I would imagine someone has a file on Tulsi that she wouldn’t want to get out. Things are not going great for Hegseth either. Unfortunately I think our physical education curriculum will be disproportionately based on wrestling and CMS will be run by a TV doctor

This was pretty much assumed to be dead in the water after Gaetz resigned. It could have been, but the fact that the Republican-majority house committee isn’t 100% jumping at the opportunity to sweep things under the rug is a thing that’s happening. Maybe it won’t go all the way, but they are discussing. That’s a thing that’s happening.

Now, if it were one of those “(person) should do something” or “(committee) could do this thing that’s in their power on paper but totally in the author’s imagination in practice” things, sure. But you’ve got people talking about releasing a report on someone arguably not in their jurisdiction. That’s something.

They do get a whole lot of advertising, social capital, and influnce over which causes get proped up, on the back of donating customers

Sure, but that’s not a tax write-off as originally said. Stick to the things that are actually things.

while you’re out a few bucks that you could have pooled for a single charity and gotten a tax receipt of your own for

If your donations for the year exceed the standard deduction (hint: the standard deduction is about $15k. Most people take that instead of itemizing). Doesn’t have to be one single donation, and if your receipt shows the donation (it should) and it’s for a legitimate charity I don’t see why you couldn’t use that to deduct that donation if you itemize.

I’m a random guy on the Internet. Frankly you should be doing your due diligence the same way you would on a Google search result anyway.

While Google has been circling down the toilet lately, if you at least try searching for what you want, and use half a brain to think about what you’re looking at, it’s not exactly super difficult. I have to Google similar stuff for work sometimes, and .gov is pretty much a sure thing that you’re getting a government source, which is pretty good when you’re looking for a government’s laws. I also get different major colleges, which is just as good. Especially since you’re reading legalese, not commentary on the law or whatever.

Singapore has a ton of policies that make car ownership extremely expensive, including a 10-year certificate of ownership that costs over $100,000 USD. Maybe that’s what you were thinking of?

Fuel in Norway is very expensive, and I’m sure other ownership costs are similar. But that’s true of much of Europe and they have very good public transit so a car isn’t as much of a necessity as it is in the US.

A few things to casually point out:

EV batteries are mandated by law to have an 8 year, 100K mile warranty. It’s fair that you’d want it to last significantly longer, but if these things were built to go kaput immediately after with very little buffer from the warranty period, you’re risking a lot of “below average” batteries having to be replaced under warranty - not to mention the reputation of these companies being absolutely shot as they ramp up EV production if they all went out immediately after.

Most modern EV batteries are built with a battery management system. Basically a heating and cooling system and such that you don’t see in consumer electronics very much, meant to keep the battery system happy and healthy. The biggest exception to this is the Nissan Leaf, which is based on painfully outdated designs that never really improved from when they first came out almost 15 years ago. Many of those cars have cooked batteries and you would be right to be concerned about it.

Those other ones were initially federal cases, so they have their hierarchy of court systems to go through. Colorado and Maine cases were state cases to start. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I believe that if it were to go into the federal system, it would go straight to SCOTUS.

Somehow I only now got a notification about this. That brings up an interesting point: would you be financially liable for a battery damaged in a crash? I would imagine insurance would cover it, but you’re paying your premium based on that value, only to have to give a big portion of any claim payment back to whoever you’re leasing the battery from

Not necessarily, no. But when many of these moving parts turn at a couple thousand RPM under normal use and often get used a couple hours per day, that’s a lot of wear and room for error

There really aren’t that many components to these things, and few of them are moving parts. There’s no water pump, alternator, starter, or A/C compressor on an accessory belt (there is an A/C compressor, of course, but it’s powered more like a home unit). No oil changes to worry about. No pollution/exhaust system. There is a coolant system for the battery, and a transmission, but neither of them have nearly as much wear as an internal combustion engine with its, well, internal combustion. The transmission is a bunch of fixed gears that don’t need to shift. Brake pads hardly get used since the car primarily uses regenerative braking.

Yeah, Tesla kinda sucks when things do go wrong. I definitely avoided them. But if a car is less likely to break down, I’d be ok with a little trade-off in availability for what little would actually break.

speaks Korean with a Swiss accent, according to some sources

Are there not any videos of him speaking that a typical Korean could confirm or deny that claim?

Also mail trucks, especially in (sub)urban areas. Those things really don’t put on that many miles each day, and the type of driving they do gives them terrible mileage that would be much more efficient on the electric paradigm.

Sadly, the Grumman LLVs are set to be replaced by stock vans.

Technically 5 to 10! would be factorial growth. If that trend continues, we would quickly run out of space on planet Earth to hold all those busses 😉

It was a single year ago that they went crazy. But this has been a weird time to keep track of time

MUCH better, thanks! She’s 18 months old now and still a little developmentally delayed (even accounting for her prematurity) but off oxygen, not needing nearly as many medicines, becoming a lot more interested in food not from a bottle, and just becoming a fun baby.

Pretty terrifying when she was born at 1 pound 4 ounces (580 grams) though

My understanding is that the stay only lasts until a day before the ballot certification deadline, unless (until?) SCOTUS picks it up. Basically to be expected at this point.

My daughter was born extremely prematurely and needed oxygen for a while. Sleep, especially REM sleep (which is actually one of the “shallower” stages of sleep) is where blood oxygen is generally lowest. Therefore, we had to do a sleep study (just monitoring blood oxygen and heart rate) to make sure her lungs were developed enough to go off of oxygen day and night.

I’m assuming your lungs are pretty well-developed, but if you have something going on that may impede your blood oxygen levels, there is that at least.

for some reason

It’s gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the reason.

people can do whatever they want its their body their right

This whole conversation started over Nikki vs Nimarata. Why can that logic not be extended to someone’s name, whether it’s this, someone experiencing gender dysphoria, or someone who doesn’t like to be called Matt because their name is Matthew?