The hub is by definition local. Or am I misunderstanding what you are talking about.

Not really. For the most part vendors only lock down their own app. In the back end many are quite open to interactions with most of the large players offering bridges to local control or integration into Home Assistant via various open protocols. Under the hood and behind the shitty app, many devices are actually quite open.

Yes that is hard to figure out. Yet they do it literally all the time. From the very start of the war Russia was lobbing cluster bombs into random suburbs.

The only fact is you presented a truly disgusting false-equivalence.

Depends. Was the Holocaust the result of that specific party doing specific war related activities? No. you're equating two very different things. The Holocaust had nothing to do with the war - the Jews didn't attack, nor were they a party to the war. They were a completely unprovoked 3rd party wiped out at the behest of someone cleansing the world. There was no propaganda angle, no strategic angle, nothing at all related to the war itself.

On the flip side bombing things, especially infrastructure has everything to do with war.

Honestly your false equivalence here is more disgusting than it is ignorant.

hahahah LOL WUT? Chernobyl is up near Kyiv. It was in the path of an initial onslaught that tried to move towards the capital and was basically instantly repelled back across the Belarus border. Not only was that region liberated by the Ukraine within days, the Russians completely abandoned all war activities up there within the month and there hasn't been any fighting or contention of land there since.

The only thing happening anywhere near there is drone strikes and the occasional bombing.

Depends on the meeting. A great many of my meetings over a couple of people are those with information dumps. It may only be 3 or 4 who speak and discuss, but a great many more may need information.

Mind you I work in an industry where multi-disciplinary meetings are essential. Add in if you work with a contractor and you get meetings which require a minimum of 8 people, or you have 1 meeting and then 4 follow ups just so people can forward information which isn't effective either.

The post failed to mention something that isn't true?
The Czech Republic has a relatively centralist coalition led by the Petr Fiala cabinet - which is just right of centre.
Poland is led by the Civic Coalition, a solidly centralist party with a coalition of slightly left and slightly right of centre parties with virtually no extreme views in any direction. They are probably the most centralist government in Europe right now.
Slovakia is run by DSD, a party which split off from the Democratic Left because the Democratic Left weren't left wing enough for them.

Germany (center right) was also a major player in the push for extending the engine ban out by a decade.

Only three of the countries listed are by any slur-defition "right wing", and that's the usual EU shit-stirrers of Hungary, Bulgaria, and recently Italy.

Please correct your ignorance.

Incorrect.

That's because everyone else is making it from Chinese tech. CATL produce more batteries than the entire rest of the (non-Chinese) industry combined. BYD is about half the size of CATL and still the second largest in the world. Both of them are on the cutting edge of tech to the point where even companies that produce their own battery tech often buy from these majors for certain stuff.

There's a reason Tesla despite all of its Gigafactories and ties with Panasonic both license a shitton of tech from CATL as well as outright buy their batteries. - The same is in the rest of the industry. LFP and NMC tech is absolutely dominated by the Chinese which are years ahead of the game. Most other battery manufacturers are either playing catchup while relying on NCA or are attempting to leapfrog them by focusing on development on solid state batteries.

To be fair the only company pushing Hydrogen mobility was Toyota. Literally the entire fossil fuels industry was only ever pushing it for the one use case that didn't make much sense for batteries: long-haul transport, and while they were pushing that at no point did anyone ever push the idea of sourcing the hydrogen from fossil-fuel, literally no-one was proposing to build an SMR to generate hydrogen for this purpose.

That said it looks like even that has fallen on the way-side.

Also a few other technical points:
- Storage: It is only stored in tiny volumes at high pressure - in the car. Fuel stations store hydrogen at low pressure and then compress it.
- Embrittlement: Hydrogen embrittlement is a known issue, and materials are chosen accordingly. The issue is for the filling station materials, not for car or storage.
- Escaping through solids: You're overstating this problem. Yes if you leave your car parked for 6 months without use you'll have an issue. Beyond that this isn't something that is worth worrying about with the exception of pressurized enclosed spaces (which are avoided from an engineering point of view).

The fire one is important though. I was on a firefighting team that was called out to handle a fire at an air-separation facility. When we got there the public fire brigade which responded to the facility (our neighbouring facility) were just scratching their head, our fire chief immediately started franticly shouting at them: WTF ARE YOU DOING, put a water monitor on it, can't you *HEAR* that it is burning?!?!?! There is a significant amount of training required to deal with hydrogen fires, much more so than battery fires.

Also kudos for pointing out refuel times. Many people don't realise that hydrogen refueling is Joule-Thompson limited and it actually takes just as long to refuel a hydrogen car as fast charge a battery (the equation is different for heavy vehicles though as the pressure is lower).

Great business plan. The high end car industry is full of customer led requests to improve theft protection. Sending a disable command to a car after it has been cut off from communication is about as effective as using Find My Phone to detect a phone in a faraday cage, which is to say fuck-all. It was customers that were driving these kinds of feature requests.

And for all those hundreds of ways that it could go bad, it's been over a decade and this is the first such example. As a customer for me that would definitely be a risk worth taking.

I would argue that the data we have is corrupted. How do you gauge the mental acuity of someone who presented with none in the first place. That was partially my joke and partially my point. Mapping Bush's decline was easy, he used to be incredibly articulate before he became the first president that made dumb speeches. Mapping Biden's decline was also easy, he was still articulate but progressively slowed over the years.

But what data do we have on Trump? The guy for the past 30 years spoke like he couldn't remember which syllable preceded the one coming out of his mouth. For the past 30 years he rambled like shit was being made up on the spot and it is.

I see no reason to think he has Alzheimers. I think he is just fucking dumb.

If we're going purely by sound then I'm happy to blame the entire English language. No need to focus on que alone.

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed two bee a joule;
The checker pours o'er every wyrd,
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Be fore a veiling chequers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood bee maid to wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Off nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew floors are knot aloud.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can putt the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why eye brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.

Eye half run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its let her perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Thanks but I'm interested in *why* not *if*. You pay with cheques a lot, but what benefit does it give you?

Dentist? That is automatically cleared by my insurance. Property taxes? Automatically deducted from my bank account. IRS is a simply direct debit where I scan a QR code on the tax bill with my banking app.

I'm not sure what you're doing with username, passwords to get hacked, but I understand the idea of credit cards being a problem in the USA since you never migrated away from signatures.