Also, enshitification of the work environment and mistreatment of employees in general makes for a who gives a crap mentality that’s backed up by a belief of a bad reference no matter what you do. This leads to indirect sabotage of everything and long term rot from the inside. Eventually even billion dollar momentum crumbles under its own mass. It’s myopic late stage greed.

There are 10 kinds of people that understand Bigfoot. Those that do and those that don’t.

”Are there any women here today?”

Only the emperor has such magnificently transparent clothes you would swear he was wearing nothing at all.

While funny, that’s not actually how it works. Releasing small particles into the atmosphere of any color can greatly enhance the nucleation process and is especially effective at trapping heat by letting more energy in than radiated heat outward. Then the obvious answer becomes we must pollute more fine particles in the upper atmosphere, preferably by removing all regulations like for container ships so it’s profitable. /sarcasm

What’s worse is picking the crops far far before their time and using extended shipping and storage times to ripen them and even gasses to quickly ripen them if needed. It makes things not only taste bad, but they are significantly lower in nutrients.

Diesel is a major cost component in trucking, and per mile electricity is roughly 5 times cheaper when purchased commercially. With newer batteries able to charge in under 15 minutes this means with appropriately sized chargers a very large savings in fuel costs is possible while diversifying the types of raw energy needed. In the coming years it won’t be viable to use diesel anymore simply because it’s too expensive, not to mention that the costs to build an electric vehicle are already dropping below internal combustion while requiring less maintenance and increasing reliability.

Battery capacity is increasing, and larger vehicles are being electrified but that brings us to a major charging problem. 350kW is the maximum available in the US, and vehicles like the Silverado have over 200kWh meaning fast charging isn’t possible, not because the battery and supporting systems can’t take it but because there is no such thing as a charger powerful enough. Somehow BYD in China already has 1,500 kW chargers and even supporting smaller capacity vehicles meaning the charge time is down to roughly the time it takes to fill up at a gas station. Puny 350kW chargers make things like large trucks and semis quite a bit less viable for no particularly good reason at all, maybe the US and other countries should get off their asses and actually support the power needed to properly support reasonable charging of large vehicles and fast charging of small ones. While they are at it, ideally not up charging 5x the cost they pay for electricity like they do here in the US making it just as expensive as fossil fuels when they could turn a profit at lower rates.

People have been allowed to work on multi ton vehicles that reach speeds of a hundred miles an hour with far more kinetic energy than any bullet for a century now without any real issue. The push to make repair illegal is the same as the push to make everything a subscription, unbridled corporate greed and the erosion of rights that brings.

This is a primary push behind banning 3D printers and CNC equipment becoming cheap and affordable. Companies that charge hundreds of dollars for cheap plastic parts are very concerned when you can just print it instead for a dollar of filament.

Just thought you might want to be aware the vicious circle of me and wishing I hadn’t posted so I could upvote this and the fact you wouldn’t have but for my comment.

It’s because data centers use vast amounts of power the local grid cannot supply so the “solution” is to use on site gas turbines and either tanker truck or semi deliveries of natural gas.

The fact he was doing hookers and blow while showing off his large hog at the time has lost my vote for him as president.

It’s been in literature the plan with this approach is to automate autonomous delivery trucks that serve as primary cargo transport, data hub, and recharging station. That way the van just makes periodic stops with the drones solving the last block problem. I don’t know if they will use that approach anytime soon though.

Someone needs to explain to the Amazon drone software team that Simultaneous Localization And Mapping isn’t literally the acronym.