The Type I plug was developed by the US government but blocked in Congress during the FDR administration by the Republicans and southern Democrats on the basis that it was a change from the multiple different outlets being used at the time. The 3 core plug didn’t become standard until 1965.

But that’s what they’ve always done. The NES used a 6502 processor that no one used anymore, and the Sega a Z80 after CP/M went the way of dinosaurs. The Xbox and PS2 used out of date Pentium processors.

They’ll block everything and demand stupid things like all coal mines closed in 12 months or all ICE cars banned by 2026. Hardly any legislation will get passed, just like under Julia Gillard.

Well I guess we’ll agree with China then over that disputed border.

India’s problems aren’t Europe’s problems.

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Everyone seems to have forgotten the tractor parade in the first presidency, a spectacle usually reserved for the most impoverished Soviet satellite states.

Why are people using word processors at all ? They’re only used to print letters on paper.

Its not about Google services, its because the US government may prohibit foreign manufacturers from using Android.

Huawei has already produced an OS which is not a fork of Android.

The importer buys in large quantities so the landed price is lower hence lower tariff bill.

as much as tariffs are a comically bad self-own, I’d actually be happy if this means even a fractional decrease in Temu’s non-stop generation of landfill waste.

Heh. Tariffs will result in more poor qualtiy goods, not less.

Its enough to prove the concept.

If it saves 1% of operating costs trucking businesses will be falling over themselves to implement it.

They already are automated trains on freight only routes like mines.

Not much competition in railways. Like literally none.

Why do you think a morbidly obese truck driver would have any luck against blaggers with shotguns ?

You take them then. They are absolute pigs.

There are still plenty of white people in Zimbabwe.

You think these losers are going to be buying anything ?

We have these arseholes in Australia and they are barely capable of cleaning bogs.

Syria is next.

did horrible things to their children (especially twins),

No they only did that to gypsies.

When there was an outbreak of cholera in London in the 18th century, leading physicians of the time came up with the idea that sewerage was creating a “deadly miasma” and advised people to move to the country. This of course simply spread the outbreak to the rural areas where it was even more deadly.

The London sewerage system was created to deal with miasma, it wasn’t until late in the 19th century that it was discovered that cholera was spread from contaminated water supplies.