It seems more complicated.
From Business Insider:
"Tesla battery replacements can cost over $20,000, Tesla owners have reported. When one Canadian Tesla owner's battery died in 2023, the company told him a replacement would cost $26,000. Another owner in Scotland received a bill equivalent to $21,000 USD to replace his Tesla's battery after it got damaged by rain.
Batteries degrade at varying rates based on a number of factors, like how the EV was charged, what type of environment it was driven in, and more. Auto expert Sandy Munro previously told Business Insider that, the Tesla batteries are easily damaged and difficult to repair or even assess. Munro even said Tesla's Model Y battery has "zero repairability" following a collision."
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How much Xenon is in a headlamp? Are Xenon headlamps critical or are there alternatives?
An EV needs between 20 and 140lbs of Lithium and 30lbs of Cobalt. The majority of these are mined in the Congo, often by kids, and the companies are owned by China. The US has almost no pressence in the market.
I get that it is good to get away from a handful of oil/gas companies, and that there are numerous sources of electricity.
This was kind of my gut feeling, as well.
Aren't the raw materials for the batteries super centralized?
John Bolton, former U.S. National Security Advisor: "If Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, he will be signing his own death warrant."
https://video.nostr.build/1bbf31aad6c410ce2436718343392a6f394ebe6fdef1fbc06f1017d94e137dc6.mp4
Can we memory hole this guy, already?
I'll take 2 out of 3.
I am also not a network expert, but here's my read.
It seems like he's saying that Nostr's main scaling issue will be the ability for relays to keep up with the data transfer rates as the platform gains more and more users.
In order for Nostr to be heavily decentralized, anyone needs to be able to run a relay. This is so that there isn't any one point of attack to censor the network.
The problem is that most home networks are limited to gigabit internet speeds and the current Nostr demand is already stressing the network at relatively low user numbers.
He might be suggesting that a solution would be corporations or large groups with higher bandwidth infrastructure running relays. Which would then move the network towards the centralized side of the spectrum.
The distinctive appearance of a Damascus goat
https://t.co/vzrFA8XXC9 https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1288576115813081088/pu/vid/484x854/GZLztVtQFoVZ-R_a.mp4
Call a priest.
I'll give it a listen.
I like Whitney. She gets a lot of "thanks for ruining my day" from hosts. But, she always responds with "You have to know what the problem is to find a solution."
She has hinted about solutions she's implemented in her own life to insulate her family from the innevitable shitstorm that comes with non-compliance in the near-future, surveillence dystopia.
I wish she would talk about the details of that more for better problem/solution balanced content.
I guess she is a jouranalist, though, so not really her job...
Joe Versus the Volcano is a classic.
And all the time — such is the tragi-comedy of our situation — we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more 'drive', or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or 'creativity'. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
