Regarding EVs, they have the same electronics ICE vehicles do, plus a battery.

Plus a battery and minus all the flammable fuel you mean.

What I'm calling for is people not to tolerate stupid sources of risk when it is easily avoided.

So: ICE car then.

This notion because x is safer than y therefore x gets a pass is an inherently stupid way to reason about acceptable risk.

X was and remains ubiquitous. Y is a safer version of X that is substantially safer than X. And yet you're attacking Y not X.

Airliners are not safer version of cars. Cars are already one of the most wildly dangerous things people do day to day regardless of logic. But in this case you're dismissing a slightly safer car than the normal kind because it's not slightly safer enough.

Sure scientists are fallible, but nonetheless it still grinds forwards to the truth about reality. And that is now the anathema to the right where ideology trumps reality. See, for example, the rights general opinion on binary "biological sex" which appears to miss out on all sorts of interesting bits of reality like XY-CAIS, XXXY mosaicism, Swyer syndrome and so many more.

You can kill Lysenko's opponents but you can't make Lysenkoism reality.

Yep, if there's one thing that needs fighting, it's those pesky lower gas prices.

Given I'm spiritually Calvin's dad, I agree.

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Thus, autocrats dislike research, which enables that change.

Yes: you can't control research: you can murder Lysenko's opponent but you can't make him right and in a fight between ideology and reality, reality wind eventually. Autocracy is all about control, and research is the anathema to that. It may often tell you thing that are directly contradictory to deeply held beliefs.

I mean just look at how the "biological sex" crowd respond to things like XY-CAIS, XY/XX mosaic chimerism, 46XX DSD, Swyer syndrome, and so on.
   

And now it's being systematically destroyed by one psychotic senile moron

Afraid to say it's not. Not not being destroyed. Not by one psychopathic senile moron. I mean he is, certainly, but he still has an approval rating of 34%. That's about 70 million complete morons or so. You have about 34%of the population cheering him on.

The new system is simply another set of inputs. You will still get search results even if you don't click on anything. In fact, I would bet that actual user interaction with this new system is going to be very small. Most of the input that Google will get will be people trying to game the system.

I didn't even know about Kagi. In fact, it has been a long time since I have even considered using someone besides Google. I just resigned myself to the idea that things were forever broken. Thanks for the insight.

People who are deeply partisan or utterly in love with a single politician don't understand people who despise a politician specifically because of their actions and policies. It's particularly confusing for them when this is baised towards one party or the other because parties tend to stick to similar sorts of things in the short to medium term.

The blind partisans can't tell the difference between that and being blindly partisan like themselves.

So, they assume that like themselves you don't judge the actual actions of the person.

That is a very good point. duckduckgo.com (to use an example) does not summarize the search results for you, and, once you know what to look for the ads are clearly marked. To be honest, purchasing ads on duckduckgo.com is likely a sign of good taste on the part of the advertiser as well. Honestly, I hadn't even considered using a non-Google search option for a long time. That is almost certainly part of the problem. Thanks for your response.

They do make the news, but often only the regional news. Did you read about the fire in Bermondsey or Avonmouth? Both were on the BBC somewhere.

The UK is never going to deploy vast amounts of solar, we donâ(TM)t have the insolation for it.

Indeed, but even so, we do get enough that relatively expensive rooftop solar is generally worth it.

But we sure as shit have the wind (and tidal) and thereâ(TM)s all the rest to do as well: EAFs, induction cookers, heat pumps, EVs, blah. We need to race or be left in the dust, like Americans with their shitty payments systems with cheques etc (and obviously with fossil fuels too).

Yep, we have a lot of wind, especially now with modern offshore building techniques.

I think with the right investment and incentives, we can also focus on batch industrial processes, things like arc furnaces and electric cement kilns which can be spun up and down fast enough to deal with weather variations where necessary. Sure depreciation is a bit of a pain, but having free energy in order to dump excess capacity is quite compelling.

Multiple reasons.

One is they have a very high power density, both specific and volumetric. You need quite a lot of power to vapourise water and lithium is the winner here. Largely speaking, small, especially disposable vapes appear to be limited by the power density of battery chemistries not the energy density.

Pouch cells are also really good for small batteries because they don't have a prismatic metal shell, and they can easily be made to custom shapes.

It is an incredible waste of resources.

I don't want to spend $150 on a quality headset that will become trash in just 2 or 3 years when the battery dies. But what choice do I have?

Buy a pair of fairbuds?

Brilliant! Why don't we find those "waste managers" and give them a good talking to, maybe even a vigorous finger wagging. I will find my waste manager forthwith and maybe fire him. Then maybe ask my butler to find a new one.

For the rest of the plebs who don't have a waste manger, they chuck stuff in the recycling bin. Unfortunately a small but significant number of arseholes chuck bad shit in there too.