That's the reality and why so many figures are undisclosed. These do have a niche in the supply chain where they'll shine, local and fixed route trips where you'll have chargers at birth end points. They're FAR from replacing OTR trucks for long hauling until there's some maybe leap in battery capacity, even getting charge times down to parity with diesel is no good because stopping every 500ish miles will eat into efficiency substantially.

Nah, they just become the unwashed masses who now can't have the privilege of car ownership and will have to take Uber or eventually autonomous taxis everywhere. I own a hike and sunny even have a good place to install an ev charger, I can't imagine what ALL the apartment dwellers are supposed to do, bike I guess.

I went from a note 10 to the s22 ultra perky because the 10s battery was getting weaker. Honestly I find the 22 is (notably) buggier and just slightly less intuitive than the 10. I just hope it improves through updates.

While substantively I don't disagree with any of the facts you're claiming, and yes Russia is CLEARLY the aggressor here for no justifiable cause, they're NOT going to end this with no gains. They want the entire southern coast, they'll likely end up with Donbas and Luhansk because the cost to recapture that territory in men for Ukraine is one they literally can't support unless they get allied troops and air support, which are incredibly unlikely.

It was an embarrassment, stupid, sad, and evil as far as people died but Jan 6th was closer to a clown show than an armed insurrection. They had effectively zero chance of changing the election outcome, it was just a bunch of petulant children throwing a tantrum.

In human time, sure, in geologic time it's VERY unlikely this is permanent. A few hundred to a few thousand years and it could very well be more verdant than ever before, ya know, after people are gone and the systems stabilize again.

You're not entirely wrong but there's a problem with span of control here. FOSS can be developed on most hardware regardless of it's openness by individuals or small groups with little infrastructure needed. Open hardware requires considerable capital investment in equipment to manufacturer it, and with that cost comes the need for financial viability to do so. Unless there's a clear need or consumer demand for such hardware no manufacturer will spend the R&D or tooling expense to even design much less produce the physical stuff.

There's a law there that says once such a weapon is available they will be the ONLY guns allowed to be sold in the state. I think there's other states with similar laws, and that's a big rain why they aren't a big priority for established manufacturers. Well that and ALL the reliability issues others have pointed out.

Making a mechanical combo lock that can be durable enough to handle the stresses from firing even moderate calibers is rather difficult, hence why nothing like that exists yet.

Until China decides it's time to repatriate Taiwan and just takes all that TSMC IP for themselves, I'm sure they're adjusting their playbook hourly based on the Ukrainian "test case".

There's little to no charging infrastructure built out at their depots and having to implement that rapidly would as substantial cost. MUCH if the USA that the USPS services is ex-urban and rural where fleets in those areas are smaller and distances covered may actually require more than a single daily charge. The vehicles are designed for EXTREMELY long service lives, so full battery change outs probably 2-3 times per vehicle would need to be amortized into cost of operating. Auto-stop tech on ICE vehicles is likely built into these, thus reducing much of the idling expense, and I'm sure there's more. Politics surely played a role but the USA, just in sheer land area too service for a national service like the post office is of a scale no euro country can accurately compare to. Austria (which I saw in another comment) alone is the size of ONE mid size state. I suspect they'll scale up depot charging capacity and test viability on the 10% they're converting but going all-in is quite plausibly not viable. Similar to how for MANY people EVs could work great as their only car, but many others they don't make sense (no at home charging, cold climates, lack of local charging infrastructure, long distance driving, etc...). EV enthusiasts seem to tend to be upper income suburban/urban lifestyle folks, but there's a blindness to the rest of the country where that isn't there income bracket, driving style, or climate they live in but are fine forcing 100% EV on others who literally can't afford it, or makes their lives notably more difficult to move around with. When I can get a decent used EV for 20k or less that'll last another 100k+ miles (as my last 3 used cars have, which I park on the street) then it'll be for me, right now it isn't, and I'm not alone. The USPS operates across a similarly broad range if conditions.

My god, I wish I hadn't just ran out of mod points. This is painfully accurate.

That example, in Excel (or similar) is a 30 second task to accomplish, at most.

Nice save

Right! It's that casual little end of line phrase "identity-verified" that should concern people. The fact they led with privacy and then slipped that in is even more deceptive.