nomadpete

I do find websearching to find real world experience of EV ownership very frustrating. Reading forums brand and blogs, well they all seem to rave about long term greatness. Then you find out that for most people, two years is long term! I realise these cars haven't been around very long, but most people seem to only keep cars a couple of years. My present cars are 18 -19yr and circa 300,000k. Not worn out yet!

Good onya Marty. Our choice is limited by needing AWD for our driveway. This limits us to more expensive cars - dual motor and more (unnecessary) bells n whistles. Presently looking a KIA 5 and Skoda. Really liked the big Zeeka, too. Not in a rush. Still waiting to see what's on the market later in the year. So far, our solar/battery is exporting enough surplus to cover an EV charger.

The word 'Bogans' comes to mind..... the current generation 'tru blu Ozzies"

The above was rhetorical. Back to What has Trump done? My big concern is 'What happens next'? Whilst the world focused on 'What has Trump done now', in the background project 2025 has been steadily progressing. What does that mean? Soon, when Trump is gone, how will the US administration proceed, now the old checks and balances are gone? I really have no idea, but from my limited knowledge, I cannot see a silver lining to the cloud of doubt.

Wait up..... I'm confused ...... I'll have to go back and find some episodes of 'Blue Hills' and 'Dad n Dave'...... that should clear this up.

So, since Trump is saving the world from the spread of mass killings and nuclear weapons, when can we expect him to make Israel give up their nuclear weapons?

Maybe this airline incident belongs in the Accidents and Incidents forum (Over the fence). But it is rather random. BTW, if it isn't accompanied by a human assistance animal, is a two year old robot classified as an unaccompanied minor? https://abc7news.com/post/humanoid-robot-named-bebop-causes-southwest-airlines-flight-delay-oakland-san-francisco-bay-airport/19016906/

I think gerrymandering is a separate issue. The don't have preferential voting in US but still squabble about gerrymandering.

Settle down, Nev. That's discriminatory. Yes, the parent site is all about flying. But this is the Off Topic corner. Play the topic, not the man.

Hey guys! Wanna bet? https://polymarket.com/event/trump-out-as-president-before-2027

Sort of related to 'Artificial Intelligence'. But really about the use of algorithms to influence politics. "It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016 that Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency the last time. A peer-reviewed study released yesterday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald Trump and the GOP." Also note a mention about Qld University study. The link is to a long read, but still interesting background to the modern divided society. https://hartmannreport.com/p/was-the-2024-election-stolen-not-38a

Well, late to the party. So is Toyota. I reckon it will hinge on Ford's ability to make better assembly robots than the present Chinese robots. Hence the 'T model' comparison. Tech changes fast these days. Good luck with that.

Yes. Inland Rail was planned through to Brisbane after going through my mother-in-law's place at Gowrie Junction (near Wellcamp). The Range tunnel was to start at Gowrie. That last bit would have been a big slice of budget. I still think it would have been a good investment.

However, to balance the above..... Since September last year, the US military has conducted 47 strikes on civilians marine vessels travelling in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, leading to over 190 deaths. No criminal trials, no evidence provided to the public to justify the violence, merely an arbitrary allegation of terrorism with no transparency nor accountability for who they have summarily executed. The USA then sent its military into Caracas, killing more than 80 people, to abduct the President of Venezuela and replace him with a compliant proxy. It then commenced a military campaign against Iran that has already killed thousands, without even attempting to conduct themselves within the parameters of international law. The UN Security Council was not consulted, and no evidence has been provided to support its flimsy attempts of retrospective justification. The US President has made genuine threats to invade Greenland, Panama, and Cuba, without ever once bothering to even pretend to discuss a legal justification for the hostility. People who live in glass houses......

Comment dredged from the interwebbything... Today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the world's media and made the following statement about Iran: “This is an international waterway, No country can control them. There is no international law that allows you to say, I’m going to put mines in an international body of water, and I’m going to blow up ships that don’t listen to us and try to go through.” “We cannot live in a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim, as a new normal, control over an international shipping lane,” I agree with him.