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Comment Re:Not the only problem... (Score 1) 376

Not much. EVs mostly charge at night, and at that time the demand is significantly reduced. Heat waves making everybody turn on their air conditioners is something the power companies are used to. Also, in my apartment building, we have installed chargers from a company that specializes in such installations. They deliver power to all the cars present in a somewhat intelligent manner, and with a tiny bit more collaboration between car makers and these types of companies, they can do it even better.

This isn't going to become a serious issue.

Comment Re:Not the only problem... (Score 1) 376

Well, these are reasonably real numbers for the Tesla Model 3 LR, possibly the most efficient EV right now.

WLTP range - 360 miles, let's say realistically, 300-320. You can put 150 (realitically) miles on one of those in 15 minutes. So, with a 15 minute pit stop on your road trip, you can do 450-470 miles realistically. Today. How much further do you plan to go each day of your extended road trip? Two 15 minute pit stops and your at 600 miles. If you don't do tw o15 minutes pit stop per 600 miles you are a danger to others on the road.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 123

but when you're taking a long trip, you probably won't want to put up with all the extra hours sitting at a charger

A Tesla Model 3 LR can put about 150 miles onto the battery in 15 minutes. That's like stopping for gas and taking a piss. If you have already filled it up prior to heading out on your long trip, so, let's say it has a realistic range of about 320 miles before you start, and you can add 150 with a 15 minute pit stop, how far do you expect to go that requires all those extra hours? LA to San Fran with a single 15 minute pit stop and enough juice to cruise for hours after arrival.

Comment Re: Once upon a time (Score 1) 362

Most of the natives (80%) died from imported disease

The US government authorized more than 1500 military actions against native Americans. The US also used diseases as a weapon intentionally spreading disease they knew would decimate the North American native population. Prior to Europeans arriving there were somewhere between 5 and 15 million people living in North America, in the late 19th century, less than 250 000 remained.

The US perpetrated possibly the largest genocide in recorded history when you count the proportion of the population butchered. Sadly this is not taught in US schools. Just like the Holocaust was not taught in Eastern-Germany after WWII.

Comment Re:Once upon a time (Score 1) 362

This nation was founded on slavery and genocide. Literally.

Once he said that, you know he is a cultist and knows not of what he speaks

Why, is he wrong? You do know that the genocide of the original population of North America is, relatively speaking, one of the most extensive genocides in world history.

Comment Re:This is symbolic (Score 1) 314

Tip: when you write something, you really should have a clue.

The lied about the Russian Hoax for four years.

Please elaborate. All investigations have show that Russia did meddle in the 2016 election, and they show that Russia did so in order to get Trump elected. Disputing this is dumber than claiming the Earth is flat. What is in dispute is whether anyone in the Trump organization cooperated with the Russians. Not investigating this would be criminal neglect.

They lied about him being a racist for four years

No, Trump is quite clearly a racist and a misogynist. His own statements prove this. For example:

Trump placed an ad arguing for the execution of several Latino men accused of rape. Trump employees have documented that Trump wanted the floor of his casinos emptied of black people when he visited. Trump spent significant resources on the racist attack on Obama and where he was born. In a court case in New York Trump managers admitted that they were instructed to make sure black prospective tenants were told there were no availabilities, and to rent to only "Jews and Executives". Urban League documented widespread racism in Trump leasing properties. When trying to prevent Native American tribes opening casinos, Trump went on a tirade on how they were all criminals and "They don’t look like Indians to me".

Several court cases also shows Trump systematically discriminated against disabled people. Trump quote: "No blind people are going to live in this building"

Sorry to burst your bubble of ignorance, but a bubble of ignorance it is. You should stop reading QAnon conspiracy nonsense.

Comment Re:This is symbolic (Score 1) 314

apart from the lying about why they stopped counting, the removal of poll watchers while 18,000 votes were pulled from under a table and scanned by poll workers not sat at their normal stations

I am sorry to inform you that drug-induced hallucinations are not allowed as evidence in court.

Comment Re:Justification for Cathedral Bazzar? (Score 1) 169

A couple of tips:

Rather missing the point

Good advice. Follow it.

Microsoft coming up with a buzzword to describe making proprietary

A few years after the year you appear to be stuck in, a company then called Google, now they are known as Alphabet, created something called a "search engine" on something called the "world wide web". I recommend you try to find it. It's a simple page, and it has an input box where you can enter text, and then you can click something we call a "button" and the page will change, and search results will come up showing you many articles that are more or less related to what you wrote in that text box.

If you go to that place, it's called "google.com", you can enter the phrase you clearly have no clue what means, and you read some of the articles that talks about it. You see, you have zero clues to what the phrase (buzzword as you say) actually means. Try it. Enter "inner source" in the search box. You will be amazed at how astonishingly ignorant Google will tell you that you are.

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