'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

EVs won the war.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.

Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

The last time a Republican president launched an unpopular war of choice and crashed the economy the backlash lasted four years before the country got bored and forgot, and that was when was the US was much less polarized.

Today in “Juan Linz was right and presidentialism was a grave mistake”

you can't let the president order the government to pay him money and then allow him to keep it. you just can't.

Here's your friendly Tax Day reminder that not only did Republicans give massive tax breaks to the rich last year, but Trump’s billionaire Cabinet also axed the IRS’s new free filing tool, so now Americans have to pay more to get their taxes done.

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Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

I think you're both right.

I don't think simple and direct questions would change much. What looks to us on bluesky like the obvious bullshit of a kid who didn't do the reading appears to a lot of other people like something else.

Jesus was a very fine man very fine and he has lots of followers. Powerful followers in this country... And around the world countries and he was powerful as well. A god in fact. A god who used his power for good. Maybe the first god to do so. A lot of other people believe in mean gods not Jesus he

i think there's a lot of things that trump demonstrates, but one of them is that i'd really much rather have the instability of parliament-based states than have a leader who has to serve out a four year term no matter what

if the only way to get scumbags out of office is to trade expulsions one for one, well, there’s no shortage of scumbags to trade

Shout out to the team at HP that built the the probook's increase-screen-brightness -hotkey into the F4 key. Incredibly thoughtful design.

Here's the HD version

On what charge? Protesting a steal? A succulent Chinese steal?

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Did you say "get the average suburbanite to choose massive SUVs/pickups with massive batteries"?

I think what makes it very unfortunate is this:

LLM-AI is simultaneously:

1. Generating far more bugs and technical vulnerabilities due to rush to use them without thinking about long-term costs (not new problem but supercharged)

2. Immensely effective at *finding* bugs

TL;DR: "Different targets for different gases" sounds great, but targets are meaningless without penalties, and choosing the penalties for (e.g.) CO2 and CH4 effectively defines an exchange rate between CO2 and CH4, implying a GWP. We're back where we started, making the same value-based judgment.

This New Electric Car Nearly Fills Its Battery In Under 9 Minutes The Lynk & Co 10+ goes from 10% to 80% in just over 5 minutes when hooked up to a powerful enough charger.

Obviously the infrastructure to support multiple EVs drawing over a MW is an issue, but adding 250 miles of range in 5 minutes feels like a tipping point to me.

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What likelihood would you assign to those things happening on that schedule?

no one thinks it's weird that very little of the ad budget of a summer blockbuster is spent specifically trying to reach people who don't watch movies

Generally I think viewing nonvoters as a kind of salvation for materialists originates from the fact that there are certain priors that can't be challenged, which makes every other belief have to revolve around that regardless of the contortions you have to make to produce that result. In this case,

I can tell the United States doesn't have the world's best political system because we put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful government on earth.

On that note, I don't think people were ready for how deflating a Kamala presidency would've been as an experience, for similar reasons. No Senate and a court entering full monster mode would've ground down almost all progress.

Wins would've been rare and scarce.

I realize one of the things I “missed” out on culturally was believing in Bernie. It never crossed my mind the Revolution was neigh. His best case scenario if he had of won was running into the Roberts Court and a recalcitrant Congress, and his admin would have been staffed with rule following Dems

Most pertinent since at least least 2016 right?

San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited...

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

If we're talking about 2003 I really think we did Iraq to ourselves.

And the exact opposite is gonna happen