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A. and B. are easily handled. First, there is no problem with current electric vehicles. They stay just like they are. I am talking future here not the past. Second, it doesn't matter what the battery weighs. There is such a thing as hydraulics! You wouldn't physically lift the battery and...

I think the U.S. should mandate standardized vehicle battery sizes and connections. Battery internal design and technology could still vary according to the company making them. We should have the option of buying a battery which we can charge or simply renting a charged battery. So when we go...

And assuming you are a very good trader. The best traders in history, and none of them were day traders, were able to average an annual return of between 20 and 30% over a period of 1-3 decades. This is extremely rare. The first year I traded full time (quite a few years ago now) I bought and...

All presidents achievements, or lack thereof, should be measured relative to the opposition and challenges they face. If Joe Biden has dementia, then his spectacular achievements in foreign affairs and amazing accomplishments in domestic legislation are all the more spectacular. On top of these...

And so what do you want to do when you grow up?

The word "paranoia" would usually to refer to irrational fear. In Putin's case however his paranoia seems entirely rational. There must be millions who would like to see him dead, and hundreds willing to pull the trigger. I don't know whether in English we have a proper word for that kind of...

Just as the U.S. will never default on its bonds, Russia will never use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. The media, however, is not going to let this topic die. It is up to us to ignore it. It is time to move on and concentrate on the probable rather than the highly improbable. Russia is going to...

Of course, it is a dumb argument. I was responding with sarcasm to the absurd general statements made in the original post in this thread. Then you respond to my post with an even more incoherent and less reasonable post than Ultimate's original post. You maintain that Denmark, Finland and...

I can go along with this, but not of course if it means another 4 years of Trump with the consequent certainty that there is no chance of either of us getting what we both want.

Indeed, it was very easy for those not saddled with making the decision to criticize Khrushchev after the fact. There's no shortage of those kinds of people. His critics obviously were not taking into consideration the offer Kennedy made to Khrushchev. The media of course would like us to...

Again, let's favor the highly probable over the highly improbable. There are a strictly limited number of people with a death wish. And neither one of us want to live in a world where anyone can get whatever they want simply by brandishing a nuclear weapon.

Yes, the Senate leader may agree with the President. That's a happy circumstance, at least from their point of view. .

This is illogical. MAD applies regardless of what Putin thinks or does. I think you meant Putin could presumably go crazy and order a nuke to be used in Ukraine. He could of course, but MAD would still apply regardless. Furthermore, even if Putin were to order the use of nuclear weapons, the...

The President can not overrule the Senate re Senate rules. The Senate makes their own rules, the president can express an opinion, but they can't stop a rule they don't like. If the President had the power to control Senate rules, Gorsuch would not be on the Court.

All of this is true, but nevertheless it is impossible for Putin alone to deplore a nuclear weapon. The probability of everyone in Russia going bat shit crazy simultaneously is, by any realistic measure, virtually zero.

I believe his opposition to returning to the standing filibuster is a major flaw in Biden's reasoning, but fortunately Biden doesn't have any real say re Senate rules. They are not subject to veto! We all have to get out and vote in Democrats in both Houses then real progress can be made. As...

But this is absurd logic. By this reasoning any crackpot can get want they want just by brandishing nuclear weapons. There is a well accepted answer to such nuclear extortion. It is well understood. It's called "mutually assured destruction." Anyone who uses them is assuring their own...

Have you forgotten about Manchin and Sinema? The latter was an elephant who showed up at work dressed in a donkey suit. At best, because of Sinema, the real Senate split was 49/50 plus the V.P. which made it a 50/50 stalemate. If the Democrats get a real majority, yes, then they could do...

That may be true so long as you ignore the very convincing statistics that say otherwise. But of course one has to be careful to compare oranges with oranges and not apples with oranges.

This is an amazingly detailed assessment: