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10 hours agoIt’s more of a crescent swath of blue than is drawn here. For example, the blue should extend down and around through Austin, Houston, and probably taper at New Orleans.
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6·19 hours agoDoes Vimeo own their own their own infrastructure, or just lease streaming storage from AWS/Google/Whomever?
If the former, it could be a good takeover target.
Thats what e-sim is going to ruin. Cant just move your cards around. Now you have to contact the carrier.
3·2 days agoEA ripped out their chargers at the Walmart in town near me. They kept the ones at the Walmart on the interstate though. Maybe it ended up being more profitable?
WalMart says it’s building out its own charging network. I suspect this is to charge their electric delivery vans without having to pay anyone else. I haven’t seen any of these yet, so I dunno if it’s available to customers to use.
One year ago, Americans also elected a large number of additional officials. And none of them have done anything to stop him.
If wages really are up, it’s only because they’re chasing inflation. I have my doubts, especially when you factor in wages versus inflation over the past 30 years you might’ve gotten a slight game in the past couple of months, but it’s nothing when measured cumulatively.
8·2 days agoSuch a braindead ruling.
And almost as ugly as a Tesla Cybertruck! Great job, kia.
Because of course it is. Everyone’s forgotten how to build anything but SUVs. 🙄
Is this for apartment dwellers who own EVs? I don’t think that’s a very big owner demographic.
Most people charge their car at home and/or at work. And since most cars have “tanks” that go over 200 miles when full, they rarely need to charge in town.
Where more chargers are needed are at comfortable stops on interstates and highways. Places like Starbucks where you will be finished charging by the time you stop, plug in, grab a bite, and use the restroom. People need fast chargers on long trips out of town. Not a ten minute stop at Kroger to pick up bread and eggs.
They keep building these charging sites in town, and at places you don’t want to hang around — like gas stations. And they sit empty.
Racing to where the ball was, not where it’s going.
17·4 days agoAmong other things, the conductor “counts time” to make sure everyone keeps the same beat. Like a human metronome in front of the band.
The conductor stands in front of the musician, so they can hear the integrated sound of the band/orchestra. When you are sitting in the drum section, or with the trumpets, etc — you cant really hear anything but yourself. The conductor has to act as the ears of the entire thing to make sure the sounds are integrating properly. Much like the monitors a rock band uses. This is the pointing, lifting, and dampening motions you see integrated into movements made with the baton.
What you aren’t seeing when you are watching him shake his baton is all the prep that went into this before the actual performance. The conductor’s movements are “reminding” the performers what they worked on/discussed during rehearsals. Much like the director of a movie directs the actors, cinemetographer, etc. This is him reminding a performer or section to play louder, softer, whatever, for that section of the music like they talked about earlier.
So when you see the audience applauding the conductor, they are applauding all the work that went into it. both during rehearsal and at the final performance.
Hope this helps
I think the spin on it being dangerous is more “Look at these brave heroes working hard to bring you oil! Such sacrifice! Like brave soldiers!”
People who watch this are unlikely to say, lobby for stricter safety regulations in the oil fields. They think the danger just has to be part of the job.
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Yep. Cobalt mining has been awful.
Thankfully the battery industry has been moving away from cobalt for the very reasons listed in the article, and because of scarcity and cost. Cobalt-free LFP and LiON batteries ship in EVs now, and Sodium ion is on its way (it will probably be used in grid storage first).
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5507156
https://www.acebattery.com/blogs/-do-lithium-iron-phosphate-batteries-contain-cobalt
https://thinc.blog/2023/04/14/next-up-sodium-ion-batteries-need-no-cobalt-no-nickel-no-lithium/
And when they outlast the car, they still work for off grid storage. And after that they go to the recyclers to be made into new batteries.
Yet another oversized and expensive SUV.