Even if I were a "MAGA troll", the point would stand on that "MAGA trolls" do not claim to care for the poor.

Green nutjobs do.

I.e. it's pointless to say "but you don't care about the poor" to people who never claimed to do so, but who's actions benefit the poor.
It is however meaningful to say "but you don't care about the poor" to people who made well being of poor front and center of their political platform, but who's policies inflict massive harm on poor instead of reaching the stated lies about their goals.

You forgot to include me in the following categories:

1. Indian troll
2. ASEAN troll
3. Everything outside EU troll (and maybe US if you squint really hard).

So when one person represents the view of about 7/8th of the world, whereas you go for "7/8 of the world are trolling me when they tell me what they have been doing for decades, are doing right now, and will be doing for foreseeable future", which one is trolling in your view?

It's been well established at this point that even fairly minor raise in wealth mitigates pretty much all relevant harmful effects of global warming.

And then you get the bonus of not seeing things like starvation of early 2000s, and instead massive obesity crisis in same places, because CO2 fertilization enabled former borderline regions where nothing could be grown industrially to feed the masses to instead be ag powerhouses.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iea.org%2Freports%2Fco...

Are you ok? Do you need suicide watch due to reality colliding with your bubble?

Hint: you can click on each one and get snazzy longer term charts of growth of coal during last few years. Basically the only place reducing coal usage is the same place where there's an ongoing massive offshoring event of heavy industry due to both added bureaucratic cost of metallurgical coal and electricity prices (because we have decided to pretend that LCOE is the correct measure of power, so heavy industry receiving actual power bills to pay for rollout and spikiness of two most expensive forms of electricity isn't real, doesn't exist and we don't want heavy industry anyway, so it's a good thing it's offshoring).

No, numbers on who and where coal has been built up did.

Spoiler alert: They're not feeding AI farms in remote parts of PRC ten years ago.

No, gotta produce cheap and reliable energy to lift people out of poverty. We still have a couple of billions to go.

I know, I know. Caring about the poor is so 1990s. Today we care about killing them via degrowth ideology, because they produce too much CO2. Turns out poor and people leading them disagree, and they are the ones who get to decide, not degrowthers.

This is the "first time" meme moment. First time you are an expert in something marketing makes absurd claims about?

I think it's a good thing. EVs are a dead end and they use SO MANY RARE EARTH METALS. People think petrol emissions are bad, lithium mining is horrific and it's expanding all over the US. Global warming is bullshit and replacing everything with batteries is impractical and will end up causing more pollution.

It's marketing. I live across the Baltic from Germans, and "fiber DSL" has been a thing here too. But here they at least would immediately admit that it's not fiber if you asked. It was just a marketing term.

Amazon makes a total profit of 1% ~ 2% per year off of retail. On bad years (like during the Rivian investment) it was -1%. They're literally the largest retailer in the world and they simply break even.

I've also know people who worked procurement at Amazon. One girl said if they hire 30 for the warehouse, 15~20 actually show up. Less than 10 make it past four weeks. She once had to figure out where a bunch of missing hours went, and found a hidden stash near one of the roof exits with Nintendo switches, an xbox, a TV, snacks and a bunch of other things where employees would burn 2~3 hours a day on the clock and somehow it went unreported.

Part of me wants Amazon to unionize so all these people bitching about the poor workers have to deal with the $10/item price increases. They literally don't understand Amazon makes nearly nothing from retail and everything from data centers. Most people outside of IT don't realize Amazon is literally the largest data center provider in the world next to Microsoft Azure and Google Compute.

Reality take: 46 minutes more actual productive work can be gained from this. Invest in the system and increase the workload accordingly.

All others are "I have no idea how reality works/I am a horse pulled cart affectionado and I hate new technology that improves efficiency so I pretend I don't understand how efficiency improvements work".

The best part is that at this point, AI isn't limited by model quality. It's limited to people knowing how to integrate it into their workflows. And this is going to get better all the time, as people learn more and more of what AI can do, what it can't do, and how to get it to do things it can do, while having it do what it can do to assist you in doing things it can't do.

This is why while 46 minutes is average, people who have integrated AI properly are almost certainly massive outliers pulling the number up for a lot of people who haven't integrated it at all yet. And it's going to get better as this knowledge propagates through workplaces from people who know how to use AI to those who don't.

And a few remaining horse cart drivers who have no idea how to drive a car in the end of this process will have to find another job.

One of the big reasons to get a PHEV is if you want the ability to have cheap short drives, but do a decent amount of longer drives where EV is unsuitable due to lack of range.

I.e. people use the feature just fine. Just not as often as price conscious people would. Because turns out if you can afford to buy an expensive car, you probably don't care enough about price difference between gasoline and electricity to bother much of the time.

This is the same nonsense as EV stans pretending that EV charging is going to be a gas station bonanza, with them selling coffee and food while car is being charged. Reality is that it's a lot of city folk with no home charging playing/scrolling on their phones in their Teslas while they're charging.

People do what they prefer.

This fully depends on how that specific PHEV is set up.

A fairly common older setup is ICEF + MGR, (internal combustion engine front, motor-generator rear). Those can run full EV mode at highway speeds no problem, through you will have ICE kick in when you ask ECM (engine control module) for rapid acceleration (accelerator pedal position high enough for ECM to conclude that you want more power than MGR can provide). Essentially ICEF has a normal gearbox, so it will just switch into neutral and shut down the engine, driving on MGR only.

More modern are on the expired Toyota patent that allows fully combined hybrid drive train in front. This eliminates a lot of complexity (no gear box, no starter motor), but does require the power pack to go into energy re-circulation mode at speeds that exceed efficiency rate of MG2 (power pack has two motor-generators and an internal combustion engine all sitting on the same planetary differential, and MG2's output is connected directly to wheels) Notably this is why gen 4 (iirc) onwards, Toyota hybrids have additional planetary differential between MG2 and wheels to reduce MG2 RPM related to front wheel speed. It makes these hybrids retain full hybrid efficiency with no need to go into re-circulation mode at even higher speeds.

Finally there's the all wheel drive option where it's both power pack in front, and MGR in the rear separated from the power pack. Those can also do EV only at highway speeds with way more power, but at somewhat reduced efficiency in MGR + MG2 EV mode (either with additional clutch between MG2 and rest of power pack, or MG1 just spinning fast enough to maintain ICE at zero RPM).

All I did was use your emotional write up as an example of an excellent average data point of an observable pattern in this and many other similar projects.

I even explain why this pattern exists, and why it's probably necessary for it to exist. I even take your own observation as to why this specific thing is entirely unsuitable for larger audience, and note that extreme disagreeability (in psychometric terms) such as you express is not just normal, but unfortunately required in such projects. "Fuck you, I got mine" is an old expression that outlines this attitude and personality profile, and unfortunately as I note above, it appears both necessary to build these sorts of projects, and all but guarantees that projects will never go anywhere beyond the tiny niche of similar individuals.

The funniest part is that your emotionality has blinded you so badly to the point I'm making, you even managed to miss me simply accepting your argument at face value, and proceeding to put it in context of the larger point I made, where it slotted in perfectly at a fitting data point. You made my argument for me.

For those who wonder why small time privacy conscious OS projects never make it big, this user explains it very well with his attitude.

And like I mention above, this sort of cult mentality is unfortunately pretty much a necessity to handle a project this big while being as much under fire as you get when you build something like this. It's an inherently cultish endeavor that requires a very specific psychological profile, as you need to constantly reject attacks from the outside while building and building and building.

It inevitably leads to this sort of closed in, "I got mine so fuck you if you care about doing basic things like paying with your phone" mentality. It's a prerequisite for success in this specific niche it seems.