Not everyone can afford an A4 Quattro or Michelin tires for that matter. The tires you selected are the ICE variant, the EV one is $565.00 (at least around here) without installation. As a comparison, I got a set of Goodyears with the same ratings for ~$220 and if I want to go cheap, I can get $120-180 easy on my ICE. If you don't go with EV tires, they will wear out even faster and they also put a big dent in your 'efficiency'.

Fuel costs - do you include time? Do you include the $150/month upcharge to upgrade from 'residential' to 'commercial' power? The Tesla Cybertruck goes 1-2h between charges as does a Model 3 in the cold or when the road isn't perfectly flat. Superchargers aren't everywhere and even then they take lots of time.

If I buy a $75-150k vehicle and then another $5-25k for home electric renovations, I expect a bit better. I get a vehicle for $25k, maintenance is $10k over 10-15 years, it carries my stuff and my kids, fuel costs are $2400/year give or take a few hundred. I still barely get to the $50k Tesla Model 3 AWD.

You have never gone to Africa I see. About 90% of payments in Africa's small business commerce are peer-to-peer mobile payments (which includes everything from bank apps to Bitcoin). You think they all sit around with the choice of shiny pebbles or someone in the village has a hoard of US dollars? Africa accounts for 70% of the world's P2P bank payment market and nearly 10% of the global $3T crypto market.

To put it in perspective, the number of Africans using Bitcoins on a daily basis is roughly the same ratio as number of Americans using American Express. It's not a huge percentage, but it is significant enough and still is order of magnitudes larger as share than anywhere else in the world.

You confused me with your statement about hearing a distinct difference. There are laser pickups today, there are pressed records that are metal such as gold, platinum etc.

There is a distinct difference in the audio because despite all the engineering that goes into it, large things that spin around are going to be wobbly.

Amend? Their constitutions in many cases already have state sponsored religions. Norway for example funds religious entities on an annual basis. Again, there is currently a religious privilege in the EU, not a constitutional right, big difference.

Can you conclusively link human exposure to non-industrial levels of this stuff (I'm not talking being exposed as a worker in a factory to some of the product needed to make them) to cancer?

Biden is now also trotting out Trumps immigration and economic policy and trying to sell it as his own.

This was well publicized, either you are very lazy or a useful idiot.

25c is the retail cost when there is demand, when there is no demand, the energy company has to do âoesomethingâ so the geothermal plant doesnâ(TM)t blow up.

But the fact they can pay for the âoeunusedâ energy means they can lower the price elsewhere. Even if it is 5c which is well under the break even point for crypto mining, that is money they can use to offset the cost, thereby providing more people with energy which drives down cost etc.

What other process soaks up energy but can scale up and down in seconds? Most industrial processes require stable energy, renewables are anything but and things like geothermal and nuclear ideally require a constant consumption. Bitcoin and certain cloud computing can scale up and down very quickly, these are countries where no stable currency exists either so it helps them with a method of global money exchange. In Africa, much of the Middle East and even South America, mobile, decentralized payments are king.

Tire rotations and oil changes on a modern non-EV car are once every 12,000 miles or once per year (whichever comes first). Tires on EV are much more expensive and various gearboxes, motors, rotating parts etc also have oil. Turns out lifetime maintenance of an EV still exist and yes they are slightly less ($4600 vs $9200) they do not make up for the cost difference of the car + fuel.

They're still used in appliances, although if they ever redesigned the board, they are using the eZ80 which is binary-compatible but not pin-compatible with the Z80.

There are plenty of places you find ancient processors like the 8088, PIC, the Z80 and Motorola 68000. They all can have mini-webservers and other relatively modern plugins, they all have sufficient power for everything from thermostats to washing machines and even vending machines. If it ain't broke, don't fix it applies tremendously to the appliance game, even my 'modern' heat pump system has a controller board that has hand drawn traces, it is used in heat pumps, aircos and plain gas heaters going back to the 90s and thus drop-in replacements are easy to find, all they do is solder a different number of relays and change some jumpers, it has a chip that looks like a Motorola but they are encapsulated in resin, so it's hard to know for sure.

There is some really good music art out there still, even if it is all digital these days. The majority of the generic mainstream music isnâ(TM)t worth that investment though.

So you mean like a pressed CD? The encoding of the wave form is relatively simple, even if you totally forgot how it worked, a laser, a simple stepper motor and a DAC is no longer that technologically advanced.

That already happened and they already did. Chinese subsidiaries are all controlled by the communist government. Apple and Microsoft infrastructure in China is ran by a government cloud provider, Google, Facebook and other social media sites has Chinese censors employed. Gaming and porn companies have compulsory identity verification and Android is required to install government spying and tracking apps.

China is not much different than East Germany, Cuba, Soviet Union or Venezuela, just a little more technically advanced.

Even if they get caught, they get instantly released because this is a non-violent crime and even violent criminals are release on current no-bail policies. Literally nobody cares, if they get caught, it's one of the middle men that has pissed someone off for thousands of dollars and is easy to catch. The Mexican drug cartels are too much paperwork.