Depends on how much he gets offered.

https://www.kitv.com/news/local/flash-flood-evacuation-order-for-waialua-and-haleiwa/article_6a7b25ca-0534-4660-aba6-405c5a060a99.html

I had intended to reply to the person above you and deleted my post. sorry.

You are absolutely correct in your assessment though. We can travel from Tijuana, Mexico all the way to Canada on the 5 in our remaining EV with no issues actually. Sure, it requires planning where to stop to find a level 3 charger. but it’s doable.

Traversing the continent laterally is where EVs just fall short currently though and why we opted to get a hybrid.

We usually drive 400 miles straight without stopping and many times without seeing any civilization.

Further, most of the Western half of the USA has level 2 charging stations, not level 3 fast charge (L3 chargers exist yes, but are often relegated to areas way out of the way in major cities). So it’s no where close to just ‘taking a break’, it’s sitting there at Maveriks or Love’s or some random Target/walmart for hours next to Fred in his model 3 jacking off to porn while Tony in his Rivian on the other side sleeps.

Maybe it will be worth it in a decade when EVs can fast charge in under 30 minutes at a station in BFE Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Minnesota for example.

For now however, the entire thing is not exactly advantageous for a family of 5 travelling 3,000 miles twice a year. Especially with young children.

We usually drive 400 miles straight without stopping and many times without seeing any civilization.

Further, most of the Western half of the USA has level 2 charging stations, not level 3 fast charge. So it’s no where close to just ‘taking a break’, it’s sitting there at Mavericks for hours next to Fred in his model 3 jacking off to porn while Tony in his Rivian on the other side sleeps.

Maybe it will be worth it in a decade when EVs can fast charge in under 30 minutes at a station in BFE Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Minnesota for example.

For now however, the entire thing is not exactly advantageous for a family of 5 travelling 3,000 miles twice a year. Especially with young children.

I wish that were true, but it’s not.

As a UNIX Admin w/ 30+ years of UNIX admin experience, I am literally required to use Windows 11 for work.

Yes, I have my Fedora system running XFCE for work too (it’s also my vagrant test bed), but I like millions of others am required to use winslop and it’s how work requirements go sometimes.

I love EVs and still lease one, but they’re horrible for family’s needing to travel thousands of miles to take holiday/vacation or to see family.

Broke down and literally just sold my Kia EV6 to get a Toyota Highlander Hybrid: zero regrets. There’s still real world use cases for gas cars still.

‘Meta will shut down’

Hurray! oh? There’s more to the title? Damn.

Sauron has returned.

IRGC are as shitty as Trump btw.

TL;DR:

AI bots and AI agents destroyed it.

Sincerely a real problem and I as a sysadmin for various www sites: I loathe them daily.

If Cisco, F5 etc could invent a way to block these bots at the firewall and load balancer level, they’d make billions.

If you haven’t seen it, watch Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! on HBO Max. Jerry Seinfeld is on it several times.

Thankfully there’s more than one Mom and Pop shop. So our sneakers (and Sienfelds) will eventually show up somewhere…

Good memories. Now I have to go full ‘no soup for you’ on my kids tomorrow.

Jealous. I wish I could do that, but I neither have the space nor the money for a good espresso machine. I’m a major fan of Breville btw.

I love my Lavazza coffee blend. I grind and brew it as often as I can. However, I have days where I hit the fuckit button at 5am and have to buy coffee somewhere.

Even as an American, I’ve stopped drinking this garbage years ago.

Virtually every Mom and Pop shop tastes better at this point so do yourself a favor and support a local small business instead.

San Diego?

Higher Priority = US Pentagon requests for more AI role playing with bombs.

Sorry, tinfoil hats aren’t my fashion style.

1979: Iran overthrows Supreme Shah Monarchy and installs Qom Clerical rulers, vowong never to return to Monarch rulers.

You know that was the CIA, right?

We keep deposing and murdering your leaders and you keep picking the wrong ones.

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a CIA FAILURE. Absolutely nothing more. The CIA didn’t expect Khomeini’s popularity to be as strong as it was, but neither did my Mom’s family who left Tehran in 1979. Fuck the Khomeini and Qom empire.