Who do you truly think you are convincing with this crap? It’s the most moronic line of argument. No one thinks that NCAR does the modelling that NOAA does, and no one has argued it does, so why waste your time arguing as though they have? Everyone just looks at you pretending that someone made this argument and thinks you’re a dipshit. Because everyone can cope with second order effects, except you. You sound like someone arguing that a doctor doesn’t need to learn chemistry because doctors don’t do chemistry; totally cretinous.

If you think Trump was ever something other than the reification of grievance politics, you’re either stupid or batshit. His entire fucking political career has been about grievance. Yes, he was a drunk driver. But he was so much more than that: he is a doddery old mean-minded drunk driver who is out there trying to knock people over like skittles whenever he sees someone he has a grudge against, which is all the fucking time. And he’s removed the seatbelts and keeps insisting the brake is the gas, etc.

Downplaying Trump’s ability to act serves no-one’s interests. There’s more than 100 dead people who were on boats in the Caribbean; the East Wing of the White House no longer exists; tariffs were in fact imposed and have drastically worsened the US econom; ICE agents have sat on the bellies of pregnant women and crashed into the cars of others, etc. What was legal of this? Very little, but Trump pays no mind to that, and what matters is what he actually does. It’s also unimportant that this is much less than he has said he will do. Again, what matters is the real damage he has been able to wreak and what further damage lies ahead.

1. I agree with the challenges of EV swapping, which is why I’m curious to know how Nio make it work in China
2. Long-haul trucking has less need of this than you’d think, because the ladder-frame can fit a heckuva lot of.structural battery in it

I’m not excusing, I’m explaining. And specifically, I’m explaining why people are capable of change even after having been dragged deep into the mire. I feel a deep sense of loathing for these people, for their stupidity and bigotry, but I am willing to be open to the idea that they may change, and there’s some evidence that this is happening.

(Also, plenty of voters this time round were first time voters, as they always are. New immigrants, young adults who were below voting age last time, etc).

This makes no sense, even on its own terms.

Oh, so Arabs and Jews are white enough for you now, are they?

It really really boils your piss to imagine anything being done by someone besides a straight white guy, doesn’t it? Poor little fragile thing you are.

I understand the sentiment, but urge you not to give in to despair. Lots of people voted for him the second time around who are clearly in the process of abandoning not just him but the political movement he represents, as the horrors have unfolded in front of them in an unmistakable way. Most people are quite malleable, not fixed. Their opinions can change over time. That’s what Trump used to his advantage, and it’s something that better people can also use to their advantage too. Of course, cults aim to change one’s behaviour in a way that makes it impossible to walk back, but the most successful cult of all, the Nazis, did not retain its grip over the minds of Germans once it was militarily defeated. It is unlikely to take a war this time, either, because Trump is Shitler, not Hitler.

I don’t know what you imagine is happening in the UK, but is undoubtedly not what you think it is. Or I should say “think” it is. London remains a safe and happy city, safer than the shitty towns where Reform MPs are based. The UK continues on an energy transition that’s going pretty well. Our people continue not to be murdered in their thousands by gun-toting maniacs. Etc. As for Australia, last I checked, a broad coalition of left and right politicians had come together in revulsion post the one (1) deadly mass shooting in the past thirty years to tighten gun laws further and make it more than 30 years till the next one.

Remember the idiots who died in their dozens of Covid infections *actively insisting they weren’t even as they were dying*? Cults have an incredible ability to make people act in completely irrational ways.

The US government used to be the most powerful in the world because it was the government of the world’s richest country and would spend the money doing things no-one else was able to do. Now, the USG has not merely given up on both the ambition to be the world’s richest country and to do things no-one else can, it’s doing it’s damndest to run fast the other way. And all the while, absolute imbeciles like you are cheering from the bleachers.

See my other answer to the other person who made a similar point.

You are talking about the US. I’m not. It’s not clear to me that Sinij was either. His statement was generic.

I’m aware of the greater degree of car dependency in the US. But even so, remember his original statement was that EVs are good about-town cars for rich people. If, as you say, most US households have at least two cars, then that frankly undermines his case even more, because one of them can be an ICE vehicle and the other one a second hand EV for the trips around town, and it will cost less than owning and running two ICE vehicles.

He’s talking about EREVs. They’ve also been around for decades (eg the i3, the LEVC’s vehicles, etc). A small petrol engine runs at a constant speed when required, topping up the battery. It’s mechanically simpler because the engine doesn’t connect directly to the drivetrain, and the engine can be small and run at its most efficient speed. But it’s still complex and not obviously better than a BEV, which is why it hasn’t really caught on that much.