avidamoeba

Yeah that part really is crazy. Obviously there's some mechanism but I don't know what. You've alreade checked change in torque and cadence as a cause. The only other thing that comes to mind is the force pointing backwards, experienced by the spindle from the chain pulling on it, which changes depending on which gear you're in and how tensioned the rear derailleur is. But I would think any such effect would be drowned by the forces of your legs on the cranks.

Without access to some debug interface that shows you what values come from the various components, you're stuck with hypothesizing and replacing parts, which is annoying and expensive. In that world, I'd also try replacing the torque sensor. I've seen it sold on Ali. I think they use a common part between multiple units but I'm not sure. I have their BB torque sensor and it seems it uses a spindle that looks like the ones used in their mid drives. They're not cheap though.

Sure but that means they have to have a mechanism, legal and material to execute this. There must be an gov't institution that looks for and designates sites to be blocked. Then they have to have legal power to compel UK ISPs to block those lists. Are these things part of this law? I haven't read enough.

This isn't a currency issue. The processes driving this have been observed in 19-century Britain under a gold standard. For me it took looking into how firms decide what to produce, how to produce it and what to do with the profits in order to build a better picture on what's happening. This Talk at Google was a good starting point for me.

Yes, got a Cyclami from Ali. It's very well made and I've been uaing it for inflation and topping up my tires for three months now.

Hey why do you have my pocket?

I think it's likely an organic move which happened despite all of the forces you mention, due to massively changing public sentiment informed by alternate sources outside of their control. I think if the media was able to keep pro-Palestine sentiment low, we wouldn't be seeing any of this flip. Basically they have no choice but to flip or lose even more of their power to propagandize. Which I guess could have come down from the top, but such a directive still probably happened because of what I mentioned.

Whaddaya mean? A non-UK instance doesn't have to comply with UK law if it doesn't operate as an entity in the UK and so it won't require the face ID for UK visitors. So long as the instance is okay with hosting this content, it would let UK visitors view it. For example, I don't think the UK has authority or mechanism to ask a Brazil-based instance to do this.

The 300-mile-range req is just ridiculous. However it's easier to pad the margin on a 60K vehicle by adding this or that for another 5-10K. It's harder to do that on cheap vehicles and they can't sell a 100-mile-range EV for a lot of money. Am working in automotive and emphasizing big expensive models is key for creating shareholder value.

Not sure if you're aware but we've had electric buses and trains for well over half a century. We don't need them to carry long range batteries. We have them in Europe and even in some places in North America. Batteries haven't been needed for electrifying public transit for a very long time. In fact some of the first public transit was electric. Some places just choose the cheapest upfront option instead of spending a bit more on infrastructure in order to realize environmental and efficiency benefits.

As for planes, yes probably. Although I'm not sure whether there's a viable route to electric planes that goes through batteries or whether that use case would necessitate synthetic fuel.

Sounds like it's time for those subreddits to find new homes on non-UK instances of Lemmy.

That and the increased road wear which grows exponentially (with the fourth power of axle weight) with the weight of the vehicle. That means a 2 ton car does 16 times more road damage than a 1 ton car. And before someone takes this to mean I prefer to not have EVs on the road, NO, I mean that this is a fact and we have to deal with it somehow while eliminating ICE. For example by making lower range EVs more attractive, since they already are acceptable in practice for a large proportion of road users. Going from ICE cars to ICE trucks, a common trend, is even worse in this regard since it adds significant emissions on top.