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Fortunately EVs aren’t required to feed off coal grids, and if the grid gets an upgrade or the home gets solar, the EV benefits automatically.

For athletes it’s called blood doping. They inject themselves with their own blood, saved from earlier, before a competition, which increases the amount of blood cells in their system above what they would normally have. That increases the amount of oxygen and whatnot that their blood can transport, compared to their

You’d think but then Joan Rivers, Michael Jackson...

The Tories have been in control since 2010 on a fiscal anorexia binge. NHS is fucked, policing is fucked, military is fucked.

“If you go to dinner with 6 friends, everyone eats their fill, and one guy gets stuck with 85% of the tab, would you consider that being left holding the bag? I would”

“I just don’t see how making Russia a bogeyman helps anyone in the end”

I once copied some source code in a ascii file from a NeXT machine to a Windows NT machine (I think before NT 4), and when I tried to open it in Visual C++ the PC would reboot.

As a straight guy it’s nice that nowadays I can fail to hook up without even having to leave the house.

I carry a medical alert card from a former job advising that I may have been exposed to herpes b which is carried by macaques and fatal in humans.

If it weren’t for the French we’d probably be part of the EU and would have national healthcare.

Pretty sure that’s an Axe Body Spray dispenser.

You’re American, right? Pretty big talk from a country that hasn’t been invaded in centuries, safe behind two large oceans.

It’s a Duck Boat without people, which is the ideal situation for them.

“ the plane appears to have essentially disintegrated on impact.”

It’s military contracting. They’ll take a $1.72 billion contract to build 173 sets of replacement wings, and a $10 billion contract to build replacement CAS planes that will cause the 173 replacement wings to sit in a USAF warehouse and never be used.

Surely they could make a new 30mm round that’d work, that’d be cheaper. Take the standard PGU-13/B high explosive incendiary, and ditch its DU core for something cheaper and lighter.

Slower than the A-10, a bigger target than the A-10, and less armor.

Instant composite delamination.

“rule based on the Constitution”

“Because in order for this statement to be true, that means Manning has to have relevant evidence that is not already on the record.”