No weirder than Trump getting out of the draft because of “temporary bone spurs,” which somehow didn’t stop him from playing basketball in college. For the record: 2/3 of the US casualties in Vietnam were after his medical deferment.

He also met his ex-wife (Pamela Anderson) at an Aretha Franklin tribute. All this proves is “but I have black friends” isn’t a valid excuse, but we already knew that.

No idea. Ungreying you in hopes someone else will see and answer.

Charging suffers from one of the same problems as the rest of EVs: people are stuck on making them appear to work the way they do now. Current chargers look like gas pump handles, but there’s no reason it needs to have a handle attached to a flexible conductor. An EV charge port could be anywhere on the car and look…

Again though, it’s only a factor of two from where they are now. Also, faster charging means you can do fewer at a time.

If supercapacitors ever become a real world practical alternative to batteries, then you’ll see charge times as quick as gas fillups.

I have been trying to read up on him — it’s hard when my French isn’t very good. He’s anti-EU, anti-NATO, and anti-globalization, but he’s very pro-immigration. He seems to oppose supranational groups because he sees them as primarily tools of neoliberals and the wealthy, not because he hates foreigners. He’s also an…

Macron is only one point ahead as of last night... :-/ Can all the Melenchon and Hamon voters be counted on to support him in the second round?

Is this the same landlord who bought your winter junker Honda last year even though he didn’t know how to drive stick? I really want you to do a FB Live interview with them about how they deal with you. Scratch that: I want Patrick, Michael, or Kristin to come out there and do it, so it can be more objective.

...yes. That’ll teach me to comment on here when I can’t sleep.

Podesta won his reelection bid with 61% of the vote last fall. Just that is a huge swing.

Looks like they’re calling it at 48.3%. He will be up against Karen Handel, who is simply delightful:

Why does that sound familiar...?

Weight balance is about handling, not straight line speed. Putting an extra 170lbs ahead of your front axle is going to radically change how the car goes around corners. Depending on what kind of performance driving you like to do, that may make all the difference in the world. I’ve seen stock EcoBoost Mustangs wreck…

While it’s true that the W79 was a fairly late device, the Soviets never built a gun type device but still had a range of nuclear artillery shells starting in the 60s. The first US ICBM carried a 1.4MT warhead with a 50mm diameter. Since the DPRK has 170cm guns, size isn’t an issue if they can build even a rudimentary…

The crowd which plays and watches hockey is really weird. After taking out the majority who are generic middle of the road, you have way fewer lefties and more conservatives than you might expect for the national sport of Canada. My brother played in college, at a school where the Campus Republicans once had to…

I would buy that and disappear into the wilderness, never to be seen again.

Easy answer: make it mid-engine. No, I don’t mean front-mid.

Do these fall under the chicken tax?