So it's a plan with no drawbacks?

I do recognize that this is an issue for the disabled, but it's unsustainable for them as well, and I reject temporary solutions that aren't backed up by permanent ones. If the plan is only to kick the can and wish for a miracle, it's a bad plan.

That's not even wrong, it's just not how anything works. You're comparing a motor to an energy storage mechanism and also ignoring efficiency at the same time.

Monthly payments matter. Also when people are poor and can't afford big payments and the vehicles are very expensive then they wind up spending a lot in interest. TCO matters but so does monthly cost.

They have existed for decades. What did you actually mean to say?

No military of consequence is going to shift to purely electric vehicles any time soon because of refueling times alone, but in number of roles an EV has an advantage because it's quiet and reliable. If you can deliver a tanker truck, then you can deliver a generator.

I just found the numbers for Germany for November 2025.

• Bestselling Chinese brand is BYD with 1.7% market share.
• Bestselling European brand of Chinese made cars is MG Roewe with 1.0% market share, followed by Tesla with 0.7%.
• Bestselling European brand owned by a Chinese company is Volvo at 1.9% market share.

Most of my coworkers have to go out of county for even fairly basic medical care because there isn't anything available here and wait times can be into the months. I had referrals for over a year that I never even got a call back on. It's not clear why you think that the USA has functional medical care, but in many cases and places it very much does not.

It depends on how you define it. If you think of it from a purely mineral basis then sure, the arctic is not looking at many changes. If you're thinking about the animal life that is there, it's in trouble. We are not the only animals on this mudball.

I want gig workers to receive a living wage whether I am doing business with them or not, but this is the wrong way to try to accomplish that.

The right way is to change the employment laws such that they have to be paid decently, and to raise the minimum wage if necessary, etc.

Trying to solve the problem with tips is completely wrong. They're supposed to be an expression of appreciation above and beyond what you need to survive, not the basis of survival. Trying to trick the customer into paying that indirectly is some bootlicking bullshit which also disguises the true cost of survival.

That's not the argument. The argument is (actually, arguments are):

1) It wasn't worth $20M, they could have done the same thing in house for less
2) It shouldn't have been built in, it should have been an add-on, they could have shipped it with the browser.

1 is the most pertinent given the story we're discussing, but 2 is also important. By putting it into the browser instead of making it an extension when there's absolutely no need for it to be built in, they forced it on users. They also have a Microsoftesque habit of turning on things you've turned off when you do an update, which is sometimes achieved by simply not doing anything rational with users' config settings when the code has changed and their meaning now differs, so that you have to refresh your profile to make the browser work correctly.

Firefox should have less stuff built into it, not more.

This flood is often written about, but has not materialized yet. Chinese brands are only 8% of all BEV cares in Europe as of Octoberf 2025, and BEV cars are about 20% of the total car market. And even if we include Chinese made cars for non-Chinese brands (like Tesla sells in Europe), we are at less than 20% of BEVs or 4% of the total car market.

And the main reason for high energy costs in Germany are massive investments into the grid, amounting to a planned total sum of 300 billion euros. If you include local grids, it's 700 billion euros.

The grid investment were planned at a time, when battery storage was not viable, and is by many deemed to be excessive, as the average load of the grid is about 15% of the capacity.

Another quirk is that German regulations are currently paying a renewable energy provider for the potential amount of energy, not for the energy amount actually provided. This means that the provider is notifying the grid about the currently available power, and gets paid for being willing to provide the energy, independently of the grid's capacity to make use of the energy. This disincentivizes the combination of renewables with battery storage, and hence letting available renewable electric energy going to waste, because the surplus energy is not stored, but simply switched off. On the other hand, the amount of battery storage projects applied for is currently 20 times higher than assumed in the energy report from 2023, which means that the money planned for the grid might be freed up when some expansion projects are proven to be unnecessary.

A politician is by definition anyone doing politics. You trying to influence us to agree with you and ideally taking action the way you want it is the very definition of someone doing politics.

You, my friend, are an acting politician.

The economic system has allowed the worst people to become wealthy and powerful since the earliest times. You're mostly right about the other stuff though, it at least had civility for some.

Once you've found out about fish sauce, not much is scary.