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    How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade

    I had no idea this was coming. It’s pretty amazing. A continent wide carbon tax that will force the rest of the world to follow in their footsteps. If only the US had implemented something like this 20 years ago.
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    Cheaper, lower-capacity Switch 2 cartridges could mean fewer Game Key Cards

    Even with physical cartridges you’ll need nintendo’s servers to download updates and bug fixes, which go onto your switch’s internal memory. It’s a shame the cartridges aren’t rewritable to allow game devs to update the files on the cartridge itself.
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    Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses Heb B vaccine recommendation

    This makes me feel ill. I can never forgive people who supported MAGA.
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    OnePlus 15 review: The end of range anxiety

    Pretty sure it’s a silicon carbon anode battery, not silicon carbide. For whatever reason US manufacturers have refused to use these batteries in their own phones. We’re years behind the Chinese battery tech.
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    Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes

    I feel so, so bad for anyone who was exposed, including people just walking by. Their bodies are now ticking time bombs.
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    There’s a global boom in solar—except in the United States

    Solar is kind of useless in the winter in northerly states, getting maybe 15-20% of summer peak power. Fortunately wind produces more than twice the power in winter due to denser, heavier air and more violent and frequent wind. So I think a mix of the two is really important the farther north...
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    How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?

    It’s painful to realize the main thing that dropped the price of batteries was scale, and the US could’ve been manufacturing EVs and brought that scale to bear decades ago. Instead it was China that led the way. In just the last 4 years I’ve seen lithium phosphate batteries on alibaba or...
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    People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

    What exactly is the point of a “smart screen”? Isn’t it basically an ARM tablet? Why not put a full OS on there?
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    Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

    Global stock markets were effectively nationalized when the Federal Reserve took control in 2009 and the major banks consolidated into just a few mega banks. Equities have been overvalued for a decade now, with the bubble getting ever bigger with each passing year, and most of the gains going...
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    Illinois utility tries using electric school buses for bidirectional charging

    lol 5 years (2023-2028] to “test technology.” The pace of implementation in the US is far too slow. Edit: forgot to add, Europe has a lot of electric semi trucks pulling cargo across the continent. You can watch the YouTuber Electric Trucker to see how he operates them. They’re really...
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    Apple iPhone 17 Pro review: Come for the camera, stay for the battery

    Definitely the ugliest phone I’ve seen in a long time. And then that orange color looks like someone vomited.
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    Hyundai gives the Ioniq 5 a huge price cut for model-year 2026

    The price of lithium phosphate iron batteries has dropped 75% in the last 3-4 years alone. So a battery that cost $32,000 4 years ago costs $8000 now. That’s where a bunch of savings are coming from.
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    After threatening ABC over Kimmel, FCC chair may eliminate TV ownership caps

    The neo liberal dem party needs to age and die out, and we badly need a massive swing towards antitrust enforcement and regulation with the next election. I just don’t see it happening until we experience economic collapse to snap people out of their delusions.
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    Here’s what we know about Porsche’s electric Cayenne SUV

    I thought they were using new magnetic resonance technology from Witricity for wireless charging, not the simple inductive charging you see on smartphones.
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    Ready for a $1,000 handheld gaming PC? Asus’ ROG Xbox Ally X set to find out.

    They’re all too heavy for my weak wrists unfortunately. And the battery life is too poor.
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    Amazon Fire TV devices expected to ditch Android for Linux in 2025

    Hope they get better performance as a result, as android has always lagged on low end processors
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    Charging the grid with your EV: First US residential pilot is now underway

    I never thought of that, how do the vehicles inform subsequent owners of actual battery usage? Perhaps the V2G protocol should include a mandatory reporting requirement.
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    Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC Democrat despite 90-year-old precedent

    A lot of this is because spineless democrats refused to go after corrupt schmucks like Justice Alito. They allowed the fascism to fester and flourish in the name of “reaching across the aisle”.
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    Meet the latest anti-vaccine voices on RFK Jr.’s CDC advisory panel

    These people should be put in jail. Eventually they’ll have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on their hands. I legitimately can’t understand how our society has deteriorated to this level of primal stupidity.
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    Neue Klasse: BMW’s tech-filled iX3 electric SUV is unveiled

    That is a very pretty interior. Now if only they’d make a sedan