The diesel exports are irrelevant. To the extent that Russia exports any diesel, it will be diesel they've imported from iran. And the amounts are tiny. The much more important strategic shifts have been the lifting of sanctions and the throttling of intelligence.

There's an open source workaround that de-clouds SoundTouch devices https://st-reborn.de/

That one reddit user will be fine unless he was stupid enough to throw out his "bricks" (what a strange term to use for a device that still functions without the cloud crap).

He wasn't replying to you, though, was he? Go check again.

Yes and no. They are definitely a lifestyle target company, but they do throw some significant technical capability into that. But it's a tradeoff, always has been. In terms of absolute audio quality they are pretty rubbish, but in terms of invisible audio that integrates into cafe, studio, living room, etc. they aren't actually that bad.

And their noise cancelling on headsets is best in class (it's a shame their sound quality doesn't match).

I wouldn't ever recommend their hifi systems though unless your wife forces it on you.

> Comcast has received decades of subscription fees, and if they didn't allocate part of their budget to infrastructure, they have only themselves to blame.

It's a bogus argument but you're missing what they're saying and responding to something else. They're saying it's irrational for a competitor (competitors don't have the infrastructure yet) to sell for $30 a month when it costs $1,500 to install that infrastructure. They're not saying it would be irrational for them to charge it, indeed, they could probably do so.

The problem of course is that it's not irrational, it's Total cost of wiring up an area/# subscribers = $1,500. And some subscribers will pay $30, some $50, some $100, some way more because that same fiber is being used to provide legacy cable and telephone services to a particular class of customer, namely old farts, like half of Slashdot.

Yeah I said it. You're old farts.

Anyway, the point is it very much makes sense to use different price points to get as many customers as possible because that $1,500 isn't going to go away just because someone doesn't subscribe. If the only way to get the last few residents in that area is to charge them $10 a month, it makes sense to provide a tier for them too, as long as others aren't attracted to the same deal.

For the same reason, Verizon and T-Mobile are currently offering "back up" services for about $20-25 on their 5G fixed wireless network. Why? Because every penny that comes in justifies upgrading those towers.

Comcast - or rather their CEO, I'm sure their experienced employees were head desking at the comment - just doesn't get tiered pricing and somehow doesn't understand that a massive proportion of infrastructure costs are fixed and do not change based upon subscriber count.

"I don't need any studies, I know a guy" is such a quintessential answer from someone taking your position.
Also chef's kiss is that you are now comparing production at winter *solstice* with summer *solstice* whereas you previously claimed the 10x multiple for the entire six "summer" months vs the entire six "winter" months.

This already exists and works well. Except as usual the abolitionists blow it out of proportion. I have a remote signal in my AC unit that can be activated by my power company. All it does is change and lock in place the temperature setting by a couple of degrees. That's the reality. You may notice it's slightly warmer or cooler than normal and before you question it you see dollars rolling in, because at present this is fucking lucrative.

Literally everyone I know has the same plan and they all agree you'd be insane not to do it.

No. Ignorant. Clearly.

What in the ever loving fuck are you talking about? Batteries are so hugely ideal for it they are now becoming the primary tool for grid scale stability. Fuck your little fridge, batteries can take the sudden draw of a coal fired power station disconnecting from the grid, and do so better than inertial stability systems ever could.

Like seriously, I can't let this go. Your comment has to be the single most incorrect thing anyone has said about batteries ever. We simply have no electro-mechanical system that can cope with sudden changes in draws then electro-chemical storage. Like, the reason you can start your car is because a battery can cope with a sudden draw of hundreds of amps, and the reason my car has more torque from stopped than any engine could ever hope to provide is because a bank of batteries in my car is able to deal with the sudden draw of the motors on my car literally 100x stronger than your pathetic little fridge or AC unit.

And no your fridge / AC doesn't draw twice it's nameplate at start-up, it's closer to 8 times, and that's not a problem for batteries which are in houses the world over, and have been used in houses off grid the world over long before we even figured out how to make modern lithium batteries.

Don't ever comment on batteries again at least until you've read a book.

As if your fossil fuels haven't been subsidised by the tax payer to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars over multiple decades, and literal fucking wars fought over it.

I've already been specific in my previous response.

What are you *talking* about? People who want action on climate change absolutely talk about power generation the whole fucking time, you moron. There are endless discussions about retiring coal from power generation. There's literally trackers for it, like this one:
https://beyondfossilfuels.org/...

You people are just so endlessly *stupid*.

As for the poor: poor people in most of the world, including in the US, are disproportionately less likely to have cars. investing in public transport both cuts carbon emissions and helps them get around. In many countries, there are means-tested scrappage and subsidy schemes to help poor people move to low carbon technologies. And most pertinently, the spread of small-scale residential solar & BESS is one of the most significant boosts to human development in Africa that there has been in decades, and has provided literally millions of families with their first ever access to clean lighting, a fridge, power for a laptop, etc.

The mileage varies a lot less than the anti-EV crazies claim it does. But I don't blame you, I too was one of you until I got an EV. The only difference is I've realised how stupid my view was.

EVs are probably the single most prominent thing in the world that people have extensive views about without ever having tried them.

Oh I'm absolutely aware and vividly remember it. While some work was absolutely necessary, the problems and fallout that could have happened really was never going to be as bad as anyone really made it out to be.

I'm not being obtuse at all. What do *you* think it was an example of, oh-so-clever AC? Go on, spell it out, if it's so fucking obvious, clever clogs.

Sorry but no, we haven't come close. There's a shitton still out there, easily accessible. It's just a question of getting the rights to access it. The proven recoverable reserves companies have clearly identified as viable will keep us going easily through the next 30-50 years.

However, the greenies have done a wonderful job though of making sure we don't completely fuck up our planet so companies are finding those reserves are inaccessible by policy rather than due to technical difficulties, and we've been so busy drawing arbitrary borders and fighting wars to protect them we can't functionally get those reserves from place of production to place of consumption: e.g. Australian coal mine leases not granted, the Iran war, the sanctions against Russia, the OPEC cartel, etc.