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New comment by appointment in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

appointment — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:22:27 +0000

This is something people say, but in practice the Toyota Prius is still a very reliable car.

New comment by appointment in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

appointment — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:16:00 +0000

To be fair, running electric only at slow speeds is still good, because it's slow, stop-and-go driving that benefits the most from electric.

New comment by appointment in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

appointment — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:12:56 +0000

I think they were trying to say that it's surprising the Lightning sold so poorly considering the popularity of the ICE version.

I do think F-150 buyers tend to be more conservative than average car buyers and more receptive to anti-EV FUD for both political and cultural reasons.

New comment by appointment in "UAE to leave OPEC"

appointment — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:17:26 +0000

The US has been doing air strikes in the Middle East on a regular basis since ~1990, and they extensively support the military adventures of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.

New comment by appointment in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

appointment — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:06:01 +0000

Absolutely not. It will takes months to years to rebuild onshore infrastructure, and shipping companies will be very reluctant to send tankers into the Gulf. Negotiations may collapse and hostilities resume at any moment, especially since Israel does not know the meaning of the word ceasefire.

New comment by appointment in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

appointment — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:12:31 +0000

I assume you are aware that "they" are the Republicans? The Harris campaign avoided talking about it whenever possible, while Republican groups spent $200 million on anti-trans ads.

New comment by appointment in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

appointment — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:26 +0000

The US oil companies will export their oil to China (or Japan, South Korea and other major oil importers, in lieu of oil bought by China.)

New comment by appointment in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

appointment — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:35:13 +0000

In many states these are available without proof of citizenship. When people say proof of citizenship they usually mean a passport or REALID.

New comment by appointment in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

appointment — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:54:08 +0000

em-dashes and en-dashes are used for completely different purposes, so why would they be confused?

New comment by appointment in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

appointment — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:19:49 +0000

Military ships don't run their radio beacons in combat zones. (There was an incident last year where the USS Theodore Roosevelt collided with a civilian cargo ship at night at least partially because it tried to approach the Suez canal with it's beacon off.)

New comment by appointment in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

appointment — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:01:02 +0000

As far as I know none of Trump's deals have been ratified by the Senate. None of them are valid.

New comment by appointment in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

appointment — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:42:54 +0000

Pretty sure the term "seed" for a pRNG initial value is already derived from the same crystal seed analogy...

New comment by appointment in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

appointment — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:32:17 +0000

Not a patron, so I haven't seen the whole video, but I don't think Rocz would use AI for a video about his beloved Pennsylvania Railroad.

New comment by appointment in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

appointment — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:19:21 +0000

The premise here is that you lose access to a European bank's mobile app because the US government compels Apple or Google to disable your app store accounts. Not that your relationship with the bank is frozen.

New comment by appointment in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

appointment — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:27:07 +0000

How much do 0-15 year olds contribute to the economy?

New comment by appointment in "GB Renewables Map"

appointment — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:30:43 +0000

The curtailed windfarms are in the north of Scotland. There is currently not enough transmission capacity to export electricity from there to the south of England where the demand is highest. New transmission lines are under construction, but they wont be ready until 2029.

New comment by appointment in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

appointment — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:53:54 +0000

Pro TV used Betacam, not Betamax. Same physical tape, but four instead of two tape heads and a much faster tape speed.

New comment by appointment in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

appointment — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:30:22 +0000

That's production, not consumption. The US exports huge amounts of oil and gas now. The EU/Russia sanctions and the Red Sea blockade are a huge gravy train for American oil and gas companies.

New comment by appointment in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

appointment — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:08:19 +0000

I think Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage are closer to commanding a nuclear arsenal than Alice Weidel.

New comment by appointment in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

appointment — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:06:08 +0000

No it doesn't make sense. Every photon that hits the Earth is eventually either absorbed as heat, reflected back into space or both (eg. partially absorbed and partially re-emitted as lower energy photons.) There is no net global increase in heat from a wind turbine or solar panel. (There might be slight local shifts.)

The only way this could change net heat if it significantly altered the reflectivity of the surface, and in practice the affected area is too small to matter. As an exaggerated example, I found an article [1] that calculated the area that would need to be covered by solar panels to generate power equal the total global electricity consumption to be 115,625 square miles, approximately equal to the state of New Mexico.

[1] https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/