The same for an EV. I don't see the difference. There is no point in letting your EV sitting idle somewhere and not charging, while its battery is nearly drained. The same with your ICE, where you also refuel as soon as the gas tank runs empty. The advantage of the EV is that you can do it in your driveway, which is not an easy task if you have an ICE. Even the cars with the largest batteries are completely charged within 10 hours at a measly home wall charger with 11 kW. That's the time it takes for you to get home, eat dinner, take a shower and go to sleep. In the morning, you will always have a fully charged car - and that's under the condition you get home with a completely empty battery. But you will get home with maybe 40% state of charge, and your car will be back to 60% after dinner, and to 80% when you go to bed. Your ICE car will still be at 40% in the morning.

Large networks of alliances where a common thing long before the First World War. The idea that there at one point in time were just nation states fighting each other, and hence containing wars to a small region is stupid at best. The only reasons why wars were localized was missing logistics, and many wars were over before the armies of an ally arrived.

Alliances which turned local conflicts into large wars exist at least since we have written documents. And a state being involved in many battles at the same time was the constant situation in Antique Rome. They even had a temple which was closed when there was no war going on, the Temple of Janus, and in the first 750 years of Rome's existence, it was closed only on three occasions. For the U.S., this would mean that since the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. would have been at peace only once, if the U.S. had the same average.

The idea of the nation state only appeared in the 19th century, is barely 200 years old, and each new nation state immediately joined some global alliance, because that's what's happening since 5000 years anyway. If there were no global alliances before the First World War, they would have been immediately invented.

And this is a problem exactly why?

On an average day, your car is parked for 23 hours anyway.

Yes, for some use case, nothing beats a loaded cast bronze cannon.

But those use cases are few and far between. For most use cases, EVs beat ICEs. And for the few use cases ICEs indeed are advantageous, EVs don't completely suck either.

I remember ZIP drives a lot. Working with Siemens in their phone switch department, we had a lot of legacy systems to support which used ZIP drives as their backup medium. I still have some disks left in my storage (together with MO disks, which were used in later incarnation, before being replaced by CompactFlash).

So you are saying that a truly free market can only exist if guarded by strong government, which is more powerful as any of the market actors. And the government should not be able to be corrupted by the very same market actors.

Who woulda have thought?

Just because Oman does not legally close its shipping lanes does not mean the Strait is open. The whole Strait of Hormuz is just 3 sea miles wide, and can easily be targeted from Iran. And Iran has attacked targets in Oman in this war already.

Basically you are saying "We have removed the warning signs. The road is now safe."

They do. Because 40 bit addresses waste 24 bits, because a 32 bit architecture works as easy with 40 bits than with 64. 128 bits was just being on the safe side. While it does not allow to address each elementary particle in the universe (which would need about 200 bit), it will be sufficient for all atoms we can reach and come back until our Sun burns out before the invention of faster-than-light travel.

Problem is: It does not get hot in the UK in the summer. The UK is very far to the north, compared with the continuous U.S.. The southernmost point of the U.K. (if we ignore the Channel Islands and oversea territories like the Falkland Islands) is on the 49 meridian, which is the same latitude than the northern border to Canada with the exception to the northern part of Maine. The Shetland Islands in turn are on the same latitude than Anchorage, AK.

If you want to imagine U.K. climate, think of the Pacific coast between Vancouver Island and Anchorage, just with warmer winters thanks to the Gulf stream.

In a truly free market, I can always spend money hire a bunch of thugs and hit you on the head if you don't sell to my conditions. And that's where the term Freedom hits a snag.

Not sure what you're referring to. Let's try it this way.

Imagine you are a manager or a CO and you have an employee who keep spending an enormous amount of time working on the exact thing you hired him for. He gets frustrated when he finds stuff he CAN'T explain, wants to research further, and you just brush him off because you really hired him to NOT find anything.

Any vty, pty or tty will do.

Google learned to embrace, extend and extinguish right out of Microsoft's playbook. They were excellent students and you can see the results in how email and web "standards" work today.

The difference is that when Microsoft did it the authorities eventually started getting in their way to promote more openness and competition again. So far there is little sign that anyone intends to challenge the way a few tech giants have recently been capturing long-established standards that we rely on for what have become vital services and effectively taking ownership for their own purposes. The governments and their regulators are either asleep at the wheel or, if you're a bit less trusting, bought and paid for.

Only a racist cares about "ethnic replacement". Because only a racist is compelled to classify people living in the same social environment into different ethnicities, and he completely ignores people from different backgrounds having children together, because in his mind, this is an abomination and shall not happen[tm].

Because they don't. That's the basic error. Yes, sometimes they cooperate. But the U.S. cooperates with China from time to time. And even with Russia, when it comes to the Ukraine War, especially with Donald Trump at the helm. Is the U.S. now a secret ally of Iran, because the U.S. sells soy beans to China, and Iran sells oil to China? As I say, you have a completely simplistic world view, lumping everything together, and blind to what really goes on.

Oil prices rise, and what's the U.S. answer to that? Lift oil sanctions against Iran and Russia. What does Putin want more than more revenue to finance his war? He does not need to step in in support of Iran. He got everything he wanted out of the conflict already. Even the amount of air defense missiles the U.S. could potentially sell to the Ukraine is reduced, because they are now all fired into Iran, 10 million dollar items, each to shut down a single 1000 dollar drone. North Korea acts according to the well known strategy: "Don't stop your enemy when he is making mistakes". And what does Trump? Getting angrier and threatening to leave NATO, which has nothing to do with the war on Iran, did not want the war in Iran, even warned him that this would be exactly the big blunder it proves to be. But I fully support the other NATO members here: You break it, you own it. Donald Trump led the U.S. in this quagmire without any necessity. It's his very own job to clean up the mess he made.