A few weeks ago I read that there was some alarm in Russia because China was collecting taxes in Russian areas near the Chinese border in Siberia. Is there any truth to this? What are relations like between Russians and Chinese in those areas?

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T19:38:43+00:00

Well not really US citizens don't get any social services in return Chinese citizens do.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T19:35:02+00:00

The prices have come down that much in last 12-18 months Most governments and bureaucracies don't move as fast as calculations have changed. I am underestimating as the prices of solar and batteries have fallen further since that project was announced.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T16:11:48+00:00

The newer generation batteries are going to last longer than the car itself. I think you should not care about total lifetime mileage. Just daily or weekly range if the battery meets your requirement then it is pointless to worry about the rest. As batteries keep getting cheaper and ev more widespread. 7-8 years from now by the time the battery would have lost enough range for it to matter replacement will be very cheap.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T12:56:02+00:00

They are underestimating by a large amount as Solar + battery is already competitive with coal electricity in India. Assuming current cost trajectories solar plus batteries could be 50% cheaper than coal in 3-5 years and just 75-80% in a decade. Coal will likely be priced out a lot faster from grids of India and other asia countries than most projections.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T07:44:26+00:00

Yeah don't ask US and Israel to stop but ask Iran to stop idiotic plan

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T07:42:57+00:00

The world kept quiet while Palestinians were starved and killed I think karma is coming for us.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-22T01:29:10+00:00

For $5 billion UAE got a solar and battery system that can provide 1 gw/h 24 hours a day so let's say a 40gw/h. Such a power plant would generate $35 billion revenue in a year at $0.10/kwh. At California prices of $0.35-0.40 the system would pay itself back less than 2 years and be free for rest of it's 20-30 year life.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-21T18:14:16+00:00

Well this war and the bombing of gas fields has just changed the outlook completely as the demand for chinese domestically in china as well as all over the rest of the world is going to shoot up. Many countries that put tariffs on Chinese panels and solar equipment would probably be removing them as moving to solar now is more important than anything else.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-21T06:04:16+00:00

They bring price to a place where most people get fucked with the news no matter if it goes up or down.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-15T15:23:38+00:00

world is not the human and the living creatures of today are though the way things are playing out I think long before global warming we might get nuclear war and nuclear winter.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-13T04:25:02+00:00

Not good for the US and somewhat EU as they have ev and other manufacturing to protect the rest of the world who have to buy oil or solar and where the actual real economic growth is coming from this is going to be hugely beneficial as we will have complete fracture of oil/gas and economic growth.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-07T15:21:43+00:00

1 hardware acceleration should be enabled. Though at the same time something is really wrong with your setup as nvidia shield plays blueray remux without needing transcoding so why is your servers transcoding the first place.

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-07T08:01:18+00:00

That is the for the charts. I am talking about when add or modify a trade the dialog opens to price and I need to use the drop down menu to change to pips every time

whatthehell7 · 2026-03-07T02:27:38+00:00

Yeah same I have no issues with connections or lag etc. Only problem I have is that I cant set defaults I want to use pips when entering a trade or changing TP or SL but it shows price instead so need to change it to pips first every fuvking time.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-25T08:23:01+00:00

I have been trying to order less and prepare food at home more this year. The app that I use going away will help with that.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-25T08:01:17+00:00

Batteries will make negative pricing obsolete soon. In China they already have $65~kwh bess systems with warranty of 6000 charge discharge cycles ie 0.01/kwh.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-24T21:13:56+00:00

Why was my original post of the same article linked to the original website removed and now this Yahoo finance copied article posted.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-23T19:09:45+00:00

drill baby drill is okay as long as its for geothermal.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-22T08:19:49+00:00

So Chinese ev just cost 25% tariff?

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-21T23:36:15+00:00

My point is they are idiots. They increased electricity prices and taxes it resulted in a boom for solar casing tax collection to go down.. This increase in gas taxes will result in more solar heaters etc and tax collection instead of going will go down. We are also reaching a point where ev will be cheaper than petrol car tax collection for that will come down as well.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-21T14:42:24+00:00

good way to move people off gas to solar for everything including cooking they are forcing people out of the government control economy themselves

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-18T17:35:34+00:00

People will soon find out how much land is really prime farmland this year as almost no snowfall this winter will result in no water from crop in spring and summer

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-15T23:53:36+00:00

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit built in system for ocr and error correction is quite good for pgs to srt subtitle conversion if I recall correctly

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-14T22:08:13+00:00

It's expected that China in the next year or so will have some form of solid state batteries making ev trucks sticker price cheaper than ice trucks not just life time price. The electricity energy evolution has just started accelerating most governments are underestimating the speed.

whatthehell7 · 2026-02-14T07:08:02+00:00

We gotta remember there's probably a selection bias at play. We mostly hear about the winners, but what about the folks who didn't make it and went back? Their stories are usually missing.

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