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Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Blue Footed Booby posted:

It'll be interesting to see how that one plays out. It will presumably reduce smoking, but will it lead to an uncontrollable black market?

Also, there's a point where you've functionally just banned cigarettes.

I don't think it will do either. It'll just shift every smoker to e-cigs and vapes, like the article mentions.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 15:24

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:00

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Saw this come across my feed and had a few dark chuckles:

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1539714134291382272

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us06222022_ufha92.pdf

Question #2 adds strongly for/against and Biden's at 5% strongly favor with kids, even white dudes are at 11%.

Though I'd love a breakdown of the R side of this:

#16 has only even a quarter of evangelicals against abortion for incest/rape babies.

#24 About 2/3rds say they haven't learned anything new from the 1/6 Hearings.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 00:37

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Nucleic Acids posted:

I wonder what inflation�s knocked the prices on all those up to by now

Using my local supermarket:

Campbell's Pork & Beans = $2.97 up from $1.90
Ground Beef 85% lean = $15.58 up from $8.20
Hood Vanilla Ice Cream = $6.67 up from $4.69
Center Cut Pork Chops = $14.97 up from $11.63
Nature's Promise Lemonade = $4.95 up from $3.65
Boar's head sliced cheddar = $10 up from $4.05
Lays Potato Chips = $5.09 up from $4.93

Could shave a few bucks using 80% lean and store brand everything, but I'd say this is about right.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 15:34

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

midwest ink posted:

Link for anyone that needs it. This is so disheartening knowing that nothing can be done to combat this. Love that a minority of the country rules the majority.

Nothing legal I suppose, but plenty can and should be done.

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# ¿ Jun 24, 2022 15:25

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

It's a potentially bad ruling, but they didn't rule that.

They ruled that the public school can't prohibit the coach from praying on his own in the stadium after a game.

They ruled that he wasn't acting as a public employee when he did that, even though he was doing it as a reaction to a football game put on by the school and while on the clock. The school didn't renew his contract after he refused to stop praying on the field after games and the court ruled that since the first amendment doesn't ban public officials from personal religious expression and this prayer was a personal action he did by himself and not endorsed by the school or a requirement for anyone else, that they violated his first amendment rights by firing him for that.

That's what the ruling said, that he was praying on his own and not as an employee, however reality:

# ¿ Jun 27, 2022 15:57

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I haven't been following this case, but does anyone know why Russia seems to be going so hard on a WNBA star caught with "vape cartridges bearing traces of hash oil" and not other Americans?

She's been in prison for 5 months, will remain in prison for at least another two months, and could be sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony for "traces of hash oil" in an empty vape cartridge.

She was detained a week before Russia invaded Ukraine and Russia kept her arrest secret for two weeks, so it isn't even some weird form of retaliation for supporting Ukraine or sanctions.

The NYT article theorizes that it may be part of a plan to exchange her for other high profile Russians convicted of crimes in the U.S. If they were looking to arrest high profile people, seems like they could have piked someone else. It's not like Brittney Griner was a household name prior to this.

She's black, homosexual and a fairly high profile athlete, so a very easy target. While not a household name, turn on ESPN and you'll have heard her come up fairly often over the past decade.

The WNBA pays so poorly that many of its players also play in foreign leagues as well, with Russia being the largest I believe.

I believe she's being held both as a bargaining chip, but also to spit in america's eye so to speak.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2022 16:46

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

the_steve posted:

All plans begin and end with VOTE, and trust that our betters will figure something to make it all work out instead of pissing away and squandering yet another opportunity for the umpteenth time they've had the reins of power.

You have to admit, shortening thoughts & prayers to a concise 4 letters is pretty smart marketing.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2022 20:03

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

A bit too early to be reflected in polling, but I wonder how many people have re-discovered Biden's views on abortion rights / the hyde amendment this weekend that were so conveniently memory holed for the primaries.

E: lmao

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1541784459422404608

Kalli fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jun 28, 2022

# ¿ Jun 28, 2022 16:23

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Gripweed posted:

I genuinely don't understand how someone could live through the Mueller Report, the impeachment, and the second impeachment, and think that fourth time's the charm.

snorch posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

I prefer https://old.reddit.com/r/miamidolphins/

# ¿ Jun 28, 2022 22:59

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

JT Jag posted:

Meanwhile, Democratic leadership seems to be even more invested in their end-of-history neoliberal bullshit than ever before, to the point that they just aren't taking any action at all and think that, over time, things will just get better on their own, because American Democracy is the Greatest System on Earth and can't possibly be suborned

To wit

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-unlikely-meet-bold-democrat-demands-after-abortion-ruling-sources-2022-06-29/

quote:

More than 30 Senate Democrats signed a letter to Biden, urging him to 'fight back," take "bold action" and "lead a national response to this devastating decision" after the court overturned the right to abortion.

But the White House is pursuing a more limited set of policy responses while urging voters and Congress to act. The White House's plans include a range of executive actions in the coming days, as well as promising to protect women who cross state lines for abortions and support for medical abortion.

Biden and officials are concerned that more radical moves would be politically polarizing ahead of November's midterm elections, undermine public trust in institutions like the Supreme Court or lack strong legal footing, sources inside and outside the White House say.

Weird that the guy who wanted more restrictions on Roe for most of his career and always supported expanding the Hyde amendment doesn't plan to do anything of consequence.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2022 17:50

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Also it took rome something like 800 years to actually collapse after it's decline seriously set in.

Ahh, I see someone's excited for Emperor DeSantis's annexation of Mexico

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 17:17

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Fister Roboto posted:

lmao it's still in the casing

You have to understand just how dangerous fentanyl laced bullets are, they don't even have a powder signature and fire with the casing attached.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2022 17:25

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

5:30 on a Friday rear end news dump:

https://twitter.com/robotodd/status/1545518928587259907

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 22:26

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

CommieGIR posted:

....yeah I don't think that's gonna cut it for Twitter's board. The agreement was binding and Twitter's board approved it.

He really does think he can just back out.

Yeah, he's gonna get sued 'cuz lol at getting him to actually pay the billion dollar backout fee.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 22:29

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

FizFashizzle posted:

Who in the world are the 6%

Do that many dem donors have kids under 30?

Also lmao at the random lanyard who has to convince college kids to knock on doors for biden.

The breakdown on the why someone else is great:

Olds: He's too old!
Everyone else: He loving sucks at his job

# ¿ Jul 11, 2022 14:39

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Kaal posted:

No, not at all. It's fairly unique to police. For example not only are district administrators prohibited from joining teachers unions, but so are most principals. Doctors cannot join nurses unions, nor can nursing managers. It's what distinguishes a labor union from other forms of lobby organizations.

SEC management is also very clearly not in the NTEU either.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2022 21:27

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

I mean the dude's worth ~$100m. Access to the ultimate insider trading network seems like the easiest way to turn that into $300m.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2022 14:43

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Alex Jones is attempting a novel legal strategy of unironically trying to use the "No, no. It's not "Die, Bart, Die" it means "The, Bart, The" in German!" Simpsons joke in real life.

It's mostly interesting to see if a rich person can actually manage to piss off a judge enough to do something meaningful about it.

Jones is so nakedly treating the court with open contempt and bragging about how he's going to defraud the victims. Will a judge actually overcome all the odds and successfully dispense justice against the most untouchable of foes, a rich white dude.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2022 17:34

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Jaxyon posted:

The world of TV and movies has led me to believe it's much easier to get held in contempt of court than it appears to be in the Alex Jones trial.

There's a cops-esque show in Rhode Island called Caught in Providence that just airs municipal court proceedings for DUI's, Johns, and whatnot and it's pretty easy as long as you're poor.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Jones has already been held in contempt twice and fined $75,000 during the pre-trial phase for FTA and discovery violations, lol.

Yeah, but considering how much money he has that doesn't really amount to much. In may alone, some dude gave Alex Jones $8m. Pretty sure Jaxyon means the more colloquial "enjoy a few days in jail" contempt.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2022 18:31

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Twibbit posted:

This is why when picking your attorney, you don't simply go with the lowest bidder

It's more that while true believers can pass a bar exam, woo boy when they actually get in court

Anyway, here's one of Alex's previous lawyers on today's news:

https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1554658314805559296

This guy is one of his lawyers from the original Sandy Hook case, who Alex Jones at least threatened to sue for incompetence btw.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2022 19:04

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

FlamingLiberal posted:

I'm hoping that Schumer just paid him off or whatever so that they can get one thing of significance done before midterms

Well, yes, but probably not how you meant

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-bill-could-be-death-blow-biden-anti-drilling-pledge-2022-07-29/

quote:

...
Manchin, who represents the coal-producing state of West Virginia and has sought to protect fossil fuel interests, ensured the bill contained protections for oil and gas.

For instance, it makes permitting of solar and wind facilities on federal land contingent on the Interior Department offering at least 2 million acres of land for lease to drillers within the previous year, a provision that would last a decade.

In federal waters, offshore wind leases would be contingent on the agency offering at least 60 million acres on the Outer Continental Shelf to drillers the year before, according to the bill's text.

The deal would also restore results of a November 2021 Gulf of Mexico lease sale that was annulled by a federal judge over its environmental impact, and require offshore auctions to be held in the Gulf and off the coast of Alaska that had been canceled earlier this year.

....
One oil and gas group that sued the administration over its leasing pause called the provision "a pleasant surprise."

"Since this administration wants to advance only wind and solar, the bill would force them not to neglect oil and natural gas," Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in an email.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2022 00:21

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

And now the Insulin Price cap is gone. So I guess some changes to the bill are okay, as long as it kills some folks

# ¿ Aug 7, 2022 16:17

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

World Famous W posted:

where can I look up (outside of reading the bill itself) how much "Allows oil and gas leases on some federal land and in the Gulf of Mexico." of this that is being opened?

Posted the reuters writeup yesterday:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-bill-could-be-death-blow-biden-anti-drilling-pledge-2022-07-29/

quote:

..
Manchin, who represents the coal-producing state of West Virginia and has sought to protect fossil fuel interests, ensured the bill contained protections for oil and gas.

For instance, it makes permitting of solar and wind facilities on federal land contingent on the Interior Department offering at least 2 million acres of land for lease to drillers within the previous year, a provision that would last a decade.

In federal waters, offshore wind leases would be contingent on the agency offering at least 60 million acres on the Outer Continental Shelf to drillers the year before, according to the bill's text.

The deal would also restore results of a November 2021 Gulf of Mexico lease sale that was annulled by a federal judge over its environmental impact, and require offshore auctions to be held in the Gulf and off the coast of Alaska that had been canceled earlier this year.

....
One oil and gas group that sued the administration over its leasing pause called the provision "a pleasant surprise."

"Since this administration wants to advance only wind and solar, the bill would force them not to neglect oil and natural gas," Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in an email.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2022 23:40

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1554969897981050883
From the opening minute:

quote:

"The so called Inflation Reduction Act may be coming to the floor in the upcoming days...
Let us be clear, as currently written, this is an extremely modest piece of legislation that does virtually nothing to address the current crisis that working families are facing today. This reconciliation bill falls far short of what the american people want, what they need and what they are begging us to do."

Virtually nothing sounds close enough to completely ineffective to me.

But he does then in later interviews say the climate provisions are a step forward before immediately lambasting it for drilling and warning about how much the people burning the planet to cinders hug and kiss this bill

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1556427815070859264

# ¿ Aug 8, 2022 18:19

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

It's a third generational reference to this extremely memed out tweet:

https://twitter.com/WillieMcNabb/status/1158045307562856448

# ¿ Aug 11, 2022 17:57

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

The Satanic Verses is mostly about how poo poo it is to be an immigrant in Britain, but is told with magical realism, and the main character has these weird fever dream sections that in short, say the devil perverted the Quran and another where a girl convinces her village to pilgrimage to Mecca, they get convinced they can walk on water, and disappear into a sea never to be seen again.

Book's definitely no Good Omens :v:

, and in the end, for that he ends up with a whole bunch of assassination attempts, like really, just read this paragraph:

quote:

Hitoshi Igarashi, Rushdie's Japanese translator, was found by a cleaning lady, stabbed to death 13 July 1991 on the college campus where he taught near Tokyo. Ten days prior to Igarashi's killing, Rushdie's Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was seriously injured by an attacker at his home in Milan by being stabbed multiple times on 3 July 1991. William Nygaard, the Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses, was critically injured by being shot three times in the back by an assailant on October 11, 1993 in Oslo. Nygaard survived, but spent months in the hospital recovering. The book's Turkish translator Aziz Nesin was the intended target of a mob of arsonists who set fire to the Madimak Hotel after Friday prayers on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37 people, mostly Alevi scholars, poets and musicians. Nesin escaped death when the fundamentalist mob failed to recognize him early in the attack. Known as the Sivas massacre, it is remembered by Alevi Turks who gather in Sivas annually and hold silent marches, commemorations and vigils for the slain.

Man, everyone's a critic.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2022 03:41

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

I mean if Trump is ready to flee the country then isn't it better if he does? The odds of justice being served by the American justice system seems so astronomically low him spending the rest of his days doing tv spots with Steven Seagal in Russia sounds a hell of a lot better of an option for america politically then what will likely happen if he just rides it out being Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siFmJz7CZSM

# ¿ Aug 15, 2022 19:35

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Since there's been like a couple dozen posts about what level of mattering this will be for Trump, I made a thread and poll to discuss it, since I am curious what the general consensus is: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4010073

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 03:40

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

On the other hand: https://fortune.com/2022/06/26/housing-market-and-home-price-boom-made-bigger-by-investors-and-wall-street/

quote:

In the first quarter of 2022, investors made up a record 28% of single-family home sales, according to a report published last week by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. That�s up from 19% in the first quarter of 2021. It�s also far above the 16% that investors made up of single-family home sales between 2017 and 2019. (To conduct the analysis, the Harvard researchers analyzed home sale data collected by CoreLogic.)

....

Researchers at Freddie Mac, who did their own analysis of public records, found a more modest jump in investor purchases than Harvard and Redfin researchers. Between December 2019 and December 2021, Freddie Mac found investor home purchases climbed from 26.7% to 27.6%. However, Freddie Mac acknowledges its analysis isn�t fully capturing all-cash purchases by investors.

...

Let�s be clear: The vast majority of investor home purchases in America are still made by small or midsize investors: ranging from average Joes owning an Airbnb rental to individuals who�ve spent years amassing a hefty portfolio of rentals. According to the Harvard study, 74% of investor purchases in September were made by investors with portfolios of less than 100 properties. The remaining 26% of investor purchases were made by groups with property portfolios of at least 100 units.

That said, it�s clear that those big investors were among the biggest drivers of the uptick in investor purchases.

�Investors with large portfolios (at least 100 properties) drove much of this growth, nearly doubling their share of investor purchases from 14% in September 2020 to 26% in September 2021,� wrote the Harvard researchers. �By buying up single-family homes, investors have reduced the already limited supply available to potential owner-occupants, particularly first-time and moderate-income buyers.�

Who are these big investors? Some are massive rental companies like Invitation Homes�the nation's largest owner of single-family rental homes�which grew its portfolio during the pandemic. Blackstone, which founded Invitation Homes back in 2012, also got back into the single-family home business during the pandemic. (In 2019, Blackstone had backed away from the business after selling its remaining shares of Invitation Homes.)

The Pandemic Housing Boom also saw a surge on the iBuying side of the market. These iBuyers�including firms like Opendoor, Offerpad, RedfinNow, and Zillow Offers�went around the country making swift offers to home sellers. The companies would then quickly put the home back on the market. It's less of a traditional "home flip" and more of a volume play: On each sale, iBuyers net a "service fee" that the firm charges the buyer in exchange for the speedy transaction.

As the housing boom took hold, it saw Zillow�s earnings initially soar�with the real estate site posting a record $52 million profit in the first quarter of 2021. That fed Zillow�s iBuyer confidence as it quickly grew its home buying business to over three-fourths of its total revenues. Of course, Zillow's home flipping business would go on to implode in epic fashion last fall. But only after Zillow�s much-lauded algorithm overpaid, analysts tell Fortune, for thousands of U.S. homes.

But most housing investors are still groups you�ve likely never heard of. The Opendoor and Blackstones of the world, at least for now, are still a small piece of the investor pie.

�While large corporate investors are rapidly rising as a share of the market and are likely to expand, they remain so small that their market share only has a modest impact on the overall percentage of investors,� wrote Freddie Mac researchers earlier this month. During the pandemic, iBuyer and institutional buyers have jumped from around a 1.5% market share of purchases to around 4.5%, according to Freddie Mac.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 15:32

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

The housing market is a trainwreck due to a confluence of factors that basically make addressing it a near impossible task politically even beyond investor types vulturing everything.

So much of people's savings are tied up in housing
The lack of mass transit.
Decades upon decades of culture devoted to how dangerous / bad the cities are, against mass transit, naked housing discrimination.
Suburbia being built outwards massively over the past 70 years.

So we're trying to get people elected whose job it is to go up to old white folks and say, hey we want to destroy a chunk of your life's savings so that you have to sit in more traffic and a bunch of (((hoodlums))) can move in down the street. Kinda obvious why even the bluest areas can't do poo poo to begin to address the problem.

Side note, apparently the etymology of hoodlum is not what I would've guessed considering the 'hood' in the name.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 17:08

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The real cultural divide is urban/rural and not state vs state.

People in upstate New York absolutely think that NYC is a void with nothing but crime and weirdos, while many NYC people think upstate New York is filled with hicks that mooch off of the taxes they generate in NYC.

Same with Raleigh and the rest of the rural areas of NC, St. Louis and the rest of rural Missouri, etc. etc. etc.

I'd say it's more the suburbia vs rural divide. It takes you two hours leaving NYC to the north before you hit an area that's majority not just servicing people who work in NYC.

Pittsburgh? Hop down I-79 for a short spell and you're in Pennsyltucky pretty drat quick.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 20:49

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Yeah, I mean the solution is to use eminent domain to seize a bunch of land, massively invest in mass transit, and plop gigantic hong kong style mixed use condo complexes to up urban density and put that mass transit to work. Combined with banning investment firms from owning single family homes, regulating AirBnb into the dirt.

Of course, that's all completely politically non-viable, so instead, maybe we get a highway bill and some hogs screeching Nimby things at anything larger then a duplex?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 23:05

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

If I was being charitable I would presume the idea behind Yang's party would be to try and capture that small % of moderates that flop between parties depending on the election. By capturing that middle they can influence and gain power by picking between the D / R in close races and forcing concessions.

I think this is wrong and guaranteed to fail, but I think that'd be the idea if you were trying to do something beyond grift.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2022 19:31

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Main Paineframe posted:

I think that generally people jump too quickly to accusing things of being false flags, but this is very obviously not on the up-and-up. Just calling up the cops to affirmatively admit to intentionally criming, and linking them to my internet forum profile, a thing that totally happens in real life.

Update:

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1562558295134838785

# ¿ Aug 24, 2022 23:20

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Also note that Abe's assassin went a little extra with the whole thing.

This is the other gun he built before deciding to go with the two barrel model probably after he realized what he'd need to try and move that thing around.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2022 20:33

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

I mean it's a legit good thing that the White House is rubbing their noses in it.

But boy telling me you had numbers that absurd to throw around to these naked conmen is gonna get a lot of people asking why you've got crumbs for students

# ¿ Aug 25, 2022 23:15

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

MixMasterMalaria posted:

Wow this is so far beyond anything I've heard before. My understanding was that use is generally pretty self limiting since b12 deficiency and trying to clear the machine oil gunk from lungs makes people feel kind of lovely after a binge on chargers over a weekend (not to mention the cost). Potential for abuse at the levels you describe would seem impossible for canned whip cream diversion though. Wishing them the best.

Friend of mine has been abusing them for years, has spent probably north of $50k on them and earlier
this year lost the ability to walk for about a month due to B12 deficiencies. I've known her to do at least 6x 50 boxes in a day at her worst.

That said, this seems like a bit of a silly law, restrict kids to buying a couple cans of whipped cream. Ain't nobody gonna hit up a dozen stores to get high for 10 minutes.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Yeah they probably literally had one of those big 50+lb cannisters to be doing that much. diverting those tanks is a whole business in its own right.

no2 is pretty drat safe in tiny amounts as far as drugs go but yeah anything powerful enough to get you really hosed up is going to be really bad for you, at best, when you start using thousands of doses.

That level of use is almost definitely from people getting a diverted tank of no2, which is honestly pretty hard to find as far as sourcing illegal poo poo goes.

I doubt it, tons of stores sell them in small boxes of 24/50. Large cannisters are unwieldy to purchase in comparison.

Kalli fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Aug 29, 2022

# ¿ Aug 29, 2022 02:35

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

bird food bathtub posted:

One optimistic solution I've read is having standardized batteries that are pre-charged at the Gas Station Of The Future, and instead of filling your ICE tank with dead dinosaurs you swap for a charged battery.

A very optimistic outlook admittedly but seems to be a better solution than hoping the free market of landlords does anything besides tell renters "lol gently caress you".

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.

https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/taiwan-soon-to-have-more-gogoro-electric-scooter-battery-swap-stations-than-gas-stations/

# ¿ Sep 8, 2022 16:45

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

PhazonLink posted:

oh neat so hotswapping batteries is thing that actually maybe theoretically possible and not just my dumb gamer brain wanting real life to be like games??

Theoretically, but with cars they get huge and heavy quick, weighing upwards of 450kg (~1000lbs) You can hot swap from a scooter sized battery no problem per that Taiwan article, but a car sized one would require a station to handle.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2022 17:45

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:00

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Foxfire_ posted:

Do you have any case names for me to look up to read more on those? It sounds hard/interesting since the other state would either need to waive sovereignty and opt-in to the lawsuit, or it'd be Supreme Court original jurisdiction.

One I remember: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/san-francisco-patient-dumping-incident-costs-nevada-400000/406955/

quote:

* San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit against Nevada in 2013, claiming a state-run psychiatric hospital, Rawson-Neal in Las Vegas, bused patients to the San Francisco area without plans for their care. At least two dozen patients sent to San Francisco required medical care and housing costing $500,000 of city funds.
* Health officials from Nevada acknowledged patients had been discharged and bused out of state without adequate aftercare plans for food, shelter, medication or treatment. Two hospital employees were fired and three received disciplinary action.
* An investigative report by the Sacramento Bee in 2013 discovered Rawson-Neal hospital staff had given up to 1,500 patients one-way bus tickets to California and 46 other states between 2008 and 2013.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 19:49

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