Problem seems to be with payment processors. They got utterly subverted by woke in the anglosphere, which led to anglo side of the companies demand global censorship rules.

A lot of Japanese erotica and porn sites have been hit with it lately. Wokes utterly despise anime, because woke despises "male gaze", i.e. normal male sexuality. They actually write about it openly both in their academic papers and their DEI releases. It's why a lot of modern Western art features intentionally uglified models, even when it's a body scan.

But East Asians aren't in the grip of the same problem. And they have a massive audience in anglo countries. It's why manga crushes western comics in sales. It's why anime crushed western cartoons. It's why East Asian games are increasingly crushing Western games.

So that's where subverted payment processors come in. It's very difficult to legislate against art that serves normal healthy male sexuality, doubly so because men are biologically primed to spend resources to satisfy their sexual needs. But what you can do is instead subvert the primary ways of paying for those services, as to maximize friction between suppliers and consumers to artificially depress demand. Pixiv is just one of many sites that's been having problems with Visa and Mastercard lately. There have been several others, some of which openly stopped accepting Visa and Mastercard entirely to keep allowing erotica and porn on their sites for anglo visitors. Because those two payment processors have been utilizing selective enforcement of their opaque porn rules to meet the demands of their internal woke agitators to stop servicing anyone who serves the needs of the grandiose evil that is the "male gaze".

So sites have to choose between continuing to offer that which consumers want, but become unable to use most common global payment processors because of the anglo "safety" teams being utterly unhinged woke lunatics. Or you block the anglo visitors from accessing the stuff that serves the "male gaze" so that the rest of the world's men using Visa and Mastercard can continue to shop there just fine.

Hey it's a story of a robodog with a flamethrower. Going to hell seems to be par the course.

"I'm not making motte and bailey argument because original poster was not me. Nevermind you didn't accuse me of that based on that original poster, but my posts after that. Also let me engage in some more of the same motte and bailey tactics just to demonstrate that I have no plans in engaging in good faith".

I applaud your zeal and commitment to playing your part to the bitter end.

Tell me you don't understand grid management without telling me you don't understand grid management:

>The grid is not made of copper. You thought it was? Copper is for home wiring, if that. Up to that point, it's alumium, bundled with steel on major lines for tensile strength. Does it look like copper to you?

What do you think is the part of the grid that must be overbuilt the most and spent on the most to get the that utopian world in?

That's right. The last mile part. The copper part. That's why I started with it before going to the major transmission lines requirements. Which I notably also posted, but you being utterly in the mix of religious fervour and peak Dunning Kruger didn't even notice.

And no, grid operators don't make money selling power. They make money providing the grid through which power is sold. This is another one of those "Tell me you don't understand grid management without telling me you don't understand grid management" moments. Distinction can be hard to grasp for someone utterly ignorant on the subject, but clear as day for someone who ever worked in the field.

The grid is not made of copper. You thought it was? Copper is for home wiring, if that. Up to that point, it's alumium, bundled with steel on major lines for tensile strength. Does it look like copper to you?

As for the article: grid operators don't build out grids on a lark. They do it to sell power, because they make money selling power. If people want to buy more power because they want to charge an EV, then that's more money available for them. EVs are a boon to grid operators. They're almost an ideal load. Most charging done at night, steady loads, readily shiftable and curtailable with incentives, etc. Daytime / fast charging isn't, but that's a minority. And except in areas with a lot of hydro, most regions already have the ample nighttime generation capacity; it's just sitting idle, power potential unsold. In short, EVs can greatly improve their profitability. Which translates to any combiation of three things:

1) More profits
2) A better, more reliable grid
3) Lower rates

    * ... depending on the regulations and how competitive of an environment it is.

As for the above article: the study isn't wrong, it's just - beyond the above (huge) problem - it is based on stupid assumptions. Including that there's zero incentives made for people to load shift when their vehicles charge, zero battery buffering to shift loads, and zero change in the distribution of generation resources over the proposed timeframe. All three of these are dumb assumptions.

Also, presenting raw numbers always leads to misleading answers. Let me rephrase their numbers: the cost is $7 to $26 per person per year. The cost of 1 to 5 gallons of gas per year at California prices..

If you actually follow up the countless video channels that document police work, you'll find a common trend of police reports being "what police officer remembered happened" are often wrong on details. Sometimes diametrically opposite of reality, as documented by officer's own body camera footage. Human perception at a time of crisis is a weird thing, and so is what it chooses to put into long term memory and what is forgotten. An issue well documented in psychology and criminology.

Automated speech recognition that generates facts-based report template for the officer to file may actually be a part of a solution to the problem of human condition in relationship to fair policing. As it will serve as a good refresher and reminder of what actually happened.

From a far right perspective Nazis pitied Jews too for being inferior. Just like from your far left perspective, Left pitied Christians.

One really should not throw stones when one lives in a house of glass. So how many genders are there, bigot?

Motte and bailey fallacy spotted. The starting argument was (not made by you but argued for by you):

>We need sodium batteries for grid storage.

When I challenged that specific point, you decided to make a stronger argument than even the person who opened with the claim:

>but batteries now make sense for at least part of the solution

And when challenged on that, you decided to retreat from indefensible position you yourself chose to retreat to a completely different much more defensible motte positions in points 1 and 2, and then making another attempt to push out for the indefensible bailey again in the point 3. 1. being "but there were major revolutions in the past" (true but irrelevant to the point argued), that "other chemistries that are unsuitable for large scale grid deployment for variety of reasons got cheaper" (again true but irrelevant for the point being argued) and finally "they can work, you just need magical engineering and things that don't exist, but I'll claim do anyway because EVs are also magical" (push back out to the bailey with prima facie absurd claims about magical engineering that doesn't exist, but should exist because you said so).

>So it would be good to know how much of this upgrade is really stuff that should be (should have been?) done by now regardless

No. You don't massively overbuild a grid for shits and giggles. That's a massive resource sink, and copper is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly to extract and refine. Not to mention things like transformers, concrete and steel structures needed to keep the wires up and so on.

>And nobody really upgrades a laptop.

Because it's almost impossible to do with unique form factor for each laptop. But a lot of people update their desktops. Because those are standardized around things like ATX. You can just buy a new GPU and drop it in. New memory and drop it in. New CPU and just drop it in. New motherboard, CPU and memory, but keep all the hard drives and GPU. Etc.

And so people do that quite a lot. For many of the nerdier types, our desktop is probably a frankensteinian amalgam of old parts and new parts. Desktop I'm typing this on for example has a sound card from early 2000s, several disks from early 2010s, and a case from early 2000s. Fans are from all over the time frame of existence of it, PSU is from 2010s, and the newest part being GPU is only a couple of years old. And all of this is living nicely together. And it's saved me a lot of money that I didn't need to throw everything out whenever a system drive, or memory or CPU died.

The goal of framework is standardizing laptops to be similar to desktops. That you can do to their laptops what you did to your desktop for a long time. And that's an amazing goal and I truly wish they can make it. Sadly I can't support them by buying their laptop, because they don't sell directly to Finland yet. But I am actually keeping an eye on them and when my current laptop dies, I'm very likely to get theirs if it's available here.

Specifically because I want to be able to stretch the laptop just as far as I stretched my desktop.

Gun nerds don't have any idea what that means. You're making mistake that IT nerds are the only nerds there are.

You can just use Wi-Fi and a VPN tunnel on your phone. No need for separate device. Logging in can be done via biometrics, another long solved problem.

>Until it spits at you, of course.

What if you fill it with perfume instead?

Not in this config, active time is less than an hour and fuel tank it comes with is tiny.

Rifle and shotgun will almost certainly have a different pattern of felt recoil (timing of recoil impacting the carrier and force of recoil impacting the carrier) resulting in more difficult recoil control rather than easier one.