That’s about as big as they come these days. Mining companies need’em bigger. The 4,000 hp “Caterpillar 797F has a rated gross machine weight of 1,375,000 lb (623,690 kg); body weight of 94799 lb.” https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/off-highway-trucks/mining-trucks/18093014.html

wipe humans from the planet like a bad cold. And maybe, just maybe, ‘like before’.

(There is some physical evidence out there that we weren’t the first to make this mistake.)

He means 60% of his sworn followers. (Noone else counts.)

Truman’s the drugstore guy turned congress-critter who, as president, signed everything they told him to, including creation of a bunch of 3-letter agencies.

wrench any kind of power that end users have that may threaten the capitalistic hegemony

Frog boiling.

That already happened when mobiles began to replace desktops.

Not to buy 100 shares of Apple stock when it was $15 a share.