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Here's the pasadena charging lot/plaza at the end of the 101. The Glumslinger posted:Also, on the other side of the spectrum, LA is pretty aggressively building out it's subway infrastructure and it's actually becoming a really useful system for getting around Yes still not quick enough but LA is getting pretty serious which is good for such a car centric city. It's not going to solve everything but between that and density of builds at rail points we're doing something. Public transportation is way more the solution to climate change than individual cars, but yaknow, LA....
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Reminder that Steve Bannon straight up admitted it on a livestream as a "joke". https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1296820737521717248
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Farewell, Queen, we salute you! to be very clear I am not nazi saluting her I'm making fun of her racist piece of poo poo family and her nazi salute Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Sep 8, 2022 |
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Jaxyon posted:Farewell, Queen, we salute you!
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Crows Turn Off posted:Which one is she? She's the one in the middle.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:I had not considered the logistics of this, and it looks like an absolute nightmare anywhere that gets significant snow. How so? By taking up a parking space I mean you need to park there to charge instead of parking there as normal. The actual box is like an old payphone in size, without the booth around it.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1567950575853252608?s=46&t=jem-H90WY0EOJGaYFr7_yA for some reason I can only think of his ramblings as some kind of dril tweet
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Framboise posted:for some reason I can only think of his ramblings as some kind of dril tweet Unfortunately the papers have already reported that he was mad
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1567950575853252608?s=46&t=jem-H90WY0EOJGaYFr7_yA This is democracy made manifest!
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Battery swapping for EVs is probably a non-starter. Tesla built one station that could do it, just to game some more credits from California, then quickly abandoned it. It requires way more infrastructure than just throwing some chargers up somewhere. To work as a concept at all would require a change in how car ownership works, where either the entire car, or just the battery is rented. Otherwise you've got weird issues where you swap your brand new battery in for an old one, when you visit again do you get it back? Is it sent out? How much storage space do you need for how many batteries until their owners come back at some point in the future? More chargers everywhere is the solution. Make landlords install them, make grocery stores, restaurants, and other retailers install them. Home isn't the only place people are parking, and if someone's parking option at home is street only, they're probably occasionally visiting someplace that isn't street parking.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1567950575853252608?s=46&t=jem-H90WY0EOJGaYFr7_yA I hope he got to finish his succulent chinese meal.
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The UK showing the US how to do a peaceful transition of power twice in a week.
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Zotix posted:The UK showing the US how to do a peaceful transition of power twice in a week. Number of votes cast for Truss? Number of votes cast for King Charles III?
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Old James posted:Number of votes cast for Truss? Number of votes cast for King Charles III? Prince William didn't incite a mob of gammons to storm Westminster
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Zotix posted:The UK showing the US how to do a peaceful transition of power twice in a week.
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Jaxyon posted:How so? I envision people digging through 2 feet of snow to try and find them, and plows and snowblowers chewing up the cables.
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Rigel posted:CNN is reporting that the DOJ has filed an appeal on the Special Master crap. I think the whole thing is dead, you basically get one news cycle to make hay and it's going to be all Queen straight into the midterms.
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slurm posted:I think the whole thing is dead, you basically get one news cycle to make hay and it's going to be all Queen straight into the midterms. Dead in terms of public interest maybe, but the case is still ongoing. Also it's not going to be all Queen for two months straight
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:I envision people digging through 2 feet of snow to try and find them, and plows and snowblowers chewing up the cables. It's 3 feet off the ground.
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slurm posted:I think the whole thing is dead, you basically get one news cycle to make hay and it's going to be all Queen straight into the midterms. You think that the US political news media is going to stay tied up on the death of the Queen, a foreign non-political head of state who has been in declining health for some time, for two months? Really?
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slurm posted:I think the whole thing is dead, you basically get one news cycle to make hay and it's going to be all Queen straight into the midterms. In Britain, it will probably remain a huge deal through the end of the year. In America, it will be a big deal for some portion of the populace - either because they have family in the UK or because they follow all the royal drama or whatever - but it will mainly be propped up by how long the media chooses to make it a thing. And it will probably last a good week or two of memorial hagiographies and biographies and crap like that, but we'll also probably move on pretty quickly here after the funeral. (Unless Meghan says some poo poo or Charles sticks his foot in it right out the gate, that may drag it out for another few days.) But no, this will not be a thing by mid-October. Probably not even by early October.
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I can absolutely believe that the UK will mourn and wail Truss straight through the election (Sorry, Keir, should have been a republican) but if you think the US is going to look at King Charles face for a second longer than it has to, lol I say. Lmao. The US will turn on the royal family the second they insult America's Princess, Meghan Duchess of Sussex.
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The British royal family is just celebrity tabloid gossip in the US. Maybe the royal imagery and political ties elevate their prestige somewhat, but it's hard to imagine Queen Elizabeth's death having more staying power in the media than if someone like Robert DeNiro died.
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Rigel posted:CNN is reporting that the DOJ has filed an appeal on the Special Master crap. I really wish they could just directly appeal to SCOTUS and get a quick ruling. The political class using the courts as a way of dragging this out with endless appeals is so loving frustrating.
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Blind Pineapple posted:The British royal family is just celebrity tabloid gossip in the US. Maybe the royal imagery and political ties elevate their prestige somewhat, but it's hard to imagine Queen Elizabeth's death having more staying power in the media than if someone like Robert DeNiro died. I hope you're right, but don't think you are. I think you greatly underestimate the average American's appetite for the pomp and ritual of the British Royals, and corporate media will be more than happy to dish out this pre-fab slop to us for as long as we can collectively stomach it. The exact same logic of all the free press they gave Trump: people want to watch it, they have to spend close to zero dollars to air it, it's a license for them to just print money.
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Judgy Fucker posted:I hope you're right, but don't think you are. I think you greatly underestimate the average American's appetite for the pomp and ritual of the British Royals, and corporate media will be more than happy to dish out this pre-fab slop to us for as long as we can collectively stomach it. Even if the US media tried, and I cannot begin to fathom how or why they would, Trump would immediately get angry that this foreign lady he's never met is getting all the attention, and do something dumb and angry and loud to make himself the focus again.
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ElegantFugue posted:Even if the US media tried, and I cannot begin to fathom how or why they would, Trump would immediately get angry that this foreign lady he's never met is getting all the attention, and do something dumb and angry and loud to make himself the focus again. The "how" is just showing live footage of Buckingham or Balmoral or wherever Charles and the others are, waiting breathlessly for something to happen, not to mention the actual pomp and ceremony of a funeral and a coronation (both of which will be all-day events) The "why" is ratings And as for Trump, his rants on whatever his Twitter clone is called get fairly miniscule attention outside of RWM.
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Judgy Fucker posted:I hope you're right, but don't think you are. I think you greatly underestimate the average American's appetite for the pomp and ritual of the British Royals, and corporate media will be more than happy to dish out this pre-fab slop to us for as long as we can collectively stomach it. I think it's been 20+ years since the average American had more appetite for news of the entire British royal family collectively than they do for a single A-list American celebrity. Which is a lot to be fair, but it's not going to be driving enough coverage to crowd major stories out apart from like today and maybe the day of the funeral.
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ElegantFugue posted:Trump would immediately get angry that this foreign lady he's never met you mean to tell me The Queen's Corgi wasn't a documentary?
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Judgy Fucker posted:I hope you're right, but don't think you are. I think you greatly underestimate the average American's appetite for the pomp and ritual of the British Royals, and corporate media will be more than happy to dish out this pre-fab slop to us for as long as we can collectively stomach it. British, Canadians, Australians, etc all have the Queen on their money. To us she's a celebrity not unlike Robin Williams or Betty White. There will be four or five days, but once it's been 48 hours since Charles was last seen in public they'll move on. The coronation is going to take time and planning, and the US media will return to RoyalsWatch when it occurs.
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Judgy Fucker posted:I hope you're right, but don't think you are. I think you greatly underestimate the average American's appetite for the pomp and ritual of the British Royals, and corporate media will be more than happy to dish out this pre-fab slop to us for as long as we can collectively stomach it. It might get a bit of coverage, but there is absolutely no way the British royal family is going to crowd Trump coverage off the news Americans care way more about catching the next episode of the Trump saga than they do about a minor foreign celebrity
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Main Paineframe posted:It might get a bit of coverage, but there is absolutely no way the British royal family is going to crowd Trump coverage off the news Meanwhile, here in Canada:  If you scroll down about a page and a half there is a section on Trump and Bannon at least.
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Kalli posted:That'd probably be closer to the ideal, something akin to Taiwan's scooter charging stations, at least for the densest cities which should be doing all it can over the years to get cars out of them as is. When I went scooter shopping in 2014 because I got a new job and I didn't think my 20-year-old scooter would be able to take the commute, I had heard that electric scooters were coming out soon. If I had known how quickly Gogoros took over the new scooter market, I would have waited a year to get one. I have a couple friends who have them and love them. Battery kiosks sprouted up everywhere and it is very simple to do. Whenever I need to get a new scooter I will definitely buy one.
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Prism posted:Meanwhile, here in Canada: American CNN.com is about the same, I'm on a phone and the first three screens are all about the queen. Trump is on screen five. It just won't stay that way for more than a few days.
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