> Emirates operates these with over 500 passengers

Well they did until the value proposition of Dubai and Abu Dhabi suddenly came into question with three days' food and no way to restock and no sewer system, relying on petroleum-powered sewage trucks to keep people alive.

It sure seems 'convenient' that they suddenly have an insurable loss on very expensive and unprofitable airframes at just the right time.

Let's see what kind of cars the regulators purchase in a few months, or maybe it's just a coincidence.

Lutnik is an Epstein Associate.

AI Surveillance Police State is his ultimate goal.

Americans are getting 'too uppity' (sovereign).

I'm familiar with the backup power design of some of the cell towers where I live.

Let's just say I'm also learning how to build solar Meshcore repeaters and placing them on appropriate hilltops where I can.

You can Royal Decree anything but don't bet your life on it.

Also nobody likes to mention that the big Spanish overvolt grid crash coincided with the arrival of a very large CME. We mustn't rile the natives.

LFP sounds ok too. I belive LFP has better energy density, but Sodium will have lower cost. What I really want Sodium batteries for is my home backup power system. But if we start putting Sodium batteries in cars, used Sodium batteries will be available for home power in a decade, and those batteries are supposed to have a really long lifetime.

I just switched from DSL over copper to fiber broadband provided by my electric company... so I'm pretty sure when the power goes out (as it frequently does), I'm going to lose internet too. If you have backup power, that's sound like a good argument for having Starlink internet.

The cellular networks used to be configured to drop an attempted call if it didn't pick up a dial tone for 60 seconds. After the Loma Prieta earthquake, everybody in the country started calling the San Franciso Bay area, so the land lines all took longer than 60 seconds to put up a dial tone, and no outgoing calls could go through. I believe they have since changed that configuration. I speak from personal experience, I was in San Francisco at the time, and completely unable to make any calls on my cell phone.

Yeah, your "Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY!" signature doesn't make you look like a nut job at all!

Obama was not a perfect predident; no president is. I can think of plenty of things he got wrong. But the divisiveness was due to reactionary racists, not anything Obama did... other than being a black man in America. I'd also say the ADA was better than any alternatives, although Republicans did their best to make it not work. It was based on the principle that the only way to make healthcare affordable for really sick people to force health people to subsidize it. For some reason, that offends the people that don't think they need health care.

I think Obama was one of our better presidents, but the government loaning Solyndra $535 was WRONG. Conservatives are right about some things, and one of them is that the government should not be picking winners and losers in business, because that inevitably leads to corruption as the best way to compete becomes bribing the government to pick your business.

I'm sure AI could _definitely_ design another Ford Pinto!

Frankly, the quality of build, the stability of the operating system, and just the plain reliability and features even in the supporting tools exceed Windows. Take the Preview App. The work I can do on PDFs; signatures, annotations, OCR, right out of the box, and built so that the versions on my iPhone and iPad fully integrate, cannot be easily replicated on Windows. Apple just really has an eye for workflow, and making sure the base system and tools fit well into that.

It's not perfect, to be sure, I wouldn't want to use Pages as my full time word processor, and Apple, like Microsoft and Google, suffer designed interoperation friction, which does suck. But all in all, I'm just more efficient on a Mac, and in subtle ways I never knew were even problems until I picked a MacBook up the first time. Honestly going to Windows right now is just horrible for me, particular Windows 11, which just feels like constant chaos and out of control busy-ness.

Who made the call to fire these guys?

Were they Americans who did the firing? Were they Americans who got fired?

It's important to understand the sociology potentially putting huge American enterprises risk

And why would we believe the claim that a 1-year reliability rating had anything to do with this?

Anybody who vaguely understands automotive manufacturing knows that cars that were sold over one year ago were designed several years ago and tooling takes months to years for a new model.

This article seems designed to obfuscate rather than clarify.

This makes me feel like buying a BYD would be less risky.

Three of the gas-powered vehicles I've ridden in have caught fire and burned the the ground.Three! I've never seen an EV catch fire. (I suspect all three were due to busted fuel lines leaking onto hot exhaust.)

Actually no, I think Li-Ion is a bad idea, and I am waiting for Sodium-Ion batteries before I buy my EV. In the meantime, I have a couple plugin hybrids. Do I think the Cybertruck was a stupid idea? Absolutely.

Thats a unimog - an actual truck for actual work, usually off-road. Looks like some halfwit with too much money has converted it to be his penis compensator.

I had a jacked-up pickup actually hit me where the lanes were merging together, because he literally didn't see my Honda. The weird thing is it was San Francisco, and it was a black guy in a Bubba truck.