"Can be recycled" != is actually recycled.

And mining (and, really, it's the processing) of lithium is an expensive and fantastically ecologically toxic nightmare. That's why we pay to have it done in third-world countries whose health and ecology we don't give a fuck about.

Other than those two harsh realities, yeah, we're not going to "run out".

Those SUVs are popular with women because they feel more secure driving around in an armored tank.

The men like them because they can haul stuff and take it camping and shit. And they also want a tank. I mean, have you SEEN the other drivers on the road?

The SUV is the modern replacement for the station wagon and the pickup truck. Some people still drive those, though.

You can get electric SUVs, though.
A lot of my friends drive hybrid SUVs,
which also solves the "no chargers" problem.
But any big SUV is expensive, and these tend
to be high-end vehicles. So, very expensive.

Very true, except that most families have two or three (or more) cars. So you need that many chargers, because everyone has to full recharge each night.

And a significant portion of the population does not own a home. They live in apartments with 300-900 other people. And there are not 1,800 chargers at the apartment. If you are lucky, there might be, oh, six?

You DO travel "that far" and NO THERE ARE NOT.

Wishing there were chargers all over the place does not make it so.

Aside from those issues, people in the USA would adopt EVs a lot more. It's not pure range that's the problem, it's that there is no way to charge. An EV can handle the 100-200 daily miles that most Americans drive. I have no idea where you're getting that 30 miles number. Here on the east coast in major cities, it's more like 50 -200 miles a day, all told. 30 miles a day is just going to the grocery store and the doctor, and you do that in ADDITION to your commute. (That that's weekdays. You drive a LOT further on the weekends.) Because everyone lives in the suburbs. That's why the commute to work is typically 45-90 minutes each way.

Incorrect. The vast majority of Americans live in suburbs, and drive 10-30 miles around their home in order to get groceries, shop, go to the doctor, school, and gas up their cars. But the DO NOT WORK where the live. Work is 14-45 miles away, and the traffic on the commute is murder due to congestion and crazy drivers.

I don't know that battery performance and degredation is linear with respect to colder temperatures. Much of the US (some of the most highly populated parts) has weather that is near or way below 32 (F) for some of most of the year.

And in Norway, those people are not doing anything remotely like the daily commutes of the USA. Their workplace is in close proximity to their homes. Because it's fucking cold in Norway and there are not (compared to the US) many people at all, and they live right in or next to the few population centers where they also work. Apples and Oranges.

That said, EVs (newer ones, anyway) can work just fine for a typical US commuter. Even though you might drive 100 (or 200) miles every day, the EVs can do that. Even in the cold weather.

There are two problems why people in the USA are not adopting EVs.

FIRST is that there is no charging infrastructure. If you don't own a home, you're just not going to be able to have an EV. And many many people live in an apartment/condo, and have no way to charge. You're going to have to fully charge every day. Oh and by the way, that's not just one car. It is almost always two cars. And if you have kids, now it's three cars. Or more. If you own a home, you probably want to install an actual charger. (Or three chargers!) More money. Maybe you can get solar and huge batteries (that can also help in home power outages, which happen a lot in some places). That is another big investment. Money, money, money.

SECOND REASON: Americans do not go on "road trips" a few times a year. They make drive on a 1,000+ mile road trip once or twice a year. But they are going on road trips almost every weekend, driving to all kinds of places that are 50-150 miles away. Those places don't have chargers, either.

In the Washington D.C. metro area, a typical commute to work is 45-90 minutes each way. That's just due to congestion. But MANY people here have much longer commutes, over 2 hours each way, because they live 45-100 miles away from work.

That's how this major city operates. I think it might be worse (and with longer commutes) in other big cities in the US. (What's it like in Los Angeles, I wonder.)

When they get back home, they are typically driving 20-50 miles per day. Because people live in suburbs.

There are VERY FEW people (percentage-wise) who work in the cities who actually LIVE in the cities, and of those people, almost none of them drive or even own cares.

Your normal typical American drives 20-45 miles EACH WAY for work every day. No idea how that compares to Europe, but more or less everything about lifestyle and especially travel (car, plane, train) is different here from Europe, anyway.

All I know for sure is that I don't want my name associated with touching things on any Dynamic Island. Didn't a bunch of people just get in a lot of trouble for that? I'll stick using the Pros, thank you. They are expensive but for the things they can do and the way they do them, those stylish "laptops" are worth it.

But let me know if they are going to offer contortionist models later. I've seen films.

I think you were down-modded because they don't know what Chinese Room means, and just figured you for a "racist". That's the level that Slashdot has sunk to here in 2026. "News for morons -- News they won't comprehend in the least."

No: the point is that humans DO know facts.
They might be operating with incorrect/untrue facts, but humans are actually reasoning, with facts. Likewise, traditional AI systems also know facts and reason with them. (The problem there is that the set of facts is very small, and its expensive, so that kind of AI only operates in extremly limited domains in which it is an "expert".) By contrast, an LLM has no facts and does no reasoning. Those are simply not what an LLM does.

This law would be totally unenforceable for at least three reasons. First, I'd like you to define "AI". (The law will have to do that, and it will fail to do so in any meaningful fashion.) Second, prove to me in court that AI was used. Three, this law is obviously contrary to the US Constitution.

Another "We're Doing Something About It" theatrical gesture, with a taste of panic over how the world has been taken over by AI and there ain't a fucking thing anybody can do about it.

SELECT "GoogleSQL" AS "Hello";

I guess.

It's a Down Under panel.
Their drains swirl the other way, too!

Ah, the sock puppet account of the "moderator" speaks out.
I'm glad I made you feel uncomfortable.

Looks like (iii).

I pointed out the same thing as you but got modded into Troll oblivion. Not sure if that's because the moderator cannot understand English, or if they just didn't get to you yet, or if the mod was a Chinese agent and is out of points (and his co-agents are busy)..

TRANSLATION:
I work in the bamboo building industry on interior design, and I am telling you that the material is
three times as expensive (so nobody uses it).

You are saying that bamboo would be too expensive,
and that the carbon footprint would be high,
and that it is inappropriate for building things like
towers, skyscrapers, and airport terminals.
And you also complain that it is a major fire hazard.
You mention that the main supplier would be China,
which is true. But you're saying all those things
makes you a RACIST MONSTER!