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Comment Re:Yay.. (Score 2) 43

I just bought a used 2021 Hyundai Kona EV, low mileage, for a great price (US$22K). The major factor in the choice was it has nearly all physical buttons and rotary controls.
Very happy so far, range in the city is about 500km (300Miles) and long term average consumption is 11.8kwh/100km (6miles per kwh). Battery at 50,00km has no detectable deterioration.
Being retired, nearly all of my trips are no more than 4-5 miles, a use case modern ICE engines do not like at all.
Still got a turbo MX5 for fun drives!

Comment Re:But why a smart garage door opener? (Score 5, Informative) 126

With RATGDO (or the one or two other things that do the same thing), you can:
- View status of door
- Open/Close door (this includes positioning it to some position, like 5% up, or 50%, etc)
- 'Lock/Unlock' the RF side. RF stuff is relatively insecure, so being able to 'lock' it is helpful

And you can do all of this without cloud, without paying subscriptions, and without worrying about the vendor going "poof" (open source is cool that way) and leaving you stranded, and without requiring an app (the device serves a basic webpage that you can access from your LAN (or IoT lan)).

You can use it with (local!) home automation like Home Assistant too.,

Comment Re:Can we give some to the president? (Score 3, Informative) 57

A few fine examples out of literal thousands of his sharpness, energy and persistance.

“Think of it, magnets,” Trump said at a January 2024 rally in Mason City, Iowa. “Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

“First they say, ‘Sir, how do you do it? How do you wake up in the morning and put on your pants?’” Trump mused. “And I say, ‘Well, I don’t think about it too much.’ I don’t want to think about it because if I think about it too much maybe I won’t want to do it, but I love it because we’re going to do something for this country that’s never been done before.”

“So many mistakes were made” ahead of the Civil War, Trump said. “See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died.”

Trump went on to suggest that concerns about his legacy might have prevented Lincoln from embracing the lessons of The Art of the Deal.

“Abraham Lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was,” Trump said. “He would’ve been president, but he would’ve been president, and he would have been — he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln.”

I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich, I’ll show you that in a second. And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocios that’s the kind that’s the kind of thinking you need for this country.”

Comment Re:"Blood for the Blood God! Sacrifices Must Flow! (Score 1) 178

Of course VNE is reduced in rough conditions to rough air max speed, referred to by real pilots as Va max speed for full control movement and Vb. Max gust speed. its written on every aircrafts speed placard. I never mentioned need for power, where did that come in to your fever dream.
I didnt say it prevents you from driving, it simply reduces your situational awareness, which is never a good thing.
After your stunning display of ignorance, I doubt you have any flying experience at all, you dont use correct terminology and spout irrelevancies. That you then agree with the point of my original post by saying “ Or you should have a car which minimizes instrument scans” which cruise control does as I said in my original post is revealing of your poor reading comprehension.

Comment Re:"Blood for the Blood God! Sacrifices Must Flow! (Score 1) 178

Pilot here to, Of course you scan the instruments once every 5 minutes, but car drivers do it far too often, as they have to obey changing speed limits, and can be fined for exceeding them. Ever been pulled over by the FAA for speeding?
You adjust bank and aoa for a headwind? Do you really fly or are you just making shit up? Perhaps incredibly poorly trained. Good luch flying IMC and looking at the AH every 5 minutes, ever been under the hood ?
Its from pilot training that the refocussing time facts come. It takes between 1-1.5 sec to fully refocus your eyes to distance, thats just medical fact, look it up.

Submission + - Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election (brennancenter.org)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 decision that swept away more than a century’s worth of campaign finance safeguards, turns 15 this month. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it the worst ruling of her time on the Court. Overwhelming majorities of Americans have consistently expressed disapproval of the ruling, with at least 22 states and hundreds of cities voting to support a constitutional amendment to overturn it. Citizens United reshaped political campaigns in profound ways, giving corporations and billionaire-funded super PACs a central role in U.S. elections and making untraceable dark money a major force in politics. And yet it may only be now, in the aftermath of the 2024 election, that we can begin to understand the full impact of the decision.

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