The Garmin watches like the sapphire 6 family should also be considered. These don’t have a touchscreen but they are really fantastic, and they last a week plus on battery.

There was an earlier venus orbiter that had in retrospect observed a small amount of phosphine too. It had been below a threshold and so they had automatically ruled it out during processing. But they went back into their original data feed and saw it too. 

The surveillance state will continue. Hopefully Biden can help push a change to this endless progression. What we really need are laws requiring warrants and disclosure when the police use these things. The dems haven’t done a great job up to now, but in Trump’s America there is no hope of stopping them (absent Trump…

There has been increased pre-burning. In the PNW where I live, I found forest rangers planning one and marking an area on a hike. But the amount of places that need this is massive. Something like 100x or more what we burn in a year, so we aren’t making much progress towards eliminating the problem.

Read the wikipedia page on hamilton. Clearly at some point he went against slavery but he actually bought and sold slaves while younger on behalf of a company. Of course it was part and parcel of much of the economy & time, but he wasn’t blameless. From wikipedia: [when younger] “ During his career, Hamilton did…

Tesla had already been experimenting with a delivery program at your house or you had to do nothing. They added a no-touch delivery program where the person comes with gloves on and then they wipe off the car try to keep it safe. Another reason to hate Tesla, they had a plan for this! :-)

First, found the trump supporter. Second, trump is really terrible. Now he's going around giving clemency to corrupt politicians, cause he has some vague connection. Wonder why?

That was wrong. Lots of people felt that.

Bloomberg would lose against trump because the state Republicans would fix the primaries against him. Most of the noncrazy Republicans have left that party anyway.  If he ran as a third party he’d hurt the Dems (especially if it was Bernie) because he’s siphon off Dems.

The great thing about these streaming shows is that you can just cancel after you finish the mandalorian or the morning shower whatever. Cancel it now!

This assertion needs evidence, it is against logic and the obvious fact that evs don’t have emissions themselves (thus it’s a question of power plant emissions, vs gas car tailpipes plus refineries and amount of green power etc, nontrivial comparison).

Modern evs don’t degrade range like that except very old designs like the leaf. Teslas never had that problem. Meanwhile, my 2012 Tesla has far better range than the Porsche and still charges to 265 range when I fully charge. The Porsche is barely faster. It's 7 years later!

Please just stop vaping and stop smoking. You will all sadly die terrible deaths from cancer, like my mom. She died after trying to stop for decades, lung, then brain cancer. Just stop. Don't vape inside the bathroom, like some idiot in my office. Don't stand right at the door smoking at every office in America. Just…

Blizzard loves money more than freedom. Just like the NBA. 

better never to deal with dealers again. That’s my suggestion.

There are 3 that matter. First is j1772 which *every car* supports. There’s chademo, up to 50kw, which a few mostly Japanese designed cars supports. ccs is the latest standard. Tesla has a free adapter for j1772, plus their own standard which does both low ac power and high dc power. Tesla is the best and proven by…

They rolled it out in California at one place. Almost no one wanted it because they wanted to swap back to their original battery on the way back from a trip and that was hard to organize. Superchargers work fast enough for many people. I think everyone’s experience with cell phone and flashlight batteries makes us…

Avg mpg in cars is 24.7, avg price of gas in cali from web is $3.55, that’s 14.3 c/gal (355/24.7). 45 mpg would be about 8 c per mile. a 100 kwh tesla would cost $10 to fill up here in the PNW. Tesla increasingly uses solar, but let’s do so-cal price market price. 36*100 = $36 to fill up, 3600/370 miles = 9.7c per…

VW made a criminal mistake, the diesel emissions lie! Tesla makes financial mistakes sometimes (like much of your inventory is on ships at the end of q1, that was stupid). Incentivizing people to buy your most profitable car when sales are lower ain’t no conspiracy!

Ford has been talking about doing this for years, yet they have little to show for time and money. Meanwhile other companies are leaving them behind.