Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent “normal” people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

An EV engineer friend of mine said that this is specifically the Hertz Teslas because Tesla parts are expensive and sometimes hard to get. So when a Tesla breaks, they sell it rather than repair it.

I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

Ohm my god, right‽

I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like “it’s difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers” doesn’t say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And “checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure” seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

Long ago “drive” meant urging an animal to move forward. And “dialing” a phone number meant entering the “digits” by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

Words aren’t as static as you seem to think.

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BYD has a factory in California where they make electric buses and commercial trucks.

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A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

I’m going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak…

I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I’m not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.

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