Hmm, good question, and a quick google later:
Chinese EVs may not have to pass USDOT crash tests, but they do have to pass Euro NCAP crash tests, and Chinese NCAP crash tests, which are similar.
And a lot of them did quite well in that regards.
And and they also have to pass however Canada does crash tests as well.
“The source of the contamination is unclear at this time,” a Kaiser Permanente spokesperson said in a statement. “Per the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, there is low risk to the community.”
I thought this video was fun.
The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle through Paris, setting 10000 km as that quarter of the Earth’s polar circumference.
There was the navigation rationale for setting the meter/metre at the length that it is, but the original and subsequent definitions proved to be inconsistent and difficult to measure precisely.
I used Alcohol 120%, which was based off DaemonTools. Eventually I learned how to make my own “mini disc images” to load on my virtual CD drive, because some little bit on the CD was all the games installed on hard drive were checking for, with regards to copy protection.
Those were the days!
NES and SNES games fit on a 3.5" floppy disk, and there were piratey disk drive peripherals that you could insert into the cartridge slots on those systems. The peripheral had a cartridge slot on top, so you inserted the cartridge, copied the game to floppy, or floppies, and gave those to your friends, as they gave you their copies. You could rent game cartridges from video stores.
PS1 games you just installed a modchip and then you could play CD-R copies of game disks
PS2 they had the flip top cases, and “magic disc” that was a special disk printed with the “official authentication code” but then ran a program to stop the drive, allowing you to lift up the lid, then press a button to load whatever game was on the CD-R/DVD-R copy.
For PC Games there was the mighty GameCopyWorld that allowed you to patch games to bypass CD/DVD disc checks. If you had the right tools, you could make your own virtual CD, bypassing the risk of viruses from rando downloading.
Even before that, people could write fully working games by hand, and shareware was fully functional before it all became crippleware or nagware.
These days, you can’t play tic-tac-toe without the game connecting to a server, and forcing you to log in after watching 30 minutes of ads, and that’s after you’ve paid your monthly subscription fee.
It is not easy to (make a “bigger fuel tank”) with a battery.
As battery technology improves, more energy storage can be packed into the same space.
Let’s take a current 3000mAh rechargeable Li-ion AA battery, vs older 2000 mAh versions in the same format.
If you look even further back at older tech NiCad batteries, those topped out at 1000mAh for AA’s
Now whether your vehicle’s charging electronics can handle the greater capacity, much less different battery technologies, that’s another story.
I would love it if I could drop a shiny new semi-solid-state battery into a used EV, and gain all the benefits.
I didn’t know May Day was a thing this year.
You can go inside the double decker bus!
And walk inside the phone booth!
The pillar box/post box at the driveway looks a bit dodgy, like it was welded together from sheet metal.
You escorting your minor children is understandable, but this allows anyone to the gates, with advance TSA application and ID.
I’m glad to hear there’s now a low calorie alternative to fries.
True, this is a common 4-panel “story”, but the last panel saves it from being completely generic.
With naked dressing, Hollywood doesn’t even pretend to titillate anymore.
It’s a local brand with multiple storefronts around the Bay Area, and some stores like Mollie Stones carry it.
I’ve never been to the original store on MacArthur in Oakland, but I have stopped by an ice cream store in Orinda that carries it plenty of times and have seen it elsewhere
I think there’s a flaw in that plan…
They’re already out there.
Lately, (AI MAGA girl creator Sam) says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
Female MAGA influencers tend to do well on such platforms for a few reasons. They’re a relative rarity in the MAGA movement: Unlike their Gen Z male counterparts, 18- to 29-year-old women overwhelmingly skew liberal. Young MAGA women are therefore “more attention-grabbing,” Wirtschafter says, citing the uproar over the likely AI-generated “Swifties for Trump” photo Trump posted on TruthSocial during the 2024 campaign as one example.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” ((AI-generated MAGA girl creator Indian male med student) Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
The palpable contempt that the AI-MAGA girl creator felt for his customers…
There’s usually some way to watch livestreams.
For sports, there’s apps like Sopcast, Acestream, Kodi, Veetle, also any number of dodgy streaming websites that change all the time.