Yes, electricity can come from Solar and Wind. We need something to store masses of solar. We can use Hydrogen as a storage for energy that doesn’t require rare earth minerals.

So instead we’ll strip mine rare earth minerals in horrible ways since you don’t like a little inefficiency that doesn’t matter.

Or we could look at Hydrogen rather than Batteries for vehicles…

Still green, doesn’t require rare earth minerals and existing diesel engines can be modified to burn hydrogen, that’s still 99% water vapor as exhaust (you’ll probably burn some synthetic oil and other lubricants though)

Hydrogen was great until Elon said it wasn’t. But a lot of people forgot it was musk spam that ‘hydrogen bad’

They’re not really ‘doing nothing’

Belt and Road is a LOT of work.

All the more reason to choose a ‘grocer’ you trust rather than a fly-by-night online store.

My grocery store is a monopoly, the products in it aren’t.

I don’t want to shop at 1000 different stores that will all sell my information to brokers. If you do, that’s fine, shopping around gets cheaper prices but you pay with your time.

I’ll keep shopping at the one store.

I’m not sure I’d call MKW ‘solid’ - it’s a got a solid sound track.

The tracks are solid, but you’re effectively not allowed to play them online, you get 2 laps of straight line followed by one single lap of a real track.

Not on steam, not on my radar.

Pretty sure Canada doesn’t ‘need’ US products either.

Taco will of course have a big cry when Canada stops buying US products.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Jacinda Ardern who is just inserting herself into this story.

Many important writers over the last week have pulled out, it’s a non-story that a former politician isn’t attending.

At least you can see doctors, Dentists aren’t even allowed to show their face.

Do what we did during the space race and pump cash into innovation, science, and research.

Oh they are. For AI. Instead of scrambling to Fusion, they’re putting the money into generating nudes of celebrities.

I’m sure Elon made him promises of drones he’ll never be able to supply.

Timor Leste flag, that’ll be interesting…

I wonder what would happen if Trump tried to fly Fort Knox to Russia?

Didn’t Tacoclot say he’d invade Iran if they turned on the protests?

Also that Greenland isn’t on a border than they share with China or Russia?

SmokyOrange BLASTS futurism.com author in SCATHING report.

Computer, denoise this nothing until it’s something, I mean create art.

By whom though?

I can’t see Australia joining in a fight against USA when China is an ever present issue and they’re our only hope if China decides they’d rather have Australia.

Similarly, I can’t see UK actually joining a military action against USA.

I can’t see South America going to bat for European insterests, even if it’s against USA, similar for Africa.

Middle East will watch laughing.

Which really leaves mainland Europe, which will probably splinter along the lines of whether Germany or France gets to be the leader of the Coalition.