thaibeachlovers

I have zero idea what you are saying. In 1923, transistors hadn't been invented, horses were still a major transport option, and computers were clever people that did maths.

Seems to me that you are fixated on western economies, yet the real problem is with countries like India and those in Africa that have no hope of changing to your dream of battery cars and solar panels. As long as their populations expand rapidly, IMO there is no hope of doing anything meaningful other than virtue signalling. I didn't include China, as they can be forced to change by the dictators in power, but I never want to live in that sort of country. Any "solution" has to be global and not just in western countries. BTW, given the use of rare minerals in your dream cars, the chance of them replacing simple tech ICEs is IMO a pipe dream.

Regardless, the real question is what are we going to do about it and IMO nothing is being done that would actually change anything. The little that has been done in western countries is meaningless as long as consumer units are being born at a rate that will negate any remedial action. IMO we were doomed the day the world's human population exceeded 3 billion. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the end. However, that doesn't mean we should not bother to stop polluting everything with our wasteful lives. We should.

Agree. I gave up maths because the teacher was useless and have never regretted it. Algebra has nothing to do with my life. Come to that, most of my schooling was a waste of time, and I was never prepared to spend my time studying outside school hours. After I left school at 18 I could do basic maths in my head, speak and read English, and loved reading books. Never held me back in the real world. PS I certainly didn't waste 3 or 4 years in a university.

Did you not read the OP where he said "I have just enough money to live on and I am a very, very long way from wealthy"? Yet you assume he has a car. I was in his situation and I certainly didn't have one, nor could I have gone out and bought one. Seems to me that a lot of posters having sold up the house back in the UK or wherever and coming into a substantial sum of money assume that all farangs are wealthy. Up to them if they want to live the rich man lifestyle in a country where their money goes a lot further, but it annoys me greatly that they assume all farangs are able to do so.

Some things one never gets over. I'm still aggrieved about how I got taken for a fool with my first partner and I left her in the 90s. Came out of that with almost nothing at 35 years old. I had it all and lost it all to her. Had to start over from nothing.

Never wasted my time reading the book but I did go to see the movie back when it was segregated showing for men and women. I have no idea what the fuss was about, and it was boring.

I want to be dead in 10 years. Absolutely no desire to be sent to some awful old persons institution.

We are certainly better at killing other people now.

You missed the bit about being as large as John Holmes. Don't believe any woman that says size doesn't matter.

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet No, it doesn't have grim implications for the planet. The planet will be fine and has been through many such variations in it's history. Humans, not so much. Our time as visitors on this planet may be coming to an end. We have been very, very bad guests, and if we are the author of our own demise; that's ironic.

Saudi was researching solar power way back in the 90s. What took California so long to do something like this?

Also had a couple billion people less to rape the planet. Re the OP- define "better". It can mean a lot of different things. I don't think people have changed- just the technology. People didn't waste their time on <deleted> like social media or tik tok. Obesity wasn't the problem it is today. Cars still had character, and exploited children weren't digging for minerals to make EVs work.

Why the option that is unhealthy?

If car makers wake up we'll be driving hydrogen powered, whether directly in an ICE or by fuel cells in an EV. IMO battery cars are as dead as Beta VCRs.

I asked how many spontaneously burst into flames, not how many fires there were. That's not a government web site and obviously written by a biased person who hates ICEs Next.

Link? No link it might not be true.

Do tell us how many ICE cars just spontaneously burst into flames then.

LOL. Travel as we know it is only for the masses since WW2. For the rest of the time humanity has been able to travel internationally for leisure, it's been restricted to rich people. There is no right to be able to fly.

Indeed, but I'd rather be moving on with a lot of money.

Well it certainly gave me an experience of being bullied by management. Whether it was overall a good experience is debatable, and frankly I'd rather have been paid better for a less stressful occupation.

In all the decades I was enjoying Thai ladies in the moment, I never had one that had a sick buffalo needing a cash injection. I guess not being drunk when I took one out had something to do with that. I did have one older lady that was very enjoyable, but not nearly as much as the younger ones. I had a relationship with a western woman that never could be referred to as a prostitute, and wished I'd gone with prossies instead. I'd have been better off financially and had more sex if I had of. I only ever went with one that was "sparklingly beautiful" and never tried that mistake again.

I thought I had a purpose in life when I was a nurse for decades, but after it was over I realised I'd rather have done something that paid better instead.

I don't. I just don't believe that there are thousands of non BG Thai women out there just waiting to be bonked by a farang and giving it away for free. BTW, no one "dates" a prostitute. It's a business transaction.

Ah. Sadly a nice car costs way more than just paying for it so I went for the BG option. Also, a BG will stay with you for as long as wanted, while girls with jobs had to go to work.