Are you fucking kidding?

Tell me this: which government has actually funded bailouts of car companies repeatedly over the past 40 years: the Chinese or the US? The Chinese government has been clear for years that it wants a thriving EV sector and that requires consolidation in the coming years.

The projection is just off the charts.

It is the *US* auto industry that has been propped up forever by the US government, including fighting literal wars to keep the gas flowing.

Not merely "one of". The preeminent EV producing region. Europe is doing OK, Korea is doing well, Japan is way behind, and the US is going into a mad tailspin. China is ahead and will stay that way.

This is absolutely spot on. It's a shitty take from the Atlantic on a story that has been around for at least five years: the aggressive competition of the Chinese EV market, which is going to see some company failures in the years ahead. As opposed to the American way of bail outs. The notion that there is falling demand for Chinese EVs is absolutely a little lullaby that complacent US rich guys like to sing to themselves, but it bears no resemblance to the truth.

You of course are a fan of throwing good money after bad? If it was so crap then it wouldn't be a bug worth fixing. Yet it was fixed.

It's not a surprise I don't get the rubbish logic you apply. No one does.

Correct, but supporting both is the most expensive. This is why many shop owners would like to eliminate cash.

A Renault 5, Dacia Spring, e208, Inster, and literally dozens of other EVs are available for way, way less than $50k.

Yeah but are they web scale?

Phones and tablets have supported rudimentary multitasking from the beginning. Some 15 years ago both iOS and Android introduced features to keep multiple apps active and running even if they weren't displaying anything. Split screening multiple apps were introduced on Android 7.0 in 2016.

There's nothing in the hardware preventing this. By the way iPadOS 26 introduced a full window manager.

Yep, that is unrealised potential. Apple being the limiting factor is what the entire story is about.

No a recession is a decline in the economy. You can cut one industry without going into a recession in a country. But yeah China has in part produced less steel and cement. Now do you want to discuss the everloving fuckton of solar, wind, and storage they are building out along with the fact that there are nearly 40million EVs on Chinese roads compared to close to zero in 2014?

But yes one must focus on cement and steel and ignore the words "in part"

And yet the results of the analysis align nicely with the amount of green energy they have brought online. It also is an analysis of all CCP statistics, the same statistics that had no problem pointing out emissions were rising in the past.

I don't know what your point is. Do you have any real criticism other than an ad hominem attack?

CO2 and smog are not related to each other. That much is evident at home where places like LA have *increased* CO2 emissions while eliminated the thick smog that used to blanket the city.

By the way China's air pollution in urban centres peaked back in 2006 but stayed steady for a few years after that while their CO2 emissions skyrocketted. However along with their greening ambitions they launched in a decade ago they also launched a clean air policy, and all pollution metrics have nearly halved in the past decade which is a HUGE DECLINE compared to their emissions.

There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. This one falls in the latter. The USA has a wonderful combination of a horrendous starting point, and a large population to distribute the problem across.

Absolute:
They've gone from 5.25bn to 4.62bn tonnes. Kudos. But let's compare them with say a comparable chunk of the western emitters: Europe went from 4.22bn to 3.52bn, bugger they loose to western peers on a similar scale. It's easy to claim wins in absolute emission reduction when you're such a big emitter. But wait, why not look at it in different ways...

Percent change:
The USA has had a -1.3% change in average annual emissions over the past decade. That places them 25th on the list of countries sorted by emission reduction percentage.

Pollution percentage of total:
The USA currently generates 13% of global emissions. That's a lot for a country which represents 4.2% of the population.

Maybe if the USA wasn't one of the abysmal countries who increased natural gas flaring emissions:
0.7% increase average per annum (even China has a -0.6% / annum) is horrendous for emissions that are tired directly to waste due to piss poor regulations and not tied into energy production or consumption.

Anyway not to shit on the USA completely their efforts have meant they are now only the 3rd worst emitter per capita in the west. They have successfully beaten out Canada and Australia. They are still miles ahead of every other western country without a rounding error of a population, but hey you can blame Canada and Australia now.

By the way Per the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, the USA achieved close to fuck all reductions last year. They did have a good effort in 2023 I'll give them that though. But I sincerely hope you're not on the start of a trend, but given El Presidente's Drill baby Drill mandate combined with scrapping anything with green in the name, I suspect people will be focused on the 2023 review of world energy like a 50 year old woman is focused on celebrating her 35th birthday for the 15th time.

I would love for you to tell me what of my post represents a thought terminating cliche and for you to actually debunk anything in my post.

And I would love even better for you to explain a path forward for humanity that doesn't involve guys like you getting the shit all over people beneath you on the social ladder. I'm not going to bother pointing out again that you will be at the bottom because there is no way in hell your mental facilities could imagine or envision that happening. You are simply too amazing and too glorious to end up as one of the many billions stuck on the reservations occasionally being fire bombed by drones...

Say hi to the world leaders at G5 this year for me.

They could've instead named this thing "Wut is sequential access and why is it bad!?!?"