VW ID.4. Looks like it might be somewhere under the floorboards and above the battery since the smell is strong in the cabin. To get a look, you apparently have to remove the seats.

There’s also a full end-to-end metal plate along the under-carriage, presumably to protect the battery from punctures. But it also keeps anything that has fallen inside from dropping to the ground.

Looks like poor design all around. Dealer is quoting $1600 to go on a fishing trip.

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Sorry, but this country fully deserves where it ends up.

I shut off all news and social media, stopped checking newspapers, TV, and podcasts, and unsubbed from all politics and news mailing lists and communities. Told family and friends and they’re being cool about it.

Dove into 60’s detective novels. Anything by Ross Thomas, Donald Westlake, and Lawrence Block. Have stocked up on at least a year’s worth of out-of-print epubs. Will reevaluate once they run out. Mixed with a lot of outdoor walks.

It’s been glorious.

Tetris.

And they STILL won’t let immigrants get full citizanship rights. Guess the birth-rate hasn’t gone low enough.

413 is amateur hour.

Had stinky tofu with curdled pig’s blood in Taipei a while back. The people I was visiting had me try it at a night market. The smell was much worse than the texture or flavor. I could totally see someone who had grown up with it considering it comfort food.

Helped that we had all had a fair bit to drink already.

1000 charge cycles. If you charge twice a week, that’s 500 weeks or a little less than 10 years. There’s no mention of degradation over time.

But back-of-the-napkin, it means for this to be cost-effective, they may want to come up with some sort of replaceable or battery swap system. Not sure anyone will want to buy a vehicle that needs a massive battery retrofit every 8-10 years.

The Hydrilla and algal bloom mentioned in the article have been plaguing freshwater lakes near us for years. They effectively killed off several reservoirs heavily used by families and swimmers. The beaches are often roped off and people are warned to not let children wade in the water.

One of the reservoirs now has a permanent installation of an oxygenator pumping air to the bottom to let plant and animals not get choked off, but not sure it’s working.

Same vibes as Ralph Nader in Bush v. Gore.

There’s a divey bar 10m away where people have been watching results the last few years. Might head down there. Pretty sure it’ll be packed.

Alternative is to crawl into bed and wait till January.

Edit: we have a lot of local races (Mayor, City Council, propositions) on the line. Might hit the bar just to watch those and just ignore the national stuff.

There’s no real value to any of it.

Attach free beer to point levels and watch this thing explode.

Fair point.

I always assumed it was planned , since she was wearing a sun-shaped cover underneath. Why else would you wear one?

It sucks that the pearl-clutching media ostracized her so much.

People who have already early voted may not care so much about going to a rally. Just speculating. Still, not sure crowd size at this stage correlates to any meaningful outcome.

One of the prime rules of storytelling is that the hero has to have a flaw.

Superman is super. He can’t lose. That’s why the writers introduced Kryptonite. Captain America is a super-soldier, but is still mortal. Thor is a god, but can lose his hammer and his powers.

The problem with Superhero movies is that they all got so much power they became invincible, and boring.

Good, classic storytelling beats VFX 10/10.

So many questions…

How is crowd size at a rally a relevant data point for anything?

Yet again, grateful to live in California, where school breakfast and lunches are free to all students. Hands down, best use of my taxes (public libraries are a close #2).