I would have looked into one, but they refuse to implement android auto. Also, they lose several kWh per day turned off.

I had a dream the other night that I shook Obama's hand, and it was a very limp. Then Bernie Sanders told me about his plan to solve fungal growth on cotton by taxing gas more, and I told him it was a bad idea. He seemed appreciative of the feedback.

Just to make a subtle clarification, while it is true that an EV's battery will degrade over time, it's mainly a loss of capacity rather than a loss of efficiency. A battery at 80% of its original capacity will cost 80% of what it originally cost to charge to full, because you're putting less energy into it. The range is reduced, but the cost per mile driven isn't really different.

Technically, a degraded battery's internal resistance will have increased from when it was new, but it's a relatively modest change. The increase in resistive losses would be hard to notice compared to major losses like aerodynamics.

Doctors did notice by the middle of 2020. I happened to end up in the hospital with total heart block, and at the time they mentioned it was a known rare complication from COVID. In my case, it was unrelated.

Have you ever shot a firearm at a range? It's a rather serious amount of energy that demands respect. You don't aim a gun at somebody you aren't willing to kill, and if you pull the trigger your intent better be to kill, because that's the most likely outcome. Anything else is reckless and irresponsible.

Omg, if you expand your contraction, "17" is the seventeenth word in your comment!

I speculate that his fiance was behind it, but really have no idea. I haven't heard from him since then.

My college friend lived in that same building. A year or so ago he invited me to his wedding and then uninvited me when I was the only person to mark unvaccinated in his prompt in the RSVP.

He's always "on" and thinking about whatever projects he's got going on. If that's the topic of discussion, then he's really engaged. If that's not the topic, then his interactions can feel forced. He tries, though. If you have balloons at your desk, he may walk up and ask if it's your birthday.

I've worked we with him before, and the only thing I can say about him is that he's awkward. He has high expectations and calls people out when they don't meet them. Why do you want to hate him?

I don't have much of anything in common with most of the people at the gym. If I didn't bring my phone, I would bring a book.

But the radio commercial I heard earlier today said that smokers are at increased risk for severe COVID, and qualify for the latest antiviral therapies. Sponsored by Pfizer!

That's certainly true, but that doesn't mean it isn't also an immunosuppressant.

More power to you, but I personally don't doubt the existence of the virus.

Severe COVID is inflammatory in nature. Most people's immune systems work properly, and they have a typical cold / flu experience. The spike proteins cause some folks' immune systems to go haywire, though. Since the virus tends to bind to receptors in the lungs, lung inflammation is a common complication. The virus can cause inflammation anywhere, though, which is why there's the rare possiblity of heart damage, nerve damaged, etc.

Anti-inflammatory drugs, aka immune system suppressants, chill out folks immune system. Taken to an extreme and you'll be injured by the actual virus. For folk prone to inflammation, though, a bit of suppression helps keep things from going haywire.

This is my personal reservation about the mRNA shots. The whole point is to inject spike-building mRNA into your body, so that your own cells produce the spikes. For people prone to inflammation from the spikes, it effectively gives you an auto-immune disease. On top of that, the shot can easily go into your blood stream, and then get absorbed into your heart muscle. So, the shot is only effective in avoiding severe complications from COVID in that, in the population of people that would have had severe COVID, it preemptively causes severe complications from the shot instead... in their heart. It's irrational and irresponsible to expect folk to inject themselves with a compound designed to cause an auto-immune disease.

I'm not familiar with this particular nasal spray candidate. Why is it good news that it didn't work? Is it more of the same mRNA spike protein, or is it something else? Wouldn't an actually safe and effective vaccine be a good thing?

I like Trader Joe's. I haven't bought an Apple product since the ipod had a hard disk.

I did that for a scam hotel booking on the Amalfi Coast. After booking it, the confirmation had too many sketchy inconsistencies in it. I looked more closely at the photos, and they didn't match the Google Earth data of the address. After about 45 minutes, I located the exact balcony that one of the photos was taken from, about 10 miles away in another town. The main feature of interest was a church bell tower.

Tracking down a specific, well known person to wherever they happen to be seems like a significantly easier task than tracking down a specific unknown person based on residual evidence from a chaotic moment in the past.

Ok, but gas engines are only like 35% efficient.

A fever of 103F isn't doing a 3 year old any favors.

We all got it a month ago. We just let it run its course, other than Tylenol for fever. The 3 year old had a fever for a day and a half, and then was completely over it. The wife had miserable joint aches, perhaps due to past Lyme disease. I take immunosuppressants, and had relatively mild, typical symptoms. My wife and I had fatigue for a week after, which was quite inconvenient. We also seem to have a long tail of sniffles.

Paper cups. A reusable plastic cup would be fine. They banned one time use plastic drink containers smaller than a liter. Probably nothing would happen, because it's a joke and the cops have better things to do.

You misunderstood me. The city banned plastic containers smaller than 1L in public areas. It's some virtue signaling from the city council.

In my city, anything smaller than 1L is banned...