In 2023, CATL received the equivalent of US$790 million in state subsidies.

In December 2023, Duke Energy disconnected CATL batteries from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune due to security concerns.

In June 2024, a group of U.S. lawmakers asked the United States Department of Homeland Security to add CATL to an import ban list under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 prohibited US defense funding for CATL products.

Just because a company does something good doesn’t mean the company is good, no matter how beneficial the batteries are it’s important to know how they were made and if the company (aka CCP) is in good faith, or just that they know that oil’s days are numbered and want to get a head start on the new monopoly.

Well OP does say the price increase ranges from 20% to 50%

In other currencies the price change is over 50%, for example Euro price going from 8 to 12.50

There are other currencies in the world.

Euro is going from 8 to 12.5, which is higher than 50%

No, not sure if other industries do this, but buying a game in a weak currency usually turns out cheaper (by alot) because Devs will usually offer the game for a lower price in the weaker economy

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-restart-funding-to-unrwa

For response; see last paragraph in my comment

That’s pretty easy tbh, most of the core bitcoin devs all work for a single company that can absolutely be bought out, and even have gone on record on how much they dislike bitcoin.

It was the main reason I got out, I bought into it because I was excited by the tech behind it, but no single company should have that much control over the direction it goes in.

Now you could argue that if they did so the chain would just split and the rest of the world would just stay off the USA owned chain, but imo they have already done so much against the interest of bitcoin and everyone has just gone along with it so far (minus the bch split) so what do I know.

Out of curiosity, which engine would you say is your favourite? If Bethesda were going to start using a new engine tomorrow, which engine would you hope they would use?

A misplaced mesh, missing quest dialogue, or invalid NPC navmesh is not an engine issue and is specific to each individual game, these things can’t be fixed in the engine

I was under the impression that 99.99% of fixes in the unofficial patches were gameplay related things, not underlying issues with the engine.

I also feel like if every game had the player count and mod support of Bethesda games, they would all have unofficial patches. No game is perfect and bug free, I know Bethesda games are buggier than most, but they are also way more ambitious and have way more content than most (I’m talking pre-starfield here, I haven’t gone back to starfield like I still go back to fallout and elder scrolls)

I think their games are great. And I think the Creation Engine is great, the amount of immersion I get and amount of hours I spend playing fallout, oblivion, Skyrim, morrowind is second to none. The mod support is endless, they were in a league of their own when it came to RPGs

Granted they have slipped a little (okay alot) lately but that doesn’t take away from their past works.

In most the posts I saw, the comments wishing he had been killed were downvoted.

So yeah, some people made those comments, but most people didn’t agree with them

Yeah but all that probably gets cancelled out by the emissions of a WW3

No one here is saying they have formed a formal alliance (yet). It’s funny how you say he mentions “control”, and “stability”, then did your eyes shield you from the next line?

"… the Taliban are certainly our allies in the fight against terrorism… "

Literally says they are his allies in a quote taken directly from the shitheads’ mouth.

You can try twist it in your mind however you want, but no one is as stupid as you, and we can actually read.

Blue version of an anon, I guess?

I do, I’ve been trying to get off it and onto Bazzite but I tried to do a test run by installing it on my laptop before my pc and the boot loader won’t pick up the usb 😔

I don’t feel comfortable doing it on my pc without first seeing it work, so it seems I’m stuck on windows

That assumes that the 80% of people agree on everything else too.

Say it’s 30% conservatives, 50% socialists and 20% whatever else - you expect them to join forces and vote for a 3rd party because they agree on one aspect?

Controllers being better is your opinion, and seems like most steam players don’t agree.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian forces went out to the beach after the attack and bombed it themselves, just so they could get this story

I did this quest a few months ago for the first time and noticed this