It's possible, at this point in time, that maybe you aren't the demographic. I wouldn't blame Musk for that, really. More of an city infrastructure issue. I mean, I don't see a huge push towards generic charging points all over the city despite things moving in that direction.

There was some green deal thing a year or two ago where they were subsidising charging points at home ... of course, they scrapped that ... I guess that wouldn't help you anyway.

Maybe you're better off with a hybrid and get a Tesla when either the city charging situation improves or your home situation changes.

In my London situation, 95% of my journeys will be within 50 miles easily.

I imagine it's more of an issue in the US and similar.

The US, for example, is one presidency away from complete democratic failure. By which I mean all that data, which now is effectively, "in all likelihood", private via volume, can and will be abused.

Giving up and allowing privacy to fail now only makes disastrous consequences more likely later at the whim of that centralised power you mention.

Also, your statement that the "democratized political environment is far from perfect" was the understatement of the century.

Olympic level eye roll

Sorry, Monday morning is not the best time for this topic.

Excuse my colourful language, the DM is a shit newspaper ... understandably excluded from fact based discussions.

But given the light and dark elements to data operations within many countries, I'd imagine you might be the one possibly being naive.

The UK sucks just as bad. The current PM has just announced plans to regulate the web if they win the next election.

In terms of data, I imagine the US to be just as bad if not much worse (my prejudice) than Russia.

Someone can school me on this if I'm wrong but I prefer Telegram as a platform and I'm ambivalent as to which country my data ends up in (given this choice).

(Editing this comment based on above: "Small correction. With Telegram your data ends up in Germany. They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government")

But I watched a couple of episodes a few weeks ago (yikes!)

Anything but.

Down vote me all anyone likes for this inane I have to totally agree with this absolute truth.

For those who no longer use FB, it is dead.

I feel good about that. I didn't even have to attend the funeral.

YMMV

Please ... they can't even do that for simple 2d enviroments. VR isn't some magic that'll fix that.

I won't have anything to do with FB in it's current incarnation.