Oh but there are “checks” and there are “balances”, don’t you know! They would never let something like this happen!

Here’s one local to me. Slightly old but quite relevant.

Occasionally, but I work from home and my wife’s commute is fairly short, so we can often time the roughly once a week charging so it’s during the day.

Oh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn’t helping anything, but don’t call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don’t doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.

I love it. It’s a 2023 model, so the new shape. It’s the vehicle of choice for nearly all trips we take over a '20 Subaru Outback. Charging is slowly expanding in the province so it’s becoming even easier to plan drives. Really the biggest frustration is our biggest city only has 50 kW fast charging.

Oh, I agree it won’t be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.

I’ve heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there’s likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it’s all one network open to everyone.

Also it’s a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because “it’s socialism”. It’s already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.

Anecdotal, but my personal experience with an Ioniq 5 in -28C increased the power consumption by about 50% over summer driving. My test was about 42 km, done with comfortable, driver-only cabin heat on a flat highway with no wind.

Average highway consumption is about 20 kWh/100km, that test was 29.3 kWh/100km.

Saying that, an EV is quite practical in Saskatchewan, Canada. Charging is finally getting to a point where that extreme winter range limitation is less of an issue. Having a second ICE vehicle does take the pressure off if one absolutely has to travel when it’s that cold out though.

Your grid is, perhaps. And I happily charge my EV from my installed solar most times when I need to charge.

Rather than doubling your system generation size, it would be better to store the generated electricity. You can have a massive system, but it still won’t generate anything at night.

Hey guys, many other countries have figured out that healthcare doesn’t have to be a privatized, for-profit nightmare. Perhaps that’s an option worth exploring.

The asterism gives me big Splinter Cell vibes and I’m definitely OK with that.

I think the context is more that this is first person Amnesty International has named as such, not the first person who could be considered more generally a prisoner of conscience.

The OP article seems to confuse this. The source article from Amnesty is more clear.

It looks like this is the same car, they note it’s badged as the Grandeur in other markets.

I’m a fan of the look of newer Hyundai models. The Ioniqs and this definitely move the brand away from the foreign budget brand they’ve been traditionally known as.

Definitely an effective way to make a political ally.

However, it’s possibly intended to be that way. Now he can tell his base that he asked the NDP to join him and they refused.

He is saying, “idk what I saw but maybe it was something,” though. He’s telling of his experience, he doesn’t say “yes, they most definitely exist”, but “I’ve experienced something that was nothing like I’d ever experienced and I know of no animal that could fit the experience I had.” Him being a very experienced bushman brings quite a bit of credibility to that statement.

He’s not challenging people on whether Saskquatch exist or not, he’s challenging whether you think the multitude of people who have had such experiences and are sharing them with others, like him, are all lying about what they’ve experienced, completely fabricating a story of something that just happens to have commonalities with stories from others across borders and generations.

I wouldn’t say he latched on. Maybe the directors commentaries provide more of that background than the actual episode, but he’d often call Todd out if he would say, matter of factly, that something was most definitely Saskquatch, and he didn’t appreciate that sort of thing when trying to make an objective, more investigative film.

At the time, I imagine Todd was one of the more available resources Les had, so at least it was somewhere to start.

Les Stroud’s (aka Survivorman) series on this is quite interesting and I think his stance on it is rather appropriate. He has no proof to confirm or deny the existence of such beings, but goes on to say that to flat out deny their existence is to call each and every one of those with stories to tell, including him, a liar.

I’d recommend anyone interested to check out his Bigfoot series. It’s all available free on youtube.

For sure, a level 2 is much faster. My point was more if you go to say a cottage for the weekend, you’re still able to plug in there and would likely be close to full in the 2-3 days you’re parked there.

In my Ioniq 5, I’d be pretty much full with level 2 (240V) overnight, but the level 1 (120V) would only get around 20%. But, the slow charging isn’t too much of a concern if I’m staying somewhere for a couple days.

All I’m saying is that it’s possible to fuel your car nearly any time it’s parked.

Not even just home charging. There are often options to plug in at most destinations, even if it is just 120V. Which if you’re spending a day or two is perfectly fine.

Folks often don’t consider just how long their car sits parked.

I heard a podcast with the author of this book and the conclusion was similar. He recommends no smartphone before 16. Dumb phones for simple communication can be whenever.

I haven’t read the book yet, but the podcast discussion was fairly informative. I think it was Hidden Brain’s Escaping the Matrix episode.