I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.
Arthur Koestler
Make notes !
Journey through the world and carefully attend to every matter, whether political or not, which appears remarkable to you. Note it for the information of yourself and others. In this way you will make an excellent record, from which you will learn much. Experience and observation are to be preferred to all other sources of information.
Christian Scriver
1629 - 1693
Electric vehicles ? 🤡
The benefits of driving an EV is the world’s shortest book. You pay more the vehicle, more for insurance, it takes hours to recharge, your range is half that of an ICE vehicle, they are useless in remote areas without power, there is almost no second hand market due to the replacement battery cost, the batteries only last 10 years, the batteries can spontaneously combust and can’t be extinguished and can cause devastating cascading fires in car parks, you can’t charge them at home if you use on-street parking or live in an apartment without charging infrastructure, the batteries stop working in cold northern climates during winter, charging stations can’t be scaled to accommodate long weekends and holiday periods, towing a boat or caravan halves the battery range, the grid cannot cope with any significant EV penetration without a complete rebuild at enormous cost, the majority of vehicles will be made in China creating a geo-political dependency on a hostile nation, and they weigh more causing road damage and the tires wear out faster.
You can’t run the aircon when stuck in a traffic.
They will be written off after a minor accident as the battery may have been damaged and is dangerous .
They can be remotely disabled.
When you drive them you are exposed to a lot of EMF.
In a serious accident it is very dangerous for rescue services to cut you out .
The current electricity grid cannot cope with the increased loads that would be necessary if they were widely adopted. 🤡
There is a narrative that salt and sugar are unhealthy even toxic ; this narrative can be seen to be false when you know that oral rehydration treatment and intravenous fluid treatment consist of only salt and sugar. Also breast milk contains salt and sugar .
More evidence that sugar is not toxic :
We have one hormone to lower blood sugar and five hormones to raise it.
Low blood sugar is fatal in seconds ; high blood sugar takes days to many years to be fatal.
We have evolved to like the taste of sugar.
Fruit is not toxic .
Honey is not toxic
Breast milk is not toxic.