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    So did I say: range, speed, cold weather performance? No I did not. Convenience: I can charge at home, overnight. And since it's really easy to move electricity around, charging points can be everywhere, cheaply. By the way, electric cars are really popular in Norway. A country known for being cold. So that leaves you with range and speed. Oh, and you compared against a Bolt, is your Acord faster than a Model 3? That leaves you with range. I gave 8 reasons to buy an EV, you have 1. Next.
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    Times are very difficult financially for me. I'd love it if the US and the UK stopped Covid-19 without locking down like how South Korea and Taiwan did. Sadly, Trump's performance was very predictable. I would have wanted to be wrong about him. Even for climate change, I wish I was wrong and brenthutch was right, that would be SO much easier. But I'm not stupid. He screwed up, and you should stop denying it.
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    lower maintenance costs lower operating costs higher performance more convenience no particulate emissions or harmful pipe emissions (even much less brake dust) power delivery flexibility (eg. backup power for your house in case of blackout) cheaper delivery infrastructure much quieter at low speeds Next question?
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    Given that your position is the climate is BOTH changing and NOT changing, you've forfeited the chance to be right. What you are though, is irrelevant. The world has passed you by, technology will march on and the low price of oil reflects the new reality. We will buy more EVs, aircraft will become electric, and you will just be an old man refusing to let go of a fading era. And guess what. I used to work in the oil industry (metallurgical engineer monitoring corrosion in refinery heat exchangers and pipework).
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    Love the conservative "can do" attitude pro tip: stop getting in the way.
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    You're both mistaken. The world is laughing at him.
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    I think the main point is that it's not natural. It's one thing to make fun of a person who does something silly to their appearance, and a completely different thing to make fun of a person's natural skin colour.
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    That's his natural colour??? Maybe it's just me but the skin around his eyes is uncannily pale and the tan lines don't look natural at all. His hands are way paler than his face too.
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    I think you're the one who does that.
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    It's why we're called "Great" Britain. More seriously, it's because the UK government tried half-hearted contact tracing until around March 11th but didn't back it up with testing. Then people were arriving from all over the world, especially Italy and Spain, without any testing, screening, or self-isolation. Then there was about a 2 week delay since the government seemed to think "herd immunity" was the right strategy, if only to play the maverick as opposed to what the other European countries were doing. Only when the Imperial College model was released that they realised it was a stupid strategy, then made a u-turn and locked down on 23rd March. The thing with exponential growth is that the slightest delay will punish you severely. They're under-testing for a reason, it's to hide the fact that we're a lot worse than Spain or Italy. We've overtaken Spain in deaths, we'll overtake Italy within the next 3 days.
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    I know, I know, we need to lower our standards for the US...
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    If the US had kept to the same level of deaths per capita as South Korea, there would be 1,659 deaths in total by now. Currently it's 62,378. South Korea even had that "oh no" moment when 1 person attended an event with 9000+ other people. Yet they kept deaths under 250.
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    The Snowden leaks about the NSA spying on Americans showed that capability is not an issue, and the response showed that most people were okay with it to combat islamic terrorism. As for leadership...where? Have you found any? We can't just claim hindsight when there was the SARS outbreak in 2003, Swine flu in 2009, MERS in 2012, Ebola in 2014, Bill Gates warning about a pandemic in 2015. If there's another new virus in 2 years' time, I really hope someone with a brain is in charge.
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    What were the 2 impedances?
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    Sorry, as much as some conservatives like conspiracy theories, the left isn't centrally organised and I like to do my own thing
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    I don't blame Trump for the coronavirus. But I blame him for the incompetent way he dealt with it. See the difference?
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    They did use surveillance in South Korea that might sit uncomfortably with americans. But here in the UK, we have way more CCTV than South Korea. The only difference is that the South Korean government was actually competent at using it (alongside testing). But if South Korea had DZs they would be jumping now. Would you accept a bit more government surveillance for more freedom to go out? No guarantee though, as the UK example shows. You also need a government who are not complete idiots.
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    Yes, I just read that article. If you read it again, there was nothing about universal restrictions or closures. It describes how they tracked down the few cases they had and responded really quickly, but for the 99% of the country that wasn't affected, life went on as normal.
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    No they did not cancel schools. Restrictions were placed only on one city, Daegu. Most of South Korea is operating close to normality, and that includes its main city Seoul. The US lockdown is far more strict than what they have done in South Korea.
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    Are you sure? In the UK we're on track to overtake Italy in deaths soon. I think you have this backwards, they didn't lock down at all. They didn't have to. Same with Taiwan.
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    Yeah but if you want to be the best in the world, you can't make exceptions to who you compare to.
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    Many of those are just prayer rooms, and those with photos just look like ordinary buildings which are probably just repurposed. No wonder I didn't see any when I was there. The UK has strict laws on the appearance of buildings. You can buy an old church, but the architectural modifications you're allowed to make to it is very, very limited, and almost under no circumstances will you be allowed to demolish it. In the same vein, when you build a new structure strict rules are placed on its appearance. Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities, and I say Mark's allegations are complete rubbish. Was it intentional? No idea, but bullshit is bullshit.
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    Hopefully.
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    Although I don't live in Edinburgh, I have several friends who live there, and I've visited a few times. I don't even remember seeing a single mosque, and there are LOTS of churches there. There was also the outcry after Trump said there were "no-go" zones in London and Birmingham if I remember correctly. There are valid reasons to criticise Islam, so why completely make things up? It just makes you untrustworthy.