Always good to hear from those with actual experience. My own experience is limited to a 2011 Nissan Leaf I bought used, to learn for myself the pitfalls of EV ownership. I am decent at hypermiling, and have pushed that Leaf up to 4.1 miles per kWh (.244 kWh/mile), but this is almost all on city streets, rarely exceeding 40 mph. I doubt it can manage .270 kWh/mile if I go 70 mph. Teslas are, if not #1 in efficiency, among the top 5. I can confirm what I've read elsewhere, that for the Leaf (and probably all cars) there is significant increase in range (about 20%) from slowing to 30 mph instead of going 40 mph. That basic technique for extending range has on at least one occasion made the difference between running out of charge before I made it home, and making it home.

194 miles of usable range? Okay, so on a long trip, let's say you manage 200 miles between charges. 200 miles at 70 mph, then sit for half an hour to fast charge to 80%. (Assuming that finding a charging station is not a problem, which may be too much of an assumption.) That works out to 3 hours 21 minutes to cover 200 miles. So, 10 hours and 3 minutes to cover 600 miles. A typical gas burner goes 300 miles between refuelings, and refueling takes perhaps 10 minutes. At the same 70 mph speed, the gas burner needs just under 9 hours to cover that same 600 miles.

Okay, so the Tesla can do a road trip, but it's a little slower. If it is 150 miles between rechargings, then the Tesla would need an additional charging session to cover that 600 miles, making it 10 and a half hours. That's closing in on the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak. The trip that can barely be done in one day in a gas burner, but can't be done in one day in a Tesla, is a problem. Having to spend an extra night in a motel room is a deal breaker.

They follow a book. Anyone can read it. It's not bigotry or racism to read the book and claim that it defines the people who openly claim to follow it.

They are sickly, inbred xenophobic and antisocial monsters. They believe they are the chosen people of God, and they have two standards of behavior, one for each other and another for Goyim, who have dirty blood and are no better than animals.

They sexually mutilate little boys, they have irrational eating disorders that stem from mental illness, they are predatory loan sharks, and they engage in lies, slander, theft, banditry, fraud, corruption, propaganda, blackmail, assassination, murder and genocide.

They believe that there are two races. The human race, and the Jews.

It's in their book.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and the Nazis believed they were the master race and wanted to keep themselves inbred and subjugate outsiders. We, as a species, stomped them, and now they are decent, civilized and valued members of the international community.

The Jews haven't been stomped hard enough yet.

One of the biggest lies EV manufacturers tell is giving out unrealistic range figures. Yeah, that Tesla can go 330 miles, if you start with a full charge, don't drive too fast, don't use the A/C, and you completely drain the batteries. But the usable range of an EV is roughly half the maximum range.

Why? You're not going to run it completely out of charge any more than you'd run a gas burner completely empty, you want to keep a reserve, say 10%. Fast charging can't be done beyond 80% full. So already, the usable range is just 70%. The A/C can knock as much as 20% off the range. And finally, traveling at well over 100 kph can knock another 20% off.

That was one of the first things I encountered when I bought a used Leaf. I thought people paid for a charge just like paying for gas: with a credit card. I had no reason to suppose it wouldn't be like that, and so I didn't check. And so the first time I tried to recharge at a ChargePoint station, it was a disaster.

Had to use my smartphone at a nearby restaurant that had WiFi (because charging stations sure as heck don't provide any WiFi and I have limited minutes and bytes on the cellular network) to set up an account with ChargePoint, then my credit card to fund it, then my phone again to activate the charging station. And then, the charging station refused to work, claiming that my car was "not ready"! Was there some problem with my car? I didn't know. I called the number on the charging station for assistance, and got nowhere. All this took over an hour, and by then, the occupant of the nearby free charging station had left. So I drove over to that station and it worked fine. Got a charge while I waited another hour.

The charging network is so unreliable and fragmentary, I strongly advise that owners do all their charging at home. Use the electric only if it has the range to do the round trip without recharging. It's a pain in the rear to set up half a dozen accounts to be sure you can use any charging station no matter who owns it.

Tell us you don't know any old people without saying you don't know any old people.

I'm starting to believe that Joe Biden is exactly the president we need right now. Yes, he hesitates in speech sometimes. Yes, he's old. But in most of the world, age is actually respected. And most important to me, he has demonstrated actual character over the years. You can't fake that. Right wing jackoffs hate it when a leader shows character, and watching them make fools of themselves over Biden is an added benefit.

I think he's doing fine.

True, but we can still drive in the bus lane. Tolls have been re-introduced, but are typically lower for EVs than ICEs (usually half, which used to be the legally mandated maximum - now it's 70%).

You can do that today.... whisper.cpp runs on pretty much everything.

IMHO, the main limitation right now is getting some cheap + robust smart assistant hardware (e.g. an open source echo dot-like device)

The concept may be tantalising, but the price tag of 50 million euro is way out of proportion for a measly 16 MW plant. I mean, I have worked with air coolers that had that rating in a refinery.

Assuming the plant lasts 50 years and has 8000 operating hours a year, that gives 40000 hours and 640 GWh through the lifetime, for a price of 78 €/MWh (not accounting for interest rate), or 291 €/kWh with a very favourable 4% interest rate, or 630 €/kWh with a commercial 10% interest rate.

Considering that the current power price in Croatia usually are below 100 €/MWh (yes, they were higher in 2022), and that the assumptions I use are VERY generous in regard to lifetime and availability, and that I totally ignored operating costs, this looks like a horrible business case.

Trump DID dispute the election. He did it over and over and over in court. And lost in court.

That's when he started breaking the law. He had no obligation to break the law and took no oath swearing to break the law.

Can we also have compulsory voting like Australia?

They absolutely do not "need to be equal to each other"

Depends what the penalty for exiting the contract early is... it would be foolish to make it only $25K, IMHO. I'd at least triple it. If I'm giving you $25k today to NOT look for another job, why would I make the penalty for breaking that contract with me only what I paid you incentive? That would make no sense.

"used correctly" is the big caveat.

You don't **NEED** 10mbit, much less the proposed 100mbit minimum to access the library, wikipedia, e-mail, access government services, apply for jobs, etc. etc.

IMHO, I'm all for subsidizing basic connectivity everyone, but if you are asking everyone else in society to chip in, then BASIC is the keyword. $75 in HCOL areas is just a blatant handout to ISP's. DC metro + NYC metro both have $50 (e.g. Fios 300/300 & Comcast 200, etc.) retail options that are already BEYOND sufficient.

There is one EV specific maintenance item: tires. Electric motors can be very hard on tires. Wear them out in a quarter of their expected range. I enjoyed how grippy the EV car felt when accelerating. The things dig in and GO! But now I realize that grippy feel is the feel of the tires being worn out extra fast.

There are things the driver can do about it. First, if the vehicle has one, use Eco mode. I understand there are new tires coming on the market that are formulated to withstand the torque of EV motors, so that's another option.

yes, BUT in this analogy RH would have then cut off their support contract with Stallman's lab/university (per the new TOS), which means no more support, no more valid login to the support server that contains the firmware+sources, no more updated firmware in the future, no future printer purchases, possibly no more toner/drums/parts for that particular printer, etc. etc.

"You are totally free to request+distribute the source to this binary that we just gave you as required of us by the GPL, but the contractual terms you agreed to prior to getting that binary from us stipulate that the instant you actually do that one our hired hitmen can subsequently shoot your dog" lies in a weird legal void between contract + copyright law... but it certainly violates the spirit of the "You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License" bit of the GPL license. Hopefully a court eventually sees through this BS.