The manufacturers definitely have a large share of the blame, but people still have the agency to make better choices.

Thanks for doing this.

Also, I’m not surprised to see Canada absent from the list (as is tradition…)

I haven’t looked recently. Didn’t know they now ship globally.

I feel extremely lucky to have been able to retire when I was laid off after 30 years at the telecom company I used to work for.

The guys who are still there have been on a roller coaster of crazy in the last couple of years.

What are the technical obstacles to be overcome,

Its not a technical obstacle preventing me from having one.

The companies that make the ones that do exist won’t offer them for sale on my continent.

AFAIK, none of the Linux phone brands seem interested in the North American market.

I assume it is partly because the phone hardware market here is so tightly controlled by the carriers and is heavily integrated with the service plans.

It’s almost impossible to go into a phone shop and buy just the hardware without it being bundled to a plan.

And, as is tradition, they don’t appear to have any way to buy it in Canada…

I hate that Tesla has become the go-to brand when people think “electric vehicle”.

Even though there aren’t many options in North America, those options are better cars in so many ways.

But the US hasn’t even done that…

And continues to stubbornly refuse to.

This is a repeat of the '70s when fuel prices shot up, and people started buying fuel efficient Japanese cars.

The American manufacturers just continued making their land yachts and muscle cars until they came up with such innovations as the Ford Pinto or the AMC Gremlin…

And even those weren’t as fuel efficient as the average Toyota or Honda or Datsun of the era.

Ford, GM and Stelantis are going to just keep pumping out SUVs as fast as they can with only the occational token EV that doesn’t meet what the market demands.

Mustang drivers or pickup truck drivers aren’t the ones most actively seeking an EV.

They need to come up with an EV that competes with a Corolla. Or one that is in the same ballpark as the BYD cars. Not on price alone - no North America based manufacturer can compete directly on price against a subsidizd Chinese company, but on the being a car part.

their obligation to continue to pay American taxes for what amounts to no benefit.

I thought Americans didn’t like “taxation without representation”…

The new American dream: to move away from the nightmare that America has become.

Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the end of times multiple times.

They’re one of so many who pull the same scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

Then it changed into “no one really knows when it will happen”.

Meanwhile grifters have been predicting the exact date and time (and making money off those predictions) for centuries.

the TV star would be an absolute failure as president.

He wasn’t even very good at being a TV personality.

The producers and editors had to work overtime to make him look competent, sane and non-racist.

2. A large portion of American Evangelicals genuinely believe that by supporting Israel they are helping to bring about armageddon.

AKA, death cultists who are eager to kill us all.

more of a tool for manufacturing consent

What else is religion most of the time?

sanctity of life

Unless that life happens to have brown skin, or is wearing a uniform…

Does that mean he has actually lost support, or they have just got real quiet about their ongoing support for him?

It won’t for a few generations, and that’s only if we at least attempt to bring the architects to justice and go after MAGA and its supporters like the Nazis they are

It is refreshing to hear that there are some Americans who understand that.

International relations with the US don’t automatically become awesome after Trump is out of power (regardless how that exit happens).

You guys need to fix the stuff he broke, punish his co-conspirators and fix the systems that allowed someone like Trump gain the power to do what he has done.

That is going to take longer than a single reasonable president’s term.

The rest of the world needs to be able to trust that the USA won’t go down this road again.

or better still, just use a lot less of it.

Ultimately that would be the winning strategy.