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Comment Linux is becoming the only choice (Score 1) 32

It really doesn't make sense to use Windows or macOS these days. Hardware now outlasts software by entirely too long. If you want to get the most out of your hardware, Linux is pretty much the only choice.

Most people don't upgrade their hardware because it's faulty or too slow to actually do the tasks they need. They upgrade because Microsoft and Apple intentionally drop support and cripple things. It's downright wasteful. As more and more software becomes web apps it makes less sense to use MS or Apple in business settings.

Comment Re:Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 201

Norway is relatively small.

Which should work against EV's with a smaller power grid and lower population density for chargers.

Norway has a relatively large fiscal surplus from natural resource exports they partly spend on EVs.

US has also given tax subsidies to EV's for decades. Hasn't given them dominant market share.

Norway has a relatively high percentage of citizens with private parking.

It's relatively trivial to put chargers on streets like parking meters running off the existing grid.

Norway being relatively cold doesn't mean much.

It certainly does when cold is a well known battery killer.

Comment Re:Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 201

The issue wasn't the climate, it was the tax policy that made EV ownership popular in Norway.

US has also had tax policies favoring EV's for decades. That hasn't given them dominant marketshare like Norway.

While the technology is there to call the EV a "mature technology" the manufacturing isn't nearly on the same level of ICEVs.

Doesn't change the fact the tech is there and ready for mass scaling.

Comment Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 201

If EV's can work in Norway, they can work anywhere. Speaking of, shouldn't you be FOR electric vehicles to be run off of nuclear power grids?

This works for Norway because their vehicle demand is relatively tiny compared to the rest of the world, there's enough global EV production that demand created by this tax in Norway had no real impact on EV prices.

Nothing stops vehicle manufacturers from making more EV's when it's a mature technology.

Comment Re:And yet the Africans are breeding like crazy (Score 1) 60

Putin wanted nothing but peace, McCarthyite cocksucker. That's why he put up with your bullshit for eight years after you overthrew Ukraine to use against Russia. We both know if the reverse happened the US would have bombers in the air in eight minutes if Russia overthrew Canada or Mexico to use as bases on America's border.

Dumfucked cocksucker is extremely dumbfucked. And a cowardly sack of shit to not post under a UID.

Comment Re:And yet the Africans are breeding like crazy (Score 1) 60

USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) plays a significant role in global family planning and reproductive health, providing contraceptive supplies and support to developing countries.

Only as an infinitesimally tiny side hustle. Their first, second.....hundredth priorities are subverting and overthrowing foreign governments for American hegemony. Do you pretend the CIA and Pentagon are humanitarian agencies?

Comment Re:Reality 101 (Score -1, Troll) 60

Poor are better off than ever throughout history.

That's actually why all these "we're all going to die in global boiling if we don't put poorest back into starvation by denying them cheap and reliable energy" mostly stopped at this point. Too much repetition, too many people that heard it all since at least 1980s, and oceans are still not only not boiling off, but humans are better off than ever in our history. And it's getting better.

So the language has been shifting ever since massive reckoning of "we were laughably, insanely wrong in our predictions" that happened around 2020 in IPCC. That's when they had to admit that hard predictions made in 2000 of what should happen by 2020 if any of their predictions are correct turned out so phenomenally wrong when 2020 arrived and we could observe not only none of the catastrophies predicted occurring, but that in many cases what was predicted from 2020 baseline... got better. I.e. desertification was massively pushed back for example. There's now such a massive surplus of Polar Bears, the animal that was supposed to die out due to "destruction of habitat because of AGW" that we had to roll back many of the protection measures as Polar Bears are so numerous and spread so widely that they're actively hunting humans in the Arctic towns and villages now.

So now the language shifted from "we're all going to die in 12 years due to global boiling if we don't do what we the great priests of AGW say" to "catasophe is still happening, it's just so slow that no one can see it. And no, we're making no predictions on when it'll actually happen, so you don't get another 2020 moment, when we predicted a lot of things that should happen by that year, and none of them happen, making us look like what we are: peddlers of lies for personal financial and status gain".

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