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Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
  • Just talking from my own experience with these two vehicles, they will continue creeping along until I feel the physical brake engage.

    It makes a certain amount of sense that a car that isn't moving can't generate power by stopping, and no regeneration means no regenerative braking. Were the car completely stopped it would have to start moving a little to get braking power, and imperfect efficiency would mean it's never going to be enough to stop the vehicle completely.

    I know what you're talking about with smaller electric vehicles, but I think that locking operates on different principles. I don't think many of those have regenerative braking because the math doesn't make it practical at that scale. I definitely don't put myself forward as an expert though.

  • US says return to pre-2014 Ukraine borders ‘unrealistic’ and European security is no longer top priority – Europe live
  • as with any war, there's never a solution that's going to please everyone.

    I hear Hitler was particularly displeased with the way WWII ended. Pleasing everyone ain't the goal here Skippy.

    Ending the war, by itself, is a good thing.

    If either side thought that, there wouldn't be a war. Obviously there are "bad things" associated with ending the war that are considered worse than continuing it.

    Do you think that if the Ukraine military and government surrendered completely today that it would mean peace? Not a chance. Russia would be oppressive and an uprising would begin the moment formal hostilities ended - as would be right and proper.

    Russia does not have the manpower - in training or just raw numbers - to effectively occupy and quell rebellion in Ukraine. The result would be a bloody quagmire for at least a decade, and it would arguably be worse than the current formal hostilities.

  • Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
  • Depends on the vehicle. My Nissan Leaf (full electric) and Chevy Volt (plug in hybrid) both brake primarily with regenerative braking, but pushing the brake pedal past a certain point engages conventional brakes.

    I don't think it's even possible to come to a full stop in either vehicle without engaging the physical brake. Regenerative braking doesn't do much when you get under 10 MPH or so.

  • What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI'
  • I won't say if I agree or disagree with you, but the argument you make is absolutely a legitimate one that we as a society should be considering in an ongoing process. Some level of forced integration was absolutely necessary after the end of slavery, but we all should want to live in a future where it's not necessary at all. How far along that scale we are, and how we push further in that direction are questions that current policy discussions largely ignore.

    However, we also have to contend with the fact that overt racism is still rampant and that a large part of this country doesn't want a reasonable national conversation on the topic. The noise coming from the right makes it next to impossible for these conversations to occur. Sadly, that's why the politicians who rely on bigotry embrace that rhetoric, whether they are personally racist or not.

  • Harris campaign ordered organizers to ignore voters who asked about Gaza.
  • Not to anywhere near the same degree. Primaries are LITERALLY the party's contest to do what they want with.

    And the general elections are LITERALLY whatever the two parties want them to be. Ballot access is the ballgame for third party candidates and there is LITERALLY nothing preventing them from writing access rules to make it nearly impossible to overcome.

    Nope. That's just not true.

    Ah, the "that's just like your opinion man" argument. I love that one.

    What you're advocating for is to change the rules of the game by letting the opponent continue to be the corrupt referee...

    How the fuck do you not get that the rules for national elections come from government fiat ruled by the existing two parties?

    I'm not saying that working outside of the party to effect real systemic change won't be extremely difficult, but your way is literally impossible.

    My way has LITERALLY had successes, including big ones like FDR and the New Deal. What successes does the third party approach have to show?

    Every damn election we have to pretend like the third party approach has never been tried before. It's been tried almost every election since forever and has a perfect record of abject failure.

    But what if everyone finally just did what your telling them to do, right? If only everyone would just vote how you want them to vote, your political strategy would work perfectly! Damn, you've solved politics!

  • Harris campaign ordered organizers to ignore voters who asked about Gaza.
  • I got news for you. (It shouldn't be news since I just said it, but whatever). General elections are also "controlled and legally manipulated" by the two parties.

    No matter what way you come at it, every obstacle to taking over a party also exists in ousting a party, only worse. Like I said, I wish the answer was as simple as a new party, but that's just not reality.

  • Harris campaign ordered organizers to ignore voters who asked about Gaza.
  • I wish it were bullshit. It's just math and some pretty basic political science. There is no way to get even the majority of the Democratic voters base to switch at the same time, and if the shift is gradual the vote is split (whomever you want to say is splitting it) and we lose everything.

    It's also a juvenile fantasy - the dream of just starting from scratch and getting right this time. There are tens of thousands of elected seats in state and federal government - nevermind local. For a party to threaten the Democrats, they would need a large percentage of those offices. State government runs elections and decides who gets on the ballot. You can't just bypass it. The moment you are a threat, ballot access will be pulled out of reach.

    Assuming you could put together a large enough coalition to overcome these obstacles, you are going to have a hell of a time keeping the same corrupting forces from taking over. How many times have we elected politicians with progressive rhetoric only to see them turn on us once elected?

    Anyone who has the clout to build a party from scratch, keep it on target, and displace one of two ruling parties would be more than capable of taking a party over, and would do so much more easily with a lot less risk.

  • Harris campaign ordered organizers to ignore voters who asked about Gaza.
  • At what point do Democratic voters get to sue Biden / Harris for gross professional neglegence? Setting aside the morality of supporting genocide, the level of sheer political incompetence and mismanagement that led us to this result is mind boggling.

    Remember this the next time the Democrats tell us that a real primary isn't needed, or the next time they put a thumb on the scale to push a particular nomination. The Democratic establishment is entirely unworthy of their positions.

  • How come mosquitoes haven't evolved to not irritate it's victims during the biting process?
  • It's a common rhetorical shortcut to anthropomorphize evolution. Doing so doesn't necessarily indicate that the writer doesn't understand how evolution works. It's just cumbersome to repeat an explanation of random mutation and natural selection in every discussion of evolved trait.

    Neither creatures nor evolution get to "decide" to develop a trait but, as countless evolutionary arms races show, useful traits and refinements do tend to happen in a way that evokes a sense of conscious decision making.

  • Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
  • Are you just reading every other sentence or something? I voted for Harris. I didn't need you to tell me to vote for Harris. I'd rather see Harris in prison than the Whitehouse, but I'd rather see Harris in the Whitehouse than Trump.

    But, if we want to talk about warnings, I warned people like you that preaching at voters was more likely to make them stay home than vote for your candidate. Pointing out why Harris was better than Trump on Gaza was good, but the constant preaching and harassing attitude could easily have lost Harris the election. The fact that it didn't end with the election is insane. It shows that your motivations were to virtue signal instead of helping Harris win.

  • Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
  • Context is important to discern meaning. Biden, the person, deserves nothing better than a jail cell. Harris too, on some level, though she's not as directly complicit. I voted for Harris anyways, because it was worth accepting that grave injustice to keep Trump out of power.

  • Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
  • Biden was the right vote over Trump, even on the issue of Gaza. However, it's fucked up to minimize Biden's culpability in the Gaza genocide this way. He wasn't indecisive, he was complicit and was actively involved in helping Israel lie and obfuscate. Maybe we as a country deserve Trump, or maybe we don't, but Biden and Harris did not deserve to win.

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