They discuss this in the article. Used batteries are not their bottleneck, at least for this company. The issue is incorporating all the different designs/chemistry’s/states safely:

The company has more than one GWh of batteries ready to go and expects to add another five GWh this year. Ultimately, the bottleneck to scale isn’t battery supply — Redwood takes in more than 20 GWh of batteries each year. is the safety qualification process required to put batteries out in the field. Sun explained that the core architecture, racking, pack manager, and software can handle multiple chemistries and form factors, but getting them past hurdles like the rigorous UL 9540A fire safety testing Redwood recently passed in-house is another matter.

That’s TF2s medic in a nutshell. The number of randos who thing they can boss you around when you hold their life in your hands was hilarious. Turns out near everyone wants your help so you don’t have to put up with that random DPS who thinks they are king shit and get to dictate the fun for two people instead of one.

My favorite here is when they would ignore your planning in voice chat and demand an uber before leaping into a suicidal death. I would just let them die. Like, no dude, I’m not going to waste my charge on a gambit that will not work because “pew pew I’m cool” is your whole goal. The incessant “MEDIC!!!” spam for the rest of the round was like music to my ears.

Y’all want a medic after that? Go play one.

I know its owned by the right wing. I’m pointing out that they tried to talk out of both sides of their mouth on this and give him cover, but largely couldnt because Orban’s corruption is so blatent.

How so? Hes aligned with the EU, aligned with Ukraine, and wants Russia to kick rocks. Hes also talked about unfucking hungary’s courts, media consolidation and electrion rules that the outgoing facist rigged.

Just a couple of examples for anyone who wants to see some. A $200 million “privately funded” soccer field/academy that gave huge tax breaks to all companies involved in his home village of 1800 people. It seats 4000, more than double the towns residences, over an hour away from any large city. Orban is apprently a huge soccer fan, so im sure having a brand new stadium built in his tiny home town was just a coincidence.

This also included a $3 million, EU funded train that goes 3 miles from the village to another one that just so happens to have another of his familys palaces. Orban got EU funding for that train by promising it would have 2000 riders/day. Instead, in its first year, it had less than 2000 riders, total. Yes, instead of 730,000 riders/yr, it had 2000 riders/yr. It now just runs on weekends.

Also, apprently all highway work in the country is done though subcontractors that all buy stone from Orbans fathers stone mine at marked up prices.

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5773321

They try to “both sides” a bit but this is basically too lopsided. The article is mainly factual and talks about Orbans corruption and jury rigging of the government.

Flat bottom carbon steel woks solve this issue really well. I use the top pick there on an electric burner cooktop, and the thing gets stupid hot very, very fast and produces really good stir fry with the fine char that you expect from a wok.

Accuracy is about the abilty to hit a specific target, Precision is about being able to repeat it.

Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.

You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.

There are minimal buffers, regardless of the part of the cycle. Crude may need to be refined, but its just enough crude to refine just enough into gasoline just in time.

Even the “strategic reserves” that they released cant meet the demands beause those systems cant process the cached oil fast enough either. The US can only process something like 1 million barrels reserve/day, so its not comperable to a 15 million barrell/day disruption either.

Even the “safety system” cant keep up because Its just cut corners all the way down.

Because most system are run on a “just in time” model of logistics that means you dont store enough stock to cover emergencies, because storing extra stock costs money and may depriciate in value. So instead you get only the exact amount you need, when you need it.

Since every system is basicslly optomized to this cutthroat, zero reduancy way, we cant really just “take the hit” when 20% of oil/food/etc disapears overnight. It would be like telling people to “just eat 20% less” or " just drive 20% less." Both good advive, but we are creatures of habit that build routines around systems, so when someone fucks a system over, it causes rippling chaos. So what happens when 20% of a daily resource goes away in our global, market economy? All prices go up up! Then people have to break habits, and/or start breaking politicians. Well, we are in stage 1 and barely in the bad polling/protest stage of 2.

Past the first generation of Leafs when battery chemistry was kooky, it looks like EV batteries are lasting long term really well. With the moving parts reduced from something like 850 in a ICE car to something like 35 in an EV, its entirely likely EVs last way, way longer.

Its clear they meant to make a very, very stupid threat, but im also sure they did it in the laziest, shittiest way possible.

The stupidity comes from trying to threaten a religious figurehead of a church of 1 billion people with assasination in our media enstrangled world when the president can’t even handle the bad polling from gas prices going up.

I have no doubt some of his inner circle would gladly murder the pope to make a point, but their evil is also grossly incompotent.

FEMA has some aces up its sleeve here. We may need to use waffle houses as anchor points though.

You are basically a rare edge case that makes current EVs a poor fit for your usage/requirements.

EVs make driving better for a vast majority of drivers, but not everyone.

Asking for basic rights doesnt mean you assume anything. Its not a zero sum game where trans people having rights means others have less, or that trans people cant have rights because other may not have them either. Thats a very weird way to make it “Us vs Them” when its just a basic ask all around.

Secondary to that is the fact that if you don’t agree with what trans people are saying, they exclude you from their spaces and conversations.

This is just JAQing off with more steps. Woe be it that the people whose mere existance is met with raw hostility dont put up with yet more bigotry or “just asking questions” rhetoric that they get literally everyday of their lives.

Does this derail what may be honest questions? Sure, but when you get 90% hate and 10% good faith and cant always parse the two, sometimes you filter out all 100% for your own safety.

Its accurate. Home sales are public information. All the retalor sites pull from the same data.

Im sure they just asked grok about pope murders so they could make a absolutely ludicrious threat.

Im a kodi fan personally, but Apple TV is apprently pretty nice.

They also have tailscale app support, so can drop the recommened jellyfin client and tailscale on the device and have a good “out of the box” setup for remote users.

Great review. Never heard of these, but they look to solve a pain point if you have mixed presta/scharder bikes.