Electric vehicles are primarily a political topic in the USA. Few people are really considering them from a technological or economic standpoint.

The AfD is on the wrong side of history, with their obsession with combustion engines. Even the German automobile industry doesn't want to go back to focusing on combustion engines, as the entire world is electrifying, including the German market. We want Teslas, not Trabbies.

**There's no shortage of gasoline or diesel in #France.** Total Energies self-imposed a price cap on them at their stations, so people are all buying from them, and they can't manage to refill the station tanks fast enough to keep up with the rush. So, they run out of their discounted fuel (but not higher forms of refined fuel, as those are sold at market price) for hours at a time until another truck arrives. Although Total is suffering a margin loss per customer, they have attracted so many customers that it has caused their overall profits to rise and is beginning to bankrupt their competition, who are now suing for uncompetitive practices. The lines at Total stations can go on for kilometers. The rest of Europe remains unaffected. The EU isn't particularly vulnerable to a lack of raw fuel, as its main suppliers are not affected by the Hormuz Strait crisis, but some EU refineries have been running at peak capacity for quite a while and are starting to become strained. In related news, the EU has accelerated its move to independence from imported fossil fuels (causing budget shortfalls due to the loss in fuel tax revenue), and the sale of electric cars is up 30% in Europe overall, YoY. In anecdotal evidence, I know 4 people who have bought a new car this year, and all of them bought an e-auto. https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260916-totalenergies-up-controversy-in-france-with-capped-gasoline-prices

euronews

EU countries face nearly €41bn in extra fossil fuel costs

European countries have spent unforeseen billions of euros on fossil fuel imports due to the drastic surge in prices that followed the war against ...

dw.com

Germany's electric car boom cuts fuel tax revenue

The rapid shift to electric vehicles in Germany is cutting fuel tax revenue for the government. As EV sales surge, policymakers face growing pressu...

Electrek

In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany

In June, for the first time, electric cars outsold each other powertrain in Germany, with sales up 78% since last year.

GM ⛽

It's funny to me how wanting to regulate the AI industry is considered government overreach and centralization of power when the US, Chinese, and EU governments (among others) have been actively funding it, arranging the funding for it, changing laws to accomodate and promote it, and directing the development and implementation of it, the whole time. There is, until now, absolutely no explanation for why any private person should be personally benefitting from the success of these projects, since none of the projects would be viable without everyone tacitly acknowledging that governments are underwriting their debt. These have always been seen primarily as national security issues, not private science projects. That's why it's not treated as an asset bubble, even though these companies have no path to profitability: everyone knows their governments won't let them fail. Investing in AI is just another form of government asset, but with higher returns. Like investing in defense production. This is not *Pets.com Part 2*, this is RheinMetall. Just buy the fucking dip.

I agreed with this because I have spent so much time building up entire event pipelines over different servers, clients, machines, scripts, etc. and each one is completely independent of the other, but the events can get passed around and morphed into the next stage's events or linked with some other set of events. We used to do this within on gigantic ORACLE database with lots of SQL staging, handoffs, transformations, etc. but on Nostr you just grab events, morph them, spit out new ones, and move on. Somebody or something else then might grab them, or might not, whatever. Fetch, compute, emit. Fetch, compute, emit. From all over to all over. Very organic. View quoted note →

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Looks CDU, BSW, and FDP didn't make it in. 👀

Guys on here like, East Asian women are so hot! 🔥🥵🌡️ *posts picture of East Asian women who look like European women*

It's the housing crisis, stupid. #Linke #Berlinwahl2026

That's it. I've had enough. No more wine-ing. 🍷

I'm on vacation this weekend. I'm taking a bit of a break. See y'all next week. ☺️

...and we still don't know how large the population of #China really is.

GM. Here is an interview with the British foreign secretary about war crimes and the ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

Schaue gerade Phoenix Runde und der IT Experte sagt er benutzt kein WhatsApp, da empfiehlt er eher Signal und ich 👏

She's very wooden and scientist-y, but interesting. 🍿 Watching it, now.

I don't know why these videos of women screaming hysterically and ranting nonsense are so popular, but I am assuming it's some TikTok algo gone wild.

Anyone else want me to send them one? Only useful, if your client supports *private kind 1111 comments* or you have your own client and want to add them. View quoted note →

The smart people used to be right-wing. Those were good times.

It is finally, slowly, dawning on Europeans that importing all resources, services, and produced goods is a massive security risk.

Your PoW is too small. Difficulty size matters. Bigger is better.