Yes, I think so. Even if they're from you to you.

@Copper said in GM Reveals Nationwide Fast Charging Plans: @taiwan_girl said in GM Reveals Nationwide Fast Charging Plans: When they discharged, you would go to a "battery station" (like a gas station) and replace the battery pack. Is this "battery station" some kind of charitable organization? Wouldn't they just inherit the problem that the car owner would have? No, it would be the equivalent of a current gas station. They would have to have an initial stock of battery packs, and would charge USD$X when someone came in for a battery pack swap. Maybe it would be so many USD$ per % charge on the battery pack or something like that. Since the new car would come without a battery pack, it would be cheaper, but each "fill up" would be more expensive since you are spreading out the cost of the batteries over the lifetime, rather than at the initial purchase.

Interesting. Remember when the "Nighthawk," the first publicly-acknowledged "stealth" fighter was revealed in 1989 or so? My thought at the time was, "OK, if they're telling us about this now, what aren't they telling us about?"

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@Catseye3 said in My Word for the Day: He sounds like a sweetie. D2 has always had a great relationship with our birds. She has the calm temperament and patience to pull them (dare I say?) out of their shells. We got Peanuts, on a whim, at a pet shop. After we got him, he was absolutely terrible. We couldn't get him out of his cage. He would bite and scream if we did get him out. It took about a year, but finally, he became more and more tame. We were all devastated when he died. Here he is with our other bird, "Max." Max was an obnoxious nanday conure who spent hours screaming. [image: 1658191051483-screen-shot-2022-07-18-at-7.35.55-pm-copy.jpg]

The militarization of civilian police equipment and tactics is quite concerning.

I know it's some online game, but I'm not big on computer games anyway.

Do not use the self cleaning feature. Nothing kills an oven sooner. Do it by hand. Heck, it’s ultimately cheaper to pay someone to hand clean it than it is to just self clean it…

@Mik said in George is glad he doesn't live in Chicago city limits: Typo on my part. It's 2.74. And I misread the article. The $amounts listed are the expected increases, not the actual levies. I think the article could have been written a little clearer.

Old news... https://www.fox8live.com/2022/03/22/caught-cam-man-wrestles-body-slams-suspected-shoplifters-california-walgreens/

More Trivia! Brady likes handling soft balls!

@LuFins-Dad said in In Minneapolis: @89th said in In Minneapolis: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/w1hqzy/protesters_try_to_stop_a_firetruck_from_getting/ Classy protesters Where was that? Rochester NY in summer 2020 I believe

@Horace said in WaPo columnist calls on media to 'cover Biden more positively': 'Relentless negative coverage is toxic': It’s entirely reasonable for a person to bias their coverage if they believe their bias is to the good. And of course everybody feels that way. We are post-truth in our cultural values. We are post-freedom-of-speech too. It’s all emotional truths and narrative control from here on out. He who adheres to truth loses the political game. Because people are stupid. I wouldn't say post-truth, we are post-factual. In fact, we are in the era of truth! My truth, your truth, everybody's truth! It's all good! Unless you try to mess with my truth with facts. Then fvck you.

Smith has had some serious work done...

@Mik said in She's been shopping at Walmart for 20 years: It takes 5 minutes to set beans to soak or start some rice. Yep. Except I don't soak my beans...Got a pot of red beans and sausage cooking right now...

The court is Trump’s real legacy.

Reminds me of a buddy of mine who used to work a drilling rig off the coast of Africa. As a condition of the oil lease, it was stipulated that the drilling company had to hire a certain percentage of natives. Folks, drilling rigs are not playgrounds. There are multiple ways to get yourself killed, especially if you have no clue what you are doing. First week of drilling, they killed one. Company representative went out to talk to the family, paid for any funeral expenses, and gave them a compensation check for the loss of their son. That one check was more money than the combined family made in a year. The next week after the funeral, the mother showed up at the company office, next son in tow, wanting to know if the company still had her dead son's old job open.