Pharmaceutical research (i.e., the search for new medications) is also (and has been for decades) disproportionately funded by America. Europe and a few other countries (e.g., Japna, South Korea) do also contribute, but their contributions are consistently a much, much smaller portion of their GDP.

They already have that. The Youth Unemployment Rate is so high they've stopped even publishing fake numbers, because any number low enough to publish, would not be believable.

Yeah. The Chinese economy is facing some "challenges" at the moment.

I don't know if that's going to work, given that the youth unemployment rate has gotten so high they've stopped publishing numbers for it, because either they'd be too high to publish under Chinese law, or else no one would believe them. Granted, that's not tech-sector-specific, but a *lot* of those unemployed young people are college educated, and STEM fields are quite popular over there. Employers may in fact be in a stronger negotiating position than the prospective employees.

Frankly, you've swallowed a fair amount of BS yourself.

They 'evacuated' because it wasn't really part of their vision of Biblical Israel, and it helped split the Palestinian Authority.

They're just removing ethnic Palestinians from their communities in the West Bank (not to mention some literal talk of ethnically cleansing Gaza from Israeli Ministers.

Hamas are definitely bad guys, but that's pretty much what any force does when fighting against a much stronger enemy.

Not anymore, though they might again soon.

Hence the folks complaining about an "open air prison".

You kinda are.

Now to be clear, if you look at things from the Israeli perspective the narrative isn't that bad. Jews were brutally persecuted everywhere they went, they were given a chance to relocate to their ancestral homeland, and they took that opportunity.

The problem is, if you look at things from the Palestinian perspective the narrative isn't that bad either. Palestinians were living as the majority as they had for almost 2000 years, having been promised self-rule for rebelling against the Turks in WWI. Instead Britain allowed a bunch of Jews to immigrate, buy land, and eventually gave them a big chunk of the country. When they fought back the new Jewish state took even more land and at this point seems very determined to eventualy take the whole of Mandatory Palestine.

Yeah, there's a bunch of legitimate grievances on both sides, but the underlying problem is that Western powers screwed up in early 1900s, started giving Jews a claim to someone elses land, and created a situation that is very difficult to deescalate.

True, though it also suggests that the technology is fairly complicated. Traditional gas stations don't have the requirement that you store the gas in ultra-low temperatures. Not only does that create more complicated storage requirements but more complicated mechanism to deal with that temperature gradient when refuelling.

Sure, it probably gets more reliable as the tech improves, but it definitely sounds like there's a safety issue that will require skilled personnel on an ongoing basis.

My theory is that they're too embarrassed to let it be known that the drones are being taken down by condors. :)

Unlike Farty Don, who merely wants to shoot them.

The difference is that a gas station requires a massive capital investment to build. An EV charging stand just needs the same electricity as any other business. In the long term it might be efficient for the market to produce an excess of charging stations.

Don't trust a company with "spin" in their name.

The models have errors and uncertainties, including about when we might hit various tipping points.

The fear is that the "alarmists" were wrong, and the climate is warming faster than they thought.

Atmospheric CO2 takes a very long time to drop (and we're still adding more) and when pollution dropped more sunlight got through and raised temps slightly.

Sorry if that's too complicated for you.

Don't worry, the average intelligence jumped way up after you dropped.

The prof was assuming you were smart enough to understand that everyone would know the sun warms the earth.

He was saying that sun's output was constant enough to have no effect.

I hope you can take some solace in the fact that the average person is still apparently much smarter than you.

Sometimes a hypothesis has potentially observable implications, even if a mad scientist can't reproduce everything in their lab.

I think it has been decades since cosmologists believed the universe is expanding at a constant rate.

The world is full of folks with impressive credentials, it's inevitable a few of them will dive headfirst into crackpot theories for a variety of reasons.

Not to say this guy is a crackpot, but what he's claiming should be pretty easy to demonstrate to credible outside experts. That he hasn't done that rings many alarm bells.