https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs... what improvement in air quality though?

and this is without a significant number of EVs on the roads. How about actually doing something useful, like building nuclear power plants and shutting down coal and oil and gas ones before attacking individual freedoms, which is obviously what this move to subsidize EVs at the expense of freedoms is?

You are mistaken, this is not progress, this is pure dictatorship. There is nothing progressive about Lithium Ion batteries for example. Just because green or white paint is used on some battery pack, doesn't make it any more green in a country where most electricity is produced by natural gas and coal.

if you are the dictator.
Government has legitimacy due to the silent agreement of the governed. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâ(TM)s natural manure.

Certainly there will be EVs, maybe I will own a few, who knows. It is not the cost of it that stops me, I like to enjoy my freedom to drive whatever I can purchase and I am not going to be slowed down by charge times. I am just curious which will be the straw that will break the back of this, very patient camel?

shouldn't you have to prove such accusations? All /. comments are open for everyone to see, provide proof of your accusations. The fact that I am at -1 here is the result of multiple votes by whatever moderators, who disagree with opinions, however you have to provide some sort of proof for the accusations you are throwing around.

It's like a business card in some circles I think, they exchange those for contact purposes somehow.

5 and a half years for showing the world that he has... he is a dick, that's a curious amount of time though. I don't fully understand the sentencing for this act, not that it is excessive, it's just unclear how anyone arrives at that number? Also if everyone, with their dick out is going to be jailed, we will probably have to build more jails.

The key is that nobody forces anyone to join a Kibbutz. If nobody forced anyone to join 'communism' then there wouldn't have been a problem either, that's not what happened every time. What happened every time was mass oppression and mass murder and mass starvation and mass misery.

We really don't have much time left here, Tic Tac, Tic Tac.

Re-read the post you replied to: "The USPTO will grant you a patent on your perpetual motion invention if you submit a working model."
If you can submit a working model, then I think you've got credibility (and have apparently discovered an error in known physics).

Also, by definition, a rejection for lacking utility would be inappropriate if the perpetual motion machine does work.

The entire point of colleges is to fuel inequality by providing students with education, thus separating the population into those with and without education. On the other hand it also fuels another type of inequality, where those who do not attend colleges also do not accrue college debt.

There will always be inequality, the very fact that colleges cannot comprehend this and allow themselves to fall into this 'remove inequality' trap shows how useless these schools are.

Sure, there could be a few freak enzymes and sulfur eating, tungsten swinging bacteria there https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go....

but it would be too hot for my liking.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

no, this is late stage socialism. Socialism is what created the larger than life government structures, who control the money supply and create inflation, control business practices via laws, regulations, agencies, etc. All of this causes productive jobs to leave the country and then the country has nothing it can offer to the foreign entities, who manufacture everything in exchange for their wares, so the money is printed by the government and handed out. It is printed and handed out as pensions, medicare, and all other forms of welfare, eventually this money loses enough value that everyone has to raise prices. Everyone raises prices, people complain, so companies find ways to nickel and dime you for all the little extras, like checking in baggage. People find ways around checking in baggage by carrying half a dozen bags with them, airlines try to fight against it, etc., this is late stage socialism.

Capitalism is just private ownership and operation of property, socialism is what destroys the economies and causes this nonsense.

Are pro Palestinian protests fueled by the right or by the left in the USA? I just traveled through 5 countries in the last 15 days, in half of the cities I ran into such protests, with most of the protesters being white, non Arab and non Muslim looking women, led by a few Islamists that look and behave as you would expect.
I went through Zurich, Interlaken (great paragliding), Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Basel, Strasbourg, Luxemburg, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, then again Antwerp, Lille and then Paris.

The protesters are yelling pro terrorist slogans, but of-course they are also fully brainwashed to yell out all sorts of propaganda, such as this idiotic notion of 'apartheid' and of-course the dead children (not giving a fuck about the fact that dead children is what Israel experienced first and then retaliated, as they should, against the military targets, who have weapons provided by Iran and money provided by the UN, Red Cross, EU and USA and others).

I don't think those white women and those Islamist share anything close to what you would call 'right wing ideology', in their heads they are marching against 'USA Imperialism', which is what they left wing in the USA are also screaming about.

Seeing same sort of protests and events in the USA, Canada as well as in EU and elsewhere, it's not a surprise that the West now cannot even deal with a bunch of terrorists with Iranian supplied weapons, sinking ships and causing massive ecological catastrophe in the Red Sea. Are these people right wing? Left wing? Whatever wing? I think we have a problem with the uninformed, stupid people ready to march to whatever tune, even the most outrageous tune out there.