I know right. How can I become a super hero from exposure if I can’t get some uranium.

Many (most?) EVs now periodically apply friction brakes to reduce corrosion issues. If an EV doesn’t have it, you can do it manually.

Why does there need to be an end?

Mass disruption to transport during conflict with cascading effects. Or worse, mass casualties from remote control.

What about other things, like remotely stopping your car from operating?

And for Trump it’s easily in the hundreds if not thousands

If we’re talking just deaths, with his closure of USAID, reductions in health insurance, cuts to CDC, his covid response, etc. Trump has been the cause of millions of avoidable deaths.

Lancet estimates that Trump’s USAID closure alone will kill ~5 million children under the age of five by 2030.

He’s obese, so by today’s standards, he’s incredibly unlikely to make it to 100.

Then again, as he’s clearly done a deal with the devil, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the rare exception.

Rumor has it that the paper clips are planning a coup over Trump. Yes, the US would be far better off even if run by Clippy.

I used to say they shoot themselves in the foot and yell “take that libs!”, but they do it so often, they don’t have any feet left to shoot off.

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Yep. “I have concepts of a plan”… to leave millions of you without vital healthcare, letting you suffer more in illness, go broke, and die earlier.

If a portal to a parallel universe opens up, I’m going through.

I’m in no way an expert on election matters, but I believe the next step in the playbook is to enrage his supporters, and get them to storm the state capitol building.

Then comes the press conference where he can blatantly lie about how he was in no way responsible for it.

Those are reasons why loses aren’t as big of a concern for rich people. Not why hedges are only for rich people.

The cost of a hedge is proportional to the assets being protected. If someone has say a $10,000 portfolio of stocks, and they think the market will crash in the next month or two, they could buy a protective option hedge for around $100. And if someone has a portfolio of $300 million, they could hedge for ~$3 million. Wealth is irrelevant.

Also hedges aren’t risky. They reduce risk. They’re insurance.

Yep hedging would work .

But why do you need to be rich to buy a hedge? A leveraged option can be bought starting from a few dollars.

The issue is not getting the hedge, it’s getting the timing right. Plenty of people saw the GFC crash coming and invested in hedges, but they were too early and lost a bundle.

Historians estimate that Jackson caused the death of 10,000 to 15,000 native Americans.

It’s projected that Trump’s defunding of USAID will kill around 14 million by 2030. 4.5 million of those will be children under the age of 5 (See Lancet study.) Throw in his health care roll backs, social services withdrawals, suicides from tariffs, etc. and that figure goes a lot higher.

Battery chemistry patents are notoriously easy to “design around” to create variations. Who is going to want to risk working with a company that has a track record of being notoriously dodgy, especially when there’s a couple of dozen well established major players that have solid reputations and scale.

Yes, if they supplied batteries to independent testers, that would quickly prove their technically claims are true or false.

But the hole they’ve dug isn’t just about technical claims. As I said, they’ve relied on dodgy marketing tactics which has caused industry damage, and that wouldn’t just disappear. They’d still have huge business reputation issues regarding things like trust for starters. Businesses are far more than just their technology. Plenty of great tech has failed due to other factors and execution.

Yep, that’s a massive argument against Donut. But the question I haven’t seen the battery experts address is whether the expansion pattern is unique to the chemistry they believe it is. Are there other chemistries that could produce the same effect? The investigators clearly don’t think so, but Donut also isn’t claiming to be using previously seen tech.

Either way, it’s not looking good for Donut. The burden of proof is, and always has been, on them, and they have a looooong climb out of the hole they’ve dug.

Regardless, Ziroth and others make a good point that Donut’s marketing games are damaging to the industry. Other legitimate players seeking investment will be tarnished by Donut’s antics. So even if their tech turned out to be legit, they’re still going to be a bad actor.

Reading the article, the investigation isn’t a case of independent labs getting hold of the battery and definitively disproving Donut’s claims. It’s battery experts and researchers looking at the data Donut has released and saying, “these claims are extraordinary and the evidence doesn’t yet convince us. Here’s what we think the battery actually is.” That’s a very reasonable scientific position, especially when you’re talking about 400 Wh/kg, 5-minute charging, and 100,000 cycles all at once.

But without independently tested samples, there are still a lot of unknowns and inferences involved. That’s not to say the skeptics are wrong, but it’s still arguably a case of skeptics being skeptical… reasonably so, but based on analysis of the available evidence rather than direct examination of the battery itself.