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California rates are high because everyone has to pay for forest fires. Everyone except shareholders.

Hydrogen/electro chemistry is another use of too much batteries.

Speaking of too much battery, an EV range is often 3-5 times daily use (60km average per day is vehicle average, but many use less). It's not a big deal to have several days worth of fuel in your tank, and so V2G is a good way to have too much batteries, and let consumers profit from their vehicle. This is the app that exterminates oil and other FFs. Hydrogen or your listed apps are good ways to drain having too much battery charge for the next day.

It's a function of sanctions. Reason North won the original elections was they were doing better economically, and less corrupt. Sieged economies do poorly, and it makes rest of the world look good.

All of our federal party leaders are CIA stooges, and so this proposal would give Canadians representation over our rulership.

Surely 10 individual states is more appropriate.

We'd be in a much worse pension and healthcare position, and would be bailing out US federal debt. US debt levels are literally on the verge of collapsing the country. Not only is like minded US states joining Canada a far better alternative to fascism and prevents divisiveness symptom of collapse, the appropriate timing of such a merger is after the US defaults on its debt.

Martial law is traditional South Korea governance.

The line dividing North and South Korea was created by US as it took it over from Japan after ww2, with puppet corrupt government installed.

The Korean war was instigated by US after national elections had North Korean as victor who threatened to unify and kick US out. Corrupt autocracy prevailed until 1980, and then the “democracy” that has followed since is/was an oligarchy of historically pro-Japanese family dynasty industrial champions.

Yet another sham the US calls a “democratic ally” for hegemonic legtimacy.

A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos

Chinese tech is not embargoed and, despite less cool videos, actually widely deployed.

Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.

That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.

Martial law is traditional South Korea governance.

The line dividing North and South Korea was created by US as it took it over from Japan after ww2, with puppet corrupt government installed.

The Korean war was instigated by US after national elections had North Korean as victor who threatened to unify and kick US out. Corrupt autocracy prevailed until 1980, and then the “democracy” that has followed since is/was an oligarchy of historically pro-Japanese family dynasty industrial champions.

Yet another sham the US calls a “democratic ally” for hegemonic legtimacy.

it does, but ok

An ebike is a great vehicle. $1000 is a sweet spot to get 30mph, good acceleration, build quality, and $700-$800 is the new $1000. Fat tires get more torque, even if a heavier wheel, and let you have more comfort, and trail/snow/sand crossing capability. $2000 can get 40mph, or pull a trailer, or have bigger cargo/child seat capabilities.

Electric vehicles in general benefit immensely from being light. A smaller/cheaper battery is lighter and gets more range if overall vehicle is light too. Pedaling is a much bigger boost on lighter bike. BYD's seagull ($11k) is a very small/light car that could be built in the west/sold for $15k. It's practical enough to be a great car value.

Where ebikes need improvement is for commercial and touring purposes, having public charging and for ebikes charging at 1000-1500w is a huge 100-200km range per hour. The other major improvement for both ebikes and EVs would be power assisted trailers with regen braking, and regulation that permits and standardizes them. These can be range extending if pulled empty, or power themselves to not reduce range when loaded, and provide electric power at destination. Solar on trailers also means when not in use having emergency power at parked location.

When an ebike costs less than 6 months of car insurance, or 12 months of public transit pass, easy to park/charge/store, and can get around the city as fast as a car, its simply the best vehicle option. Where EVs can shine more is when V2G offers enough profit potential to pay for the car and part of the insurance.

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If you mean 50% tax bracket for the poor, yes it is a poverty trap. UBI is an improvement over welfare and employment insurance because it doesn't trap people into not working due to high clawbacks. There is also administration and annoyance savings from not policing/applying for benefits.

Has anyone in US said they are interested in free trade either with UK or EU? Last time it was dangled for UK, it got cancelled.