Meanwhile most people dont have the wherewithal to engage in such scrutiny. For all its imperfections mainstream media rarely results in such extreme and crazy shit like Qanon or the anti vax movement.

I've had many Windows upgrades fail. Some of them resulted in an unusable system, others reverted themselves and only wasted hours of my time. And for that matter, just running Windows Update without an upgrade to a new Windows version very frequently breaks Windows Update so that it will not work, and on a few occasions has resulted in an unbootable Windows system. In fact even my work machine has rendered itself unbootable with a Windows Update, and I work remotely.

Ethanol might burn cleaner, but it produces more emissions than gasoline. Also, it can eat away at various parts of an engine if the engine isn't designed for ethanol use.

Bottom line everything Biden tried to do was stopped by Republican extremists so that American voters would blame Biden for the chaos caused by republicans.

Because I can follow lots of news accounts, I dont have to depend on one source for news and paywalled news sites get blocked so I dont have to see their posts ever again (washington post & new York times are blocked)

We're basically trading traditional media which at least has some sort of oversite (however imperfect) for social media which has even less. This isn't good.

Candidate A: hardworking successful and respected prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President. Exemplary record of promoting health care, voting rights, and reducing gun violence and crime. Full understanding and adherence to the rule of law. Well educated. Articulate as a court officer should be.

With literally zero immigrants since 2010, California's population would have shrunk by one tenth of one percent per year. Significant only if you're trying to make some political point about the state.

For example China largely has control through predatory pricing. For example a rare earth mining operation in California shut down due to China offering rare earths below their costs. With no rare earth exports from China, mining in California will now be profitable. This may also be the case in many other areas.

Control via predatory pricing requires that you keep shipping products, stop shipping and that control is lost.

We've seen such behavior before, with oil for example. Increase the price and various exploration and acquisition operations becomes viable. Ex offshore oil drilling becoming a viable option with higher prices.

I expect the PHEV to make the "pure" ICEV obsolete. Clearly you see otherwise. We shall see which proves more popular.

What I don't like with PHEV is that you get a small battery, yes sure enough for daily commutes, but you have to recharge it every day.
While for the same price you can usually get a real EV with 400 km of range that you could only plug once a week.

Hydrogen may well take off or not, but PHEVs seem to have taken off nicely already. Most of the new cars in my neighborhood are PHEVs now. Excellent choice if you ask me - it covers about 80% of my driving on electricity and I can still go on a longer trip and not worry about chargers and batteries.

Broadcom doesn’t develop new products. They buy companies, lay off 50% of the workforce, cancel all R&D projects, and increase product prices by 10 times. They lose 80% of their customers, but the 20% that cant easily dump the product pays 10x the cost, and that amounts to a 4x increase in revenue if you do the math. Currently, they’re making money hand over fist and the stock market loves them.

But, with a tiny, pissed-off customer base and zero r&d, each broadcom business is coasting on profit from a dead product line. It’s where companies go to die and be scavenged for resources. This is fine and all - efficient capitalism requires recycling of corporate resources. But companies don’t like 10x price hikes. Pretty soon, companies will flee a product if there’s even a hint that it might be bought by broadcom.