@SwiftOnSecurity Most people who say this on social media are most definitely not independent thinkers and will believe anything as long as it’s authoritatively stated. I would know; on Twitter, I have deliberately spread propaganda on behalf of the CPC—and people have believed me even when my source is the Chinese embassy’s website.
@notjustbikes Well, eventually is the key word here. Last year, China produced about 9.58 million EVs and 9.49 million of them were sold domestically, leaving a surplus of about 90,000. Meanwhile, US consumers bought about 1.2 million EVs; even if all of China’s surplus was bought up by Americans, that accounts for only about 7.5%.
The US Secretary of Treasury is either just plain wrong or is really bad a basic maths.
@arstechnica TIL there are people opposed to the pasteurisation of milk. I can’t imagine why anyone would possibly drink raw milk unless they’re particularly masochistic and enjoy being miserably sick.
@arstechnica Unpopular opinion: I think it’s good that nukes are once again allowed in space. Since the ban, all nuclear technology has been banned in space, leading to a stagnation in the development of nuclear thermal rockets and reactors in space.
Also, what were we thinking banning nukes in space? We can’t even do that on Earth and we live on it! How hubristic must humanity be to think we can ban the universe, but not Earth, from having nukes?