If Doland was a bright man, this would be a stepping stone to see if its possible to blackmail the Chinese into closing their fent labs. There is an entire infrastructure chain of not legitimate targets who facilitate the drug trade.
But since Doland isn't that, there won't be a longterm strategic effort.

Similarly this would be an excellent opportunity for the South American countries to band together in a NATO type treaty, which they won't due for a lot of cultural reasons in their leadership.

GM and FORD is in the situation where they are not making cars, due CAFE standards and corporate rent seeking sheenigans colliding with each other. That is all that is happening. This can be assumed is due any number of reasons, such as the marketing part of the company running the engineering division, or the old old buy club, stockholder capitalism, globalization and the rest belt, or any number of other reasons.
They are still selling 3 sizes of Ford Transit, 2 car models competing with the Tesla, and has a good global distribution network. But all its really going to take is making worse engines, fewer cars, going all in on the idea of the SUV and the Truck, and eventually 5-10 years of bleeding money might not be enough if there is another leap in technology in the BEV front.

Software defined cars is just the cherry on top. At the end o the day people use the car to drive from A to B, and the superb driving vehicle is what sells. The cherry is only going to make a difference once you have to pick between 2 superb vehicles.

As far as I am aware, there is no larger battery storage that is a electrochemical battery. There is only holding back generation on gravity fed mechanism, such as hydroelectric.
The reason to bring this up, is that so far we have only seen batteries getting cheap enough to start replacing rotating mechanical inertia. Which means you are talking about a speculative future prospect, which isn't wrong to do, but its not relevant for today.

Consumers has also looked into off grid applications(solar and cabins, for instance), and we have gotten to the point where some people have started calculating if a +>10kWh battery system could make economical sense by only leeching electricity when its the cheapest from the meter during the night hours of low demand.

"No, no, this pile of numbers that is contradictory to my statement can't be true. I won't acknowledge them"
Sure, bub. Dig yourself down, and double down on copium.

I get that you don't want to attack the argument anon, and try to skim on the technicality.
But at the end of the day, ACER has successfully homogenized the prices to the surrounding price zones to German level for winter.
>They get a lot of cheap hydropower
? Then "The wholesale price of electricity in Germany is in line with the rest of the EU." can't be true.

There is a small technicality: ACER and the project to build a connected grid
So no, that isn't true at all. PL energy is priced cheaper, so is Swedish, Norwegian and Finish. What about the Baltics?

Even worse: What about in 2007, which is as far back as your data go?

Going by prescribed OIT dosages for peanuts, you can have a allergic reaction down to about a little more than 1/250 of a peanut. That means a finely grounded peanut could contaminate up to 200-250~ portions.
That means in a poorly cleaned environment, guess what is going to actually contaminate everything? Its where the labelled concerning peanut contamination comes from.

Similarly, if you are paying for OIT for peanuts, you are paying for roughly 0,5 1 3 6 12 20 40 80 120 160 200 240 300mg of peanut per day per week , in escalating doses, for longer than 13 weeks. And about 200mg is a peanut.
And you will pay for that, since finding the dosage chart is somewhat of a hassle, but also because reducing the peanut down to 0,5mg to get the starting dose, and confirming the escalation steps is awkward to do, even more so if the patient has a very very mild allergic reaction. Such the peanut allergy really being cross reaction from pollen.
Similarly, if you got pollen allergy, to see what the treatment immune therapy/tablets costs, and see if you can get it covered. If not for the 4 weeks of the year where you don't function, at the least talk to a expert about cross allergies and see if anything else could be fixed by the pollen OIT.

He tried to cut off "US aid and intelligence information to Ukraine" when he entered office. And he partially succeeded, which didn't really lead to anything buy destroying US goodwill, and US export rates.
I don't think it matters as much as you think it does, but it would mean effectively severing the military industrial complex completely from European buyers. Which I agree 100% with you, that would not be acceptable to the Neocons and a lot of congresscritters once the orders would dry up.

There are several smaller caveats here
1. Because of the cold war, there is a lot of US armaments in Europe. the fancier newer kind still requires some permission to be donated/sold
2. USA really like the idea of intercontinental missiles, which is somewhat unique. Especially if the gold is to start disrupting the oil extraction and refining in the Urals
3. Germany and France is to some degree willing to go for appeasement, which is going to escalate the war. While Poland and the Baltic states are very well aware that this is the prelude to WW3 if it escalates by Putin winning

There is a large grains of salt here: "only publicly-traded companies". Because it means you stop looking at private companies, but it also means if there is massive over inflation on the bond price, that is not reflected in the company.
Its not a bad grain of salt, but it means the article do not ask deeper or more meaningful questions. Such as.... is VAG/BOSCH and similar companies gobbling up any future competitors? And do companies stop growing once they go from regional to national level?

A normal autumn day: So I drove the car down to 40%, did some stuff, went to bed, and woke up the next morning to -5C. So i started climate control 10 minutes before I went to get the car. The car then had trouble powering up the heat pump, so it could power up the battery, so it could get that sweet sweet 4x COP energy extraction. At that point I gave up, drove to the nearest rapid charger(Circle K), and plugged it in until it started heating AND charging properly. It took quite a few minutes
I'd image driving something like a Nissan Leaf with worn out PTC would be similar, except it would use even longer to recover from inaccessible battery.

But without the PTC or heat pump? Lets quote the opening post
>The article also tells the story of an apple grower chilly Kashmir, India who discovered that his Chinese three-wheeler
Third world country, most likely on a very cost cut vehicle., even more likely missing some form of thermal management for the battery. Also with a battery that most likely isn't large enough that charging it can induce excess heat.

The P7 is a run of the mill Tesla 3 clone with small cargo area. The G6 and G9 are however interesting, because they compete with the Model Y, Enyaq, EQC, instead.
The correct mindset to look into your statement, is to look at what it would cost to buy the lowest spec Tesla Model 3, when it was possible to get some heft subsidies in USA. Its not that far off. It gives a indication of how much of the vehicle is taxes, and how much is the internal markup for not being the smallest ecobox to the OEM.

In the end, what you are dazzled by, is that a lot of western OEMs will gatekeep normal sound insulation and basic plastic leather seats behind their more expensive models. Or decide that backing camera or built in dashcam is going to cost the same as buying the next tier of vehicle.
But yes: Producing things will always be more interesting than gatekeeping or resting on your laurels. China currently has a working competitive auto market, in a age where the west is plagued with mergers and stagnation.

The question will remain: Will the people who work at call centers now, get into coding, do a bootcamp, and then work as a software developer or just a stable code money..... will these people understand that their circumstances might not exist by the time they have gotten 2-5 tiers up the ladder?
This question bothers me far more than thinking about the job loss, because it mirrors former events: There is a lot of workers who managed to get on the first steps in the industrial output before the outsourcing and the rust belt, who still thinks there are widget end labor that exist to climb the same ladder they have, and they might even have gotten a degree after working at said widget factory for a year or two with newfound appreciation. What do a economy look like, when the widget engineer thinks there will be more people him, and he just accidentally climbed the ladder as it was extended far far out of reach?

The reason to think about this, is because the people who now climb the ladder might get enough clout or capital to later try to build an enterprise, or just some middle service niche. Without anybody climbing after, there are for the long term no competition climbing up.
Today if you want some manufacture or even assembly, you need to find out if there are special regions near where you live to see if its possible to get your feet wet. If they don't exist, well you don't. And the same extends trough out the economy.
I'd image even working at the mail room of one of the larger corporations back in the day gave you a decent idea on what was going on, even if resulted in education instead of competitive clout.
What I fear is
What do the economy look like when the only position left to climb is the sales people? And what happens when the pie finally starts shrinking on that end?

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
They poached a bunch of Masimo employees, and the owner of Masimo decided that settling out of Court was a bad idea that would just lead to further problems down the line.
The patent itself is NOT discussed in any of the upvoted comments, which means there is actually nothing of value in that article outside of the poaching.

Wanted to ask the same question, what is a good sensor fit for a sport/sleep watch which can export the data, and maybe have a eink or AMOLED display with 2-3 weeks of battery life?
While I am amazed at how far the smart watches has gotten in terms of features, one for just jogging/sleep is hard to pick.

Mr Schmidt's opinion is limited by the fact the defaults for the OS on that phone is something that is in at the least 1/3 of the cases something he could influence. Mr Schmidt could implement policy that the phone can't serially beep, and that would literally be the end of the tale.
Instead he is sitting there like a idiot, complaining about things he let come to pass.