China is gonna eat America's lunch.
100% correct. The country is too busy worrying about a trans person using the bathroom. I'll leave you with a quote from Lyndon Johnson.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
I work for a small electronics company and every day we're adjusting customer prices due to tariffs as they shift like the wind. Hell it affects me on the hobbyist level if I buy components for my projects. Once in a while at the grocery store I would buy a chocolate bar from a local chocolate company. This past Sunday I saw the price had risen to $5.99 for one bar! Last year they were $2.99. That's going to kill a small business.
Yes, at this point I have a lot of investments
if you have investments, which can then employ people, you're not hoarding money. Your money has been employed so that it can circulate and do work.
You didn't understand the analogy. People are forced to take *cars* as a result of terrible urban planning and infrastructure, when they want to be able to take bikes or walk or get a bus. Bikes and walking are frequently physically impossible, much too dangerous, or legally banned, and buses don't run to everywhere someone wants to go, not even close. The analogy holds, it's your failure to understand it that's the issue.
EVs will continue to improve rapidly, but it's going to be incremental, and if you buy on finance, as more than *80%* of new cars are in the UK, you are insulated from an unexpected drop in value of an existing EV. You really are a catastrophiser.
What if building new safer nuclear allows us to decommission the older, more dangerous nuclear that is 'in the mix' earlier?
Great. Do that, on the same site only.
Email is okay for smaller files, but often there is a fairly low attachment size limit. With modern phones that have high pixel count cameras, and with movies, you quickly run into those limits.
I have this issue as my wife has an iPhone. She does at least have Google Photos, so most of the sharing is done that way.
Wow, you actually are going to ignore the exchange about London. I guess you’re not better than that after all.
There is absolutely no way that the Canadian Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of movement includes the right to be able to travel by a specific mode of transport. Otherwise cyclists and pedestrians would have been able to sue cities for shitty cycling and pedestrian infrastructure many years ago, not to mention lawsuits about terrible public transit.
The point about waiting a decade is that within another decade, tech will have moved on massively and today’s problems are going to be much less of an issue. A decade ago, I couldn’t travel more than 90 miles without needing to charge, now I can travel 330. In another decade, I reckon it’ll be 500 or 600 miles. And charging infrastructure, solar, storage, mini wind turbines, ASHPs, GSHPs etc will all also improve, making provision of charging in remote places much easier and cheaper than today. We are at the start of a huge build-out and the world is going to be dramatically different in the future.
If the Republicans don't want to be known as the "I love Hitler" party, they might need to take a stronger stance on large numbers of their members talking like that.
They don't plan to let us vote again*, so they don't care who they alienate.
* They could of course do scam elections like they do in Russia, to pacify dumbshits
Look at China, the world's second largest economy, with per capita emissions way below the US and Europe.
The reason their emissions have peaked is not nuclear, it's renewables displacing coal.
Coal is cheap and can often be mined domestically. The plants are simple and cheap, and can be built by domestic firms using domestic technology.
The only real way to beat it is cheaper renewables, but it would really help if we shared some tech so developing nations could manufacture some of it locally.
It leads to lawsuits not to break monopoly, but to extract money. In some countries money is evil over a certain amount.
It doesn't matter where you are, hoarding while others do not have enough is evil, and hoarding cash (the wealthy currently have unprecedented cash reserves) exacerbates that. We need currency to circulate in order for the economy to function, so we print more money, and therefore the currency hoarders literally cause inflation. We keep hearing about the "job creators" but currency hoarders are job preventers.
With that said, none of that is relevant to whether the EU has the right to use lawsuits to break antitrust which is not monopoly-related. Insisting that only monopolies are relevant to laws which prevent anticompetitive actions in marketplaces is ignorant at best and therefore your focus on monopolies is likewise. But I don't believe you're that ignorant, which makes it seem more like malice.
Their energy bill seems to be enough of a concern to piss money away on fusion startups.
Problem is though, if you look at all the major economies, the ones with the lowest CO2 per capita have nuclear in the mix.
Having nuclear in the mix is one thing, and "therefore we need to build more nuclear power" is something else. When we started building nuclear plants they arguably made sense, now building more definitely doesn't as we have cleaner alternatives.
I bet the same was said about stable hands.
It's just the UK sheepishly following the EU, making sure we don't miss out on the benefits they are seeing. Post Brexit we are not a major player or able to demand this stuff independently. It's just our way of pretending we are, while actually just doing what the EU decides.
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin
