For some reason, I was thinking that Nissan was re-badging an EV that was developed by a Chinese automaker.

No, this N7 was developed by Nissan’s Chinese joint venture.

Well, good for them! Nissan is struggling financially and needs all the help they can get

They should be able to use their existing dealership networks, name recognition, and other infrastructure ahead of Chinese automakers who are just getting off the boat.

Rs: “Let’s make absolutely positively sure that Chinese EVs will eventually crush our domestic automakers”

I just noticed an electric semi truck on the road for the first time.

It was quiet compared to an ICE semi, of course.

All he really wanted was the Happy Meal toy.

What are you talking about? I don’t see anything right wing in there.

Quite the usual mainstream California liberal stories like https://lookout.co/five-years-after-george-floyds-death-new-photo-exhibit-explores-evolution-of-santa-cruzs-black-lives-matter-movement/story

And a letter to the editor https://lookout.co/we-must-resist-courthouse-arrests-and-create-sanctuary-spaces/story

And pretty good local coverage as far as I can tell.

Too bad, the main political proponent of this light rail line has died.

Santa Cruz could have had this:

A photo from the Coast Futura demonstration project in 2021

https://xcancel.com/CoastFutura

Just about everywhere on the planet except the US and Canada apparently.

We can’t build shit in America…

Oh debianastro made an alt account, or an alt instance. That explains how this got past my block filter.

Subtle propaganda for diverting public school funds to segregated private schools through vouchers.

Thereby further weakening unionized teachers, and the middle class as a whole.

Fuck Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos

So I finally managed to track an Outbaking rugelach down, and it’s pretty tasty!

Pretty much ideal to go with a coffee.

I hate my Samsung S25.

The hardware is lightning fast, but this OneUi garbage fucks up multiple apps, even Voyager that I am using to type this right now.

They especially seem to fuck over the Fossify open source apps.

The redundant Samsung apps (Phone, Messenger, Calendar, Photos, App Store, et al) are garbage clones of the vanilla Google Android apps.

I never had this many problems with my Motorola, which did use vanilla Google Apps

Lecterian slip.

How many people actually own shortwave-receiving radios though?

Consumer Reports (CR) is frustratingly short on full ratings for EVs.

It’s like EV buyers aren’t CR subscribers or something.

CR is really down on reliability for most EV models, assigning most of them straight-in-the-middle average for predicted reliability. And quite often lower.

The one exception seems to be the 2025 BMW i4, which earns the best ratings for both predicted reliability and owner satisfaction.

Suspiciously so.

Sometimes when CR’s data patterns appear like that, it’s a mirage due to some other factor. Particularly when the manufacturer’s other models don’t join them.

For example, the 2025 BMW i5 has a more typical bang average predicted reliability rating.

In terms of incomplete ratings, they seem to like the 2025 Toyota Mirai, and 2026 Lexus ES, but those are likely to come back down to average as the results come in.

p.s. CR is in the US, and for US consumers, so they don’t get to rate Chinese EVs like BYD, etc.

In case you were wondering, like I was:

Foals will begin to eat grain, if accessible, within the first month.

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/foaling-management-and-care-of-the-nursing-foal.html

3000 per day over 3 days.

But yeah, new org, new venue.

Little pigs plead with state for subsidies to upgrade wood and straw houses.

Grandmas living alone in the woods terrified.

Depriving everyone else of physical cash would just hasten the spread of electronic transactions into the corners of the global economy where it doesn’t already reach: Drug cartels, rural villages in 3rd world countries, etc.

And with that, lack of privacy from prying eyes in governments, banking, and corporate databases.

The infrastructure to accept and process cash would quickly deteriorate faster than you, the one sole cash owner, could spend it, and therefore distribute cash back around the world for it to become useful again.

By the time the physical cash could get sorted, spent, and make its way from your one location, to most places around the world, essentially cash would have become almost worthless, because alternative payment methods would be made, and nobody would be used to using cash anymore.

World Of Warships had a great selection of Triremes back then