My kid has a 4.2 gpa and applied to UCLA, UCB, and some schools on the east coast. Apparently the cutoff GPA for UC schools is 4.6 or something. (In my day, 4.0 was as high as it got but now it goes higher because AP classes) So that perfectly acceptable state school education with a tuition of $10k is not perfectly accessible. Off to Boston he goeth, hi ho, for $100k/year. sighâ¦

Am i the only one old enough to remember the Dale?

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Salt water puts out fires as well as fresh water.

Most of those planes get their water from the ocean, I've seen it.

I've also seen helicopters drop down and siphon water from swimming pools...

csw

I think the spelling nazi called out a rather common grammatical error which happens to be a homophone of the correct form. This arguably makes said grammatical error even more egregious.

csw

how was that flamebait?

I bought my first Tesla in 2016 to console myself after Trump got elected. I'm now on Tesla #3 and (issues related to Elon Musk becoming a complete turd notwithstanding) I can assert that NONE of the "issues" with EV's have had any impact on my life so far.

Since 2016, I've charged at home, until this may, when my house burned down. So I've switched to Supercharger - only charging. Previously, I would charge at home, and with 440 km of range (unchanged from when i bought the current car, a 2018 model S) I only needed superchargers every few weeks (usually when i forgot to plug in overnight) Now, being an urban nomad who lives in hotels, I have to charge every day or two, which i can usually combine with some other errand to minimize the time sitting in the car doing nothing. So charging is a non-issue.

I've taken 4 E-W cross country road trips in the last 4 years or so, and 3 N-S road trips as well. I'm one of those guys who has to stop at every rest area for a quick stroll, stopping a few times a day for charging is barely a hassle and I still get where I'm going.

The only road-trip related problem I've had pertains to tires. EVs use fancy tires, and mine has staggered tire widths - a rare size in the front, and an even rarer size in the back. So i once had to ride (in my car) with my car on a flatbed from somewhere in Wyoming to Salt Lake City just because of a flat tire. Insurance paid for it but it took more time than it should have. This could have happened with any specialty car, though.

I still maintain that people who don't like Teslas have never really tried one, (or they care more than i about Musk being such a tool) I can't speak for other EVs because I've never owned one.

I still have an ICE vehicle, a 1999 toyota 4Runner, which they will have to pry from my cold dead hands. The only time I use this is for real-back country road tips and occasionally for moving big stuff. Though the Tesla holds a lot- I was ablie to fit a wood chipper ON A PALLET into the back of my Tesla.

I remember the first time I shot with a RED digital camera. Even though I had been a RED naysayer, and despite the RED's many shortcomings, I was forced to conclude that film would be gone in a year. It took a little longer than that, but not much. Now, Kodak is essentially out of business, and there is ONE film lab left in Hollywood. I feel the same way about the future of ICE vehicles. It won't be long til the gas stations start disappearing, just watch.

Adapt! Or get squashed like a grape beneath the steamroller of progress!

I gotta say, I was blown away by the demo.

And it's basically an iOS - level system with a full virtual display, so all the apps are readily available.

  The deal breaker for me wasn't price, but typing. Unless youre an accomplished touch typist, the getting text into that thing is problematic. And the 'virtual keyboard' is a joke.

I feel much better now....or I did, until i learned that the study was authored by an LLM chatbot.......

csw

In los angeles, you need a special permit to install a fake grass lawn...

cw

So... he's an idiot who can afford to buy a new laptop?

cw

Skype is an absolute train wreck right now. Finding unread chats is pretty much impossible, many features just don't work, and the core functionality is diluted by halfhearted attempts to compete with tiktok/instagram/news/etc.

What I would do for a day or two at microsoft to fix this overloaded sinking ship.....

csw

Trump didnâ(TM)t try to become Hitler?

Kids in cages. muslim ban. travel ban from countries with brown people. threats to deport millions. Unidentified secret police detaining and kidnapping protestors. Mein Kampf on the bedside table. The list goes on and on.

Maybe heâ(TM)s not hitler but heâ(TM)s way closer to him than any american president ever has been. Or should be.

Venezuela, for a minute. And Libya, perhaps.

the âoebulletâ was a squibâ¦.

I think it was a certain South Dakotan's dog...