.

As a libertarian myself Milei is an idiot for following the United States on this. True libertarians, not those Mises Caucus assholes, are generally not okay with these kinds of trade barriers.

There’s no such thing as a market so controlled that it’s immune to inflation. The Russian Ruble is as controlled as a currency can be and Russia is teetering on the edge of hyper-inflation. It’s core inflation rate is over 9% and their version of the “Prime Rate” for lending has now jumped from 19% to a historic 21%.

China has more breathing room than Russia but it’s still not going to be pretty, especially if this “bailout” fails.

Don’t they have many trillions in reserves?

Right now China has about 3.2 trillion in ForEx of all kinds and currencies which means that this bailout represents nearly half of the total.

ForEx is an extremely complicated subject, way too much for a single post, but it is essentially the lubricant for trade. If you don’t have enough of it in the right currency on an hourly (or less) basis to support your imports and exports then the machine will seize up.

So what China is doing here is risky as hell and if it doesn’t work they will soon have the same kind of financial problems that Iran does and that is stupendously bad for an export based economy.

2016 was an absolute shit show on Reddit. It was a dogfight between the Bernie Bros and the Trumpers until Bernie got knocked out of the primaries then knocked off Reddit by CTR. Then it was a dogfight between the ShillDawgs and the MAGAts with the t_d’ers eventually coming out on top because of their willingness to endlessly game the Reddit algorithm.

Where do you go for such discussions anyway?

The closest I’ve ever found was a heavily moderated sub on Reddit. I have no idea if its still any good or not because I haven’t been there in over a year.

This type of nonsense is happening everywhere online. Real people who are organically participating will almost always engage on a wide variety of topics and issues; any social media account on any network that spends the majority of it’s time focused on a single politicized issue or viewpoint can be assumed to be a sock puppet or a shill.

In short any account that hyper-focus on a single issue or viewpoint for more than a day or two is likely not organic and if it is organic then it’s likely toxic; either way you should avoid them.

American isn’t buying Iran’s bombs and there’s no amount of hysterical hand waving you can do to get over that fact.

If they show up I hand out the candy and I’ve been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there’s no need in making it harder on them.