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No I’m not sure on the 90 percent number. It’s a swag. I do think a lot of the kinks (including the towing, though there is a huge difference between an electrified semi and a consumer light truck) will be worked out over time.
The infrastructure issue is a real question. Then again just over a hundred years ago oil and gasoline were still delivered in cans and service stations were a glimmer in somebody’s eye. Stuff gets built.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m not familiar with that news outlet but that is a fantastical write up. All the things it asks Biden to do and so few of them that will ever be considered.
The good news on Biden is he’s slowly reinstating Trump policies…because they were good. Just don’t tell him.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6040]A big issue with electrification is storage, especially with because batteries self discharge. Good lithium ion batteries have a self discharge rate of 5% per month and that rate is continuous. As a comparison, if my gas tank holds 20 gallons, it’s like I’ve a leak in the tank that loses a gallon of gas a month. Not good.[/quote]
I didn’t know this.
Went on a hunt earlier this year where one hunter brought a brand new electric UTV. It would hardly make it through a few miles of riding when going up hills. It was really poor. Combine that with how remote our location was and that thing was basically useless.
Electric has its use case and will get better. I do not see it as a viable option for many of the use cases noted (towing being a really good example), but can see it being viable for 90 percent of drivers.
The infrastructure will be the limitation.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Speaking of disinformation.
that news item is from 2020.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Serious question: does it go back up quickly assuming covid wiped out a bunch of people on borrowed time?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Fascinating and sad read. Hodge was a monster. A true monster.
Institutions have a really hard time coming to grips with criminality of this sort. When is the last time you heard any discussion of Eric Abrams?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Actually, Rock displayed one of the more amazing examples of a professional approach. He was slapped by an international superstar and didn’t really leave character. It was tragic but amazing to watch.
Agree that the acceptance speech was awful, especially on reflection. Love makes you do strange things. Truth. Ask OJ.
Smith should be ostracized but we will see. I personally wonder where security was. Amazing that ANYBODY could just walk on stage, including Will Smith.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m amazed at the lack of condemnation. Rock is a comedian. The joke may have been in poor taste, but it wasn’t even close to a Don Rickles insult.
Smith has serious issues. I can’t believe the lack of action on this. It’s like abuse that is “inside the family.”
A terrible precedent.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Ppp recipient here.
Not at all shocking there was fraud and a lot of it. Easy money.
That said, the oversight wasn’t likely the issue, so I don’t get the trump bashing. The issue was the statute was written to get money flowing right away. And it did so.
I can tell you that I used the money to hire, since business was impacted but not imperiled, and those hires have ultimately been good. I like to think it did what it was supposed to in my case.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Sad but I think CC’s view is close to mine. I see Russia’s move as just like Germany invading Poland in wwII . No difference except for the optics of the media. The invasion takes time and reports of Ukrainian resistance are promising but altogether ignorant of the realities of size.
China could be emboldened but that doesn’t matter. Absent a change in western values China’s approach will win. China is slowly pushing a knife into the hearts of the free world and we pay them to do it. Putin’s mistake is using guns and bombs.
We show our principles when we continue to buy Russian oil.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Never know what demons people have.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah, I think that the perspective one has to take on MTG is that she is the AOC, Talib and Omar but from a different part of the political spectrum.
Just as much hate from the left as from the right. A pox on both their houses.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)And they will take Taiwan with strength built out of American capital.
History is ironic.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Weak leadership leads to being taken advantage of. Crimea was annexed under Obama, and it’s one of the big jumping off points for todays invasion under Biden.
awful, awful news. Totally foreseeable. Next up? Taiwan.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Clinton started the “looks like America” nonsense.
Obama continued it.
Biden has brought it off the deep end.
Karl Marx gets attribution for the quote that “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Seems appropriate to this case.
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