They have devices installed which include GPS and an accelerometer. They report back to base via a cellular connection when you drive erratically or aggressively etc.

It’s not just EVs - most new cars have these tracking devices where they sell your data to your insurance company to be used against you.

You appear to be arguing that even if microplastics are present in the environment it’s not a problem. That’s a brave stance to take given the wealth of information to the contrary.

Even if they did break down it’s bad. Plastics have additives in them which are used to improve their material properties. These additives include BPA and PFAS (and similar). We know that these compounds cause problems in humans and the environment. So if they were “easily digestible by the body” that would absolutely be a big problem.

There’s no world in which “nothing will be harmed” by plastic decaying. Some people even argue that conventional plastics are less dangerous in landfill than bioplastics because at least they don’t release dangerous by-products like microplastics or “forever chemicals”.

Given their genocide in Western Ukraine I’d say that letting Russia overrun the country will result in a lot of deaths.

They don’t break down completely in landfill. They just turn into microplastics.

Despite claims to the contrary, PLA does usually break down into microplastics. It’s possible that under certain conditions (such as those found in industrial composters) those microplastics might be broken down into starches and consumed by bacteria, but most teabags will just end up in landfill and won’t break down beyond microplastics.

ISO uses a weird separator ‘T’ between the time and the date. eg. 2018-04-01T15:20:15.000-0700

RFC3339 can have a space instead which is a bit more readable: eg. 2020-12-09 16:09:53+00:00

This is a photo of a human body crushed by tanks during the Tianamen Square massacre.

From here, with many more photos from the massacre.

“No photographic evidence is available” you say?

There’s no underground parking lot but for large gigs that grassy park area is used for car parking.

Our trains are (relatively) nice places. And they’re full of normal, nice people.

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It’s going to be a couple of million when all the displaced people starve to death.

And the energy used and pollution created in depolymerising and remanufacturing plastic is higher than the cost of just making new plastic. So there’s not really much environmental motivation to do so, or it’s a mixed bag at best. Less landfill, more pollution.

At some point all there’ll be is car parks and nowhere to actually go once you step out of your car.

And the big secret is that plastic recycling happens much, much less often than you think. In Australia less than 10% of what gets collected for recycling is actually recycled. It’s similar in other countries.

The STM32WB55 in the flipper has a versatile wireless peripheral built in which can be used to implement various protocols including Bluetooth, zigbee, etc… Support for I2C, I2S and CAN is pretty standard stuff - the ESP32 is nothing special in these respects.

Maybe they chose the STM32WB55 because its wireless support is more flexible than the ESP32 and allows them to implement a wider variety of protocols? Or possibly just better documented, giving them the chance to do things they can’t on the ESP32? I haven’t compared the inner workings of the two chips’ wireless support so I can’t say for sure.

The ESP32s are nice chips, but the STM32s are also really nice to work with and will work fine for this task. Changing to an ESP32 wouldn’t make any real difference to the user so the choice is moot really.

I’ve designed products around both CPUs and they’re both pretty nice. The STM32 has somewhat better documentation, has cleaner low power modes and is a bit simpler when delving into the nitty gritty details. The ESP is more powerful and has some nice if complex features but I don’t like its low power handling as much.

Overall I think I’d choose the STM32 for this task since it’s a little easier to make small, battery powered devices with it.

I mean you’re talking about the guy who allowed a million Americans to die unnecessarily through his mishandling of covid so I don’t think a few deaths are going to bother him.

I love how they just make up laws and then believe that it’s real. Contact law exists… but this is nothing to do with contact law. This is more closely related to belief in the tooth fairy than it is to any actual legal facts.

And the 45 degree writing is just the icing on the idiocy cake.

That’s not so easy when it’s something you already paid for and then they lay unacceptable terms on you and if you don’t agree they get your money and you don’t even get to use it.