That's how authoritarian states operate, regardless of their political rhetoric. It's the concentration of power in the hands of a few or individual that demands submission to that authority at the cost of individual freedom. Both fascism and communism as witnessed in the 20th century can comfortably fit under the header of authoritarian.

Tesla is not the only EV manufacturer anymore.

Other manufacturers are coming online, and unless Tesla gets its quality and quantity issues straightened out, they're going to be Netflix in five years... the early market-maker that had its lunch eaten by the competition.

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I appreciate this share, especially regarding difficulties as the pain points are where management will bristle on this topic. One additional question I would have is how are your sales people earning now? I assume they are comission focused. How are those commissions looking? Would be fascinating to me if they had similar performance.

An active evil compared to whom?

Be specific, please. Which countries are better?

And human slavery.

Could be. The guys at the top are raking in the loot...

Well I’d say those researchers better not congregate on one plane any time in the future, or else this research is going to get set back further than aids research did…

I believe they are talking about the Brine slurry, just nameing it 'wastewater' for layman understanding.

Isn’t this how every Godzilla movie or space shooter game starts ?

Keep your head buried, makes it easier to cope with the outcome.

It's never even been a secret. This manifesto is long after the Bush 1&2 meddling.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

Every country is an active evil in someone's narrative. Just depends on who they're paid by.

So it’s possible and practical to take normally dangerous bacteria and “pull their fangs?” What are the chances of them mixing with naturally occurring specimens and regaining their toxicity?

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Microbiologist here! With some genetic attenuation of the bacteria, we can remove their ability to form these neurotoxins in a similar way we engineer E. coli to produce insulin. Remove the gene and viola! No more neurotoxins.

For example, I spliced genes from foreign bacteria into Y. pestis (literally the Black Plague) in college. There was virtually zero risk/threat working with this bacterium because it was an attenuated Y. pestis (it was genetically engineered to no longer cause the Black Plague).

Dinoflagellates are the cause of the Gulf of Mexico Red Tide, if I recall correctly?

Commercially feasibility isn’t the same thing as commercially viable.

Yep but not just cyanobacteria, dinoflagellets produce toxins that build up in shellfish and some marine daitoms can do the same.

You're comparing an apple to a car, one is the process of obtaining a resource whereas the other is a refining process, additionally one was essential at one point in history, has an industry backing it, and has the skills and base already to procure and complete all steps needed. You're comparing that to one which is centralised outside already which functions fully and due to the massive impact results in no reason (As we very clearly see) to move it away from said centralised location.

Can Europe and the US refine rare earth? yes, to imagine they couldn't would be rather idiotic. The main reason why this isn't done is due to ecological impactful reasons and thus remains the status quo.

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Put them to work on our landfills and superfund sites.

If you don't think the US is an active evil, you're either uninformed, misinformed, or a fucking moron.

What about brine produced from oil and gas formations. Probably billions (if not trillions) of gallons of this in the US

I've seen the pictures of similar processes I think, I wonder what the byproducts could be.