Fireworks are legal in New Hampshire but not Massachusetts. The MA police will stake out NH firework shops near the border before July 4 and pull over MA cars they see loading up once they cross back into the state…

I’m outside Boston and I see a lot here as well…

There are already a growing number of EV alternatives. I will definitely be looking at all of them a few years down the line when I decide to get rid of my Tesla.

And it will run perfectly fine on ten year old computer hardware using nothing but cameras in any manner of weather.

If Musk is removed AND major changes are made to the brand then Tesla might have a long term chance in the US market.

I bought a Tesla before the Musk craziness was in full display, and I can honestly say I wouldn’t buy another one (or recommend them to others) unless they seriously redesigned the physical controls, and focused more on truly useful software features. Not just games, “fart mode”, and a full self driving system that’s been promised for a decade now…

According to wikipedia, among other things:

In 2012 (by far Ukraine’s most successful year of arms export)[11]Ukraine had the status of world’s 4th largest arms exporter.

If they were the worlds 4th then they were likely doing a lot more than just the former USSR.

They already were prior to the Russian invasion.

Properly configured telephone systems at hospitals etc. will show their main public facing phone number on Caller ID for any outbound call.

Well it is a day ending in “y”.

Ukraine will likely get assistance from more than just EU countries. And once things are safe again I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ukrainians around the world returning home to help rebuild etc. You can’t say the same of Russia I don’t think.

Ukraine had a very robust economy before the war, exporting everything from food to military hardware. Given what they have learned about UAV’s, etc. in the past 3 years they likely stand to regain a strong military industry once again after this is all settled. They’re already manufacturing some of their own military gear for the war, and once the war is over it should be fairly easy for them to turn all that into an export industry.

Between Zelensky publicly stating Putin has health issues and will die soon, and the recent incident with Putin’s limousine, he may not have a whole lot longer in any event. One can only hope…

Yeah, but how many 18-40 year old men are still in rural Russia that haven’t already been fed to the meat grinder or were lucky enough to get out of the country first?

Sooner or later these conscriptions are going to hit bigger cities, although they’ll likely be used to backfill non-combat positions while others are sent to Ukraine. But even that can go on for only so long…

Hell, didn’t Muskrat just give $2 million to some voters?

I vaguely recall a story from a year or two about one of those giant ocean-crossing car carriers that had an EV on board catch fire. Something like 500 of the 4000 cars on board were EV’s. I think they ultimately saved about 1000 of those cars after the fire was put out.

Edit: easy find…

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393507

https://maritime-executive.com/article/salvage-completed-on-fire-damaged-car-carrier-fremantle-highway

What was preemptive about 9/11? The US was attacked, therefore they invoked Article 5.

Article 5 states that an armed attack against one member will be treated as an attack against all members.

There has been no armed attack against a member state.

Welp, there go all our business deals with France.

What ever happened to Cloudflares wall of lava lamps?

Latest FDA guidance: Take vitamin A, wash it down with raw milk, and attend virus spreading parties to build natural immunity.

I think it would require massive changes from the top down:

• New CEO
• New Board of Directors
• Focus on quality over stupid gimmicks like fart mode
• Focus on existing issues over self-driving moonshot that’s been promised & delayed for close to a decade now.

And so on…