No one is being crushed around here.

#68 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2024-05-10 09:19 AM | FLAG:

Ask more people. Start with aspiring homeowners.

^^ Also why the Biden admin is telling Ukraine to not attack Russian oil infrastructure, but they're doing it anyways.

Government fiscal policy is the biggest driver of inflation. The desperate attempt to never take responsibility for bipartisan unsustainable spending that's stuck the economy with high interest rates the government won't put into inflation calculations makes it worse while trying to make it seem like it's not.

Amex Centurion Lounges are pretty okay. "Free food and drinks", but they're always on the other side of security so better have a boarding pass to get to it.

You know people are being crushed by inflation and gas prices when these articles come out to tell everybody how great they're doing.

And then when a door

#4 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2024-05-09 11:39 AM | FLAG:

You should be old enough to remember AAF 243. They made movies about it.

I didn't hear this from you when Musk was having issues?
But as I stated, this is how technology advances.

#6 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT 2024-05-09 12:09 PM | FLAG:

SpaceX engineering has never had concerning issues, minus that Starship test that was slow responding to the self-destruct, Falcon is a lot of COTs repackaged with landing legs. It's the business model that's sus.

It's all in the linked article. It won't fit in the headline.

#5 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2024-05-09 11:46 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

"Sticky valve grounds Starliner rocket"

Hybrid tech needs to develop a way to make more smoke and noise before it will be fully mainstream.

#5 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2024-05-08 01:28 PM | FLAG:

A large number of the highest performance road cars on the planet are already hybrids. LaFerrari, Porsche 918 Spyders, Merc AMG One, lotus evija.. using hardware that's been improved in Formula 1 since they adopted hybrids in 2014. The thermal efficiency of the engines went from 35% to over 50% in just 10 years and those improvements are trickling down into street cars.

I mean I get your point that many overhyped full EVs before the grid was ready.
But to say the EV hype was completely wrong isn't accurate either as Hybrids are skyrocketing.

#3 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2024-05-08 12:26 PM | FLAG:

Colloquialism. Nobody called a Hybrid an EV until the advent of the Big Battery Car, which is what US consumers except from the acronym EV.

Over here trying to find why because the headline, summary, and tweet don't say it..

A valve failed testing on the rocket portion of the stack.

"The decision came after the United Launch Alliance team, which assembled the Atlas V rocket that Starliner will ride to space, identified an issue with a valve on the second stage, or upper portion, of the rocket."

That's how it's supposed to work in rocketry. Test, fix, test, then fly.

NATO has been shown to be weaker than advertised.

#52 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER AT 2024-05-09 03:17 AM | REPLY

It's the opposite. It has proved that NATO air dominance would take the 7 to 1 trade Ukraine is making now into 700 to 1.

The only company that didn't buy the EV hype and stayed the course on hybrids is profiting from it?

Shocked.

Leathermans have blades.

If it was Argentinian that would make more sense.

Is here to "Stop the White Genocide"

...has a Mexican last name.

Indeed. Pesky rich people. Better to cede space to Russia and China.

It's pretty clever. It's a lot harder to dig this up and turn it into rocket bodies.

I'm telling ya, Bibi is taking his leadership cues from Pooty Poot.

#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-05-05 01:22 PM | FLAG:

You sure it's not FDR's Office of Censorship after Pearl Harbor?

First: Their fair share used to be 91%.

#19 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2024-05-05 02:21 PM | REPLY

That wasn't their effective rate.

Not that it matters. If every billionaire is taxed at an effective rate of 100%, it can't come close to keeping up with govt spending.

Troops thanking sweet orthodox baby jesus they're not fed to the grinder in Ukraine.

Battery Swap was Elon Musk suckering enough California politicians to scam them out of state funds for a project they never had any intention of making.

It's so far from simple. It SOUNDS simple, and you can gimmick a presentation enough to fool politicians and get paid for it. They don't exist because the economics and logistics are insane.

With a lipo battery it's more about the age of the battery chemistry than cycle count. You can put a lot of cycles on in the early days with minimal long term damage as long as you charge at 1C (1 hour), but as you pass the 7 year mark the degradation ramps significantly, capacity drops, and charging cycles accelerate the decay. Fast charging murders lipo battery chemistry. Giant lipo cars are Elon Musk suckering enough people into a solution to a problem that was being addressed by far more competent organizations.

All that education, no common sense.

You can't have an army of MBAs without Academia.