> Pretty sure the battery cells and battery management system is an EV is a bit more advanced than your phone.

Same lithium ion batteries. And how you use and charge the batteries matters. As well as hot and cold extreme weather.

>90%+ of the original range.

Exactly. The batteries degrade quickly. They may not completely fail, but after the first charge they start degrading. You'll lose 10% of the charge capacity and range of the vehicle in the first two years.

Replacing the batteries is extremely expensive. And can cost up to $20k.

The batteries in my last cell phone lasted 5 years before they couldn't be charged anymore. Had to get a new phone.

My last gas car lasted 23 years.

So was Joe Biden.

I wonder if these numbers are actually true. Biden admin has lied before.

"Biden second-quarter job numbers off by 1 million, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank says"

WH Claim - “The economy created more than 1.1 million jobs in the second quarter, or around 375k jobs per month,” the White House said in a statement on July 22.

Reality - Job growth was “essentially flat” in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/16/biden-administrations-claim-1-million-jobs-added-s/

The Resort was pretty good.

It's one of those "who had the motive" mysteries.

>The European Union was forced to realize that they can no longer rely on imported fossil fuels.

They are importing natural gas from the US now.

"In January 2022 imports reached the highest monthly, amounting to 4.4 billion cubic metres."

It's a shame that Russian pipeline mysteriously blew up.

You don't see them much in the US. But traveling around Central America, these "zoo restaurants" are really common. And the conditions are always really sad.

Per capita income in Baltimore City is $32k. "The rich" left a long time ago.

Half a century ago, Baltimore had a competitive two-party political system. One party systems breed corruption.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—It was a sticky Thursday afternoon in the middle of summer break when dozens of teenagers walked through the doors of their high school. One of the world’s most dominant teams was about to start math practice.

There was probability in one classroom and pre-algebra next door, code-breaking down the hall and number theory around the corner. And there were few adults to be found anywhere. The students would spend the rest of the day teaching each other.

I had also come here to learn from them. I wanted to understand how this otherwise average public high school in Florida had managed to win 13 of the last 14 national math championships.

The Buchholz High School math team is a dynasty built by one teacher with a strategy for identifying talent, maximizing potential and optimizing the American system of education.

Will Frazer popped out of his flaming red Corvette as his students were trickling into the classrooms. A bond trader on Wall Street in the 1980s, Mr. Frazer retired young and moved to Florida, where he became a scratch golfer and lived the dream for a decade. Then he got bored.

He took a job at Buchholz coaching golf, switched to teaching math, quickly formed a math team, applied the lessons of his experience in finance and turned a bunch of teenage quants into a fearsome winning machine.

“The difference between what I do now and what I did on Wall Street is that I used to get paid money,” said Mr. Frazer, 63. “Now we get trophies.”

The extraordinary thing about the Buchholz math team is how ordinary Buchholz is. It’s ranked 66th among schools in Florida and outside the top 1,000 across the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But at the annual championships of Mu Alpha Theta, the national math honor society, the Buchholz kids have trouble counting the shiny objects they lug home.

Yeah, it is. Everyone knows Peter Gabriel. But this song was never that popular. One of his best IMHO.

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7htoJAK7g

Naval Research Lab is still investigating cold fusion. And they own a patent on a device that looks very much like the tic tac UFO's recently reported.

"In December 2018, the U.S. Patent Office approved one of the strangest applications in its 231-year history, from a Navy engineer who was confident he could design nothing less than a physics-denying craft that could fly at massive speeds, not just across the sky but into outer space and even under the ocean."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-navy-try-to-build-its-own-ufo

Yup. More trippy than scary. That vacuum cleaner thing was bizarre.

I'm gonna have nightmares for years. Scary bears and scary lions. Oh my.

Disco Biscuits is another great live band in that genre.

Yoshimi is an epic album. I still remember the first time I heard it.

Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)

The rhythms on this album are just amazing.

I'd like to see AI that could create music the same way Dalle creates images. I've never seen anything remotely close. Most just use midi samples. And even that is not very good. I like Dalle images. But I hate AI music.