Because it works and provides a use case. Most "simpletons" do not want to invest any more time in than putting some Account Data and start watching netflix or whatever. "We" (e.g. the people that care about data privacy and stuff) never have been okay with that shit...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated
Basically trickery with alleged lossless, but it is not even close to lossless and you need very special players that can unfold MQA. Tidal got a lot of criticism for it and eventually switched away to FLAC...but the way they handled it was pretty bad and it still brushes me the wrong way.
I rather pay for the enshitification of Qobuz, than pay those crooks at Tidal any money. That MQA shit is still very deep and practically enshrined in my soul...
You can open a company in both places, you can make business in both easy, you can invest in any company you like in both cases. Most of the time even the justice system kind of work.
None of this is true for China - if you are a foreigner even less.
What kind of shit article is this? The main reason is that China doesn't play fair, simple as that.
I already did... There's some subscription stuff where you can read pretty much all available magazines and papers, it's been a long time since I've been reading that much "news" and reports
And in most areas, how much share have nuclear and wind? Somewhere around 30-40% combined on average
Argonne assumes the batteries are produced with renewables AND they assume EVs are going to be charged over the day, when most of the renewable energy is "present". Most BEVs are charged over night, where only Hydro or Geothermal makes power. Meaning, the Co2 footprint grows exponentially, because at night most of the power is made with fossile fuels - a kWh easily can have a rucksack of over 700 gr/kWh of Co2. But hey, what's a few assumptions here or there in favour of either side, huh? Oh and go talk to China about them producing the batteries "environment friendly". Just because something uses less Co2 doesn't mean it's cleaner. A few ppm more Co2 in the Atmosphere is bad for the Climate, sure, but a few ppm more Mercury in natural habitats, rivers and lakes? Pff, who cares!
A recent study from the Association of German Engineers did factor in that most EVs are charged over night - even after 130k Miles (~ 200k km), a Golf TDI has roughly a 33 Ton Co2 rucksack, where an EV produced with renewables (ID.3) had 36 Tons.
Who said i'm against that? But with that argument, phasing out fossile fuels would solve a lot more issues than a few EVs.
Nah. The issue is way more complex than that and begins in proper training for drivers and ends in some proper road worthy inspections of vehicles so that they at least have their lights correctly aligned and aimed.
There are no such issues in Europe. Sure, you get the occasional double blink from matrix led system, but I'd take those systems any day of the week over some who just forgot to turn off their high beams or has their lights aimed incorrectly
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That however only works in a sort of sane, trusting and honest environment - basically something to undermine to begin with. If everyone is just utterly hellbend on lying and twisting reality, it becomes just noise and has no impact.
Capaldi and Matt Smith are my personal Favorites. I like Tennant, but the utter "sassyness" of Smith and Capaldis versions where sublime to me...