OK, but where are the data that they’re inflating claims? From where I’m looking, they keep iterating. Your approach feels like sinophobia. What are we doing here in the states? Certainly not announcing new batteries.

I’ve been living exclusively off Chinese-made solar panels and batteries for nearly two and a half years. I don’t exactly view them as liars.

Also, your link is irrelevant. We’re talking about CATL here.

I first ran into this story on /r/energy (yeah, I cheated on Beehaw because I had to see what was going on in /r/journalism with the Post news), and while most comments were useful, there was also a tinge of “but it’s China, so that’s bad.”

Well, we were on our way to building up production and infrastructure here in the U.S., which I know because I fucking covered federal grants for green-energy projects and battery production until being laid off Jan. 20, 2025.

I mean, this is like complaining that another kid has a chocolate bar on the playground and you don’t. China invests for the long term. The U.S. needs quarterly returns. We did a lot better at advancing the state of the art in everything when we had robust corporate R&D departments than we do going with share buybacks.

We have lost our edge. Period, graf.

And nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.

Not that I’m bitter.

Basically, there are three possible outcomes. The preferred one when you flip that master switch is that everything works.

The second is that nothing happens, and now you have to figure out what the fuck has gone wrong.

The third is an electrical fire.

When you’ve bolted the panels to your roof, wired everything up, charged the batteries off the mains and flipped the breaker on the solar ahead of turning the master switch, there’s more apprehension than waiting in your own wedding processional.

If you know about PV and LFP, just skip to the politics for the last half hour.

Yeah, we were a bit peeved at the time.

“An essay” is an interesting choice of reference to the Declaration of Independence. I mean, I guess it was an essay by committee, but that undersells the source.

It was nonetheless satisfying.

That’s certainly something you could look into. I provide original sources.

Ms. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.

Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. “I don’t know how far-reaching ICE can be,” she said. “I’m struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk.”

Scary shit.

Feels like we had a surge of them a while back, but that’s subsided in favour of Waymos.

Further proof the the AI bubble is the only thing concealing that we’re in a recession. Overhired for Covid? Fine. But that was six fucking years ago, so you’re not really being proactive.

Seems most people under 40 from my online interactions. Though “Insta” is more popular in my experience.

This feels like abevigoda.com 2.0.

Though apparently he’s been dead for long enough that the nature of the site has changed.

That is an objectively terrible hed. What is the verb here? The only thing that could remotely qualify is “arrest,” but it sure as fuck isn’t functioning in that manner. This is essentially the longest label hed I’ve seen, and I’ve been doing this since the '90s. Bravo!

From the tens of thousands of heds I’ve written, I’m aware. I keep them intact here because to do otherwise would invite complaints of bias.

I fucking detest question heds on news for the same reason as Betteridge. I don’t write them myself. Basically, once I’m done reading a story and realize we have a question hed on our hands, I’ll spike for further reporting.

However, this is not news, but rather commentary. Not many columnists get to write their own heds, as the desk handles that. (of course I wrote my own, since I was also the page designer)

I used WhatsApp to stay in touch with family overseas until Facebook announced the acquisition. I’d already been off Facebook for years, never used Instagram and had zero interest being Zucked back into that orbit.

Since WhatsApp claims to use the Signal protocol in the first place, why not just use Signal and skip the data collection?

The world of finance is now primarily just pump-and-dump schemes.