LFP is actually a relatively old battery technology, it’s only now that the patent is expired that it’s starting to breakthrough (outside of China, they somehow got a license if I understand it correctly).

Trade with the EU hasn’t completely halted, we still buy gas from Russia.

If you can’t see pedestrians on the road (on time) you’re either driving too fast, or you’re not paying enough attention, or you’re driving a car that is not suited for roads with pedestrians. That’s totally on the driver.

Leaving that aside, what do you think causes the increase? Dark clothes getting more popular…? I believe it’s the rising popularity of bigger cars with bad visibility (and maybe also the increase of phone usage while driving).

No, reunification isn’t the status quo, that’s ending the status quo.

Xijinping saying mainland China and Taiwan will reunite basically means he wants to invade Taiwan. That is newsworthy.

At this time is history reunification means joining the PRC, there’s no question about that. And support for that is very low in Taiwan.

The reason they don’t say that in official statements and prefer the status quo is because they are afraid of war.

I don’t know anything about a “constitutional vow”.

They are named the Republic of China and claim all (or most?) of mainland China in the claimed territories, (but where those are defined I can’t find):, I suppose it’s not really wrong to call that wanting to be a part of China.

Also in the amendments they talk about the free area and the mainland area https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=A0000002

Of course it’s a very misleading claim because if they would claim anything else they risk war with the PRC.

All the discussion I’ve seen is also about independence vs the status quo, not independence vs joining the PRC. That’s not really on the table.

Only a very small minority did protest, that’s why it didn’t work.

No, it’s a law criminalizing the act of insulting “heroes and martyrs”

A moral cause in one country can be an evil wrongdoing in other. Case in point - Al-Qaeda was formed because US troops were deployed in some country in the middle east to defend someone.

Uhm, where did you get that from?

Anyway, I get your point, but your example only shows that morality doesn’t really stop at borders for most people.

I’m okay with helping Ukraine. I’m not okay if it’s helping only to fuck with Russia.

If it’s to stop an authoritarian state from taking over a democratic state it’s good for me. If it’s because of other less ulterior motives (and let’s not kid ourselves, it’s at least partly because of that), I don’t mind. Is it bad when a doctor only saves lives because it pays well?

That’s one weird argument. Are you implying morality stops at borders?

And it’s not even meddling, they are asking for help.

It’s not unheard of, Icelandic is much closer to Old Norse than Norwegian is.

There are many reasons why this could be the case: pure chance, less outside influence of other languages, a smaller group of people, …

Not all of these apply to the US and I have no idea whether English in the US has less changed than in the UK.

kWh is kilojoule per second times 3600 seconds or 3600 kilojoule. kWh/y is 3600 joule per year or 3600 kilojoule / (24*3600*365) ~0.1W

It’s not so simple. Often these costs are without storage and we currently don’t even have the capacity to create so much storage.

Most of the cost for nuclear is designing and building the powerplant. Keeping working plants open is not so expensive. Building new ones will get cheaper if we build more of them.