All Teslas are EVs. Some EVs are Teslas. Figure it out, eh?

I was driving a Charger Hellcat. Round it down to three tanks a month. 70L tank. Checking the last full month I had the car (August into September), I was paying $1.925/L and put in 247.651L. So that was a $476.72 month which worked out to 1,291km driven. I was getting around 15MPG, doing mostly city driving. But hey... I was only literally tracking every drop of gas that went into the car and every kilometer driven for six years (and a decade prior in the previous car).

My current car is an Ioniq 5N, which has a real-life highway range of about 380km in similar conditions. Again... that's highway, which is worst-case for the EV, just as city was worst-case for the Hellcat. It charges from 20% to 80% in 13 minutes, real-world. That 60% charge increase means 228km of range.

I spoke of my home charging costs (which is almost all of the driving I do, directly competing with the Hellcat's city values in August/September). My electricity bills have gone up an average of $36 a month year-over-year. I charge the car weekly. Four weeks in a month... 36/4 = 9.

Regenerative braking is just part of owning an EV and is (part of) why city is better than highway.

So I don't really know where you think fabrication is coming from here. I did my damned homework, I drove my cars, I tracked the hell out of the numbers and while a bunch of the above are averages, I'm the OCD type who has been tracking fuel consumption and driving patterns for oh... the last 16 years, 135,198 miles, $40,681.84 of ICE and somewhat under a year and a bit under 10,000km and around $300 in (home) electricity plus about $125 spent at L2 chargers for the few times I had a trip that exceeded my range.

So hey. I spoke of my experience with my vehicles. And I was replying to a clown saying it takes 90 minutes of charging for ~450km of range, which was deeply, deeply bullshit for 2025.

This has never been a secret, denied, or - in most cases - a problem.

Indeed. Which is why the industry has moved on from 2010 charging curves. My car can add 200km of range in 13 minutes and is focused on performance, not range. It also costs me $9 CDN per month to charge it at home for an amount of driving that cost nearly $300/mo in the previous, ICE vehicle. So yeah, for the zero times a year I need to drive a few thousand kilometers I'd have to take a pee break every couple hours, but that would give me time to hit Slashdot and shoot down rando AC posters who make stuff up.

I mean... hey, more fabrication. Neat. The only incentive available on my car: is fucking awesome.

I get it you're trolling, but hey... maybe next time try some arguments from this decade?

And?

This is a hugely important goal and it's newsworthy every time someone gets near the finish line. Not "OMG it works!" newsworthy, but it's at least worth a simple story indicating (two) teams have solutions going into testing shortly. Or are you only okay with news about sure things?

I can't speak for if this specific story has falsified aspects but I can attest that I in real life knew a person whose family name was Doctor and they in fact became a doctor for their career. With eight billion people on the planet, it's going to happen.

1} Because the lies and abuse haven't stopped.
2} Because we're still angry. We're the country known for apologizing for stuff so... if we're passive-aggressively saying "we don't want to buy your stuff", the level of resentment behind it is more like New-Yorker-knocked-down-on-the-subway-and-their-icecream-fell-on-the-floor level.

First up let's not kid ourselves. Polls and surveys have shown that most Americans think about Canada about as often as most Canadians think about Mexico. Which is to say... almost never. That's not a slam... why would they be thinking about us?

Bitching in public is all we've got to spread the word. It's not like Fox News was making a big deal about the 51st state bullshit.

Which brings us to... this is all we've got to fight back with at the citizen level. We can't vote him out. We can't write your congresscritters. All we can do is make sure Americans know... it's not okay, it's not a joke, we're not going to forgive and forget, and it's your President's fault.

Yeah. I can't express enough how relieved I am that our election went the way it did. I recognize that the problem is that fiscal conservatives have been tied to shitty backwards regressive zealotry, so people whose opinions lean conservative are in bed with some nasty people. It's rough. And we're probably going to screw up next election. But at least we've got time to try to de-couple that. The US? I don't know. The Trump administration has taught future politicians that it's basically okay to openly lie, openly disregard court rulings, openly break whatever agreements don't financially enrich them, appoint non-elected people tremendous authority, pardon insurrectionists and... oh... we don't have time for the full list.

Almost every international relationship has been transactional. Aside from "oh, your tiny nation just suffered a massive natural disaster... we're going to send some folks and supplies to help you out", virtually everything has been.

What's happened with the Trump administration is "every last drop of blood from the stone" transactional. It's sort of "with the old deal the US would gain 5 units of benefit and its partner would gain 5 units of benefit" is replaced by "with the new deal the US will gain 6 units of benefit and its partner will gain 1 unit of benefit". It's a net loss of productivity, prosperity, and wealth but as long as the US comes out even marginally ahead it's a go. Also there doesn't have to be evidence that the gain will increase for them.

As a Canadian, I can tell you that we suddenly care a lot if something's made in America... so we can avoid buying it.

I'd say it depends.

If I form a landscaping company that has no competition in most areas, and I demand $1,000 per mow but people are desperate... okay, arguably nobody should be forcing me to charge something reasonable.

But what about when I ask for municipal support (money) to upgrade my trucks? When I ask for special permits for my crews to drive through public parks because it's a shorter route for them?

Is it wrong for the municipality to place conditions on those perks and that support? If your answer here is "yes", then my next question is "then why is it okay for the Federal government to do exactly that to California?"

Aside from Deadpool & Wolverine, this one was my favorite in the last two phases. Black Widow was also very good, but... hey... there's Florence Pugh as her character from this one, so... that scans.

What I liked about this one - which was deliberately silly and light-hearted - was that it was personal. The stakes and the challenges were about what mattered to these characters and their doubts and weaknesses and traumas. Yes, the big bad was hurting other people, but it was mostly about the main cast coming to terms with their foibles. Want to be a hero? Stop being a not hero. The movie had a pretty strong message about responsibility and about getting up off the floor when you're knocked down and not giving up. Hell, in many ways it was about things like alcoholism. You chose when to stop being your own victim.

I get it... you didn't like it, but it really was a very, very good movie regardless. There are lots of very, very good movies I loathe.

"A Businesweek article cited sales of 215,000 units and said it was 1995's best-selling PC laptop."

Probaby not. It'd be hugely unlikely to have the best-selling laptop that coincidentally consisted of a production run identical to the number of interested customers.

Yes. Because only accepting literal zero risk activity is totally the same as being an risk-seeker of such exceptional magnitude that they are newsworthy. Right.

I mean... there's no speculation as to the character of the dude. That's documented and he wasn't shy about the publicity either. As for speculation about the nature of the fatal risky activity that the OP pointed out - from personal experience - to be among the riskier in its category... well... sort of. Pointing out the nature of the activity isn't the same as saying "oh, I figure X happened."

Disgusting? Apparently, if you're disgusted. But it's simultaneously enlightening. Because I'm enlightened. You can feel how you wish because maybe this saintly humanity-enriching person was cruelly taken from us all by the whims of unpredictable fate. Personally I'm just going to feel normal about it. Human dead, is almost always bad thing, but oh hey, not as tragic as say... a random kid with leukemia.

Freak accidents happen, yes. Preventable incidents also happen. It is unclear which of this this was. Maybe he just had a stroke mid-air. Maybe he tried something "new". We don't know. What we do know is that he was at the extreme edge of the category of people who frequently try something "new". That isn't always as admirable as one might think.

Also. The mother thing. That is now and has always been bad advice. See health-code violations at a restaurant? Just don't leave a review... as opposed to reporting the rats. Boss touches you inappropriately? Just keep it to yourself... as opposed to letting their superior know. Amazon parcel shows up damaged? Just order a replacement on your dime... as opposed to complaining about the delivery so it doesn't happen again. There's a difference between just being surly and miserable and hurtful versus remaining silent when there's benefit to speaking out. Here... discussing the differences between para/hang gliders seems interesting and beneficial. As is pointing out that risk-takers tend to have the odds catch up on them.

This is the way.

An officer who shows up at my door and explains what they're looking for is going to get footage from me ten times out of ten. But on-demand remote access without notice? No.

I'd be okay with Axon's software sending a request to me that I could approve or deny, ideally including a case number, a requesting officer's badge number, the time window being requested, and a one-line description of the case. That's how to gather evidence. It would offer me the opportunity to say things like "hey, I went for a walk around that time and I actually saw that car a little bit earlier, around the corner, with two people in it who were..."

That's also how you cut back on abuse. I'm not personally the right body shape to be target of some cop who wants to stalk me. But when someone breaks up with a cop, it sure would be nice to know there are dozens of footage pulls a day. Sure, sure, Axon should be requiring an officer log the reason for their requests but why rely on that?

That's also how you find out about security flaws. Someone illegally gains access to Axon's software? Well, when I get a bunch of strange requests, I can let the police know they've been hacked.

Without that, no, my footage remains mine alone.

Like most fashion, it only looked cool to those who bought in to it. The rest of us didn't ignore the disgusting smoker's cough, the stained fingers, the bad breath, the messy ashing and butt-flinging, and the discoloured EVERYTHING. The addictive drugs did what addictive drugs do, but making you look cool wasn't on the list.