Billionaires, you have to have faith that they are on your side. As an atheist I have some difficulty with faith in this context.

The term is Trumped up.

Definitely surprised that the incompetent administration allowed this.

I noticed that he had a thick bulletproof screen on the podium on Saturday. Maybe he thinks he’s riled a few people.

There are so many critical jobs that Americans just won’t do and the far right racists are hell bent to cause a major economic collapse with no food production, no restaurants, no garbage collection, no parcel delivery…… It’s how to Make America Grate

They are part of the climate change hoax, eliminating is necessary!

I thought the job was always difficult and dangerous. Just look at the weapons and body armour they wear.

Did they use the the H word or is that a word too far?

Really it’s just misdirection. You’re winning the Ukraine argument so start a new thread about something else. It just shows Russian doctrine at work, keep lying and keep people guessing about what might happen. Rattling nuclear weapons is another example.

Sounds like Russia and China.

We have mobile mobile phone detection cameras in Australia. They move them around and set them up in different locations. They seem to have a impact, not the least in revenue from fines. An added benefit is that they detect whether seatbelts are being worn too.

Protected by the rule of law maybe a better way to express it. The current holder of the office of President is destroyer of the rule of law.

The current mob seems have lost sight of the fact that citizens are supposed to belong in the USA and are protected by the constitution. The really interesting thing is how quickly all these public servants have accepted illegal orders.

You would have thought that the court would have noticed by now that Trump has been ruling by decree in defiance of the Constitution so there probably was some likelihood that the lower court was on to something.

Only one way to view it, disastrous for Musk, the US government, the US people and the world. To think that someone could wreak so much damage in such a short time with so little regard for the consequences is staggering.

Sounds like doomish stuff. We innovate all the time. If copper and lithium are short supply items then technology will morph to use something else.

Almost all cars and products have call home features in them these days. Car companies are putting kill switches in to stop delinquent purchasers. The trick is to manage them rather than whinge about them. If you know they are there then manage the network and environment to limit the risk.

Well, the future has arrived in the US but not everywhere else 😬

ICE are public servants and are knowingly breaking the law by obeying illegal orders. The Nuremberg trials dealt with that following orders stuff.

Apparently concrete water tanks, the type on a lot of rural houses, are naturally fluoridated. My kids have really good teeth which was a surprise given the number of fillings I had as a child.