Speed, for one. 5 minutes vs 30 minutes to an hour to be fully charged. Makes a big difference for road trips where you need to recharge on the way.

Anyone have knowledge of Nio and the long term viability? Are they targeting the US, or just China and Europe?

EDIT: found some info that Nio is targeting selling in the US in 2025.

There’s no science behind the head garb that Sultan Ahmed al Jaber wears, but he does it anyway.

Maybe he doesn’t understand science, or maybe he’s just trying to lie for money, who’s to say?

Me. I’ll say he’s just lying for money.

100%, those idiots will last less than a day. Meanwhile, the rest of the world may collapse, but a society will survive and rebuild. Those rich morons will be some of the first casualties, and they are setting their own doom traps themselves.

ITT: People who don’t realize this has been a gift to the US: They can wage war against Russia, the largest nuclear US adversary, on the cheap, without risk to American lives or running afoul of the UN or NATO.

I know that a large number of brands and news organizations have reported that their Twitter engagement has completely disappeared, which tells us far more than Twitter’s press releases ever would. It’s dead.

I’m not sure what app you are thinking of, but WeChat is used in China (Northern hemisphere) and was backed by the Chinese government in order to be established.

There are 1.2 billion WeChat users, over 1 billion of them are in China.

I really enjoyed the video, although I didn’t make the same leap in logic that the reason Bosworth spent so much on his tombstone was simply that he ‘didn’t realize how much his estate was worth’.

If he spent one-sixth of his entire estate on a tombstone, and with it being so much research just to find out the details of that, we don’t know what his will did with the rest - he could have spent it all in equally eccentric ways just to piss everyone off, which apparently he was already quite good at while he was alive.

It should be noted that Elon Musk is very much in danger of losing control of Twitter, because he’s defaulting to Twitter’s creditors.

Sure, in less than a year, he’s lost 59% of Twitter’s revenue and the value of the company has fallen 54% by Wall Street estimations. But the real danger is that Musk isn’t paying his creditors, and that gives them leverage.

Will Elon Lose Control of Twitter? (Puck.news, soft paywall)