If they do, it appears Russia attacked a treasure trove of voters recently.
Seriously, if Russia's best missiles can't avoid hitting such obviously non-military targets as graveyards, maybe they need to stop launching them; it is as if every launch is a war crime.
A study from my alma mater, Michigan State, has concluded that for a more electrified future with up to two million EVs on the road, about 66,000 more chargers will be needed in Michigan. Interestingly, that's about the number EVs on the road in Michigan right now.
But for perspective, there are just short of 200,000 gas stations in the U.S, and just over 6000 in Michigan serving about 2.7 million passenger vehicles, plus trucks, motorcycles, and other uses. Now if I do the math for my own vehicles, I find that about every 300-400 miles, or ten hours of driving, I will need to spend about ten minutes or less fueling the vehicle. So I have a drive: fuel ratio of about 60 or more. Each vehicle will require about 7 hours at the pump each year, so those 6000 gas stations will be used about 700 hours per year, or with five pumps per station, each pump will be used about 2.5% of the time.
In contrast, best practices for an EV indicate that for every 200-250 miles (you never want to run an electric until the batteries run out) or 5-6 hours of driving, you will recharge (level 2 charger) for about....6-12 hours. So your drive:fuel ratio drops by a factor of 100. Even if you use "superchargers", you end up with a drive: fuel ratio of only about 10:1.
So if Michigan indeed ends up with millions of EVs, and each one gets driven 300 hours per year, that requires 3-500 hours per year of charging. If you have a mere 66000 chargers, that means, with two million cars, the amount of charging hours needed exceeds the available chargers by a wide margin. Even if only 25% of charging is done outside the home, that means that charging infrastructure would be subject to long wait times. 10% is probably the upper bound for what could be tolerated.
Long and short of it is that the MSU study underestimates the infrastructure for EVs by a wide margin, even assuming large numbers of home charging units--and renters will often not be able to have these, because what landlord is going to approve the installation of a 240V charging unit. Maybe it's time for advocates of EVs to start calculating metrics honestly.
Vladimir "Hitler" Putin has gifted a Ural motorcycle to an Alaskan "concerned" about things, and just for kicks, I looked up what it is.
Yup, it's a knock-off of a 1941 BMW R71 originally used by the Wehrmacht. In its current incarnation, it makes a mighty 41hp (Harleys and Hondas start at about 90hp +), meaning that Ural certainly hasn't been wasting money on R&D. Maybe de-Nazify Russian motorcycles?
If we simply return the wannabe Soviet Union to the trade conditions the old Soviet Union had, I think we can break its back in a hurry. There is no reason to ease sanctions as long as Vladimir Putin and his cronies are in power.
Hunter Biden, who may or may not have actually been at some of the parties the Trumps attended while dating, has alleged without providing evidence that it was none other then Epstein who introduced them, and that the Trumps were in thick with Epstein.
The Trumps have responded rather predictably by filing a defamation lawsuit against Hunter, but I'm thinking that since Hunter can't draw on political patronage anymore, their chance of recovery parallels that of the Macrons suing Candace Owens. When compared to the Trumps, Biden really doesn't have two nickels to rub together, and while they might make his (and their own lives) miserable by suing him, their better approach is to simply stand by their own stories of how they met and courted--it's salacious enough as is--and suggest that a guy hooked on crack just might not be able to process evidence well.
Sometimes the best response to lewd allegations is simple dignity. I wish the Trumps would learn about it a little.
.....after seeing this brilliant episode of Chinese seamanship; a Chinese Coast Guard vessel collides with a Chinese Navy destroyer while pursuing a Philippine Coast Guard vessel at top speed. It's a perfect, clear day, glassy seas....and one has to ask "did no one post a watch, or look at radar, to see what other ships might be in the vicinity?".
As things are, two Chinese ships are out of commission for a while, which is just fine by me, and the navies of the world, especially those of Taiwan, Australia, Great Britain, and the United States, have been put on notice that Beijing does a lot better at putting steel into salt water than actually using that steel as a warship.
In related news, a brand new Russian tugboat has sunk in the shipyard, just like a North Korean frigate did last month. We might suggest that totalitarian government and competence don't exactly go together.
While reading through the Babylon Bee's list of ten top quotes from Kamala Harris' new book, it occurred to me that nobody has ever seen Ms. Harris together with Margaret Hamilton.
Sadly, my youngest son and wife noted that I do a pretty good job of imitating the Wicked Witch of the West, too, but they were heartened to know that if they needed to scare away neighborhood children, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Mormons, I could help. However, they're still concerned about roving bands of Democrats, who for obvious reasons are immune to Kamala's/Margaret's cackle.
My wife and I have become aware of new AI-enabled scales in the health club to which they belong, and they have somehow learned Italian. So when I stood on the scale, it honestly (if a bit insultingly) said "Grasso" (fat), and when my very slender 13 year old stood on the same scale, it said "magro" (skinny).
The scales got a little bit cocky, though, when they were put into the women's locker room, and apparently about a dozen of them got smashed to atoms before they learned to just say "bellisima".
