Pre covid you could buy tons of off-lease EV’s for under $20k. A Leaf with 50k miles was usually under $10k. E-golfs were easy to find at 15k.

With how much manufacturers have been trying to abandon the sub $30k market in general, I’m not sure it is a realistic expectation for some wave of BEVs in that price bracket. The Bolt & Leaf have been there. The Ioniq, Kona, ID.4, & Niro have been very close when accounting for credits. It’s not a lot, but the sub…

And how about linking many of them together so they can carry even more passengers and run more efficiently... I guess we just invented trains/trams, which are much easier to automate than a road vehicle.

That may be why she ultimately sold them off. Probably sees diminishing results in the licensing and royalties at the moment, while Litmus sees bankable profit in the years to come.

I’m not a pop music person, but I’m quite surprised Katy Perry’s catalog would be worth that much money. The cost of that transaction indicates the buyer thinks her music will have significant value for a long time. I kind of thought her moment had passed. Maybe I’m wrong. 

I am no longer a freelancer, I’m officially a staff writer now. Full time.

My old account was locked when I left a year and a half ago. I’m sure they could theoretically be connected again, but I don’t think it matters much. *shruggies*

Definitely. But given it’s coming from the Polish government I’ll take it with a grain of salt.

Also, for how long can it detect the drugs? 48h, 72? I doubt it's much longer than that.

4th: The problem is that without being able to sell vehicles in California a lot of makes are going to obviously put less emphasis on ICE vehicle production which republicans don’t want. The problem is they really have no option on the matter because California has an alternative nuclear option in that they can simply…

Especially in a world of cloning. Why would the Empire be screwing around with “normal” soldiers if they could just clone Force-sensitive soldiers? Sure, you don’t want a million would-be Sith Lords running around, but pumping out legions of brian-washed mini-Carries sounds like a hell of a lot better option than a…

Or there’s a third option: religion and purity culture fucked him up so bad he’s terrified of sex and women. It wouldn’t be the first time, and we’ve all seen seen what happens when men like that DO marry: Josh Duggar. 

Yeah, he doesn’t strike me as gay, either. Perhaps aromantic or asexual, or as you said, just someone so focused on work they don’t do anything else. He strikes me as that kind of hyper-focused weirdo. Probably best he doesn’t inflict himself on another person in a relationship, as these types tend to be horrible…

And as a Democrat, I’d accept that as a person. His problem is his party of choice is a bunch of Christofascist hypocrites. 

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

Taking credit for the work of others is the bread and butter of most billionaires. 

Do you have any idea how long that will take?

Aren’t most of his kids from surrogates?

I’m not 100% sure how it works in the US but certainly where I am, fertility clinics are very, very rigid (appropriately so) about consent being in place for gametes to be used.

He likes all types of music, though. He’s always been a bit of an omniglot toward all aspects of pop culture. I remember him waxing poetic about Amy Winehouse in one of his “Pop of King” articles for Entertainment Weekly back in the day.

Or in Caine’s case, a house to buy!