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Comment · 6 years ago
Meanwhile there is literal beheading going on in France - but mainstream media is completely silent on topics like immigration. The general dissatisfaction with mass immigration in the USA and Europe, and the failure of the mainstream media to acknowledge this, is what is fueling the rise of Breitbarts.
Comment · 6 years ago
We need to begin building that smart charging/discharging capability into electric cars now, then.

We need to establish the regulatory and user interface standards around this ideally before we start manufacturing tens of millions of EVS each month.

It might make sense to also unbundle electricity for consumers, charging the live wholesale rate and indicating the pricing via apps, alerts, or indicators on the meter itself.

Comment · 6 years ago
If these can be demonstrated safe it seems reasonable to place them close to cities - providing electricity and district heating.

The air pollution problems of Poland could be resolved a year after these were built, for example, by connecting them into and expanding existing district heating systems - meaning no one would need to burn coal or trash in ancient home chimneys.

Comment · 6 years ago
Cyrillic orthography for the Polish language already exists: its called Ukrainian.
Comment · 6 years ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

Sweden, without COVID lockdowns, is on track for fewer deaths in 2020 than 2018.

The country also has a lower COVID deathtoll per capita than Belgium, Italy, USA.

Lockdown is not a solution. Dealing with air pollution (ending the burning of coal and oil) and obesity (banning and taxing added sugar) would yield significantly greater benefits and require much less cost and effort.

Comment · 6 years ago
I had COVID and felt like I had lingering symptoms for months. As soon as I moved to a non-lockdown country those symptoms immediately disappeared.
Comment · 6 years ago
Which is completely sufficient to vaccinate the elderly, teachers, immunocompromised, and healthcare workers in the Western world, and probably anyone else who really wants it.

There's no need to completely eliminate COVID - we don't aim for the same for regular influenza. We should aim to reopen economies as soon as possible instead.

Comment · 6 years ago
“As a luxury brand, our customers are more likely to have a home where they can charge a vehicle, an office where they can charge a vehicle, their favorite spots to go where they can charge a vehicle"

Translation: don't expect a lot of range from our heavy and aerodynamically inefficient vehicles.

Comment · 6 years ago
Hispanics vote Democrat 69%. Change the demographic makeup of the country and you increase or decrease the portion voting for a particular party.

Big Tech will demand cheap labor as payback for their censorship and deplatforming of conservative authors and communities.

Comment · 6 years ago
Airborne transmission of COVID is sexy, requiring solutions like this, and individual impositions like wearing masks which are easy to police.

But I think the more likely spread of COVID is from mundane surface transmissions. One of the 'mystery' COVID cases in New Zealand was eventually tracked to people touching the same elevator button about an hour apart, for example.

Same here in Europe - everyone is wearing masks, but how many times is the apartment entrance handle touched by people each day?

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