No, my point is explicitly that, gas car or BEV, if I'm driving from St. Catharines to North Bay, I'm stopping an on route just south of Barrie to eat. With a gas car, I'm fueling up, then eating. With a BEV, I'm plugging in, then eating.

The fact that *you* wouldn't do it the way *I* do it doesn't negate the fact that for my process, which includes a half-hour break *either way,* it's more efficient to charge while taking that break than it is to fuel up, then take that break.

“Since Hamas Killed”, is a dumb statement, a better statement is: “Since terrorists with international support killed”. This issue isn't about Israel vs Palestine, or Islam vs Judaism, it's about the unchecked power the world has given the largest active terrorist group in history. There comes a point when your group becomes associated with something, to an extent and size, that you're linked regardless if you support those views.

If my grandmothers knitting club “Grandmas Who Knit” (GWK), of 200 women, has 40 (or 20%), of its members into baking, such when you think of GWK you think, cakes, pie, pastries and dessert, it's fair to say GWK is also a baking group. The other reality is that if a few members of GWK, go out and commit acts of terrorism, GWK, becomes associated with terrorism, unless it can bifurcate those members.

This leads to the reality, that Islam, regardless of the peaceful observers, is a terrorist / extremist group. The international terror community claims about 20%+ of the all Islamic followers are extremist to some extent. This means either Islam MUST split and find a way to extract those members, or, just like BLM, carry the label of a terrorist organization. Since Islam is the world's largest terrorist organization, any support of Islam is therefore support and acceptance of terrorism.

This has the truth, that any government which allows or supports the practice of Islam, also supports and allows the practice of terrorism. This makes the issue Israel is dealing with, Israel vs intentional terrorism support, and backing. Instead of ask why Israel is getting X, Y, and Z, ask why Islam isn't restricted.

They have seen the explosive growth of ad-blockers and now even grandmothers are using uBlock. Ad-blocking on YouTube is rapidly approaching critical mass and they realize the existential threat to profits. The horse has left the barn and they are in a panic.

This is exactly the trajectory of cable's death. Keep adding worthless shit and raising the price until it is no longer desirable. That is also why I no longer subscribe to Amazon Prime. All I want is the damn shipping. I don't give two shits about the "free" music, video, ebooks and whatever else shit they throw in.

I'm in Canada too! The 'On' part of 'On Route' is a reference to Ontario.

And yeah, the only reason I'm stopping to eat at Innisfil on my way from, say, St. Catharines to North Bay is because insidious corporate advertising is luring me in. Ok, bro.

Well, your comment is instantly dismissible for taking 'I need to hit the bathroom, stretch, and eat' as 'you piss for half an hour,' but an On Route is a rest stop that happens to have a gas station. You go into the On Route itself which has bathrooms, multiple restaurants, some convenience stores, lots of seating, a picnic area....

What 'time' is that, exactly?

My car can do a 500km trip with a single half-hour charging stop. I cannot. I need a break in there to piss, maybe shit, grab some chow, and get a stretch.

In a gas car, I'd be pulling in to an On Route, sitting in the gas line for a few minutes, filling up, parking, then going in to hit the can, grab some chow, and leave.

In my BEV, I pull into the charger, plug in, go in to hit the can, grab some chow, and leave.

For this very standard and usual use case, charging while hitting the can and eating is actually faster than gassing up, hitting the can, and eating.

For people that a) go on long trips two or three times a year, and b) don't want to worry about fast charging on those trips, renting a car for those trips is more cost effective than driving an ICE car year round so that you can satisfy what is, in reality, an edge case.

Like, I'm sure you love using a cube van when you have to move a bunch of stuff, but you're not going to make a cube van your daily driver just in case you need to move a bunch of stuff.

It's both. If China were to shut down their dirty power plants and factories today, you'd have better air pretty damn fast.

But if you're driving on the highway in rush hour traffic for an hour or two a day, surrounded by cars with engine exhaust, you're breathing in all that crap right then and there.

And as more cars move to electric, your local pollution drops, which is good.

We need both local and global pollution sources to drop,

And a hundred years ago, you'd have said 'I live in rural America, and a gasoline pumping infrastructure is largely-nonexistent.'

Actually, you'd have said 'a paved road infrastructure is largely non-existent.'

You'd also have argued the merits of horses versus cars for most of the same arguments you make here.

Which is what many people at the time actually did.

Lets focus instead on the Satanic panic of the 80s. People were utterly convinced they had been abused victims and were validated by the academics at the time. Although, I'm sure it had nothing to do with peer pressure, mental problems or a desire for attention and power like the situation with the accusers in 1692. And certainly nothing at all like the trans craze of today. And I'm also certain that the social media mom that miraculously had all four of her kids come out as trans was just Powerball Lottery lucky and had no influence at all on them.

In 1692, a small group of girls convinced the entire region that witches had infiltrated their society. It took many deaths before society recognized the "settled science" was wrong. Authorities were convinced they were correct at the time. In the 1980s, there were 12,000 cases reported of Satanic ritual abuse. People were jailed over completely unsubstantiated "recovered memories". I remember thinking how insane it all sounded at the time despite researchers, psychologists and expert witnesses saying it was all absolutely scientifically legitimate.

I believe in a few years, humanity will look back on this era and judge it very harshly. What we are allowing doctors and psychiatrists do to children is criminal. What celebrities have done to promote this new mass hysteria is criminal. The medical and psychological "authorities" are the most culpable. I only hope they are all held financially liable for every single life they ruined when it all falls apart.

Every time a sociologist and government removes a child from a parent to facilitate "transition", all I see is a modern Cotton Mather convinced they are saving the world one witch at at time.

^^^ THIS ^^^ GP doesn't understand the meaning of gatekeeper. Google is neither a gatekeeper nor a "news" monopolist. I say that as someone who has taken a serious dislike to them.

If objecting to the medical field mutilating your body for aesthetics, sterilizing it permanently, makes me ableist then I heartily accept your terms. Personally, I see myself more as promoting mental treatment for those who would want to do that, including those in the medical field. You know, those who swore the oath to do no harm?

They tried putting "pay me, sucka" in their robots.txt but the checks didn't start rolling in.