I don’t know how you can say that. In the US the Biden administration put a lot of clean energy regulations in place to discourage coal energy and promote renewable energy and EVs. Then a global warming denialist took office and reversed everything.

I work in an auto manufacturing plant with eight or nine figures of EV manufacturing equipment sitting around, cancelled, gathering dust due to the political change.

It officially fits fifteen. . . passengers. But normally we have two seats removed for cargo space. So, 13

I have a large family and we drive a Transit 350 van.

One day we needed to move a pair of beds and mattresses. We asked my father in law to help us since he has a F150. But it soon became apparent how much more we could fit in the van (with the two back seats removed) than we could fit in the truck, which couldn’t even fit one mattress in the truckbed without hanging out the back of the tailgate.

From what I’ve seen my van is far superior to a truck in almost every need I’ve had. It can carry more stuff and it can do so in the rain keeping the cargo dry.

The one thing a truck could do that my van can’t is pick up a scoop of mulch or gravel dumped from a loader.

This sounds nice for someone who needs a truck. But I have lots of kids. Why can’t I get an EV minivan for under $50k?

Trump promises payments his while life and then doesn’t do it. He has a long history of it.

It is surprising to me that anyone takes this $300B number seriously. It is not the slightest bit believable. There is not even any idea of from whom, specifically, this $300B is going to come from.

With a lot of things:

You start off with no knowledge, and it’s a big mystery.

You gain some knowledge and feel like you have understanding.

You gain a lot more knowledge and you learn how much more there is that isn’t known.

The President is either at stage 1 or stage 3, take your pick.

How is your life going for you so far?

Works hard kind of smart

vs

lazy, doesn’t try for more than 5 minutes, gets repeatedly told “you have so much potential if you would apply yourself” kind of smart

Why were “CFC propellants” even helpful to the manufacturer? Can’t you just use compressed air in spray bottles to make them spray?

How we go about living our lives on only partially-available and unreliable information is one of the most practical and important questions of all! Who do we trust? What assumptions should we make?

Why would that be, that drone warfare advantages defense?

WW1 era weapons advancements like machine guns advantaged defense, because these new weapons were not easily mobile. But drones are extremely mobile.

I always default to DDG, and it gets me what I need 80% of the time. If not, do the search again with !g at the end and DDG will forward the search to Google

On my work laptop, Notepad used to have Copilot built in but now it doesn’t. So that’s a little scaling back

The 1GB Gmail storage was initially announced on April Fool’s Day and it was quite the topic of discussion whether it was real or not.

A year or two later they upped it to 2GB and also announced this on April 1

Antïron

TIL about a PNW problem!

You want FEWER blackberries?

The heck is wrong with you?

I work in a USA manufacturing plant that has nine figures worth of EV motor manufacturing lines cancelled, sitting around collecting dust since the new administration changed all the regulations and incentives.

Cuba also grants political asylum to US fugitive cop killers