I also spend a good bit of time on my laptop. BUT I also REFUSE to use the internet on my phone. Don't need to have it clogged up with ads etc.

while I was in the Army in 1970 I was stationed in Thailand. Just prior to my return to USA, I ordered a 1970 Dodge Challenger 340. Upon my return stateside, I went to a Chrysler dealership in Detroit and picked it up. My wife was thrilled with the whole process 'cause I had a woody for a whole week......

As a former employee of Cummins Engine Company, that picture of the Cybertruck about to receive a Cummins engine transplant fills me with pride.

HYDROCARBONS FOREVER!

That diesel engine is a Cummins. (Notice the C logo on it.) Original 12-valve Cummins is the best small-truck engine ever made. Putting one into some truck with a dead engine warrants consideration. Not for a Tesla, though.

Love the Cummins diesel in front of that hideous Cybertruck. Mustangs are beautiful. I even like the mid-1970's Mustang II's.

Only note as before, EVs still save fuel, even if charged with conventional power. They are roughly twice as efficient as normal cars.

I'm getting an EV next. We have a bunch of cars, so I don't need to worry about range (and I could just rent one). Our town has it's own utility. Our prices are the lowest in the state, and they changed the billing to be even lower, but 5x higher from 4-8pm. If I charge outside those times, I can drive for the price of tires.

Rented a Kia EV6 to visit FL for my mom's 90th birthday party. Thing went ~280 miles, and still had 20%. Hotel had a charger. Easy-peasy. Fast, smooth, quiet.

I am fond of saying that I hope the Best us survive and the worst of them do not.
I've hassled over this for a while and have come to some unsatisfying concussions (you read that correctly). : we have the right to sequester but not the right to vanquish; unless, of course, our lives are being endangered.
Kinda sucks but it's to our advantage not to compromise our best selves.

I do but you referenced that for a reason . . . didn't you? Maybe you were being sarcastic maybe that comment was to lead to something else.

If there is anything I have observed from you is, that you don't speak off the cuff for no reason at all.

? have no idea . . . are you referring to after death?
Don't know how old you are but I don't think I'll make it past the next 10 years, all but three in my family passed in their 50s, I'm 72. . . so if I go first, I'll let you know.

The catastrophe at the end of this 12K year cycle is...and the continued weakening of our magnetic field puts us within 20 years for the final sequence for this cycle of civilization.
We can see this event about every 12K years going back 72K years. Every culture tells a strikingly similar story.
Those that survive will have to start all over again.

It's written in stone and most everyone is on board now after all the vetting is done. Now it's down to details.
A documentary is in the works that will show us, globally what to expect and were to survive.

Real science, the way it should be, seems like snake oil but government funded snake oil is treated like real science. . . but it's not.

No one understands the sun like Ben Davidson. It's his life long passion.

There are tons of informative videos on his page, 10/12 years of work, not to mention reviving Cyclical Catastrophe Science, the kind that was told, . . . if ya want to study natural cycles, you won't find funding.

Would you sell different things to not just survive but to continue to do the things you love?
Did you know that he was a research lawyer but he loved watching a learning about the sun so much he quit in order to do this full time.
He writes text books and research papers, his wife writes the kids books and they sell T shirts etc for the business.

That's cause he is speaking to us, specific language, unless one IS a practicing scientist, kind of leaves us in the dark,
Now, I know some of it, I've been listening and reading it for a long time but to speak to others, one must uses plain language . . . and there is nothing wrong in that.
He is accepted in the scientific community, a few assholes but most are cool people.

I only use specific language if I have to or talking to a professional, in fact, I don't even like that anymore. Once I understand something then I can describe it simply to others, get everyone on board and excited.
Now that I am old ugly and occasionally forgetful, understanding something is just keeping me interested and alive.