The cost of going to theaters is way up, while the quality of the movies is in the dumpster.
Then there is the whole unpleasant theater experience. People talking, using phones, filthy theaters, and so on.
How can people not be burned out on the superhero crap by now?
The movie will be streaming in two months anyway.

Destroying earth. Last I heard, it uses as much energy as the nation of Argentina.

I mostly use my 13 y/o freebsd box. It feels freer. I don't have some corporation spying on me, and telling me what to buy and when. It does what I need it to do.
I respect that other people have different needs, and values.

Welcome to capitalism.

True.

But this one student needed to know the stuff he was studying. From the article: "it came after a computer forensics student submitted coursework on a USB pen drive and the lecturer spotted some other folders on it."

I mean you're studying computer forensics but you don't know enough to wipe the drive clean (and also metadata in various formats like PDFs and Word that often reveal rather a lot about the history of a document...). You should spend less time partying and more time paying attention.

Anyway, kudos to the lecturer, discovering and proving student academic misconduct is a thankless task.

To prove your age, will have to provide ID. Now they will know everything you post.

Quoted from the article. More quotes:

> "Tesla accomplished this by building a tiny two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, no pedals, and a sub-50 kWh battery pack."
> "That’s a legitimate engineering strategy for a robotaxi fleet vehicle. It’s not a fair comparison to a car you’d actually buy."

Interesting link, thank you.

If the oil prices stay up (and the orange T seems to be doing his best to make it so) then I agree that EVs should drop in value much slower than petrol cars.

All of what you said but there is more: most people will do some reading before buying an EV. What will they probably see? A few scare stories about charging on the road (if I don't go to a supercharger or a fast charger I've never used or not recently used it's always a bit scary whether the fast charger will work - and of course mostly they do).

But mainly they'll read how much better other cars and mainly Chinese cars are.

Who wants to buy 2nd or 3rd best?

I spoke with a colleague here in the UK who recently bought a car (not an EV) because he was worried what the resale value of current generation EVs will be when the 400 mile WLTP range, 5-10min charge next generation (mostly Chinese) hits the market. And he has a point.

To be fair even I bought my EV (Model 3) second hand to shave of the steepest part of the depreciation curve.

Given that citizens of the US have elected Trump as the US president twice it is pretty clear that EU countries cannot count on the US being a 100% reliable ally in the future.

That has all sorts of consequences and will require the EU to develop all sorts of capabilities.

The question of course is: will this mean willingness to reduce benefits / increase working hours to pay for all this to develop genuine competence through significantly more effort or will it be just performative?

You do not have to pedal most ebikes. Class 2 ebike and class 3 ebikes can be operated by throttle. Built in speed limits are usually easy to bypass.

Yes, it is really problem. On the Golden Gate Bridge it has been a problem for years. E-bikes going down the sidewalks much to fast to respond to pedestrians and so on.

You cannot just put pedals on a Harley and call it a bicycle. There are some so-called ebikes that can go highway speeds.

Often, there is no other place for cyclists to ride. Often, to get to one bike path to another, you have to ride on sidewalks. Often, sidewalks are considered bike paths.
Bicycles have enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gases, and solve many other problems - as has been proved in the Netherlands. But a certain amount of urban planning is needed.

Your analysis is mostly correct except UK uses no coal

https://grid.iamkate.com/

But indeed, better transmission, more storage and more renewables (or nuclear) would mean that gas isn't needed more of the time and wholesale cheaper.