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Comment Re:All according to plan. (Score 1) 205

I never understood the problem with time to refill / charge while pulling a camper. When we rent a camper, we Spend about 20 minutes with fresh fill and black water dump every other day that could be also a power top up. Another 10 finding the human need refills that can be had cheaply at nearby shopping. After the grossness is taken care of and cleaned up sit down and eat a meal in the 40k+ expenditure while the pull vehicle recharges. Having near unlimited power at a boondocks or remote or walmart parking lot site not tied to any any one trailer is worth half the value of the EV puller. Never having to find a plug in site with half the pedistals without power is worth on average $40 per day. Parking in any parking lot and quietly running the air conditioner all night long make the great plains i-90/i-80/i-70/i-40 not quite the obsticle from my midwest perch.

Half to Quarter the cost per mile....I will put up with a lot of charging time to get under 50 cents a mile in fuel cost. With a trailer to sit in, 400 miles per hour is not unreasonable charge rate.

Submission + - NNSA Removes Highly Enriched Uranium from Venezuela (foxnews.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. and partners completed the removal of all remaining enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor in Venezuela, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Friday.

"For decades, the RV-1 reactor supported physics and nuclear research. Once that work finished in 1991, its uranium, enriched above the crucial 20 percent threshold, became surplus material," the NNSA said.

The NNSA's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN) team and technical experts from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research "safely removed 13.5 kilograms (about 30 pounds) of uranium from the RV-1 reactor," the administration said. "Working in close cooperation with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] throughout, the team securely packaged the uranium into a spent fuel cask."

The material was then transported to the U.S., where it will be processed and reused, the NNSA noted.

"The group then escorted the material 100 miles overland to a Venezuelan port. There, they transferred the cargo to a specialized carrier supplied by the U.K.’s Nuclear Transport Solutions," the announcement said. "The vessel carried the material to the United States arriving on U.S. shores in early May. Upon arrival, U.S. teams unloaded the casks and transported them to the Savannah River Site (SRS) for processing and reuse."

Comment Re:Now say the quiet part. Loudly. (Score -1) 205

There’s not much I agree with you about, but I agree with your assessment here: US OEMs including Ford are locked into a structurally idiotic GTM that is going to end in disaster. Relying on high margin pricey products sold through third parties who don’t have your best interests at heart as the US walks into an oil supply shock and accompanying economic contraction feels like commercial suicide to me

People are abandoning the concept of an EV. The price of gas is damn near irrelevant with the EV price tag premium. And even if I'm the responsible EV owner with a level-2 charger at home and never go below 70% on my battery charging nightly, I still risk getting stuck in an EV charging line for hours during any long trip or vacation I want to take because of every other EV dumbfuck owner draining themselves down to 3% and needing a level-3 charging station every other day because they treat their car battery like their phone battery.

The inconsiderate irresponsible EV owner, is still a considerable issue with EV ownership. Some people realize this before they're ranting yet again in the EV charging line, bitching about a type of car they should have never bought.

Comment Now say the quiet part. Loudly. (Score 3, Insightful) 205

Ford's sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025

Hey Ford. Before we declare the month of May as the month we collectively agree to SHIT on EVs, how about you go ahead and say the quiet part out loud.

No, no. Don’t shove Eddie EV under the bus again.

Tell us how the REST of your sales are going.

THEN we can talk about how those EVs are “all” to blame, and not the insane MSRP and stealership markup greed on an asset that depreciates like fucking milk.

You want to fix new car sales? Get rid of stealerships and sell direct. Open up Right to Repair. Or die the fiscal death that should have happened in 2008. Shitting on EV isn’t going to fix or excuse the rest of your problem, which is the other 80% of your inventory currently rotting on sales lots.

Comment Re:They've realized the US is run by a thug (Score 0) 95

Throwing around the word fascist oligarchy by a European Government Powers supporter is rich for humor. As I know it, Trump will be gone in Jan 2029 and the same old European power structure that has zero problems limiting free speech will just be more embedded in taking advantage of the relationships with North America in combination with ignoring threats of Russia and China.

Comment Re:What did they expect? (Score 4, Insightful) 91

Theyre working for a company founded by a thieving sociopath that treats its users as monetisable assets. Why did they think theyd get special treatment when push came to shove?

The ignorant irony of being offended about corporate spyware while working for a company that specializes in profit building by abusing every legal spyware possible (aka their own app), is slap-able. But somewhat expected.

Mark acted that way and became Fuck-You rich as a result. That, is a GenMe magnet of opportunity at every attitude.

Comment Reading between the lines. (Score 1) 47

When you're the giant of the industry, as NVidia is, you can't keep increasing by triple digits every year. If you're smaller, those bigger percentages are easier to achieve, even if the absolute numbers aren't as big.

I’m betting during the boom of the gold rush there wasn’t any pickaxe vendor lagging behind in sales. Not even the biggest ones.

If the AI boom is in fact still a boom, then I’d still expect large returns.

Investors should enjoy that bubble while the gum of marketing holds on for dear life.

Submission + - Is it a 4th Amendment violation when Dropbox shares your data with governments?

schwit1 writes: Is it a Fourth Amendment violation when Dropbox shared information about a user's child porn with a quasi-governmental entity? This breezy Seventh Circuit opinion entrenches a circuit split by holding that the fine print in all the online terms of service you never read means you've consented to gov't searches of your electronic files. Some folks (and not just your humble summarist) are skeptical.

Decided May 5.

Comment Re:The lab-rat audience. (Score 1) 75

Crazy amount of psychopaths downvoting this. I guess mind-altering drugs are real.

Medications became fashionable. When everyone is medicated, no one really sees a problem with medication. And may never again.

Social media became profitable. When everyone is a narcissist, no one really sees a problem with narcissism. And may never again.

(When they used to talk about the next generation bringing a “new” type of “normal”, I don’t think any historian ever thought that would ever boil down to simply dismissing what abnormal is, while pretending nothing bad will happen as a result.)

Comment Re:The lab-rat audience. (Score 1) 75

You might do better with Xanax than psilocybin.

After the third medical professional in the same room within the same hour asked me about the medications I was on during my last physical, it dawned on me that my “none” answer from a person my age living in the Untied States of Pharmaceuticala was such an unbelievable outlier that I had to be asked thrice.

They all walked in and right up to the same terminal to ask the same question. The answer was right in front of them.

In disbelief and confused, I flatly asked the doctor asking. And they confirmed my theory. ”Sorry, it’s just..rare.”

Thanks, but I’ll probably just stick to what works, since I appear to be doing much better than those who started the trend of snappin’ zanny bars like they were Slim Jim’s. We have generational side effects being born from manufactured ones now. The long-term SSRI future, will not even be measured in brightness.

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