I read it. I’m not convinced. There’s a whole section about trucks needing diesel while completely ignoring how delivery vans are being electrified. Companies like Amazon, WalMart, and Frito Lay are replacing their delivery vehicles, freeing up diesel elsewhere.

There was also this: “Since passenger vehicles are in use for 15+ years, there is still a massive fleet of gas-guzzlers out there—and will be for a long time to come” This seems to completely ignore the used EV vehicle market. Evidently only combustion vehicles last? Also most passenger vehicles don’t use diesel, so what does this have to do with the thesis about electrification setting up a ”feedback loop” in the diesel market?

The whole piece is a bizarre construct with some whining about how if people don’t continue to buy diesel in large quantities, the refineries will somehow get completely confused and go belly up.

Windows 11 certainly can’t be helping.

The Exorcist II is a horrible movie, but worth watching just to see how bonkers it is.

Not really. And what ads there were came off as a confusing mess.

Kmart was fucked by the bizarre CEO of Sears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lampert

I enjoyed seeing Richard Dawson ham it up in the first one.

The book was much more enjoyable than the two movies. I think the most recent movie would have worked better as a streaming series.

As far as the Paramount marketing department, I don’t expect it to improve at all under the recent merger.

It’s going to be difficult to use this to educate people when public education is being dismantled state by state.

What a weirdo.

Please stop sourcing your links from cbs news.

The braking with one pedal driving is much more immediate. The car doesn’t really coast. Instead, you slowly let off the accelerator and the car drags to a stop. It takes a while to get good at, kind of the same way you have to get good at letting off a clutch in a stick shift. If you let off the accelerator abruptly, you will feel the car braking immediately. You have to let off slowly. Trying to drive the traditional way while this feature is turned on creates the “seasick” lunge.

Sorry if I’m not good at describing it. If you get a chance to test drive an EV that includes this option, try it. I mostly keep this feature turned off on my EV because I don’t really see any improvement in range with having it on.

There’s a video demonstrating it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-mVMEfoIZw

What might be making them sick is one pedal driving. It’s off by default. This option allows the driver to immediately apply regenerative breaking when letting off the accelerator pedal.

When this option is turned off, an EV coasts just like any other car.

Not sure if this is true anymore. DFW is fairly red now. East Tx has always been red. Latinos along the border have been voting red in spite of themselves (such as Uvalde and Laredo).

I have no idea how West Texas votes these days.

Houston and Austin areas are consistently blue.

That’s ok. They’re taking away digital content too. So far just movies, not games (yet).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/sony-is-deleting-over-500-movies-that-people-bought-from-their-digital-libraries/ar-AA26PnQO

We don’t have money for new USPS trucks, or air conditioning for the drivers — but spy cameras get funding.

Sounds like a class action. Some corporate buyer or school will probably sue. I predict the judgement will end up being a coupon for $100 off one of the new googlebooks.

So I looked into this and you are right and I am wrong. Deleting my previous posts since there’s more to this case than just haptics.

Womp womp.

Rewarding a patent troll is never a good thing. It just means no one will be able to use haptic feedback without paying a toll.

Stores around here have already been putting up “penny shortage” signs so they have an excuse to charge extra. A penny isn’t much, but they know that it adds up quickly.

One year later… “Why doesn’t anyone want to pay for our slop tv show/movie/book/song/videogame? I wonder if our company can get a bailout from the government?”