There are quite a few of the Model S's that are out of warranty. There most definitely is a market for this and third party vendors who have been attempting this.

Now perhaps they all like losing money by limiting themselves in the methods in which they repair batteries. Or perhaps a vehicle which can instantaneously output enough power to light up a city block is a bit more finnicky than an R/C car.

Hey I thought the same thing. But there's been several third party shops that attempted this. Even Tesla attempted this.

Everyone one of these shops stopped doing this because within a few months the cars would invariably come back with the bms throwing crazy errors.

If you think you have the answer to this then by all means start a business fixing these and make yourself rich.

Counterpoint, and I say this as an EV owner:

If an internal combustion engine fails you have options. Most likely the failure will not necessitate the replacement of the entire engine. There are also a wide variety of vendors that can handle that particle failure.

The opposite is true of an EV. In the year 2023 your only option is most likely the manufacturer. On top of that it's unlikely that the battery can be fixed down to the component level since most of the components are cells. And a single cell will eventually throw the entire pack out of balance which will cause the BMS to shut it down to prevent a runaway thermal event. You can't replace that one failed cell. All cells have to be within a certain tolerance of each other. As cells age they degrade. Since no EV has an active balancer if one cell fails then EVERY CELL has to be replaced.

I love driving an EV. I really do. But the possibility of a dead battery pack out of warranty really keeps me up at night.

The call to arms wasn't in the rally. It started about 6 months before the election. Every chance he could he would keep repeating that if he lost then it means the election was stolen. Then after he lost he kept repeating that to anyone who will listen, still does actually.

As a citizen of this country if you think the lawfully elected government is being overthrown by, whatever it is these maniacs think is going on, then you have a moral responsibility to act.

These people accepted Trump as their sole source of truth. Trump abused this position by telling them their country was under attack. How the hell else was this supposed to end?

This is sort of true for other positions Rogan holds but not when it comes to this vaccine.

I've been listening to his podcast for quite some time. For the last year the pattern I've seen is a lot of pushback against guests who promote the vaccine and call out pseudoscience. These guests also don't get invited back. He allows people like Malone, Weinstein and Pierre Kory to spread nonsense without any fact checking. This is bad enough but I don't think he's gone through an entire podcast without going on and on about the vaccine. Consider this; Joe Rogan now spends considerable more time opposing vaccines than he does promoting marijuana.

But it gets more insidious. Rogan is the biggest figure in media at the moment. There is a huge monetary value in appearing on his podcast. It is in the guests best interest to either avoid the topic of vaccines altogether or better yet, find a way to promote antivaxxer propaganda.

So I really liked B5. Realistic society, a story that was thought out ahead of time, accurate space fights and such.

I just... um... could JMS please leave the dialogue and directing to someone else? I'm probably going to get modded down for this but if you come from watching BSG 2004 then watch B5, the acting and the dialogue just make me wince half the time.

I'm just saying I would love to see B5 remade with the original story more or less and with the prestige TV treatment.

Another way to look at it is in addition to activists groups, corporations, billionaires, we now have nation stations lobbying for candidates.

I don't blame Trump for this. I don't even blame the people really. I blame the DNC.

We've survived 8 years of Bush. We can do this. At the very least it should be an entertaining 4 years or however long it takes him to get impeached for war crimes.

They could try to stay neutral during the primaries.

seems like we're a bit short of those these days.

I doubt the welfare of society played much of a factor in this decision.

I seriously doubt the public will remember. I doubt most people even understand exactly what she did and why it's a serious crime. Not even Donald Trump seems to comprehend it or else he would be pummeling her with it day and night.

Our only hope is that these two burn each other to the ground in the general election. They both get incinerated by a random bolt of lightning and we have an empty chair as president for the next four years.

This is true but I don't know what your point is. Our culture has a similarly bad aspect to it so we can't call out another culture's absolutely horrible aspect?

Oh no not kotaku! Now how will I know if the new Fallout game reinforces rape culture and the marginalization of the trans community.

This sounds exactly like a series of scenes covered by Bad Lip Reading. There's a lesson to be learned there. Not sure what though.