Clippy
Cortana
Copilot

Maybe they need to pick a new letter. Bring back Microsoft Bob?

To be fair, they capitalized all sorts of random words in the 1700's.

There's a Swiss one that works somewhat like what you described, but I don't know of the Aussie one.

https://www.greencarreports.co...

For your brother's sake, along with the sakes of all the other workers, let's hope there was some meaningful regulatory oversight in how that infrastructure was built. It's not as though US industry has ever really given two shits about the health of workers, whether farm laborers, meatpackers, or miners. And particulates are pretty fucking bad for you, especially PM2.5s emitted during incomplete combustion cycles.

Also of note is that the obvious way to build EV charging for trucks is with batteries and, where there's decent insolation, solar canopies. Reduces opex, reduces the size of the draw on the local grid, etc

In Europe, semis that go into town will likely as not have sleeper compartments. The cabover style makes this feasible

They're sometimes known as wagons, too

This guy is absolutely stuck on the idea that cars and trucks never reach end of life, and that all new EVs are simply added to national fleets without any ICE vehicles being retired. It's obviously bonkers, and completely at odds with the obvious fact that we have scrap yards and know fleet sizes and demand isn't infinite for vehicles, etc. But he's absolutely insistent on this weird belief.

Back in the real world, we have obvious evidence that transitions happen, old vehicles get retired and new vehicles come in the other end. For one small example: more than 60% of London's taxis are now zero-emissions capable (either EVs or most often, the range-extended taxi from the London Electric Vehicle Company). Similar transitions are happening everywhere.

You are, of course, completely correct about all this. But he's also incorrect about driving times within European countries. The UK is hardly very big, but it'll take 7 hours on a good day to drive from Glasgow to London, nine from Aberdeen, 5 from Plymouth, 6 from Penzance, 6 from Holyhead to catch the ferry to Northern Island, etc.

These are car journey times: it'll actually take much longer in a truck, because they're subject to lower speed limits and mandatory rest breaks.

To be fair, he spouts complete utter tosh about nuclear too. Is there a subject where he *doesn't* spout complete utter tosh? I've not seen it

I *knew* you were way down the rabbit hole, and the fact you don't believe a million died based on nothing but your own gut instinct -- which, hilariously, you think is data -- is all the proof I required.

The only difference between you and an anti-MMR anti-vaxxer is that you haven't yet rammed Robbie's cock quite all the way to the back of your slavering gullet. But you'll get there in the end. Enjoy the rancid taste.

That’s what makes the difference in China. I will use the term trucks in the global sense, ie what Americans call semis. In the UK, a semi means something quite different

Economics — opex is much more important than capex for trucking TCO and ROI
Architecture — truck ICE trains are really big and heavy, so the weight differential is smaller than you’d expect, plus the ladder frame construction and large axles of trucks means there’s lots of space for a battery that adds structural rigidity and lowers the centre of gravity, plus motors on the axles. Auke Hoekstra has a presentation on this (it also covers the economics)
Cultural barriers — There’s no fetishisation of trucking as the epitome of manliness, as there is in the US. Chinese truck drivers and fleet operators aren’t emotionally invested in the roar of a diesel engine. In fact, Chinese truck drivers value the quiet operations, lack of fumes, smooth accelerations, and lack of gears provided by EVs (there’s interesting interviews with Chinese truckers about their experiences with EV trucks on YT)

This is correct, semis are known as artics, lorries or trucks outside the US

You're way down the rabbit hole. You think you're rational as well, which is the worst part of it. The flu vaccine reduces childhood hospitalisation rates by about 70% and adult by about 40%. Those are massive wins. Being hospitalised for flu means you are terribly ill, and avoiding that is absolutely fucking fantastic.

The C19 vaccine nonsense you spout is just that, nonsense. It shows you know absolutely nothing about how medical treatment trials work. If you did, you'd have known about statistical power, and understood why recruiting 40k volunteers in the middle of an infectious disease pandemic with a high event accumulation rate would inherently lead to much faster and more accurate results that recruiting 2k volunteers for a typical intervention.

You're also batshit insane to say that C19's severity was "vastly overblown". More than a million died from it in the US alone.

It took literal seconds of Googling to find, you pathetic lazy fuck

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