After a year+ wait, my Son-in-Law told delivery of one he's used for about 6 months, now. I've ridden in it a number of times an it rides and handles like a fairly heavy truck. I don't entirely understand torque curves but he had at about 45 mph and floored it whereupon it accelerated like a Porsche going up to 70 in about 3 seconds. He took it up to Maine and back without charging, a round trip of about 220 miles and it still had plenty of charge left in the batteries.

It's impressive but very, very pricey and my Son-in-Law normally uses it to commute to his office about 10 minutes away. Personally, I can think of better ways to spend $90,000 for a commuting vehicle.

Don't feel bad; this is the ad I've been forced to look at for the past several weeks. This is one link I am NOT going to click on.

Good point! Since everything we buy today, from garage door openers to toasters to bird feeders are Blue Tooth enabled, why aren't fobs? For my new car, Honda wanted to charge me a monthly subscription for their advanced electronic features like roadside assistance. Needless to say, I offered them the same answer as when they asked if I wanted the extended warranty on the car.

How true! Like most states, New Hampshire has a law against using a cell phone while driving (we call ours a "distracted driving" ban) but I've never seen it enforced even though it's easy to spot such a driver as you noted. Since it's easy to check the phone records to see if a driver was on a phone while in an accident, I suppose it would be good to use in a lawsuit if you were suing someone who hit you. I wonder if the insurance companies have done this as a legitimate way to get out of paying a claim? In fact, do insurance companies refuse to pay for claimed damages if the insured motorist was DUI and the cause of the accident?

If the Apple Photos software isn't enough, you might look into Affinity Photo. Unlike Photoshop, it's has a one-time purchase price rather than a monthly subscription. It's still as complex as Photoshop, though.

Sounds like you're looking for more advanced capabilities than Apple Photos offers. If so, you're simply going to have to put in the hours and effort to learn one of the better processing softwares. Or, you could simply wait until there's an AI photo finishing software available and simply ask it to, "make this photo look better."

Amen! Thanks to poor design and construction, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is $1.8 billion over budget, years behind schedule and has yet to carry a human even a few feet off the ground. I sure hope that craft's door panel doesn't blow out when its passengers are somewhere between the earth and the moon.

Thank you for adding a little logic to the "continuously being replenished" statement. It took millions of year's worth of organic matter being subjected to tremendous underground pressures for millions of years to turn vegetation into oil. We've used up a considerable volume of that oil in only a 150 years or so and it's not like our compost piles are going to turn into oil any time soon.

In my former employment we promoted ultrasonic cleaners as a replacement for solvent based cleaners. To remove greases and oils, water can work quite well if surfactants and saponofiers are added to the water. Thing is, the formula for those additives is fairly specific to the particular dirt or greases being removed. Let us know what you end up buying, if they’re affordable I’d likely get a small one for jewelry, eye glasses and camera filters (I certainly wouldn’t recommend immersing a whole lens, though).

I think Bison Bud's right; Peacock must have paid the NFL a boatload of money and personally, I hope they lose their shirts over this deal. Does Peacock make its customers suffer through advertising? I could see paying a streaming service a fee for non-advertisement programming considering how network TV loads the football games with so many ads you sometimes forget what teams you're watching.

During the ice age, the average global temperature was 46 degrees. That’s about 9 degrees colder than the start of the 20th century. While it took the last 24,000 years to warm up those 9 degrees, it’s taken only 150 years to warm up another 2 degrees. G****l w*****g wouldn’t be a problem if it rose at a natural rate but now it’s increasing so fast that we and the rest of the plants and animals don’t have time to adapt.

Agreed; India and China are the worst offenders although America runs third and the rest of world is only paying lip service to emissions reductions. Basically, we're on a path we can't change any time soon and there's no way we can implement any effective strategies on a global scale. I guess we should just follow Omar Khayyam's philosophy of "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." Kinda s**tty for future generations, though.

So what's the answer for the car emissions problem? Cars represent the planet's single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions; far more than power plants, arctic methane releases, industrial sources, etc. I don't want to get into an argument about the validity of human contributions to c*****e c****e but even the nay sayers admit c*****e c****e exists and if we can reduce its effects to leave a viable planet to our grand children, shouldn't we?

In the late 1800's when steam (and even electric) were the chief automobile power sources, gas cars were in the same position as EVs, today. We just need to improve the technology or find a better one. Unfortunately, we can't waste 50 years waiting to see what comes along.

Ha! What a great example. Along with using up every other resource, the Easter Islanders cut down every last tree on the island thus making escape impossible. I wonder if their priests and ruling elite told them, “Don’t worry about how we’ll live; just keep making statues and the gods will provide. Trust us.”

Any time you post or respond to a topic, that post is permanently stored in your “Watched Topics” section. I still have a few 10-year old posts stored in mine because they have information or links I don’t want to lose. I could easily resurrect one by adding a new response to it. One possible explanation, I suppose.

It’s just as likely all intelligent civilizations follow our same path with a runaway reproduction rate over-utilizing resources until it collapses before establishing itself on other planets. It’s only taken us 150 years to go from a sustainable, agricultural population to one that’s turning the planet into a wasteland in an out-of-control rush to squeeze every last food and energy source from the planet. What’s going to come first for us; interstellar travel or a collapse of our unsustainable civilization? Looks like the latter, to me.