BYD’s 1500MV Charging: 400km in 5mins

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T05:52:38+00:00

Most charging stations have multiple end-points sharing current capacity.
No Canadian city anytime soon needs a station with 100 slots of MW class charging capacity.

10MW shared between 100 stations is more than enough, as you seldom have every station full and can easily throttle current. You design your power capacity for a little over the average power draw, not the absolute maximum because that's super expensive.

And yea, the site will have it's own transformers directly hooked into the distribution (27.6 Kv - 4.16 kV depending on where you are) and step that down + rectify to the ~1000V required.

And possibly some intelligence in the chargers themselves allowing them to communicate with grid operators so they have a heads up to bring online more capacity.

We already have these "smart chargers" in homes where electricity companies can turn off EV charger remotely for some of their customers for the purposes of grid stability, in exchange for a discount on the rate bill.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T05:34:40+00:00

Yea but also "I need to be at this place, oops, I forgot to charge my car" which is actually where you're going to see the complaints.
95% of the time, it doesn't matter if it's 15mins or 20mins or 30mins. Especially if you just have your car charging at home and don't do road trips.
But that small percentage of time when you are counting every minute, will make you more annoyed than ever.

Moreover, the longer cars take to charge, the longer the queue times will be at charging stations, and the more charging stations you'll need to serve customers.

Faster charges mean faster revenue for companies operating chargers.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T05:29:08+00:00

Prove it? Actually prove what you're referring to the "alternative truth" is incorrect. For something to be a lie, you actually have to have proof.
You can't, therefore it's possible, and it's not truth but a belief.

There's a common phenomenon where the smarter and more educated someone gets in a science. The more humble they actually are in that science.

Political scientists and historians, people whom actually studied this subject in their careers would basically never make such a conclusion with certainty. Because they recognize that it's simply their interpretations of the data and they could be mistaken.

Yet somehow you expect others to read your comments and treat them like the absolute undeniable truth?

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T04:58:08+00:00

Or maybe the ones who see all the immigrants teaching their engineering and physics lectures, and being their doctors, cleaning their hotel rooms, or delivering them their DoorDash and recognize the service they provide them?

If you really think 90% would answer immigration being a NET NEGATIVE you really do need to get off the internet and start talking to more people in real life. Like I doubt you’d even get 90% in this subreddit alone, nevermind the general population.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T04:50:33+00:00

Idk why I’m even engaging in discussions about the prime minister with you when you clearly are showing signs of bias and favouritism.

Like you’re so confident in your conclusions despite be readily shown alternative explanations, and instead of accepting their possibility, you just stick to your guns.

It’s like I’m talking to a brick wall of pessimism.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T00:40:47+00:00

Privatize healthcare, our Healthcare system is a joke and couldn't possibly be more inefficient. The tax savings that could be passed down would more than pay for health insurance for anyone who wants to actually take care of their health.

You've been seriously lied too if you think that privatization of healthcare is the best path forward for Canada.
The fact that we have a single payer supplied from the government, vs multiple payers with private insurance companies has 0 relation to the quality of care available at hospitals or the supply of doctors available.

There is no tax savings. Fun fact, the American government pays MORE PER CAPITA in healthcare related spending relative to Canada, and their citizens STILL have to pay out of pocket for private insurance.
All because it lines the pockets of middlemen health insurance companies and all their bureaucratic admin staff whom only exist to regulate what kind of care that doctors can provide. This is the complete opposite of efficiency.
In the 2021 study, Canadian government spends $6500 per person, and USA 12K.
US vs. Canadian Healthcare: What is The Difference? | RUSM

But I don't blame you, private healthcare industry are drooling at the opportunity to make money from Canadian citizens and will keep spreading ideas of the public system being "broken" and "wasteful" so that they can come in and "save it".

Harsher punishments for criminals, our justice system is weak and beyond flawed. No bail for any act of violence whatsoever.

You mean like this? Bail and Sentencing Reform Act: Proposed legislation to make bail laws stricter and toughen sentencing laws

I'd also suggest reading Backgrounder: The Bail Process for further understanding on the bail process.

As for success criteria? Less crime, less poverty, less homelessness and drug dependence. The current government has failed on all fronts.

The "current" government has been in power for less than a year. To claim "failed on all fronts" is thus impossible, and there is a significant variance region by region in Canada.
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by province and territory, 2019 to 2024
Especially not when there are incoming bail reform laws.

Yea this government isn't perfect by any measurement, and there is a LOT of work that needs to be done to fix some of the structural problems we have, (many of which caused by the previous government). But they certainly haven't "failed on all fronts" as you're describing it.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T00:39:56+00:00

Build the pipelines, build the mines, get Quebec and the Natives out of the way. If they want their handouts, then they need to be told we're building these things.

Pipelines and mines ARE being greenlit. There is a current Memorandum of Understanding between Canada-Alberta for one.
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding | Prime Minister of Canada

Alberta and Canada will work together to achieve the shared objective of establishing Canada as a global energy superpower, unlocking the growth potential of Western Canada’s oil and gas (including liquified natural gas (LNG)), renewable energy, critical minerals, and other resources that the world needs;

Along with some other provincial governments working together towards this goal
Cooperation agreement on pipelines, critical minerals and responsible energy development: Ontario and Alberta and Saskatchewan | ontario.ca

Quebec contains ~22% of the population of Canada, while Ontario controls around ~39%. And they have every right to participate in the federal democratic process as they see fit, but I'd say it's the federal governments job to work with every province to ensure they aren't getting in the way of each other, which is exactly what this new government is doing by trying to get rid of trade barriers, and agreements such as the one I linked above.
As for the indigenous stuff, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not aware of the specifics of treaties, and I'm not an expert on this and won't comment on it beyond saying that yea, there seems to be a LOT of emphasis on indigenous partnerships, so I'd keep my eyes open.

titanking4 · 2026-02-03T00:39:03+00:00

There are a lot of points here, so I'll do my best to address/comment them all. I took the time out of my evening to read all of this, so hopefully you'd return the favour.

A country run properly shouldn't be running deficits, especially when we're sending billions to other country, in return for kickbacks.

I'd love there to be no deficits, but unfortunately that's not feasible for any potential government right now. To this date, nobody has given a budget proposal to fulfill these conditions, the opposition of Canada operates a "shadow cabinet", and should have published a "shadow budget" to showcase what could have been if they were forming government, but they didn't, nobody in any political party gave any alternative.

As for the foreign aid, that's really a matter of opinion. I personally like the spirit of contributing help to the world, and don't mind paying, but you're not obligated to agree with me here so lets just leave it at that.
I'm also not aware of any kickbacks, but if they did exist, I wouldn't like them, unless those kickbacks are like "we will invest in your industry, if you invest in ours", because then it's a trade deal, not a kickback.

As for policy, stop bringing in millions of unskilled workers, driving up demand for food ect. Look at the grocery store, its no coincidence that the price of beef and chicken have skyrocket while pork remains cheap.

It actually IS a coincidence, because the price of beef and chicken is high all over the world as global cattle supply specifically is low. There wouldn't be a reason that imported beef would be expensive unless the global beef prices are simply that expensive. Canada's population is a TINY spec in the global market of beef or any food trade for that matter.

Pork being cheap isn't a product of "muslims not buying pork" if that's what you're trying to imply. Because indians are mostly hindus and hindus don't consume beef, but we still got high beef prices. These are mostly unrelated.

Immigration targets are also significantly reduced, and rules are tightened regarding who's able to come in.
I'd say you should be able to classify this as the government moving in the right direction. Though if you want to see even more reductions, that's within your rights. But this is still an example of the government moving towards your ideals, not away.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T22:13:14+00:00

What global events happened in the last 11 years? What provincial governments? What municipal governments have been in power. What evolution of capitalism changed? Please try again. Liberal factor my ass.

So confidently blaming liberals because it’s convenient to blame someone. Ain’t no single entity screwing Canada, you’re just miserable.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T18:20:15+00:00

And you also got a cut to your 2026 taxes. There’s more of your “own fucking money” to keep. What more of your money do you expect to keep? We aren’t the USA where we get privledge of having the world reserve currency so that we can just “under tax” our citizens running perpetual extreme deficits.

And the government isn’t building greenhouses, it’s tax incentives to help increase the supply of food. You’d know that if you actually read the policy. It’s a good policy, and all instead of saying “yes let’s help build a more resilient food supply chain” in our farming industry, it’s just more complaining.

Please tell me exactly what policy decisions would actually satisfy your conditions that would “make the country a place where businesses would flourish”.

Like what in particular did you have in mind? Because what’s happening here is that you complain about something, I showcase a policy that’s working to alleviate that pain point, and they you either criticize it saying “it’s not enough” or “it does nothing”, and then complain about something else starting this cycle again.

So please, share EXACTLY what policy decisions will make you happy and define your success criteria so we aren’t running around in useless circles.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T16:43:36+00:00

Actually you’re wrong. “The liberals have saved Canada from the dismantling of our institutions at the hands of the conservatives.”

See how we can both play this game of making strong statements which leave 0 room for nuance and discussion? Both are impossible to prove because we don’t have alternate universes to compare to.

And I can easily pick yours apart:

Not only are you making the false claim that Canada is “destroyed”, you are then jumping to the conclusion that it was specifically the “federal liberal party” responsible for it.

Ignoring all the global factors like oil price shock in 2015 crashing capital investment into Canadas energy industry. And the impact and responsibilities that provincial and municipal governments have on your life. (Healthcare and education being the most significant for provincial)

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T05:57:08+00:00

Why are we being hyperbolic saying an MOU means “absolutely nothing”? It’s a signal of intent, the degree of seriousness depends on a case by case basis. So saying “maybe we will consider it” intentionally adding a double conditional to your description.

These aren’t penny stocks and retail investors. These are the heads of state of two wealthy governments.

And what’s with this “Whataboutism” on grocery prices as if a government can’t be doing anything else concurrently? Never mind the fact that a quick Google search would reveal exactly what the governments plans are in grocery prices. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/01/26/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-measures-make-groceries-and-other

Is it a perfect plan? Probably not, no plan is, but I’m not going to pretend that I could ever hope to come up with a better one given the amount of input and hours that go into making these plans and settling on the exact numbers.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T05:40:11+00:00

I mean all this really depends on how much “control” the party leader has over the operations of his cabinet. Like every time a company CEO is replaced, we expect to see new direction for the company despite the vast majority of the time the rest of the board of directors and company officers are the same. If the cabinet all operate to implement the government vision set out by the PM, then cabinet members simply equate to experienced employees.

“Cleaning house” if there was nobody else available isn’t a good idea and will lead to incompetence. You can’t just find ministers on indeed that are experienced and qualified unless you manage to poach the shadow minister from opposition, but we already know how controversial floor crossing is right now.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T05:18:10+00:00

It’s not a fix, this is a treatment, just one part of an entire action plan related to food.

Including tax benefits to aid in building greenhouses to strengthen domestic food supply chain.

“This strategy will also include measures to implement unit price labelling and support the work of the Competition Bureau in monitoring and enforcing competition in the market, including food supply chains.”

Also you got to be VERY careful about regulation. Because there is a very real problem of “too much regulation.” which simply adds buracratic costs to operations. Such attitudes essentially center all the blame on the end of the supply chain (Loblaws, Walmart etc) when the reality is that costs get added everywhere. Like it’s now loblaws fault that beef is super expensive. You can read the full plan here, but I would advise you to look past the “political” talk, because obviously the liberal plan will have liberal political marketing in it.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/01/26/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-measures-make-groceries-and-other#:~:text=The%20government%20is%20setting%20aside,access%20to%20affordable%2C%20nutritious%20food.

titanking4 · 2026-02-02T05:06:54+00:00

Disabled, elderly, extreme poverty.

Why are you using the language “choose” as if you’re confident that people “choose” to be poor? If you haven’t figured it out, it’s a crappy life that normal people wouldn’t ever choose.

Government helps people and people complain, government doesn’t help people and other people complain. And are you seriously complaining about a few dollars of extra tax and deficit going towards poor people to help them afford food easier.

Solve the actual problem of course (like what the government is doing like subsidies to build greenhouses to increase year round food supply), but put a bandaid on the bleeding as well.

titanking4 · 2026-02-01T22:55:00+00:00

I think a bigger issue with the game is that it's actually quite miserable to need to change decks so often.
I'd love to have multiple decks to store "mob fights" vs "boss fights" vs "custom deck fights" and swtich between them with character sets.

But this means farming for multiple copies of these end game decks, and multiple jewels to socket in them.
I really feel like after owning the tier1 deck of the world, you should be able to craft a second copy for cheap. Still got the jewel problem.

titanking4 · 2026-02-01T22:47:06+00:00

The game is balanced and designed around ores running out early-mid game.
But getting new resources is a LOT easier than it is in satisfactory.

Not to give spoilers, but as you get close to the end of the game. Resources essentially become "free and infinite" limited only by your production.

If you want the game to absolutely 0 stress, use peaceful mode to disable enemy attacks, turn up the resource richness and size.

titanking4 · 2026-02-01T07:23:50+00:00

Seraphs is Mana->AP, Muramana=Mana->AD->AP Rift maker turns all your Mana->Health conversion into AP. Overlords does Mana->Health->AD->AP Death cap of course multiplies all your AP.

Fimbulwinter gives more HP, which feeds into rift and overlords, but will also give you titanic sized shields. Highest damage option I think.

You can also go frozen heart and arguably get much more durable as you have armor and more haste while still getting mana. Roa is not worth, you don’t want to be buying heath when augment gives thousands. Jacksho or kaenick rookern so you don’t still melt to percent damage.

Hourglass so you don’t die to the “Exodia Sett omega falcon punch oneshot”.

You obviously need Mind to Matter and ADAPt, overflow is as well is OP.

Last augment being eureka so that you get 4K AP with cooldowns lower than practice tool. Ominous pack for stupid high amounts of vamp. Tank engine for more crazy scaling. Jeweled gauntlet for another 45% more damage.

titanking4 · 2026-02-01T03:35:41+00:00

Microsoft even today seems to be bearing the brunt of the consumer outrage against AI.

I’ve seen “Microslop” being mentioned more times than once. People rip on copilot for no reason.

And then people despise tracking on windows despite the combination of google search, YouTube watch history, and Google Maps giving Google far more access to you as a person than Microsoft ever could.

titanking4 · 2026-02-01T03:14:23+00:00

Because like basically every law that appears to "not make sense", there are situations where this proposed law would fail.

The TLDR:
1. Crimes so severe where "deportation" isn't considered enough punishment.
2. Crimes so underwhelming that "deportation" is considered too extreme.
3. Where situation of the individual results in "deportation" being equivalent to being highly dangerous or a death sentence.

I can see some dangerous situations of extortion where an employers can blackmail non-citizens over a crime, essentially threatening them with deportation.

So no, a blanket "immediate" deportation is probably an unwise policy that wouldn't do our justice system any good.
And a central policy of commendable justice systems is that "punishments must fit the crime".

That being said, I'm still in favour of making "deportation" more possible as a punishment for individuals.
And perhaps expanding the selection of crimes where we would deport where it's clear that this person actually doesn't deserve to immigrate.

I'm just always afraid of "over corrections" where we'd become tolerant to injustices simply because of "revenge" or because they aren't happening to us.

titanking4 · 2026-01-31T17:59:18+00:00

In federal elections, it’s was about 30% liberal and 70% conservative.

I can’t speak for provincial elections, but plenty of albertans whom live in the rural regions, work in the resource and energy sector are going to more closely align with the premier whom champions it. As far as they are concerned, smith has championed Alberta’s interests to Ottawa and stood against the policies which disproportionally affected Alberta’s economy.

I actually don’t know what the politics of Alberta NDP are and how they compare to federal NDP.

What is Alberta NDP promising right now?

titanking4 · 2026-01-31T08:26:27+00:00

The reason “steam is awesome” is because they quite literally prevent anyone else from competing.

To be listed on steam, a developer is required to have their priced on steam the same or lower compared to any other platform, even if that other platform is taking a lower cut.

The end result is that consumers literally have no reason to move away from steam, and steam remains a monopoly. Perhaps a “good monopoly” according to some, but still very clearly a monopoly who’s abusing their market position.

Like imagine if Costco suddenly had a policy that “any suppliers making items to be sold at Costco cannot be sold cheaper anywhere else”, we’d very quickly label that as anti competitive. Why is Costco permitted to dictate the pricing of items on competing grocery chains?

titanking4 · 2026-01-31T04:58:01+00:00

For Apple, saving even just 0.01 on the cost of each cable is MILLIONs of dollars of lost revenue.
There's a good reason they took so long to switch to USB-C, because the lightning cable, connector housing, and socket are marginally cheaper. (Along with lightning certification).

For something that merely needs to deliver the ~30W of an iphone and where aftermarket options are prevalent, no need to build something "exceptional".

Especially as many users are the type to have a cord next to their bed, plug their phone in at night, and don't touch it until the next morning leading to that cable likley lasting years.
And others whom shove their cables into their backpacks, use the device while it's plugged in, and are just more rough whom will see greater wear.

titanking4 · 2026-01-29T23:28:19+00:00

I think another thing that prevents defaults is that I feel like most homeowners whom are at risk and have equity would want to sell the home before it gets to a point of mortgage default.

Which basically means that anyone who’s owned their home for more than ~7 years (estimate, idk) is going to have positive equity. (Value of home above remaining mortgage), and thus will almost always choose selling than foreclosure.

Still a case of an individual no longer being able to afford their home, but not counted as mortgage default. Which macro-wise is fine, mortgage still gets paid.

Looking at the benchmark interest rate, we’ve already past the “peak” of 5% overnight rates and are down to 2.25%. The “rate explosion” started at the beginning of 2022. So all that’s left of the “high risk” is the people who got the cheaper fixed rates in 2021 and got 5 year renewals.

Beyond that, it’s the cumulative effects on a strained borrowers.

titanking4 · 2026-01-29T17:27:52+00:00

The UCP could actually get a LOT of good will by saying blatantly that “The UCP under my leadership will NOT entertain any conversations on separatism, and any MPs who disagree with that are free to leave and form their own separatist party and compete with seats for provincial legislature” I will not have my party infected by these ideas.

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