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There is a very good reason to turn off traction control on public roads, it's terrible on dirt.

I grew up at the end of a small but public dirt road. My partner has a prius that's good for the drive from Sydney home so we often use that when visiting. There are two steep hills on the gravel road. If traction control is on it cuts power as soon as a tire starts slipping, so I go through an annoying sequence to turn it off every time we enter or leave the farm and then it can do those hills easily.

My big concern with rules like this is if they then push to make it so manufacturers don't add a traction control button or at least some ability to disable it. They should just be punishing the actually problematic driving (drifting on public roads) instead of making it illegal to turn off traction/stability control.

ABS and AEB make more sense to require on, although I'd be somewhat worried in older cars that a fault in that system would turn the car into scrap if you couldn't get the parts anymore.

The footprint of solar is significant, but still nothing compared to agriculture. E.g. The area used to grow corn to make ethanol in the US is ~ 3x what you'd need to fully power the US on solar.

~96000000 acres used for corn, ~40% of that is used for ethanol. That makes 38.3e6 acres. First estimate I found for area of solar panels to fully power the US on solar alone was 14.08e6. That makes corn for ethanol 2.7 times the area of solar panels if all that was used was solar.

The cost of the power it generates in 50 years aren't lower than the day it opens. If you amortise the cost of the plant over its life nuclear is stupid expensive per watt produced. It's expensive enough that renewables + storage is cheaper. Renewables + storage is also a lot quicker to build than nuclear.

Even after the uptick in cost of renewables in the last year (which was dramatic) they're still the cheapest new build power (even accounting for the integration costs). As an example here's the most recent annual csiro report on energy costs by type. It doesn't include full scale nuclear today because it's known to be unviable, but even 2030 projections on "if smrs are commonly deployed at scale" they're predicted to be a lot more expensive than renewables with integration costs.

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/energy-data-modelling/gencost

If you mean renewables by that, it's hardly hypothetical or unproven. I'm in Australia and south Australia and Tasmania (two of our states) have fully renewable grids, Tasmania for the past 7 years. South Australia does still occasionally pull from an interconnect but most of the time they're exporting a bunch of power.

Renewables with storage are cheaper and faster to build than nuclear and that's from real world costs. Nuclear would be fine if it wasn't so stupidly expensive.

Why do you think we need nuclear to transition fully off petroleum? Renewables with storage are cheaper today for new build power, let alone in another 20 years. They continue to get cheaper and more efficient quite rapidly.

That's stupid sweet but not supersaturated though. Saturated would be ~200g per 100g of water.

Coal isn't the cheapest though. For new build power renewables + storage are. That is to say, the incremental cost of running a coal plant isn't that massive, but cost to build + fuel one amortised over the lifetime is more than renewables + storage.

So yes, you can enforce "adequate regulation" and nuclear will still be the most expensive.

There are a few with knobs but not many. More options there would be good and I think dials are still the best interface. That being said the good touch ones aren't as bad as I expected.

I have used a few different flat panel ones and the miele one my parents recently installed was tolerable despite the fact it was all touch. The lights for the buttons are bright, they work even if a bit dirty / wet (not in a puddle but don't need tho be clean), and it doesn't panic if you move a pot over the buttons.

On the other hand, I've used an Ikea one a bit (my partners mum has one, and she lives at home). It's so shit, the buttons are dim and hard to see, it panics if a pot goes over them and they don't work if a little dirty.

Overall, the touch ones can be bad, but if your go with a well made one like miele they're actually okay.

Ute is also body on frame (in aus at least) but I would still call the oversized emotional support vehicles trucks instead of utes. That being said, most single cab utes have a bigger bed than a truck like an f150.

If it's for the bookmarks, you can export that, possibly also for the password manager (although that's riskier). As far as history etc, does that really matter? What other settings would you need to bring across

Why chromium based? I use Firefox and it's very rare I come across a website that has an issue with it

However I'm not sure that every carrier around the world has esim, so for travelling its easier to go have a physical sim currently

Yes, however with that it'd be more expensive to administer taxation on bicycles etc. Than what they'd bring in... So not really worth doing at all.