Looks like a truck/pickup body on a regular car platform. What they call a "Ute" Down Under.

The benchmarks already show its faster, throttled or not. So your comment is a big whatever.

The only thing I ever got out of doing homework at Uni was a case of beer. The reward for our team coming first in an assignment to devise a strategy for maximizing throughput through a telecoms switch. A far as grades went, midterms and finals set them, 50/50.

But my high school was the same, come to think of it (though it was a Montessori school, a bit different from others). Teachers assigned homework, some even checked that you completed the work, but the only homework that was actually graded were essays. Teachers usually covered the homework quickly at the start of the class, pausing to clarify things if a student had questions. Seems like a good way to find out what students are struggling with, and provide some reinforced learning.

In other words: homework can be a tool to help struggling students to catch up with the class, not to punish them for falling behind. Grading homework is worse than pointless. And in this age of AI, grading homework only further encourages the use of AI.

Reminds me a little of the short story "Manna" about AI taking over all production, and 2 outcomes for society. As a staunch capitalist, I think that in an AI-driven world, or a "post labour" world or whatever you want to call it, capitalism as a means of distribution of wealth is not going to work. Yes, I think many would argue that it is already failing in that regard, but I would counter that the safeguards we have against people falling through the cracks still mostly work... and more importantly, that we have no better system to replace it. But if work itself pretty much becomes redundant, capitalism will only continue to work if we can find a good answer to the old question: who owns the means of production? And those means ought to include natural resources and land as well.

I am sure there are some good answers, and a way to organize society around that new reality. But I'm not at all convinced either that this is where we are headed. By the time governments would have to take action, they'd be wholly owned by the new aristocracy.

I too would be tempted to riot if my government destroyed industry and caused high level of joblessness by shutting down energy production. Supposedly for environmental reasons, but only to start burning coal again. Like they did in Germany.

If your argument that your environmental solution is no better than status quo, then we agree in principle.

The proposed EU age verification app is a good deal less intrusive than any of the nasty mechanisms that some social media is already employing. Most of those are a privacy nightmare. The EU app, in contrast:
- Site / App operator does not get your identity, only a proof of age.
- Government does not get to see which sites you visit.
- Actual verification takes place once, and whatever ID you use does not need to be stored (and can't be subsequently stolen)
- App is open source, so the workings can be verified.

This is unwarranted optimism, except for special permits, everyone in EU, including in Germany is getting banned. Including criticizing politicians.

I am not familiar with other points, but this seems to be spot on. You don't replace copper with aluminum for very known reasons. Recycling for most rare materials is only theoretical, as it doesn't happen in practice, and batteries in 2026 are still currently largely just landfilled instead of recycling. So if I extrapolate from these points - Michaux is spot-on while you are confusing what ought to be with what is.

We might disagree on many points, but I think we can both agree that recycling should be much further along for all aspects of common goods - batteries, electronics, consumer plastics, etc.

What in my "you had other people pay for your solar panels" response is not clear?

What in my response make you think I don't understand what mitigation is? Be specific.

Your installation was subsidized and incentivized with tax dollars and above-market utility purchase rates, that in turn increased costs of electricity for everyone.

That's what's irrational. Comcast goes down more often than Trump says "Bigly". It's constant complete, no signal outages. They can last minutes or hours. You want to charge big rates? Have big reliability.

Citation required.

My understanding, based on Michaux 2021 work, that there is not enough minerals to manufacture required number of EVs. New technologies that use no/less of exotic minerals, more mining, more refining, etc. would be required to achieve that goal. All of this might be doable, but transition would be multi-decade long.

Mitigation is not happening because reducing emissions was never a goal of environmentalism. The system is what it does. Environmentalism reduces energy available to an individual (and therefore reducing personal freedoms and quality of life). Therefore, this is its purpose. The fact that alternative solutions, such as mitigation of climate change or nuclear, are not seriously considered just demonstrate that.