Sodium batteries arenâ(TM)t suitable for EV, lithium is barely good enough and even then comes with tons of drawbacks, sodium has less energy density, so it is good enough as a lead acid replacement, but then the question is why not just buy the cheap lead acid.

Australia wants to cut its lithium production because it is bad for the environment. They have large deposits, but their future is uncertain.

I find Bitcoin very easy to use, for most small transactions you donâ(TM)t have much of a fee, it is definitely less than 3%+25c for Visa transactions. You put it in your wallet, you transfer in and out, settlements happen in seconds most of the time. You donâ(TM)t ever need to âproveâ(TM) who you are with unnecessary details such as addresses, you do MFA on your end where it is trusted.

No, the Star Wars program was intended to defend against such threats. It was sold to the Israelis because nobody could get it to work, they made the Iron Dome system from it, it works great.

What do you do when you have a bully in the play yard, you punch them hard and they stop being a bully. The problem with assassinating Putin is that you donâ(TM)t know who will take his place and it undermines the authority of whomever orders it.

The last several years, the US has been passively watching as dictators take their place. And what does the US President do, he says âoedonâ(TM)tâ and then does nothing when they do, just like Obama, draws a red line and when it gets crossed, draw a new red line. Now he wants to have the world pressure Russia. Who exactly would do that? China, no, India, no, anyone in the Middle East, no, the EU (Germany) really needs the Russian gas and coal so they do nothing either. Ukraine or Finland, lol, Israel has been relegated to dealing with Iran.

At this point, the only solution is to cut off China from the world economy until they cut off Russia and only then can you put a precision strike on these things. I highly doubt Biden is willing to sacrifice his piggy bank though.

Well, you must convict someone of insurrection first. They ruled on the 4th amendment protections.

There is someone else here who posted the 30y overview, the last 4 years had a bend upwards in that overall statistic. So crime has been increasing in the past few years which is what the OP said.

The Telegram channel for Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had about 200,000 followers at the time of the attack. The channel’s following has since more than tripled, according to an analysis by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Before the attack, posts by the channel were viewed on average about 25,000 times – now they are viewed more than 300,000 times, a more than 10-fold increase. Another channel that posts video messages from a Hamas spokesperson had about 166,000 followers before October 7th and now has more than 414,000 followers, according to Memetica, a threat analysis company.

Every college in the US seems to have a chapter of BLM/Antifa and SJP. That's hundreds if not thousands of extremist militia groups coordinating on Facebook, Telegram, X etc.

There were 18% more homicides in the cities in 2023 than in 2019, and carjacking has spiked by 93% during that period. Motor vehicle thefts more than doubled (+105%) during this timeframe. This is despite prosecutions and arrests for crime going down significantly as police has been defunded and DA's refuse to prosecute minor crime such as shoplifting and burglary.

It would be similar to bringing in a Chevy with a proper VIN number but that is actually not sold by Chevy but a reject. Only when you look under the hood will you find out the details, and then you still need to be a mechanic.

It is supposed to be an open database, typically government will put everything behind walls and require FOIA requests just to get the number of complaints, not even any detail. This is the correct way that all government should operate - here is the form - here is the underlying database - go wild.

For example, we now know thousands of people are complaining about violations of privacy in public bathrooms, the problem is worse than we thought (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM database)

No, they called Cisco and they got support. These switches are coming from the same factory, have the serial numbers and conventions of Cisco etc. that's what makes them counterfeits. It's just Huawei making them, selling them and letting Cisco provide support for them. Only after a few of them ended up on a bench at Cisco for not working according to spec is when they realize, hey, we didn't actually build that one. Most of them if they stop working completely just go on the garbage pile as Cisco sends a replacement, the rarity that Cisco actually provides support is after they already chucked a few, upgraded the firmware etc and it still isn't working according to spec (where the cheap off-brands have trouble is the longer distances or overheating issues) then they come with their army of partners and measuring tools.

It's not really counterfeit. Huawei tried to sell us switches about a decade ago that were according to their sales engineer "we don't have to retrain our network engineers because they had an identical interface to Cisco IOS". Basically if you SSH'ed in you could get a Cisco interface or an HP interface, whatever you wanted it to be, they had an API overlay.

In the end Cisco switches are just Juniper, which are just HP or SuperMicro or Dell switches, they all use the same backplanes from Broadcom or a few (2 or 3) other manufacturers, they just re-badge them and flash the x86 server in it with different operating systems.

Which of those well-published things is a conspiracy? Together they make up a conspiracy, sure, because in this case it hasn't been proven yet that this was intentional. Individual cases are a conspiracy, the overarching fact it happens more often than we realize is not.

It is also whether it was expected, the prior death was the day before testimony. This guy gets sick before his testimony. There are a lot of coincidences in the group of half a dozen people.