Hell yeah. It’s good to have as an alt source in an arr-stack setup. I prioritise torrent since that helps folks who don’t/can’t pay but it’s there when TL falls or smth.

It does what it used to do 15 years ago and it does it well. The arr-stack tried to make me use qBittorrent. I said no and did it with Transmission anyway.

So you’re saying China’s R&D spending is even higher?? 😄

CATL’s that went into mass prod sometime ago are 175Wh/kg.

Sodium-Ion is already in production at CATL. Been for about half a year if I recall. It’s slightly less dense than LFP but it’s cheaper and promises to get cheaper yet.

This confirms Mossad was unable to do it, doesn’t it. That means the Iranians aren’t as compromised by Mossad as it appeared during the 12-day war. At least not anymore.

Oh so he’s doing the Mark Carney number. Risky bet.

Jesus… 😔

There’s other less subtle differreces with the pensions-on-the-capital-markets model in North America. It really is you-manage-your-own-savings model.

That means you decide to contribute something, or nothing. This is a big problem because this money can be extracted by businesses via higher prices and marketing. As prices go up people spend more of their wages to cover expenses with less and less remaining for savings. This is the largest reason for 50% of Canadians and Americans having no pension savings.

The other significant difference is that you decide exactly what to do with those savings, buy a diversified ETF or GameStop, the whole casino is yours. This means everyone has to do the same work of learning, reading, not being wrong, not fall for legal scams of which there are plenty. And if you happen to be unlucky to be of retirement age in 2008, you end up working till you die. I had a colleague while working at one of the big Canadian banks that lost his savings like that so he couldn’t retire. The time and ability to manage retirement investment is not the same between some who works in finance, a grocery store cashier, a brick layer and a dedicated pension fund professional.

This is the reality that most of us live with here. Some lucky bastards have the old school defined benefit pensions that their employer contributes money to and manages (either internally or through a dedicated fund management entity). Those don’t suffer from either of these issues and such pensions are often invested in capital markets and other things. For example the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. That scheme works fine but most companies that had it got rid of it cause it’s more expensive than dumping all the risk to employees.

Maybe maybe maybe. I wonder what the benefit of this tactic is though. Maybe it does chunk off some votes away from the target by luring them with promises slightly different than their ally.

But yeah, the right tends to be organized so running a candidate that splits the right vote is suspicious.

Well-hung

I think that’s a result of them being less willing to throw AI at everything earlier on. They didn’t slap it on use cases where it didn’t work so well. Instead they gradually introduced use cases where AI integration did add obvious value. That strategy ended with ChatGPT’s public explosion.

They’re using LFP in the Mach-e as well and they’re losing money on every sale at signuficantly higher price tag. So I think it’s gotta be something else.

I really hope you don’t let them imitate it, cause this didn’t happen by accident over here. There’s a lot of money to be made by the finance sector if people are forced to put their pensions into the capital markets. And this isn’t me just babbling from the other side of the Atlantic in abstract. I hold an EU passport and I sincerely hope shit doesn’t turn like it did here.

Wait, I’ve seen this one before!

28.3K really is cheap in this context but I’m skeptical that this would be anywhere close to the price when it comes out. Seen too many “40K” that turn out to be 60K in reality. I mean in any context, the avg sale price of new vehicles is over $50K.

For all the “make it a car” folks out there - Ford F-series is the best selling vehicle in the US and Canada. That’s just how fucked we are.

Inshallah

Used to send friends pics of my desktop’s internals. No longer safe.

“It’s more the fact that in America, because you don’t have state guaranteed pay-as-you-go pension schemes, anyone who works and who needs to think about his old age needs to directly be engaged in thinking about investing in capital markets.”

Ah yes, famously something we really love in NA. A system that gave us 50% pop with no retirement savings across US and Canada. You def want that!

Serious - not saying integrated capital markets aren’t needed but the NA neoliberal pension model is not something that’ll encourage social stability.