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Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 203

Right now you had Steve Bannon saying Ben Shapiro is "a cancer". MTG who represents a 1st generation of MAGA supports got booted out. You have Candance Owens saying Charlie Kirk was murdered by other conservatives. Musk is in the admin or attacking it depending on the week.

MAGA is an ever decreasing circle of those arbitrarily deemed "MAGA enough" with people (usually permanently) excluded for even the slightest digression, though Indulgences can be purchased at the (new) White House MAGA gift shop.

Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 203

f Dems sweep the Midterms this has a high chance of happening.

Even if they did, we'd just end up with Vance.

Who could also be impeached, then the current Speaker of the House would become President. Not really sure that would be a good course for the political mood of the country as a whole.

Better that the MAGA crowd have to suffer through the consequences of their votes to (hopefully) learn a lesson about electing a greedy, pathologically lying, narcissistic, racist, etc... sociopath who really only actually cares about himself and a little for those who pray and pay before him. I'll give people a bit of a pass for giving Trump the benefit of doubt during his first run for office but, seriously, it's not like there wasn't any evidence Trump was like this, especially during/after his first term. Granted, perhaps many politicians have some of those characteristics, but few, if any, others have them all like our Dear Leader. That he's pretty checked-out during this second term and happy to let his minions pursue their own horrible agendas is pretty bad though. This is a tough lesson the the country.

Comment Re:Vought's in the cabinet for one reason (Score 1) 203

The billionaires behind Trump know he's at best a useful idiot - they saw in his first term how quickly he can veer off course if he doesn't have a reliable minder nearby.

This includes Putin ...

Guys like Vought see entities like NCAR as an impediment to what they want to do, it's simple as that. They don't want the commoners to feel like the government owes them anything or is gonna do anything to improve the commoners' lives. They want the commoners to be happy spending long, tedious days screwing tiny screws into iPhones for a pittance, then quietly stepping aside and dying when they're no longer able to improve the billionaire's profit margins.

This is short sighted, of course, as climate will affect businesses and a lack of research and understanding will ultimately hurt those businesses, and the rich people, because they'll have less information for long-term planning and operations. But hey, they'll get rich over the next quarters or so, so fuck that. /s And, of course *they'll* be rich enough to move ...

Comment Re:Must not be in the USA (Score 1) 151

Larger battery is still massively expensive if the goal is occasional towing. The increased energy demand for towing today makes it less a question of expense and more one of being able to make the trip. One idea I've had is placing extra batteries I the trailer.
Right now batteries are still expensive and production limited. A hybrid actually conserves more gasoline and oil for a given amount of battery.
Same deal with Semis, really, get the in city daily drivers where stop and go traffic gives them the best competitive advantage over diesel. As familiarity spreads and people accept them for longer range operations, just keep expanding.

Comment Re:Was there a shortage? (Score 2) 75

I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.

Exactly. TFS and TFA state the following:

... closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May has redirected a flood [TFA says, " tsunami "] of cheap goods toward Europe ...

[TFS] The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to the U.S. have dropped more than 40% since May ...

Which is misleading as products aren't being pushed on Europe, or previously the U.S., people are buying/importing the stuff.

Comment Re:Must not be in the USA (Score 1) 151

Ah, another difference in language use. I forgot to specify 'pickup trucks', which are the vehicles with an attached open bed. Overwhelmingly owned by private citizens in the USA.
They are mostly used just like cars here, though online they all insist they're towing a trailer off road 2000 miles every weekend, that is why they need a 'truck'.
The extra power demand for fast charging the larger beast, demand for towing range, and tremote operation means hybrid is the best option at the moment. Or at least should be a common option.
Trucking businesses would be operating 'semis', which have the boot in back to take a trailer.
Making them EV is complicated because the size means fast charging is a huge power draw, the infrastructure is not there. So EV for the in-city daily shorthaul stuff, where it is parked in the same lot every night. Long haul can stay diesel for nonaval.
Self driving might change stuff up more.

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