Charging on the road is actually more expensive than buying gasoline. Charging at home is MUCH cheaper and most of the charging gets done at home.

But the real issues are rentals, condos, and work. The lack of charging at these sites is an issue.

If your apartment/condo has parking spots, some should have electrical chargers and the price should be at cost, not a profit center for the apartment/condo. Same for work places.

This needs to be a law, otherwise bad landlords/condos/offices will try to make a profit here, thinking they are offering a 'service' and should be compensated. They are not offering a service unless the locations are open to the public.

The worst nuclear power plant disaster - Chernobyl - is NOT a disaster even 40 years later. The wildlife around it is thriving because while the radioactivity is dangerous and deadly, it is less so than the humans used to be.

Even now, with Russia bombing it to kingdom come, Russian bullets are killing more humans than Chernobyl radioactivity.

The highest body count from nuclear power plants is from nuclear bombs whose fissionable materials were created in nuclear power plants.

Burning coal releases radioactive thorium, maddening mercury and stupefying lead.

Any logical person would replace all coal power plants with nuclear ones.

Solar and wind have a max desirable amount. You do not want more than 25% in either of those intermittent sources because then you end up spending more on batteries than you do on power plants and distribution.

Hydro is the best of the green energies because it is more consistent and predictable. The countries that have more than 80% renewables do it with at least 30% hydro or geothermal. You can max out those two without concern.

Nuclear has less of an effect on the environment than Hydro (because you need to flood lands that were not deserts because they were close to water). Coal causes more deaths from radioactivity than Nuclear does. (Because coal includes some radioactive material in it that goes up in smoke). The only exception is if you were a soviet designer that insisted your plant in Ukraine did not need the same safety precautions they used in the West.

If Germany wants to get better they need to man up, ignore the scaredy cats terrified of nuclear radiation and end the Coal based radiation by shutting down the coal plants. If they did that, they could make themselves a green country.

But people are stupid and think nuclear = radioactive death and coal = smelly air, rather than coal = radioactive death AND Climate Change AND smelly air.

1) Is this a major focus of Chinese spies?
1a) Yes. They love to scare their ex-citizens. They threaten anyone they think is 'important', especially if they speak out about China because they think their reputation is valuable. Which is a joke. China is part of the 'face' cultures - they care more about what people say publicly than think privately so spend an inordinate amount of time shutting people up publicly even though their real reputation is worthless among anyone that does not fall for stupid propaganda.

2) Was he corrupt?
2a) Yes. He had assets seized. A Chinese general cannot legally obtain assets worth seizing. That is like asking an American that owns a car if he ever broke the speed limit. He might have only done it by 1 mph, but he definitely did. The real question is was he more corrupt than other generals - and that we do not know.

3) Could the US stop this?
3a) Yes. It is not that hard to figure out who is doing this. The Chinese operatives are rather slipshod. They get away with crap because the US does not care. We spend more money on arresting hispanic citizens of the US than stopping this crap. This article came from Midland, Texas. I've driven through there on the way to El Paso. If he did not bring a wife and/or children with him, then he is there for nefarious purposes.

4) Should we stop this?
4a) He gave us nothing. Probably because he knew nothing we did not already know. Is China planning on invading Taiwan? Yes. Have they set a date? No. Are they building massive numbers of ship? Yes. Are they small ships less effective than ours? Yes. Do they have missiles? Yes. Are they good missiles? He does not really know - people below him probably lied. Do they have drones? Yes. Are they cheaper and not quite as good as ours? Yes. etc. etc.

The instruction to "eliminate political bias" is in fact an instruction to require political bias. No government AI will be allowed to think thoughts that Trump doesn't approve of!

All I ever hear is bitching and moaning after Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline about how energy availability is out of control and causing German companies to close or relocate to America.

But now that we get the real story: the green push has worked well. Germany is on the other side now and permanently off Russian gas. Not another eurodollar for them.

Ukraine is kicking their butts and refuses to give up a single hectare of land no matter how much Trump and Putin gang up on Zelensky the hero and try to force him to surrender.

Cause if I were an AI company I would do my ratings like this:

Nazi
Maga
Very Conservative
Moderately Conservative

Then tell him that the following were possibilities:

Liberal
Woke
Communist

Even though not a single AI got that those ratings.

That's odd. I need large fonts, but I find dark mode unreadable. Black on cream or light beige is about ideal.

When you say "STEM vs pretend degrees", you clearly don't know what you're talking about. There is a near continuum of "hardness" of subject, and even that's not well defined, and the quesiton of whether EE is harder than pure math doesn't have a clear answer, but which way you answer definitely affects what the opposite is.

E.g., "German" is not a STEM major, but it's also not a pretend degree. OTOH, Philosophy is often a fluff major, but some of them attempt to be as rigorous as any experimental physicist. (Most don't succeed, because it's a really difficult thing to do.)

Outlawing home schooling is too dangerous. Also MOST homeschooling is destructive, but some is the exact opposite.

I'll agree that home schooling is destructive to society, even when making accommodation to geniuses and other "special needs" students, but it's destructiveness isn't even the same order of magnitude as that of "social media". (I'll agree that social media needn't be destructive, but just about all of it is.)

Was that from "Blazing Saddles"?

That's not going to apply to factories that are built for full automation. And it's reported that that's the way the Chinese build auto manufacturing plants.

Full automation is probably an overstatement, but nearly full automation will still mean that health insurance isn't a major part of the expense.

They did not mention the German equivelent of a warrant.

Cant he police do this at will? (as in, no one checking to see if the officer is doing it to his ex-wife?) Or do they require a Judge's permission (aka search warrant)

Anyone know the answer?

Without a warrant, this seems like an obviously bad idea. Cops should care more about guilt then they should care about protecting the innocent. But judges should be the other way around.

1) Obtain massive amount of money that you do not own - whether by grant, loan, or in this case payment for a movie.

2) Look at 'gambling/investment' realize you could theoretically double your money, and come up with a 'brilliant' idea.

3) If it works, keep the secret profit and use the money for what you claimed you were going to do it. If not, get caught and go to jail.

4) Repeat until you get caught and go to jail.

As someone with no experience or qualifications, it sounds to me like he had a gambling addiction. He actually made a substantial profit on Dogecoin, but, instead of getting out then, he spent the money and gambled more.