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The one silver lining of his wag the dog war on Iran is that high gas prices are undermining the administrations anti-EV policies.

Republicans have been trying to roll back environmental protections for decades, but the psychopaths in the administration add a dash of cruelty to every odious thing that they do. It captures Trump's attention and their base loves it.

If he honestly thinks that Couchfucker, a rando real estate developer and Trump's failson-in-law are actually competent enough to negotiate an end to this war, we may have found the only person in DC dumber than Trump.

I'm surprised by that because, while generally reliable, older Chrysler Corp minivans would also reliably grenade their transmissions every 80,000 miles or so.

Unfortunately, the Senate is as much a constitutional problem as a voter problem. More people live in the greater Los Angeles area than the smallest 14 states combined. That's 28 Senators vs. the two that LA has to share with 20 million other Californians. Edit: Damn, mikeschr beat me to this...

Echoes of another little IBM Nazi problem: https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-calculator-quot-2 Corporations have rarely paid a price for cooperating with right-wing authoritarians.

We still have the power to make them pay for their cowardice. I am so fucking tired of these fucking fucks.

It will be interesting to see if it's a market segment that can be re-booted, for sure. I'm old enough to remember the 70's and 80's, when there were millions of small pickups on the road. They were very, very popular.

Biden should not have run for a second term, but he did. And the last minute candidate swap should not have needed to happen, but it did. And there was still no excuse for not voting for the Vice President. It wasn't like the Democrats just chose someone at random.

It's not affordability alone. When the price of your dream EV goes up by 7 grand overnight, it tends to turn buyers off (regardless of whether they can afford it). The whole EV saga here is a debacle. None of this would be happening if more people would have voted for the competent Black women...

There are potential problems in a multi-party system that can lead to fringe parties having an outsized influence in government policy decisions. That's not to say it's worse, only that no system is perfect. I'd still say that a parliamentary system with multiple established parties is vastly...

My part of Oregon, too. I haven't seen a noticeable change in my electric bill since I got an EV, although I only use Level 1 charging and don't drive very much. On the rare occasions that I need fast charging, our public utility district stations are 13 cents per kWh.

I think it looks fine, but the general consensus is that it is awkward (at best). That, and sedans not being popular in the US, has made it a slow-seller here. There is an upside, though: Hyundai has repeatedly offered good lease deals on them to move units.

Because we can, at least, expect the Chinese government to be a rational actor and adhere to the international commitments they make. The US is currently run by demented psychopaths and incompetent morons with delusions of grandeur who have no respect for the international order or reality itself.

I have an iPhone 8 that still works just fine. It doesn't have a mobile sim, but I use it as a desktop clock and Siri device. It runs iOS 16.x.

When you're buying Kia or Hyundai, you're making a tradeoff between reliability and cost compared to a Honda or Toyota. Back in the minivan days (when we needed a family hauler), we bought a Voyager even though we knew we were going to be replacing the transmission at 85k miles. It was...

Card-carrying old person here. That's the one thing that might be a deal breaker for me if I was in the market. In good light, I'm fine with white-on-black keys. But, being a portable device, I often use my laptop in poor lighting where a keyboard backlight improves accessibility a lot.

There is nothing more careless and entitled than not voting because "both sides are bad". It's choosing to let millions of other Americans suffer because someone doesn't meet a purity test. Our current first-past-the-post election structure leads to a two party system. It's going to take...

The only constitutionally valid way to prevent Trump from running would have been: 1. Impeach him. Which the House did - twice. 2. Convict him in the Senate and remove him from office. Which Senate Republicans refused to do - twice. 3. Add an addendum to his conviction preventing him from...

Because, until Trump, it was unimaginable that a convicted felon would run for president, much less that he would win the election. So there was no law against it. The entire regime's MO has been to exploit loopholes that no one had thought to legally prohibit.