BYD's new electric vehicles can add around 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes now. Of course we're not allowed to buy them in the US, hooray for our "free trade" economy, right?

You probably missed my posts because they were modded into obscurity, but I worked at Amazon for 9 years and it was the greatest job that I've ever had. I got to do challenging and cutting edge work with some of the smartest people that I've ever known, all while they threw piles of money at me (average salary at Amazon is over a hundred grand). It was a great way to wrap up a career.

Walmart advertising pays for a lot of anti-Amazon articles squalling about how badly their warehouse workers (less than 1/5 of the staff) are treated, probably to divert attention from how badly they treat their own employees. I've done warehouse and shipping work in the past and at Amazon worked with people who advanced out of the FCs, and the jobs they describe are head and shoulders better than my own experiences. Their pay, benefits, working conditions and safety are far and away better than any non-Teamster warehouse position out there.

Nonononono, we must have real music from real musicians and real bands with absolutely no fakery, like Milli Vanilli, The Monkees, Boney M, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, ...

A phone SIM card does not execute Java (or any other) software.
People keep mixing that up with "Java Cards"

Almost 4 years after the very publicly well known CVE was out there.
That vulnerability only works for "inside jobs", and even then it is complicated enough to set up that there is no known case, that it ever got exploited.

Java has not really anything to do with Oracle.
Unless you buy a Java version from them.

OK. I did some research.

In 1990, Richard Gere offered Julia Roberts $3000 for a week. And that was

a) 35 years ago and
b) in an aehmm... more price conscious oriented market. (but not low budget either)

So as a conclusion: If you pay $500 for food and sex, at least one of that will not be classy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman#Plot

I'm not an expert in that field, but I dare to say that escort services for people who pay $500 for dinner have long left that price mark behind.

Well,
Russia wanted to make sure in the first Afghanistan war that the pipeline to India and China gets built. But failed.

USA made sure in the second Afghanistan war that the pipelines never get build. So far they succeeded.

These lasers require minerals that are in short supply right now, especially rare earth metals. In spite of the name rare earth metals aren't exactly rare, but they are rather difficult to refine.
That is just nonsense.

They are rare, the lazers, because they are complex systems. You have to track the target. To kill shells you need multiple lasers targeting the same shell. The electronics use simple chips. As long as they can make phones, they have enough rare earths for what ever they want.

The lasers are in general CO2 lasers. They only use rare earth, if available, they do not need it for functionality.

The people in the USDOD are certainly working on getting lasers to the front lines but they have a shortage of materials
Nope. They lost the race when they could not deliver 30 years ago as their MIC was to expensive. Now Germany and Austria is selling them for an Apple and an Egg: the Americans do not even want them: NIH syndrome.

It takes china to make them mainstream and some angry words from an american president to push them into the US Army (the Navy has a few, but does not really want them).

Lasers: no have.
A fibre is super thin ... it is not one with a black plastic "protection" around it.
You probably never see it.

A 1kW laser is likely not enough anyway. But a few that concentrate fire would do it.

They withhold services until there's blackouts, because it's more profit for them to see spot prices get high before providing power than trying to keep the grid, and the spot price, stable.
If your market regulators allow that: blame the legislation.

If a price is high at the spot market, it simply means: there is a buyer for that price.
Ordinary customers, who already paid the "overpriced" end consumer price: are not affected.
Giving them a black out is illegal in Europe (and in general technically not possible, reserve power providers would jump in and bill the guilty parties).

and they only become profitable at times of peak spot prices due to their inefficiency.
That is nonsense.
Gas turbines are extremely efficient. As efficient as a "single" heat plant can get.
Obviously combined cycle gas plants are more efficient as they use the exhaust of gas turbines to heat a boiler.

Electricity from Gas turbines is expensive: because the plant/turbine is absurd expensive. A single blade of the turbine rotors in the burning area costs as much as a german middle class car.

Well, there are plenty of "terminal apps".

I do not remember which I used. Don't have it my iPhone, I mostly use my Android :D

What took them so long, IMHO, was Apple waiting for iPad Hardware catching up to the task.
The hardware was always up for that. There is nothing particularly demanding on macOS.

I wonder if enforcement is targeted at Amazon workers. I wouldn't be surprised to find it were true, since Rump is jealous of anyone more successful than he is. Even worse, Bezos got to be the richest person in the world by his own hard work and competence, he didn't inherit it like Rump's clique did.