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Comment Re:No thank you. (Score 1) 40

You're absolutely right, and it sucks that I fell for that trap.

In regard to long-haul trucking, I think there's some merit to the idea of having swappable batteries, since presumably the capacities are larger than in consumer vehicles. But since truckers are already spending stretches of time at rest stops, the benefit is incremental, as you noted.

Along those lines, there might be applications for taxi fleets--short range personal transit where the vehicles are all uniformly the same and operated out of a central hub. But again, if the capacity is big enough that a car could just be charged every night, why build these complicated stations?

Totally agreed.

Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 254

Right now you had Steve Bannon saying Ben Shapiro is "a cancer". MTG who represents a 1st generation of MAGA supports got booted out. You have Candance Owens saying Charlie Kirk was murdered by other conservatives. Musk is in the admin or attacking it depending on the week.

MAGA is an ever decreasing circle of those arbitrarily deemed "MAGA enough" with people (usually permanently) excluded for even the slightest digression, though Indulgences can be purchased at the (new) White House MAGA gift shop.

Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 254

f Dems sweep the Midterms this has a high chance of happening.

Even if they did, we'd just end up with Vance.

Who could also be impeached, then the current Speaker of the House would become President. Not really sure that would be a good course for the political mood of the country as a whole.

Better that the MAGA crowd have to suffer through the consequences of their votes to (hopefully) learn a lesson about electing a greedy, pathologically lying, narcissistic, racist, etc... sociopath who really only actually cares about himself and a little for those who pray and pay before him. I'll give people a bit of a pass for giving Trump the benefit of doubt during his first run for office but, seriously, it's not like there wasn't any evidence Trump was like this, especially during/after his first term. Granted, perhaps many politicians have some of those characteristics, but few, if any, others have them all like our Dear Leader. That he's pretty checked-out during this second term and happy to let his minions pursue their own horrible agendas is pretty bad though. This is a tough lesson the the country.

Comment Re:No thank you. (Score 3, Insightful) 40

This idea has always smelled like a scam--a bad faith argument pushed by EV proponents to try to convince people to buy or invest in EVs now.

I disagree with the bold bit. This has never been a thing people serious about EVs have pushed. This is a thing that folks that hate the idea of EVs have pushed as "if they did this, then I'd suddenly be interested." The companies that have (claimed to) make an attempt at it were always scam artists pandering to that crowd, not the people who like EVs and understand them.

That all said, if there was a major manufacturer of fleet trucks and they designed their vehicles for this and had a division rolling it out, that'd be a different thing. A monoculture of hardware, the ability to track inputs and outputs (the "my brand new battery just got replaced with one that's nearly EoL!") and tooling... along with massive battery packs meant for long hauls... that could potentially make sense. But given drivers have limited road-hours per day by law... I'm skeptical even there.

Comment Re:Vought's in the cabinet for one reason (Score 1) 254

The billionaires behind Trump know he's at best a useful idiot - they saw in his first term how quickly he can veer off course if he doesn't have a reliable minder nearby.

This includes Putin ...

Guys like Vought see entities like NCAR as an impediment to what they want to do, it's simple as that. They don't want the commoners to feel like the government owes them anything or is gonna do anything to improve the commoners' lives. They want the commoners to be happy spending long, tedious days screwing tiny screws into iPhones for a pittance, then quietly stepping aside and dying when they're no longer able to improve the billionaire's profit margins.

This is short sighted, of course, as climate will affect businesses and a lack of research and understanding will ultimately hurt those businesses, and the rich people, because they'll have less information for long-term planning and operations. But hey, they'll get rich over the next quarters or so, so fuck that. /s And, of course *they'll* be rich enough to move ...

Comment Re:Another part of the story. (Score 5, Informative) 254

Without a doubt, but the editors at NOAA are also. Adjusting the start dates of graphs can make them show what you want. If you compare graphs from the NOAA data, going back to the advent of satellite data, and compare those graphs to those most recently on the NOAA website. The recently edited graphs all start at the lowest point (temp) in the last 30 years when data with the same validity but doesn't show what they want to show.

Debunked.

https://science.feedback.org/r...

Comment Re:Not Loudness War Redux. (Score 1) 52

The Loudness Wars were compression of dynamic range- reduction. Increasing display brightness is the literal exact opposite- allowing for larger dynamic range. Where the Loudness Wars sought to increase the loudness of a medium with a fixed dynamic range, TVs are increasing the dynamic range so that a TV-equivalent Loudness War doesn't need to happen. Article was written by an idiot.

I don't disagree, at least based on the summary. How is "there's new technology this year and next that is brighter than ever before" somehow either an end of escalating brightness or an inflection point? That's not what either of those mean.

Comment Re:Was there a shortage? (Score 2) 80

I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.

Exactly. TFS and TFA state the following:

... closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May has redirected a flood [TFA says, " tsunami "] of cheap goods toward Europe ...

[TFS] The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to the U.S. have dropped more than 40% since May ...

Which is misleading as products aren't being pushed on Europe, or previously the U.S., people are buying/importing the stuff.

Comment Was there a shortage? (Score 5, Interesting) 80

I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.

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