TLDR - if you don’t support Ukraine’s right to exist, I’m not interested in your opinion. There is no balance here. I’ve met and know too many Ukrainians.

It get corrupted by people moving between the regulator and industry and just money. Joe Lycett did an excellent Channel4 documentary about it, ‘Joe vs Sewage’

Israel is acting in a monsterous way that doesn’t make it think of it as part of the West. The US isn’t an angel, but that doesn’t make it like Putin’s Russia. It’s false equivalent. Though, with Trump, it could degrade so much I don’t see it as part of the West anymore. If it stops being a real democracy. It could even full apart as I don’t see all the States standing for it. Putin’s, and authoritarian’s everywhere, wet dream.

Frankly if someone supports Russia over the West, or “both sides” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I count them as either a Russia troll farm or a tankie.

The West does bad thing, but often with some misplaced good motives. It doesn’t do things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

Oh absolutely. FPTP is a dangerous system to have in an age of vote splitting nutty populism. Labour should be putting country above party and killing FPTP as soon as possible.

Countries joining NATO to get protection from Russia, or the EU, to get trade deals, is not remotely the same as Russia invading Ukraine in bloody war. Or any of the murderous shit Putin has done.

There is no “both sides” here. Russia invaded Ukraine, repeatedly since 2014, salami slicing it. It interfered in elections. It killed multiple people on foreign soil, using highly dangerous, banded methods, that could easily have killed many others than the target. Putin has completely destroyed any democracy in Russia and murders his opponents.

That is the realpolitik. But as the demographic moves on, and anyone able to change their mind looks how it has turned out, we calls to rejoin in some form will be overwhelming.

I only light skimmed : https://trade-remedies-doc-storage-prod-eu-west-2.s3.amazonaws.com/AD0047 - Statement of Essential Facts (DUMPING)_20241125172648.pdf

But this looks it could be argued the Chinese excavators are cheaper because they are electric. That all the combustion engine vs electric is the normal anti EV FUD. JCB don’t do electric as they say it can’t work. They back hydrogen or the status quo. If JCB is right, they shouldn’t need tarrifs.

But maybe is some evidence is real market dumping I didn’t see.

I don’t think we are really disagreeing. I agree people have to take batteries seriously. Same with anything with a lot of energy in a small space.

I think EVs should be built to have batteries replaced. Not because the batteries will wear out, but because they well be obsolete before the EV is.

There is a lot of anti-EV FUD out there.

I work a bit with EVs and we are an all EV family. A colleague of mine built a house battery out of two crash hybrid batteries. I’m a big believer in right to repair (and open source). I don’t think EV should be different. Car manufacturers are always looking for excuses to lock out independent repairs.

I’m not sure. 100x is a lot. I read about it generating it’s own oxygen. Apparently it’s about cooling rather than just starving it, because as you say, it has it’s own oxygen. We’ll get better at it and the risks is continue go down.

I’ve not found stats on how hard it is to put on when compared. I’m sure it significantly more, but 100 seams way too much. Tank of fuel burns well. It’s got more energy than the battery.

Your probably should if your interested in digital rights. Pretty good author too.

If the fires are four times as bad, but twenty times less likely, still a win. 😃

EV car fires are much less likely than ICE car fires. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/20/do-electric-cars-pose-a-greater-fire-risk-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

I think a lot of people say out this election. They can’t then complain they got Trump. I don’t understand Trump Republicans, but that’s not all Republicans.

If Trump had lost, second time in a row, it could have well been the end of him. Big enough loss and it could have been end of the whole movement. Republicans could have come back to the centre. If you didn’t vote Harris, Trump is your fault. The system is completely broken, but it’s still what you have. Campaign for a better system while voting for the least bad. Enjoy your Trump.

Mmm I know what you are saying but I used to work with a lot of 3D game artists. All but a few hated Blender and said they found it counter-intuitive. But really it was that it wasn’t just like 3DS Max and Maya (and it is a bit like Max to be honest). I’m delight over a decade later it’s use has ballooned anyway.

During the same time in games, they switch all the non-2D artists to GIMP to save money. Every time I went into the animation room for something, I could hear “GIMP can’t do X or Y” and every time I could show them how it could. They didn’t want to try and were confused/cross it wasn’t PS.