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Comment US Tesla sales are down 25% (Score 1) 5

Which is almost exactly the number of people who are buying them with the tax credits. This is a few months after the end of the tax credits though. There is still probably a bit of the drop tied up with people who already bought their car right before the credits went away but they are probably looking at a permanent drop of about 20%.

Other car companies are having a hard time too with their electrics. Tesla obviously takes the biggest hit cuz electric is all they do.

It probably also doesn't help that charging an electric without at home charging is very expensive and housing is prohibitively expensive right now. So a lot of people are stuck in apartments and not going to be considering an electric for savings.

Comment CO2 per kw-hr [Re:Energiewende] (Score 1) 90

> We can argue over the number

No, I will not argue over objective facts. Sorry not sorry, your talking point are out of date.

Data is here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/a...

Germany is high in terms of CO2/kw-hr, but not the highest in Europe. Germany has dropped their CO2/kw-hr by 37 percent since 2010, so it is at last improving. France, as OP noted, is considerably lower.

Comment Re: Energiewende (Score 2) 90

Nuclear is not even "CO2 free". Mining, refinement and transport of the fuel creates a lot of CO2. So will creating processing and long-term storage for the waste, but that CO2 has not yet manifested.

This is technically true, but the amount of CO2 produced is so miniscule compared to burning fossil fuels that to a good first approximation it is zero.

Basically, when your entire method of producing energy is by burning hydrocarbons, you produce a lot of CO2.

Comment energy (Score 1) 86

Sitting in a cafe in the city of Mykolaiv right now, everything runs on generators. Earlier today, around 7:45 local time a few shahed drones flew over the city, this was after a lqrge attack from about 6 hours prior. Multiple energy distribution systems were hit in multiple regions. There were people killed, some drones hit homes, there were myltiple kinjal (dagger) missiles launched from mig-31 platforms. I crossed the border to Ukraine over 2 weeks ago, spent a week in Kiev, a day in Lviv, a day in Odessa, etc. Everywhere there are issues with energy distribution. Where I am now there are issues with watwr as well of course. People keep going because tbat is what people do, nobody here wants to give up anything to ruzzia, they want to stop the war in a way that prevents future attacs from the scourge that is ruzzia. As to this lawsuit, it is completely justified but it is not enough. Europe is giving ruzzia more money every year in oil and purchases than Europe spends on this war, given tbat Ukraine is protecting Europe from putin taking this war further west, I find this behaviour atrocious.

Comment Re:/me gets butter and salt (Score 4, Informative) 49

In a civilized world, the US and China would have a mutual extradition treaty so criminals could face justice.

Unfortunately for the CCP, rejecting human rights is one of their top four most fundamental principles. We can't have an extradition treaty with a country that doesn't even pretend to care about its people.

Comment Re: The statewide corporate commission (Score 0) 35

I mean I can read news articles. And you can find the news articles the talk about the corporate commission overriding the locals.

I think the governor is a Democrat so there's some hope but usually you can steam roll locals especially smaller ones. Arizona has a lot of small towns and small cities that won't have the strength to push back against a combination of large corporations and corrupt state governments. It's a reddish state, I think without cheating and gerrymandering it would be a blue state because the statewide races keep going blue but the local races keep going red and that's usually a sign of voter suppression and gerrymandering...

Whatever the case though it's very difficult for Democrats and un corrupt politicians to win small races like the corporate commissioner because people do not realize just how much power those kind of local races have but you can bet your ass corporations and billionaires do

Comment We have at least four years (Score 1) 23

Of severe RAM and storage shortages. That's because openai has already bought 40% of ram capacity for the next 4 years.

It's possible that the whole thing will collapse before then but I don't think so because AI has the possibility to replace trillions and wages. Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is paying wages.

That's going to keep the 1% pumping all of their money into it and they have about 60 to 70% of the money in the country all to themselves.

While we were getting upset that we couldn't say Merry Christmas or that our kids might be gay they were busy consolidating power and taking all the money.

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