As always, framing matters hugely. And at the moment, sinij is having a lot of success in framing stories about renewables, EVs, etc as being a challenge.

You’d never know from these stories that actually, renewables and EVs continue to be booming market sectors that continue to have lots of popular and political backing, including in Europe. For example, EV sales in Europe are substantially up this year compared to last year (1.5m+ sales so far, share of new sales up by at least 3 percentage points); Spain has committed to 95% of domestic production being EVs by 2035; the UK is announcing the clear-down of its connection backlog this week which will substantially accelerate new renewables coming onto the national grid; Pakistan has gone from a standing start to a solar share greater than China’s in four years, leading to solar generation exceeding demand at points in some industrial regions for the first time ever; and on and on.

So much good stuff is happening out there.

6 countries, of which only two have a car manufacturing industry of note... if the six were France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Czechia and some rando other, than that would be a bit different. Obvs Mertz is pushing as well, but differently and less stridently.

You're looking in the wrong place. What the Chinese have that gives them unique advantages is a better battery production system. They have lower costs to scale, innovate new battery designs (eg Blade, LFP) faster, lower costs to operate (short supply chains and local sourcing), etc etc.

Relative reductions are super and all, but the fact of the matter is that you will still die in fairly short order if you're shut in your car by a villain who runs a hose from the exhaust to your window and leave the engine running, because there's still plenty of nasties left in there. And obvs, as the other poster said, no-one's scrubbed any CO2 from the tailpipe ever.

To my mind, the first and most obvious questions to ask are how this kind of system copes with the well known challenges of working with H2, such as embrittlement, leakage and a propensity to explode.

Point prevalence is only 15 to 22 per 100k, so it's pretty unlikely. Not impossible, but...

You guys have absolutely deranged yourself on trans stuff. You think it was important in your political success, but you will find out that it was absolutely unimportant to most people, who care much more about the economy. Lots of them believed that their economic woes could be blamed on the Democrats and that Trump would fix them. And now a substantial proportion is finding that the grass turns out to be shittier on the other side, and are moving away from Trump and the Republicans.

No worries!

My MIL had Alzheimer’s, so I had to find out about it quickly. I happen to have a pal who is an incredibly senior dementia physician in the NHS, and he was helpfully blunt with me in managing expectations. She ended up dying of oral cancer, and probably the AD was helpful in that it took the edge of what was happening for her.

I think you’re limited here in that your frame of reference is only what was offered on the US market. Lots of the rest of the world has always had access to fantastic smaller cars, and still does. In the UK, for example, just this last year we’ve had launches of the R5, the Inster, the eC3, the Epiq, with plenty more to come, like the Twingo.

I’d argue that this has less to do with unsuccessful messaging from Biden and more to do with horrendously successful messaging from an unholy alliance of anti-vaxxers, MAGA types, right wing media, etc. Amoral people decided to sow doubt, and it’s a lot easier to break than it is to fix

There is absolutely *no* Alzheimer's medication that can halt a patient's progression in a clinically meaningful way. I love the idea of him clinging to false hope, though, as his mind erodes.

(The best drugs for Alzheimer's are capable of slowing the progression of a single symptom, memory loss, by six months. So if he started on them at 78, then by age 83, he'll have the memory he would otherwise have had at age 82.5. The effect is so small it can only be detected in population studies. There's lots of trials, but there's also lots of grandiose claims that never go anywhere)

So, TikTok, not Roblox! C’mon.

There was absolutely nothing in that article about Roblox usage. It talked about browsing websites.

You mentioned Tesla only, and you talked about "if" everyone had their thumb on the scale, rather than the fact that they do. And you didn't explain why Chinese OEMs should be obliged to enter the market unsubsidized while US OEMs have, by your own admission, received subsidies.

It’s crazy! Here in London, UK, there’s a massive jumble of cars, everything from a Citroen Ami (very rare) or Smart car (pretty common) through to superminis (ten-a-penny), saloons and a bunch of SUVs of varying sizes. But the largest we have is something like a Range Rover, and the smallest SUVs are things like my own car, a Mercedes EQA, which is only 4.4m long. Pickup trucks are super-rare.