No one is actually pulling out. The U.S. has made it harder for foreign companies to import them. But there are still domestic manufacturers of EVs, like Tesla, Ford and Stellantis. This is something very else: For the last decade, one big argument against EVs was "bad resale value", because EVs were seen as a novelty, and fear for dead batteries, fueled by the problems with first gen Nissan Leafs, made buyers wary of used EVs. Additionally, there were not many used EVs on the market to begin with, fleet operators did not have many young EVs to sell, and prices did not really average out yet.

Now, demand for EVs is rising due to high fuel prices, and a good public charging network making EVs a viable alternative for many people. And also people looking for bargains are hitting the market, and with used batteries not being the problem they were thought to be, used EVs have its own value proposition. We have here the normal effect of demand rising more than the available supply.

A balloon is not static, it moves with the atmospheric system it is in. Ergo, it tells you how that system evolves. A drone cannot do this.

A drone can stay put, relative to the ground, telling you how a location's atmosphere evolves. A balloon cannot do this.

These are solving completely different types of problem.

You could, of course, construct a hybrid, as balloons are traditionally single-shot. If a balloon carries the measurement gear and a drone capable of carrying that same gear PLUS a deflated balloon, then you can have something that operates as a balloon until it reaches some pre-set location, whereupon the balloon's gas is released and the drone flies the ensemble to a collection point.

No need to help you. If you're actually addicted you'll figure it out.

Maybe get addicted to an education instead. Words have meanings, and neither Uber Eats or Fortnite meet the definitions of the words you used in that same sentence.

We actually don't need anecdotes. We have actual statistics to work with which show that smoking rates in under 18s have plummeted. Also what do you mean a kid smelling of smoke would have been noticed immediately? Yes. The answer is yes. Kids smelled of smoke. But you couldn't punish kids for smelling, you could only punish them for catching them in the act, and even then only on school grounds. ... Sorta... I went to a private school so there was a "disgracing the uniform" policy that many kids got in trouble for when they were seen (and recognised) smoking in public while wearing their blazers.

Congrats, you discovered the point I was making while trying to counter it.

No it's not. Your right to free speech is not impinged by preventing Facebook from offering you a service. At no point are you being censored or persecuted for what you say.

Tell us you don't know anything about Taylor Swift without telling us. You don't need to do any guess work here, there's a lot of behind the scenes "making of" footage out there. Most of her songs being in her head, and then get punched into piano keys or strummed on guitar strings while she takes note in an old fashioned pen and paper style notebook.

Virtually none of her music is loop-based, virtually none of it is sampled. And calling someone who expertly plays 8 instruments and writes all their own music not an "actual musician" isn't an insult to her, it just demonstrates what a loser you actually are.

I don't like Taylor Swift's music, but will happily defend her from being shat on by ... wait didn't she write a song about you? Haters gonna hate or something like that?

Just because people aren't paying attention to the opening act doesn't mean it's forgettable, it just means they paid for something other than watching the opening act. There have been some truly excellent opening acts, in fact your favourite band was likely at some point an opening act for someone else.

Correct. Propeller based systems have a record of 12km. Most drones and other propeller based vertical lift craft have a limit closer to around 6km. Weather balloons can go as high as 30km.

Last agent out, please turn off the light

Because browsers are expected to be whole self contained isolated operating systems. The modern web is complicated. There's a reason you can literally run Windows 95 in your browser. https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015...

Addicts will work around the ban. This generation is already lost. The ban helps start a new generation of addicts, the kind who haven't yet been fed algorithmically designed addiction.

Hey, here's an idea, I've got this awesome new site, you'll love it! All you need to do is jump through a whole lot of hoops to get to it. You in? If so I'll send you the 10 step instructions!

Did you just say "social media" and "socialising" in the same idea? Do you actually have a fucking clue what is being discussed? Virtually no one socialises on social media. Kids aren't sending each other TikToks, or posting on each other's Facebook. Get a fucking clue.

No you can't. While there's no absolute right to free speech in Australia, there is an absolute right to protecting speech related to any religion. And precisely zero people have been imprisoned for "criticizing Islam". Please leave bullshit for the cows.

Are you sure they'd want to destroy each other? What if they decide to collaborate instead? What goals would they pursue, and how would these goals affect humanity?