EV batteries are often still good to use as they are for other purposes. Like home power storage. Their storage amount gets low enough that they aren’t giving sufficient range anymore, but they still have plenty of life left in different applications.
There’s a million reasons to prefer bikes and public transit over cars in general. The reasons specific to EVs are usually bullshit.
The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn’t that high, IIRC.
There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.
Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.
This is what gives away the answer (emphasis added):
Russian ultranationalist milbloggers, a key pro-war constituency for Russian President Vladimir Putin, continued to reject the modified peace proposal, criticize the United States for moving away from Russian demands, and claim that Europe only wants to continue the war in Ukraine.[16] The milbloggers called for Russia to achieve its war aims by force instead.[17] The Kremlin has refused to meaningfully negotiate in response to all US-led peace initiatives thus far in 2025, and has shown no willingness to make the significant compromises required of a negotiation process.[18] The Kremlin very likely aims to prolong negotiations to end the war to allow Russian forces to continue advancing on the battlefield. The Kremlin likely plans to use Russian advances to further intensify information operations aimed at convincing the West and Ukraine that a Russian military victory is inevitable and that Ukraine should capitulate to Russia’s demands. The Kremlin continues to show no willingness to compromise for good-faith peace negotiations and has not set conditions for Russians to accept anything less than a full Russian victory in Ukraine.
If they aren’t setting up conditions for the civilian population of Russia to accept less than full victory–propaganda like “we have accomplished what we need to in Ukraine, and now is the time for the Russian people to have peace”–then don’t expect them to negotiate in good faith. Even the full 28-point peace proposal, which was clearly written by Russia and has been whittled down to 19 points, was never meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to say “see, we made an offer, and they rejected it”.
This man is probably from Wisconsin, went to CampNCN, and thinks fucking in the forest there is kinky.
The world can, but Canada can’t ignore the psychopath who lives in the flat downstairs.
Not very. Ultimately, that’s an argument for anarchism.
But Germany is hardly unique in that regard. Both now and then.
Germany the nation isn’t the problem. Fascism is the problem. There is nothing special about Germany that makes it any more or less susceptible to fascism than anyone else. 1930s Germany happened to have especially fertile ground, but it could have been a lot of other places.
Although AfD does need to be told to go the fuck away.
TIL the 19th century term for undiagnosed ADHD.
Try searching Google with “f-35 sales before:2024-11-01”. Countries were lining up to buy them. Boeing had a years long manufacturing backlog.
No matter how you, personally, feel about the F-35 and the US military-industrial complex, Trump wants to both increase exports in general and tout US military strength. Most of NATO running with the F-35 would have been great for both of those. He could have succeeded at it by doing nothing. Complete failure of his own goals.
Besides the fact that evidence doesn’t work that way, the Administration has options here if they actually believed those were drug boats. The 50BMG rifle exists to put a big hole in an engine block. There are snipers good enough to make that shot at a few hundred yards in a helicopter.
They choose to use a much more expensive missile that just so happens to obliterate any evidence.
They’re just killing random fishers.
I’ve directly heard the argument from creationists of “they were wrong about Pluto being a planet, why would they be right about evolution?” Yeah, misunderstanding how all this works does matter.
https://www.productsafety.govt.nz/for-consumers/using-products-safely/small-high-powered-magnets
The ban does not apply to: hardware magnets magnets used for teaching, or magnets that are (or are intended to become) parts of other products.
NZ banned toys from having magnets like this, but not complete magnets sold for general purposes. The article is misleading.
Which is also more reasonable than banning it across the board.
I kinda get it. These things come as a cylinder. He didn’t so much swallow 100 individual magnets, but rather swallowed a complete cylinder package of them. The x-ray tends to confirm that.
Still, if you’re 13 years old, you’re old enough to understand why you shouldn’t swallow everything in front of you.
Or a magnet and some other ferrous metal. That might be more likely than multiple magnets sometimes.
No, it looks like a 13 year old did something fucking stupid.
“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” sure looks a lot like capitalism to me.
MAGA base doesn’t think like that. South American country, and Trump says there’s cocaine there? Yes, of course that’s true, why even check those facts?
We will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda
Pete, how did that work out in the end?
What kind of third world shit hole makes its dictators face consequences?