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You start with wrong assumption. Compare PHEV with 70kWh battery + ICE vs the same model as BEV with 100kWh battery.

40 nuclear power plants.

Russia/Ukraine war shows that 4th generation jets are not survivable in any current as of 2026 air defense environment.


4th generation jets are not designed to survive denied airspace. They're still useful; both sides in Ukraine are using 4th gen jets for air patrol, SEAD, escorts, intercepts and standoff munition launches.


Nothing that makes them jet fighters is used. Propeller planes with launchers could do the same.


Putting flares, chaff and ECM onto a propeller plane doesn't leave much takeoff weight for AASMs and KEPD munitions.


Isn't it easier to fix housing issue and build more apartments?


Mercedes-Benz sells commuter cars in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class


And this is the Mercedes-Benz commuter car I want to see more of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Citaro


> The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a car manufactured by German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz

"luxury" is more of a marketing and product positioning term, it doesn't really have anything to do with engineering or quality practicalities


Last time I was in the Ruhr (okay 20 years ago), C-classes were used as taxi cabs. So basically equivalent to a caprice classic in the US.


one garbage truck - 40,000 pounds wears road 2000x than escalade.


We can't do without garbage trucks though


- have less garbage

- collect garbage more frequently in smaller trucks

taiwan has very cute small garbage trucks and they have a ice-cream-truck like song signalling for people to bring whatever trashbags they have out to the truck, so you don't even have piles of garbage outside for days waiting for the weekly truck. quite nice.


Having less garbage is a whole other issue. Small utility vehicles makes a lot of sense but doesn't seem to be the way it's done in NA. Maybe it’s a labour cost thing. But even the long haul trucks are huge here compared to the rest of the world. They haul the same amount but the cab and engine are enormous. Maybe because the roads are wider they can just make everything bigger.


I only need the garbage truck to do a run for me and a couple hundred others once a week. My Escalade is transporting me and maybe 1 other person on average 7 days a week.


No and no. US companies started offshoring in 2022. There are no new STEM jobs since than.


> US companies started offshoring in 2022. There are no new STEM jobs since then.

"The real hangup is making a bunch of Americans with capital feel some sort of loyalty towards their own country and its workers."


missing /s ?


/r for reality


More lives would be saved if usaid never existed.


China blocked from buying ASML machines?


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