The Core

I thought I'd never say this, but I agree with Texas on this.  There is a demand for small ICE trucks and if US manufacturers are not going to build them then we should be allowed to import them.  And frankly, it doesn't have to just be Kei trucks, I'd love to be able to buy a new Chevy S-10 or a, small not midsized, Ford Ranger with a modest 4 cylinder engine.  Remember those?

This whole business of everything having to be a giant monster and cost a fortune is BS.

>Kagi is built using Google data

Kagi is currently using Brave search, Yandex and Mojeek for their primary meta results and Marginalia plus their own Telcis (Sp?) for their "Small web" search.  Somehow Brave search has reverse engineered their index and ranking by copying Google.  Nobody seems sure of the details about how Brave has done this and nobody has ever spotted a user agent identifying itself as being from Brave search.  So there is some sort of connection Google but sort of murky and IMHO dodgy.

I have not tried it, but people seem to like Kagi, which shows you can build a decent meta-search engine with Brave, Yandex and Mojeek.  Also my traffic from Kagi has gone up (but not to commercial levels) since Kagi went to these sources.

It's spreading.

Myanmar's military-ruled capital attacked by drones

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68730993

I've seen mention in the press that tire sales are way up in regions with a lot of EV's.  I didn't realize it was this bad.

>6,000 miles

Yikes this is into the old bias-ply (pre radial) tire wear territory.

Questions are being raised about the level of physical protection provided to the bridge piers.  It's a legit question but still annoying coming from the insta-experts on social networks.

>glimpse

It's going to take awhile just to remove the wreckage.  That's a lot of steel.

When I get bored I browse through the comment spam on my WP blog.  It quite amusing.

So remember the old "Submit your URL to 1500 search engines" spam we used to get by email?  Well recently I got comment spammed to "Submit your URL to 2500 search engines".  1. Here +20 years later and with Google as the only search engine this spammy pitch is still making the rounds, 2. the alleged number of search engines is now at 2500 so we have search engine inflation.

It was interesting seeing this old old spam still making a rare appearance as a blast from the past.  Some others like time shares seem to have completely died out.

American auto industry has been targeting only the high rollers and early adopters, people that don't blink at laying down over $60K for a car.  That's a very limited market.