Someone's gotta communicate with the aliens when they show up and start ionizing our atmosphere.

The change in light trucks in the US may also have to do with emission standards.

It's still dumping wherever it's happening. It's a direct attack on every major automaker around the world, with the goal of destroying them and making foreign markets dependent on another Chinese export.

You can still buy gas burners for ~$20k. They may be small sedans and people may not want those things, but they exist, and some of them in that range are actually pretty good cars.

How is Venezuela successful? They've been a basket case for years.

It wouldn't matter, when you're dead-ass broke, you're going to lie/cheat/steal to get your fix whether it's $1/gram or $1000.

No, I mean the difficulty is so high that mining out any BTC requires an enormous upfront investment.

The problem is that the most-often taught English cursive style is bad. Spencerian cursive _is_ faster than block letters, because it allows you to smoothly move the pen. It's also slanted because slanted movements are faster than straight up/down lines.

Many of the homeless are drug addicts that would be happy to rip up the interior of a datacentre and sell it for scrap.

In this case they can buy old ASICs and run those since they're just running them as resistive heaters. Any BTC they mine is just icing on the cake. Still sucks compared to a heat pump but whatever.

The BTC return has already tanked.

... at least not in the UK.

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Not really. Plastics require hydrocarbons that can be sourced from anything, including coal or wood. Oil is just the most convenient source, but it's certainly not the only one.

And anyway, only 6% of oil is used for plastic production. Even increasing the demand for plastics won't materially affect oil consumption. Fossil hydrocarbons are also used as a feedstock for other industrial processes (fertilizer production mainly), but adding up all these uses accounts for just about 15% of global production.

2027 is the year that they're supposedly going to invade Taiwan.

China was not fine. Bankrolling their economic expansion was a mistake.