I think it’s around the time israel murdered the hostages in cold blood that the likes of MSNBC was like “Wait a minute… maybe israel isn’t telling the truth when they say everyone killed is a Hamas soldier?”

This actually changes a lot. If house republicans put up particularly MAGAy bills, their fellow members in tight districts can’t safely either not vote or vote against those bills. Otherwise, their vote will be used against them in campaign ads that very well may end their career. Voting for the bill will upset their moderate voters, voting against will upset the MAGA voters and the rest of the caucus.

Traditionally, for more controversial bills, Rs in moderate districts would abstain to stay off the radar.

So, to keep the caucus the safest move for the Rs is to not bring up anything (which, notable with the slim majority they have now, they’ve already slowed bills rolling out). But then Ds can very easily still campaign against the Rs in purple districts for being do-nothing politicians.

No matter what happens Trump will trumpet “the deep state is rigging things against me”.

To me, it’s a nothing that he does this. His followers already believe this regardless of what happens. Everyone else knows what happened J6.

So what is there to fear following the law? His supporters won’t get less violent or treasonous.

The problem with this is that every vehicle would need to be built around the same battery pack dimensions

There’s a lot of ways to tackle this issue. You could have a couple of standards (think AA vs AAA batteries). Or you could make the packs smaller and more modular so different applications can have more or less of them.

have the same amp-hour rating

No, they’d not need that. In fact, I’d say it’s desirable for them to not have that.

same voltage, same cooling system

Same voltage, yes, same cooling system? Not exactly. They’d just need to have cooling system hookups in the same place.

I seriously doubt that would ever happen as nothing like that has ever existed in the 120+ years of automotive history.

Loads of things like that have existed in the automotive industry. In fact, that’s one of the biggest features of the big 3 automotive manufacturers is having standardized parts shared between one another.

He knows he’s not winning. This is either to try and be Trumps VP, or is to promote his books and podcast (or both).

I wasn’t fully aware of NVK and where it’s at. It’s actually pretty exciting. I wouldn’t mind dropping my current nvidia binary blob for fully open source drivers.

Not as bad as you might think. The nouveau drivers have come a long way for maxwell. You should give it a shot if you haven’t. But, unfortunately, if you are using anything new then nouveau sucks. It’s a fun game where you get to wait until nvidia no longer wants to support your GPU and hope by that point that nouveau has progressed far enough that you won’t be looking at noman’s land.

Graphics drivers are what matters. Your orange pi uses a mali GPU which is well supported by Linux (thanks ARM).

nVidia is just barely at the point where their most recent gpu drivers aren’t terrible under Wayland. It’s taken a while to get there.

GPUs with good open source drivers will fare fine.

In a historically very red district. Her constituents hate her. The race was way closer than it was predicted to be.

US Penny is the same size as a UK Penny and Canadian Penny. Roughly the same size as a 2c euro

Standard and swappable battery packs? Yes. All the skateboard style vehicles or ebikes have battery packs that can be removed and replaced.

Making that automated could be nice but isn’t necessary to get the benefits of a standard. A standard forces pack producers to compete with one another in terms of quality and price. It makes it cheaper to install new batteries. And it makes it possible to upgrade your cars range with newer packs. With an EV, you won’t need to get a new vehicle hardly ever if getting new packs is relatively affordable and easy. Further, the worn packs still have value so swap locations will be incentivized to pay you for the pack they remove.

The notion this needs to be part of a giant battery swapping network to reduce charge times is silly. 10 to 15 minute charge stops are already very short and all you need on most cars for the next leg of a journey. It also introduces a lot of complexity. Like, what if I want or need a 100kWh pack but the standard is 80kWh packs? What about pack wear? Who’s in charge of pulling the degraded packs? And what do we do about someone putting in a pack with fake capabilities? You have a situation where you are cycling parts worth well north of $10k. That’s a mighty tempting target for theft.

A standardized battery is still a really good thing. I just don’t think it needs to be a part of road trips.

Every EV has this already. What they don’t have is a standard. Not shockingly, every EV manufacturer will argue why theirs should be the standard.

Importantly, presidential pardons only work for federal crimes. State crimes cannot be pardoned by the president, they have to be pardoned by a governor.

It’s only illegal because it’s scheduled. Unscheduled drugs can be sold OTC.

Schedule III is a good move but also ridiculous. There’s no way MJ is just as addictive as codeine. But hey, at least this opens to door for national medical MJ which is a good step forward.

He’s certainly not helping himself by further defaming them after trial. You can discharge legal fees in most cases, just not for malicious acts.

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I hope the Palestinians survive long enough to see a US president that doesn’t unconditionally support their genociders.

But, totally agree, Trump would either be identical or worse than Biden in terms of Israel. I just worry that “both sides are the same” in this regard is something that will disillusion voters.

I really worry about 2024. Between trump announcing “yup, we are gonna have a beer hall putsch” and Biden saying “Yeah, I’m a zionist and we need to 100% support israel”… It feels real bad man.

I’m going to vote for biden, make no mistake (because he’s still a better president than trump ever could be)… but dude seems to be doing everything possible to lose progressive votes. I’m really worried that trump ends up being president because of the disillusion from Biden’s centrism and Israel support.

For your car repair example, it would kinda be like someone got that and then started going to every crash up derby they could find.

No, it’s actually more like you bought the car because you know you’re going to rack up a million miles every year. Out of the norm but not an asshole move.

If Google didn’t want to lose here, they could have not had that feature.

200TB is a lot of data and a completely reasonable amount if you are doing a lot of filming. HD film takes up a lot of space, especially if it’s raw.

This sort of usage is so predictable I can’t imagine Google didn’t consider it when pricing things out. Heck, they advertised the unlimited storage space being useful FOR preserving photos and video.

Why give a company that spent 26 billion dollars making their search engine the default everywhere because they don’t want to spend the 1 million dollars it’d require to continue supporting a product they advertised. They could have ended new sign ups and just supported existing customers.