Paper straws are not a reasonable alternative.

They just bought them. The company that makes them is close to selling them for 10 years now.
https://www.saildrone.com/

Also, it's a stopgap.
Battery will drastically improve. Every decade we discover new battery tech that massively outperforms it predecessor.
This whole thing will be obsolete in just 10 to 15 years.

I don't buy the idea that government can fix problems.
At best it creates just as many new problems.

Either corporations want government because it works in their benefit, for example by making it harder for competitors to get into their business.
Or corporations do not want government since it stops them from doing whatever they want.
The fact that they don't all support the libertarian party shows which of the two it is.

What would be the problem?
The customers get lower prices, that's a win.
And if the surviving shop raises it's prices after bankrupting it's competition it will get undercut by others.
The only way you can maintain that monopoly is to also raise the barrier to entry for competitors with regulation like licenses.
The free market works on it's own and stops working when you let government turn the knobs.

I firmly believe in my human right to the fruits of my labor.
Every nation that engages in mandatory taxation should be disconnected from the internet until they recognize that good ideas do not require force.

Decades away? But for 40 years now I've been told the oil will run out in 7 years!

Didn't RTFA. Or the summary.

> COVID was not started by a lab leak and vaccines are ultra safe and ultra effective. Only right wing nutbars doubt that.

There is way too much coincidence surrounding the lab leak theory to claim it's absolutely false with any degree of certainty. I'd say it's somewhere in between "unlikely" and "wouldn't be surprised if it was".
Considering previous experiments I wouldn't even be too surprised if it was an intentional leak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And the safety and effectiveness of those rushed vaccines was very much exaggerated. They helped a lot, but plenty of people still got infected or got some pretty bad side-effects after taking them.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
"52.05% had some form of a menstrual problem after vaccination"

Seeing the weird stuff the left has been pulling calling someone a right wing nutbar isn't the insult you think it is.

I do the same thing.
Blame performance issues on the hardware.

Going by the ideals and goals of this organisation, wouldn't the expected response to the current administration's stance on climate change be "Our work is now even more necessary than it was before."
What happened?

Is it no longer profitable? That seems unlikely since Bill Gates doesn't really need the money.
Are they admitted they're fighting windmills?
Did they have an advisory function before and are they just screaming at a wall now?
Why scale back in Europe as well? If the Trump administration is the issue, why not move effort from the US to the EU?
Looking at the Breakthrough Energy Wikipedia page, they mostly seem to be involved in technology/product development. Has interest in their work faded, are subsidies drying up?

Something tells me "the conversation about climate has been sidetracked by politics" isn't the real issue here.

The money is coming out of the deficit.
And for the sake of clarity, that deficit is created by an organisation that has the options to steal people's money and to just print more money without impunity.
Pluck them to the bone.

If only it was an iPad.
Most manufacturers put zero effect into decent UI / UX for those things.
And they pinch pennies on the hardware.
It feels more like a Windows Vista tablet.

'The same thing' being pushing a narrative. AKA censorship and propaganda.

Meta got their arms twisted to do the exact same thing in the US and the EU.