I vaguely remember some sort of modular system. Where the ‘engine’ could be either the generator or a 2nd battery etc (dunno what car/make/model though).

basic hybrids have used the engine to charge the battery forever. no reason PHEVs wouldn’t as well?

One reason is keeping it ‘topped off’ is terrible for battery health. Not saying that’s the reason, but these batteries are best used when kept between 30-70/80% charge.

Sadly insightful point. As this SCOTUS has obliterated agency abilities to do basically anything that isn’t explicitly written down in statute...we’re going to see a lot more of this.

It wasn’t developed when we bought here. Expressly because it was 1/2 mile of undeveloped woods, now that crap is visible even through summer foliage.

yeah but things can vary *widely*. My older parents sold their house (w/o HOA) for a small group of condos that are basically just marginally attached single family homes. Ideally to have someone else deal with outside stuff. Was supposed to be 50 units but the builder changed plans and rented out 25 of them, so he…

Fighting what someone is doing to OUR neighborhood. These things are LOUD 24/7 intrusions inside homes. Forget playing outside without a 55 db drone constantly in your ear.

HOAs aren’t bad, mine’s awesome. Currently defending us against Amazon data center encroachment.

there isn’t much that residents of The Meadows can do

Jalop: Man our slideshows are too long, any ideas for a topic for a short one?

FEM mode  ‘Flee Elon Musk’

I think your point is it doesn’t apparently take very long to override the brain connections. If the old ones were still in place, they’d be smashing the ‘brake’ pedal in emergency situations, not smashing the one pedal they now use.

tbf if you’re in a Tesla and literally anything bad happens, blame the car has a reasonably decent shot at being the correct answer so might as well just start there.

Yep. Ranked choice is a golden option. The problem being we need to decouple the current two parties from the election system. Without more than 2 choices, ranked choice is still just first past post wins.

So ‘term limits’ are sort of a problem. As in, you have a date when a judge will be looking for a golden parachute.

When there are dozens of stories of Biden’s supposed mental decline based on a literal single bad debate. And basically none about Trump’s exact same and worse behavior.

As we’re seeing of late, judges are *the* battleground. He’s a significant reason Biden’s been able to appoint so many.

Perhaps a story or 20 on Matt Gaetz using his Judge daddy to get out of multiple DUIs?

Octomom is just waiting for her moment to market the 8 seat version

“King (couldn’t keep it in his pants) Cab Edition”