You are downplaying the risks. Not only immune system will react to these bacterial proteins, it will likely react to cell producing foreign proteins as infected and also kill them off. Last but not least, the immune system might also end up reacting to similar things and this is how you end up with a novel allergy.

We were told with COVID jabs that lipid nanoparticles was the delivery vehicle for mRNA payload. What would stop this new treatment from getting taken up by your own body's cells and consequently get killed off by the immune system? Personally, I would wait for long-term trial data to come in before I consider something like that. The last thing I need is getting scar tissue in my respiratory system.

Full EV is perfect around town car for a wealthy, urban home owner. If your commute is not that long, if you have a home to charge your EV overnight, and if you can afford second vehicle for long trips (or fortunate to live where great train system exists) then EV is ideal for you.

I recommend being extra skeptical of this advertising point. First, engine oil should be changed with miles and time. Second, hybrid is hard on oil because of lack of continuous operation makes it harder to get oil to temperature and evaporate condensation.

In context of consumer electronics and batteries (because we are discussing rare earths) it is very reasonable assumption. Plenty of competition, minimal regulation, nobody coerced into buying anything - pretty much a book case of free markets.

I use what teenagers think as a cultural barometer of what general population will think about an issue in a year or so. Currently, AI is deeply uncool. I don't think I can time the markets, so I am not shorting, but I absolutely pulled back on anything exposed to tech/AI.

Why do you think I need to re-read Max, Communist Manifesto, and Das Capital?

I am very familiar with Marx and the concept of class struggle, there isn't much difference between saying that and proposing an evil cabal (a class of people, equivalent to capital) exists that somehow dictates consumer (another class of people, equivalent to proletariat) preferences.

Then do that, create non-profit, fund-raise, and run ads. PETA used to do just that, now almost nobody wears a fur coat. However, as an individual I still can own and wear a fur coat. Convince the population and shift the demand.

Yes, because cocaine is exactly as harmful as palm oil and CO2 emissions from petrochemicals. Reading your unserious opinions is demonstrative of delusions that late-stage decadent leftism can lead to.

What you say is just re-labeling of long discredited Marxists views, specifically Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat narrative, where there exists fantastical and perfectly coordinating entity that is responsible for all ills, and we can only move to the bright future if we socialize means of production. The last few times this was tried, millions died of starvation and in various death marches.

It just doesn't work that way. There isn't a single Evil Corp that decides everything, this is just restating old Bourgeoisie and Proletariat trope.

The way it work is that dozen of companies in a given market niche attempt to predict demand for a given good or service at a given price point, then provide it, then if they are somewhat correct in their predictions they make profit. Your theory, that people care about how rare earth are produced, would result in a business case where someone would offer such electronics at a higher price point. The explanation of why this isn't happening is not some global Illuminati conspiracy - it is that businesses run the numbers, determined how much it would cost, and deducted that low demand at such price point would not result in sufficient sales to justify going ahead. That is, it is either too expensive and/or insufficient demand.

Are you drinking in the morning again?

Nonsense. This shows surprising level of economic illiteracy that should disqualify you from commenting on any economic and economic-adjacent stories. What is being offered and at what price point is determined by the demand outside of very rare cases of inelastic demand (e.g., healthcare, heating, etc.). If consumers on the whole cared about how electronics were produced over the price, then there would be manufacturers producing such 'clean' electronics. That is, market demand exposes BS, where people publicly complain about polluting electronic production but given privacy to shop would buy cheapest electronics from known slave-labor producers without any hesitation.

Electric semis are not viable, but not because of lack of subsidies. They are not viable because energy density to haul cargo at highway speeds is just not there. For passenger use, especially in mixed city/highway use, increased efficiency of electric motor and good aerodynamics can offset lack of total available energy. This is just not the case for hauling cargo.