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.

Just goes to show when you let billionaire megalomaniacs run large public services you have them trying to create a world to suit themselves.

You have to be careful what you wish for given that you are only president for so long. Eventually you could be hoist on your own petard.

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.

We are supposed to trust our governments however it is pretty obvious that a Trump could come along and seriously misuse the backdoors that were said to be necessary to protect us. It doesn’t matter if you trust the current mob, it’s a rogue future mob we have to guard against.

I suppose people won’t see the irony of the rapist, convicted fraudster, impeached president’s policies being endorsed by a serial killer.

Pretty amazing, the NZ conservatives mount a major attack on Māori and are then intimidated by haka. Snowflakes.

There are a couple of things about battery storage, a grid built on renewables needs ride through capacity and it needs to be able to meet surges in demand. In fact all grids do. Batteries do that and remove the need for hot standby gas generators but at the moment due to lack of capacity, not all fossil fuel generators. A lot of focus is on batteries as the backup for loss of wind or sun, the spread of renewables over a large geographical area and interconnected grids provides greater assurance.

Lots being installed around Australia and are a lot cheaper than gas power generation for covering peaks.

That’s where batteries and other storage systems come into play.

Isn’t porn a staple of the religious conservative? I’m sure they will vote for this in the belief that it doesn’t apply to them.

I suspect that everybody is currently unsafe in the US.

If he has turned Nazi then I probably wouldn’t both to listen to them anymore.

He’s divided his own country but unites others in unique way to oppose him. What a leader. Will he last all 4 years or will people panic enough to remove him?

Well the US won’t be exporting to Europe,Canada or Australia as they all demand to know the score.

Usually when someone is parachuted into a seat where they don’t live, the locals are usually not pleased.

A really interesting but disturbing read. I hadn’t realised that the rich are manipulated like the rest of us by other rich people. It’s also interesting that they chose Signal for a lot of these chats over WhatsApp.