It is completely unnecessary to spend tax money to support any company, be it a bank, a hospital, a private rocket launcher, a farm or a software company. Of course all of this is done, all of this is wrong and all of this just breeds incompetence, corruption and graft. Governments shouldn't decide what business lives or dies, it should be exclusively done by competing in the open markets. Imagine how much money is wasted maintaining things that shouldn't even exist, money that could be spent productively, on things people actually need.... money is time measured in life hours.

Instead we should turn everything into indestructible plastic instead, because biodegradable plastic will release CO2.

DOT.... they should talk, after doing what they have done that raised the number of deaths due to commercial trucks now operating at maximum speed with completely tired drivers due to all the stuff they did since the 2019... the results were as expected, which means 'nobody could have seen it coming' in political speak. They would never admit to being complete idiots, now they want more control over other stuff. They are going to get it.

I tell mine where I want to see the weather at.
I keep location off almost all the time because I don't like the battery drain.

Most of the time I'm in my home city, so I don't need to update the location often at all.

At best, it's mildly convenient for a weather app to have your location.

You don't know me, so it doesn't matter. I fly maybe 50 times a year, seriously. I drive a few cars, I do drive quite a bit in some days, and I have to 'charge' (buy gas at a pump) somewhere in the middle of a day, I have to do this fast and keep going because of business and because of many personal things I have to do. This entire thing doesn't work for me at all. I buy plane tickets without long planning, I mean I buy them and fly the next day most of the time, I purchase them on the way back (I don't know from where I will be flying back), basically this is what I consider normal life and what I consider necessities of life. There is no chance I would have time in my day to plan my day around charging my work car, which is just a mode of transportation and it has to be ready in the moment's notice at any time. I also have a car, that I drive for fun for example, it's not an electric, it's a fun car, I like it. I don't actually like electric cars, I get sick in them, I could get one when they get good but just as a curiosity.

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.

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.

The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for solar and wind has been dropping for years and will continue to drop. Fusion using high tech devices and then thermal conversion of heat to electricity is never going to compete unless you can't use wind or solar.

About the only way fusion is going to compete economically against increasingly cheap solar and wind is if they use a fusion reaction that allows direct conversion of fusion to electricity.