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Tesla model 3 shipped over 100k units in 2018. What the fuck you talking low volume and niche? People keep telling me they are cheaper to make. Which should mean they are cheaper to buy, or that there are huge margins on them. Except they are WAY more expensive to buy, and the manufacturers are having trouble making money on them if you believe what they say. I had the theory that it was weight reduction that cost, but look at the nissan leaf and versa note. Same chassis, $12k premium for electric. I'm not anti electric, I'm just anti believing in bullshit, and something stinks with the narrative that it's cheaper and easier. Also, if we exclude heavy trucks, construction equipment, motrocycles etc. And just transitioned passenger vehicles, AND we averaged 65kwh batteries, we have enough lithium reserves to get us through the next 20 years.... so.... Lots of obstacles.

Hmm do you are saying that electrics are cheaper to produce. That would explain why something like the Chevy bolt which is basically on par with a Honda fit, costs an extra ~$20k. Because it's cheaper to produce. Or the model 3 which is, if one is being honest, Mazda 6 levels of nice inside, can't seem to get actual cars out the door under $50k and can't turn a profit at that price.

If you are contemplating a future of eating mass quantities of sorghum, I highly suspect that if that oil is edible you are eating it. Also gator is pretty tasty. Super tasty compared to starving or your 1987th batch of sorghum pancakes.

Proiducing lithium batteries isn't nearly as nasty as producing nickel cadmium batteries. Regardless, the ability to manage solid and liquid waste products is easier than dealing with gasses. I'm pretty sure a number of people that are pro-ev are aware they are shifting the pollution, they are accepting that they are shifting it to a less perilous or more easily managed form of pollution. EV powered off of coal is about as nasty as it gets. EV powered off of solar is a net win in the end. Or at least you get to export the misery to some shithole you don't have to visit. I think we will see extremely broad adoption of plug in hybrids in the next 20 years. Not just market offering, but buyer adoption rates. Straight up EVs still have a lot of logistical issues to sort out as people pointed out. One of the biggest is that even for short trips they are too expensive, and in an increasingly renting population, landlords don't give a shit about putting in charging stations in volumes that don't make your life suck. If we had more of a practical motorcycling culture the electric bikes that are beefier than a moped and probably on par with the utilitarian 250cc bikes in other countries, you could carry the small pack in with you and charge at your desk or in your apartment. They are practically priced commuting machines at $5k or less, and would let you leave the car to be for fun if you bothered at all.

It's a prion disease. A prion isn't a virus or bacteria, it's a protein. We don't really know how they work, just that they are essentially misfolded versions of other proteins, and that for some of them, when you have a supply of the misfolded proteins the ones that are normal and innate in your system start becoming misfolded as well. The mechanism is completely unknown as all we have now are provably incomplete theories on how they propagate. The only reason 700 degree heat works is it carbonizes all the proteins, which breask down their peptide chains. No chains, no folding, correct or incorrect.

Any liner lock, frame lock, button lock, bolt action, axis lock, arc lock, ball bearing lock, paul lock, and a few others are definitely one hand opening and closing provided they come with a hole or stud on the blade for opening. Personally I like the spyderco knives with the ball bearing lock. It's like the axis lock, but uses common coil springs instead of the omega shaped leaf springs.

Hmm filter salt out of water. I'd like to see that filter. We planning on desalinating all runoff? Because most desalinization processes create brine.. so you'd have to store that someplace. Or completely distill and then just store the solids.

I think the question is how busy do you want to be, and how one off do you want your guns to be? IMO the rifle world seems to closer to pumping out a niche commodity than making things really custom. There are more artsy and cool 1911s just sticking to machining than there are rifles. Most of the bling on rifles seems to be relegated to the guy doing the stock. I've also never met a competent 1911 smith who wasn't as busy as he wanted to be or more regardless of what state they called home. And the business has space for everything from the commodity pick from the menu type smiths to straight up competitions of creativity. Also in NJ, there are a lot more locations to function test a 1911 than a hyper accurate bolt gun. For bolt guns it's always seemed to me that there are a handful of "commodity" smiths. I.e. nice and built, but a stocked item you just buy and or pick form the list and wait. Other than that it's I know a guy who knows a guy. And good or bad that guy never seems to be all that busy. On top of that, for a lot of people who might have dropped 4k on a rifle, the factory PRS style offerings in chassis systems seem to me like they might eat into that market.

Push comes to shove warranty time, you will find a number of makers actually put the threshold for warrantable oil consumption at 1qt per 1000 miles. Which is insane, but it is what it is. 1/3 of a quart every 1200 is is 1 quart ever 3600. Pretty much every car I have ever bought would put up a fight at a figure of 1qt per 3000 miles. My $0.02 on subaru and all manufacturers really is that there's a culture to manufacturing and a culture to how they handle warranty. Initial quality is a matter of the culture with regard to engineering and QC. The dealer experience is about the culture to sales and warranty coverage. For subaru, they care about the driveline, weight, and price. They engineer around this. Interiors are meh and expect rattles to show up rapidly or over time. Their approach to suspension and brakes is also kind of meh for most of their vehicles. Their approach to electronic gadgets is to be very conservative. Whcih usaually means they work as intended for quite some time, but they are often behind the competition and quirky. Initial mechanical quality with regards to driveline and basic function of the vehicle should be good. They have a line they draw regarding warranty, and on the ok side of that line the dealer can act pretty freely. Once you cross that line it is a fight, and there is NO help from the mothership as they are the problem. These kinds of problems will either never be addressed and declared "operating as designed" or if there looks like a viable class action suit, they will all of a sudden become the warranty fairy and drop new short blocks on you a year out of warranty to fix the problem. For 2019 subaru is getting into large panel infotainment units like the other makers trending towards tesla. Based on my experience with their electronics, I'm mildly concerned. They usually want things appliance like and durable, but it is not their area of competence.

Sig has a web page. Shows the new holeless design. SKU has an R2 at the end. I think going forward it's just the way it will be. https://www.sigsauer.com/store/p320-x-vtac.html

For me, they were the 1911 and XM177E2. Move on to teenage years and hte desert eagle and MP5 came into the picture. Still love the 1911 platform.

You aren't being scammed, they are more than likely. One way for things like that to happen, and it's usually medical bills and similar, is for someone old to either owe someone or for the company to be making claims against medicaid. Things approaching charity care where they have to show proof of billing attempt. Non legit is someone wants services and doesn't want collections agents to know where they are so they are using your address. Don't feel bad, they are using someone else's phone number too and they are getting it worse. I've had both happen to me. The phone thing is a giant pain in the ass. Every place will call and harass you. then it will turn into collections agents who won't believe that you aren't them. You will however learn how shockingly stupid and lazy people are. My favorite was being called about information on a mortgage application for person X. My answer was, this isn't X, they gave you a bogus number, they are lying to you and I currently get collections agent calls for them for at least four other debts. You would be an idiot to lend them money. Six months later the same mortgage company is calling me back asking why X hasn't paid any of their bills. I'm like. because you are morons and didn't listen to me when I told you they were trying to rip you off. Super fun. I did at some point have someone put my mail on hold at the post office, but no idea who. Nothing ever came that was new and interesting. However, I would recommend that you set up informed delivery with USPS in case someone is trying to use your address for something other than a black hole for bill collectors.

First "article" is just a means of of obfuscating the methodologies of sudies. It cites a meta-analysis of shitty studies. You should read some of the studies the APA is aggregating as to what is their metric for aggression. In one of them you want to know what "aggression and reduced empathy is?" How much hot sauce you put on someone else's food. Some of them equate "aggression" to acts significantly less severe than that. Like literally how much they were likely to complain about switching tasks later. Your next link says... shocker... that amongst a population of kids in jail for violent acts, they foudn that a lot of them played video games. Bet they drank water, ate bread, and were exposed to smog as well. Another longitudinal study found that there was more liklihood of kids who played violent video games going to the principals office for agressive acts. Sounds good. It''s cited int eh APA study. Hmm what's the rate? Video game exposure: boys & girls combined 40%. No violent video games? Boys 39%, girls 14%. Your third link is the press release for the study cited in the first link. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180116131317.htm It's no the negative side, but also shitty and typica. "Aggression" is choosing violent language to complete sentences. This site aggreagates some of the pertinent details of studies on both sides. They are mostly shit. Everyone wants a headline, and ethical guidelines and limited budget prevent any actual decent research. https://videogames.procon.org

https://reason.com/volokh/2019/01/22/supreme-courts-new-second-amendment-case This is a pretty good summary of what is being fought against in the case.

Hey man.. those in congress are there just for the lobbying money and the legal exemption from insider trading. You go there to get rich, not represent the people.

Dear god, let go of the video games. You do realize that people who play video games these days is basically.. Everyone. If it caused dangerous aberrant behavior, the crime rate would be shooting through the roof, not declining. One of the key issues is mental health, and our health care system in the US. Back in the 80s, your tax dollars funded a significant amount of charity care for metal illness. Today that's almost nonexistent. Back then if you wound up in court for doing questionable shit, it was a lot easier to remand you for observation and treatment than it is today. The net result is problem people get flagged as problematic much, much later if at all.

If I were to bet on it I suspect the decision will look something like this. It's the right to keep and bear arms. This means that you have the right to own them and use them. They will likely refer to the case history around DC and the storing it disassembled rule. Point out that a ban on transporting to a location of manifestly lawful use such as any place of repair outside of NYC, any recreational range outside of NYC, or any place where one can legitimately hunt with the firearms outside of NYC is a defacto ban on the most restrictive meaning of bearing arms. At that point you will see a very clear statement that the NYC law is bullshit and null and void. Worst case that is all you get. Really good case is that you get a scathing diatribe calling the various lower courts disingenuous shitheels for pretending they don't understand previous rulings and undermining the protection of law and the entirety of the bill of rights with their behavior. Followed up by a very well defined legal test as part of the RULING to determine if an infringement is acceptable or forbidden that would be hard for a lot of laws to pass without being significantly altered or eliminated entirely. I think we will get something anywhere between those two points. Absolute best case would require them to rule beyond the scope of the complaint. This would be out of the norm. However I guess it could be possible that as part of the legal test they put forth a test that essentially declares regulatory legal construction that operate from the notion that the protected right is inherently illegal to practice without specific approval of the government. This would basically kick the shit out of a lot of gun control laws. I do not see good odds of this outcome. The question to ask yourself is how much do you feel the court is filled by people with a conviction and does that conviction jibe with protecting the second amendment. Or are they all partisan. Because if they praty loyal, the party wants the RKBA crowd held prisoner with no alternative as much as the democrats want to hold welfare recipients prisoner with no alternative. For the party politics, to make the GOP side of the house happy, they need to mint more gun owners, but keep them dependent on the GOP winning things.

That would be very bad. However, I see it as unlikely as if they were fine with the lower court's decision, they would have simply let it stand.

You won't get an absolute like that. The broadest impact we could hope form this is that they establish a well defined legal test that lower courts can't squirm out of.

That would probably be because those folks are pirating content and then charging you for it. Two of them even encroach on trademarks of others to present themselves. If you like the content you watch, and want more of it, these outlets are helping to ensure that doesn't happen. You are also, in a fairly traceable manner, engaging in a an activity that is definitely illegal for the provider, and a couple court cases away from being definitely illegal for the consumer. The weight of the house of mouse, comcast/nbc/universal, etc. are working hard on the side that will make the consumption of a pirated stream very clearly illegal. If for any reason it does not work or live up to what they say, you have zero recourse. You are out your money. This really isn't that different from the legitimate over the top IP streaming options, but there is more reason for it to cease working. You guys do what you want. I'm just making sure your decisions are informed.

I'm going to guess it is a standard module to support compliance with the EU cookie law and GDPR. I suspect it is not configured with a policy statement.

And here I thought it was just a shitty knock of of a quiet place.

Yeah I linked that. My point is would you have gotten that statement, for what it is worth, without putting words in their mouth? One of the problems we have with RKBA activism in this state is we are reactive at best and do that poorly in general. We are very poor at making the system react to us. This is an example of a way of doing that. To put the worst possible spin on shit they do, and force them to do something to make that seem less true. I'd equally welcome someone demonstrating how to motivate the rank and file effectively too. I suspect a big part of the problem is that between the cost of living and overpopulation NJ is just a fiscal and mental grinder that has people jsut trying to get through the day rather than make long term plans.

If you have to go buying parts to make the mag work... well that's not part of the magazine. At some point your are manufacturing/remanufacturing a new mag out of parts. IF you remove any part of a compliant hex mag. Without buying a part that is NOT a replacement part for that hexmag, you will not have a reliably functioning magazine.

My $0.02. 1) iPhone. Seriously, not having VZW in between you and your OS updates, NOR having the hardware manufacturer there is worth cash money. But you don't like that, so.. 2) PIxel 2 family of phones. 3) Pixel 3 family of phones (pixel 2 is less problematic right now, but that'll probably come to an end in 6 months to a year.) 4) One+ You get google telemetry and Chinese telemetry, but it's usually pretty technically sound and minimally fucked with OS fork (that's been increasingly less true as time passes, but hey). 5) Samsung high end stuff. More fucked with than One+ in terms of proprietary stuff and bloatware. Higher priced too, but their phones are compatible and supported. Lots of accessories. Knox is pretty solid and honest at this point if it has to integrate in a BYOD environment, and well.. you might get an update in 6 months to year for any security issues or bugs. You get google telemetry and korean telemetry. This is based on being on the primary team managing over 35k mobile devices in a BYOD work environment. I fucking hate android. When shits broken it's 87 layers of not my problem whereas we can get apple and other vendors together to fix bugs in interoperability. It's not fun, it's not fast, but it is at least possible. If you are going to be in a BYOD environment and want to be unhappy buy LG (their flagships are consistently some of the most fucked flagship devices on the market, but they usually have nice screens and look slick to help you make a regrettable decision in the store) or the cheap huwai and blu phones.