As I understand it, wearing a mask when you feel under the weather but can’t avoid being out in public is the standard thing to do in Japan. The rest of the world really ought to emulate it. I know I will be from here on out.

I can’t help but think they’ll do that with any insult thrown their way. You call them shit-eaters and they’ll start extolling the virtue of devouring feces by the bucket. It’s inevitable when their entire sense of ethics revolves around being the sand in society’s arsecrack.

This is the same idiot who stated “The Constitution was never meant to be changed”.

Battery swaps are stupid.

Especially since, as noted, even though “swaps” could be accomplished in as little as five minutes, SuperCharging was good enough in context to make battery swaps a bad idea. Sure, a SuperCharging stop could be 15-30 minutes or so, but it’s not terrible and doesn’t come with the logistical challenges and personnel…

In addition to being the “gas tank,” of EVs, the number of battery cells and the way they’re arranged determines the maximum power of the vehicle, so it’s really the “engine” of the EV as well. In that context, the electric motor is more akin to the transmission, in that its job is to take the power from the battery…

Swaps are a bad idea meant to compensate for slow charging times.  These aren’t your kids RC car you flip over and slap some AA’s in.  the Risk/Reward for battery swaps doesn’t make sense.  Better off working on capacity/charging time vs mechanical swapping of batteries.

I don’t know why anyone ever thought battery swaps in EV’s were going to be viable. As integrated as the battery is into a properly built EV, getting it out, and putting a new one back in, was never going to be an easy task.

Absolutely underrated comment. I don’t like that Republicans can push around Cabinet picks but Tanden was problematic for exactly that reason. May we have Katie Porter step up? I’m ready for her to cut it up some more and get a bigger stage and do that good damage.

Woman also thankfully wasn’t given a job because she spent a decade lobbying for military contractors and middle eastern nations to democratic politicians.

I took a Political Theory class in college where the final assignment was to write critiques of this movie from the perspectives of both Marx and Foucault. It was kind of awesome.

You lucky ducks! I wish I could go back and watch it for the first time!

trump’s appointed US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: Hold my beer!

Cold but Not Snowing, and Gloom of Day seem to be their weaknesses around here...

Take it one step further: build up glass side panels and the US Postal Service can become the US Pope-stal Service.

You're assuming after Project Postal he still has a spine......

There was a poll recently asking who they would follow if McDonald started the Openly Racist Shitbag Party* and about half of registered republicans said they would stick with the idiot, a quarter said they would stay with the GOP, and a quarter were undecided.

My father in law voted for him twice and he's married to a Persian woman. His parents vote democrat. Already told my wife she's firing the first shot in the "why" discussion -_-

Yeah, but their distaste extends only to his demeanor. His lack of “decorum”.

No, he’s saying that in different thermal environments, the two materials will expand at different rates, yielding gaps where there should be none.