I think a review of post-WWII history will show that Britain spent decades in a spiraling decline. It's empire and the kind of locked in economy that that vast empire had created began to disintegrate. The huge debts accrued between the late 1930s and 1945, much of it owed to the United States in one form or another, left it the sick man of Europe. It probably would have entered the Customs Union earlier, but de Gaulle had an absolute hatred of the British and did everything he could do to block it. A seemingly permanent turn around happened as it integrated into the European economic community. It had to replace its Empire with something; and the Commonwealth had proven an enormous failure; with the preeminent Commonwealth nations like Canada and the Australia resigning their economic relationship with the UK to the dust heap.

Indeed. An alternate title for this story could be "Europe Resists Race To The Bottom"

One could always, oh I dunno, actually read the research.

We're all responsible. Unless your a indigenous person living in the jungles of New Guinea, India or the Amazon at a neolithic level of technology, you have contributed to.

It's a helluva lot easier to turn of unattended updates in Ubuntu than it is in Windows, and honestly, for this kind of work, why would you choose Ubuntu at all?

According to the OT God told Abraham to murder his own son, only stopping Abraham at the last moment. God is a fucked up dude, so maybe He did tell this putz to scam people. God has done far far far worse (if you believe the Bible).

For me, it's just another con artist using religion to gain money. He's at the lower tier of con men; the big ones like Joseph Smith, L Ron Hubbard and Billy Graham wanted power.

Are you nine years old that you react so badly to harsh reality? Jesus Fucking Christ, what the fuck do you expect, some special dispensation from thermodynamics because of your feelings?

And the RNC's chosen candidate would have a different stance on Israel?

My brother lives in Calgary and when the cold snap hit there, there were plenty of ICE vehicles knocked out. Even the block heaters were struggling, and that's before they were told to conserve electricity during the evenings. Intense cold snaps pretty cause different problems for ICE and EV engines, but the result is the same; the vehicle won't start.

The large majority of the US has a commute of about 26-27 minutes, or just under an hour both ways. Let that sink in for a moment. Discard the outliers, like guys who live in Montana and have to drive fifty miles uphill both ways to and from work. The average American spends less than an hour moving between home and work.

So what that says in the vast majority of usage cases, an EV is more than adequate, and if there are issues, it isn't with battery capacity, it's probably limitations in the electrical grid.

I don't know of too many other fields of inquiry where the obsession is purely with the least likely use case scenarios; of some guy with a 10 cylinder Dodge Ram that tows a 10 foot utility trailer up a mountain range five days a week, and that decisions are made at the highest levels based on that guy, as opposed to the 90+ other people who don't have a commute like that at all. I would imagine that if I were to look for a historical counterpart, it might be when they started building the canal systems in England in the 16th century, and I'm sure there were guys who horse and ox-pulled carts right pissed that their livelihoods were threatened, or when the canal system itself was again made redundant by a new group of capitalists and bureaucrats laying down track. I'm sure all the horse-drawn cab drivers were outraged by stinky petrol-swilling exhaust-puking automobiles literally tearing their livelihood out from underneath them.

Because it's a middle aged star, and in general, so long as they've got lots of hydrogen fuel, stars like the Sun are pretty well behaved. When the hydrogen supply finally begins to run out, in a few billion years, if there's anyone around, life will get a lot more uncomfortable.

Yeah, engineering something that could achieve lift in such a rarified environment is a pretty damned stunning achievement. NASA has done some absolutely spectacular things, but a helicopter flying on Mars has to sit somewhere near the top of that list.

And what, pray tell, are "liberals' imposing on you? This cult of victimhood really gets tiresome, particularly when it is its adherents doing unpleasant things like asserting ownership over other peoples' uteruses.

Yes, Orange Man is bad, his supporters have surrendered themselves to a cult of victimhood, which they believe gives them license to be assholes to everyone, and even overthrow democratic institutions.

And you are the weak, you just can't see how fragile you are.

They have bought into the Trumpian cult of victimhood. They imagine their personal lack of success is the fault of some nefarious group out to steal white men's precious bodily fluids. There isn't a news story out there, even if it was "cat rescued from tree" that doesn't somehow feed into that belief in their own righteous victimhood.