Sure. I would expect that each country would want to protect themselves from other countries.

That’s what makes the difference in China. I will use the term trucks in the global sense, ie what Americans call semis. In the UK, a semi means something quite different

Economics — opex is much more important than capex for trucking TCO and ROI
Architecture — truck ICE trains are really big and heavy, so the weight differential is smaller than you’d expect, plus the ladder frame construction and large axles of trucks means there’s lots of space for a battery that adds structural rigidity and lowers the centre of gravity, plus motors on the axles. Auke Hoekstra has a presentation on this (it also covers the economics)
Cultural barriers — There’s no fetishisation of trucking as the epitome of manliness, as there is in the US. Chinese truck drivers and fleet operators aren’t emotionally invested in the roar of a diesel engine. In fact, Chinese truck drivers value the quiet operations, lack of fumes, smooth accelerations, and lack of gears provided by EVs (there’s interesting interviews with Chinese truckers about their experiences with EV trucks on YT)

This is correct, semis are known as artics, lorries or trucks outside the US

China uses coal very differently than we do. They use like we use gas peaker plants. So most of their coal fleet is idle much of the time...and idle time is growing as their renewable segment grows.

You're way down the rabbit hole. You think you're rational as well, which is the worst part of it. The flu vaccine reduces childhood hospitalisation rates by about 70% and adult by about 40%. Those are massive wins. Being hospitalised for flu means you are terribly ill, and avoiding that is absolutely fucking fantastic.

The C19 vaccine nonsense you spout is just that, nonsense. It shows you know absolutely nothing about how medical treatment trials work. If you did, you'd have known about statistical power, and understood why recruiting 40k volunteers in the middle of an infectious disease pandemic with a high event accumulation rate would inherently lead to much faster and more accurate results that recruiting 2k volunteers for a typical intervention.

You're also batshit insane to say that C19's severity was "vastly overblown". More than a million died from it in the US alone.

It took literal seconds of Googling to find, you pathetic lazy fuck

https://x.com/SanguineChester/...

Has been pushing hard for decades to get those religious lunatics into a fervor right? The Republican party actively encourages religious extremism so that they can Farm those people for votes.

It's always about the same thing. Taking all the money and leaving voters with nothing. If you're going to rob somebody blind and do it year in year out like the Republican party does you have to keep offering them something in exchange for all the economic security you are stealing.

It needs to be something intangible since the Republicans are taking all the tangible stuff like money and property and food and medicine and healthcare and education.

And that's why you will see religious freedom bills that give people the right to leave their children unvaccinated risking the lives of everybody else.

They get all the money and you get to skip your vaccines or teach your kids the Earth is 6,000 years old or whatever lunatic nonsense that isn't real you insist is real.

I quite literally quoted your source...and you agreed it applies.

So it's only a cult if it does bad things? Why, that sounds almost exactly like white washing to be acceptable in modern society!

Shall we talk about the all the bad things done in the name of religion throughout human history?

Good Day.

Before 2000 the government paid for 70% of college tuition. By 2003 after several rounds of cuts it was 20%.

Meanwhile here's Donald Trump telling us we need more immigration and h-1bs because Americans are just too dumb. Seriously Google it. That's what he said.

I wish my country would stop proving him right...

How would that scenario be a question of "Believe the Science"?

But at the rate things are going, if Trump gets that bug up his butt, he'll try it AND completely fail WRT known and proven vaccines.

The risk of creating a viable competitor is too big so they will do pretty much anything a government wants in order to avoid being kicked out of the country.

It's not about the profit they can make in the country it's about making sure that there is never a viable competitor that could enter into any of your other markets.

Ultimately there really isn't a lot these companies do that's special. The most we survived because they're the ones who when the market was developing survived via survivorship bias. When you're talking infrastructure including internet infrastructure you are generally going to end up with some form of Monopoly forming. At least if you're not extremely careful to enforce competition. And I don't think there's a country on planet Earth that does that

That's already available on my 16Pro. Not sure whose chip they use, or its performance level, though.

>"This is about whether a hostile third party can affect a vehicle remotely because of manufacturer incompetence."

Oh, well, both are important :)

I have often wondered if it is reasonable to just find the antenna(s) and put a keyswitch across it/them, so you have absolute control over when/if they can be accessed remotely at all.

Why not just have it design an actual drug for you? You could tell it to make it twice as good as the movie.

Because human biology is an incredibly complex system, you can never prove anything definitively. You can only have degrees of uncertainty. So they presented their case, and explained their conclusions. I don't know how you can ask for anything different.

And "correlation is not causation", while being true, is highly misleading. The two are not completely disconnected. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, no matter what popular opinion might wish.