Steve Bee

Many people that would vote on this weren't alive in the mid 1970s when we last tried year-round DST. They have no memory of it. Witness MA possibly reintroducing residential rent control 32 years after a state referendum firmly outlawed it. Voters' brains and memories turn over.

@AlexMillar91979 It actually isn't at all. It's worse. The crazy thing is, we already tried this and it was so bloody awful that we had to repeal it almost immediately.

I've got to say, if this happens it'd make me 10x more likely to move to Arizona. DST is a nightmare. Those who are arguing in favor of synthetic, phony, unnatural "government time" are out of their minds.

@shagbark_hick It will be a dark morning, wintertime horror in New England, but that's because most of New England really belongs in the Atlantic Time Zone to begin with, especially ME.

Traffic laws don't make any mention of the motive power affecting operating rules. An EV gets a speeding ticket just like a Camaro. This is to say: apply the existing motorcycle, dirt bike laws to e-bikes backed up by serious enforcement and the problem is solved. Even a 50cc dirt bike mis-operated on a road gets a ticket. So should a mildly-powered e-bike.

@unlimited_ls Happened down the street from me. Some of the e-bikes are bigger than a 100-150cc motor bike. And these kids (not saying hers) literally have no regard for traffic’s laws and are riding in the middle of the street in packs. Again, not blaming her son. It’s a tragedy.

🚨NEW: Florida mother whose son died in an e-motorcycle crash is now pushing lawmakers to fully ban e-bikes and e-scooters for children under 14 Colton Remsburg, 13, was riding his e-bike when he was struck and killed by a pickup truck. He was not wearing a helmet and was not in a marked crosswalk Colton’s mother, Ashley LaChance, is now urging lawmakers to ban these e-bikes/e-motorcycles for kids under 14 Since December 1, there have been 41 crashes involving e-bikes and scooters in Orange County that resulted in injuries The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is finalizing a new e-bike ordinance that would allow deputies to issue citations and even impound them for repeated violations

@Critic2Critic @unlimited_ls I've seen motorcyclists get ticketed for doing a quick wheel pop at like 5 mph. (NH.) The laws already exist. Prosecute the kids for operating a vehicle like this and it will stop, or at least slow way down.

@unlimited_ls It's this loser wheely thing all the kids are doing. It used to be illegal to not wear a helmet but nobody enforces it. They think they are invisible only to crack there head doing a dumb stunt. I did the same thing but wore a helmet as a kid. Cracked my helmet saved my head.

@minh4real @unlimited_ls This behavior already breaks a number of laws in almost any state. We don't need new laws passed because some emotional mother ran to politicians after she wildly failed at parenting. We simply need to enforce the current existing laws, maybe even holding parents accountable.

@unlimited_ls These teen e-bikers don’t follow any rules. They will ride the side walks and then cross 4-way intersections, ignore stop signs, traffic, and lights without batting an eye. Total lack of self-preservation via underdeveloped prefrontal lobes.

See, this is how women vote to curtail freedom. They run to politicians crying and sobbing. Any thinking parent can see that these things are an obvious danger in traffic to underage kids, but rather than suck up the fact that she made a mistake, she will have them pass all kinds of new laws that probably will be far more draconian than even what she intended.

@o6x6rptrqmic @WolfofX ^This was exactly my first thought too.

@WolfofX Never occured to him that people trying to figure out why their phone wasnt working was probably a more dangerous situation to be driving through every day?

And the result, even in rural areas, are schools that teach a very blue, "progressive" curriculum. Rural areas aren't raising the homespun conservative youth that they may think they are, especially when it comes to their daughters. Girls are very swayed by the false empathy arguments many modern curricula push.

There’s a big difference between voter preferences and the public/private actions of business owners and government. Conservatives generally can’t be bothered by public life. They hide out on their multi acre property and complain. They have almost no control over public discourse. The result is republican politicians who are republican in name only. Idaho conservatives (like many “conservatives”) are terrible at forming cohesive groups that can fight back against the liberal disorder. The only time they do show up is every couple of years at the polls, because they’re upset with how liberal the last few years have gotten in their area. Rinse and repeat.

It's hard to parse what the long-range state of domestic migration is going to look like in the USA. It does seem that there's a pattern: I. Dem policies ruin blue states II. People leave blue states for red states III. The newcomers vote for Dem policies in red states IV. The red states now suffer from the same problems as the blue states (but often worse, as the onset is rapid) V. As a result of all this, there are fewer and fewer "havens" where one can find a low-tax, low-reg, low-cost way of life. Does this just keep happening until every state in the Union becomes a post-Dem apocalyptic husk? Or at some point, are conservative-leaning Americans actually going to exhibit some agency, make a conquest, do anything but play on the eternal rearguard? It may really be that the combination of Democrats' expansionist, high-openness traits, the destructive quality of their policies, and the absolute "retreat-mode" weakness of American conservatives will basically seal this country's fate as a "universal California" in just a generation or so. Might be that if you don't like that, you'd be better off leaving the country. It's either that or learn to love the high-tax, high-reg, rainbow-flag-waving future of the USA.

As I just argued in another comment nearby, the schools, even in rural areas, often teach a wildly blue-tainted curriculum, focusing incessantely on the evils perpetrated by European men on the rest of humanity, mostly or completely omitting the other human history demonstrating that many cultures are warlike, have taken slaves, etc. Girls are particularly swayed by these curricula. Rather than importing most of your blue-leaning people, right in your own towns you may be raising many of your young, especially your daughters, to be very blue, critical, and restrictive of freedom, especially restricting the freedom of non-dark people because non-dark (white) people, esp. the men, are 'monsters'.

@clay_space Not shocking to hear. I suspect ID and MT will be fully liberal within the next 10-15 years unless something dramatic changes. The last "real holdouts" of a more conservative thing are going to be states like OK and ND, which have harsh climates and lack scenery liberals like.

One problem is that even in the rural areas, the kids are growing up very blue, especially the girls/women due to what crap the schools are pushing. There are suburban/rural school districts in ME that start off committee meetings with an apology about meeting on "stolen" land. How does that affect the curriculum and hiring those school committees enact and engage? I have a 27 YO coworker that grew up in a small town north of the Quabbin Res. in MA. She is hyper blue. When the subject of the worst *mass* lynching in US history happened to come up in discussion, she was amazed to find that it wasn't a lynching of black people, but rather Italian immigrants. When Wikipedia and I gave her this information, she said: "I wonder if that's even correct? She married a West African immigrant and is all about the evils of slavery. How much you want to bet she's never, ever heard about the couple of million slaves the Barbary states took 200+ years ago? I'm not making light of any of this history, but when you are raised in schools that continually and incessantly focus on the evils perpetrated by English/Europeans onto dark people, you get the false idea that in all of human history, European violence is somehow the monstrous exception to an overall much more peaceful history of the other human cultures. Girls, in particular, are more swayed by these classroom arguments, city or country. Up and coming country women are not what they once were.

@FoundAt5280 @cybrtrkguy I wonder if they even departed at 100% SOC?

@cybrtrkguy That's BS, even for a Mach E. Had to charge every 50 miles? Even the early ones could do 110 miles in really bad weather

Just found out a friend of mine bought and sold a Mustang Mach-E over the winter. They bought it, super excited for EVs. They did a day trip ~140miles away in the cold. Had to charge twice to make it there, and four times round trip. No chargers at their destination town. Four charging stops for 280 miles on a car that advertises 320mi on one charge. They got rid of the car, and swore off EVs. And told all of their friends. I’m not sure how much of their story is exaggerated but EVs have a long ways to go in America. 😅

@rlloken @cybrtrkguy I can see the OP story being true given enough poor planning, understanding, and bad luck.

@cybrtrkguy Sounds pretty exaggerated. With our Mustang, we have never had that drastic of an issue in the cold. But then again we have only driven in temperatures of -10.

@PhilWhittlesee @weir_racing @cybrtrkguy Additional minor things are increased HVAC use, tires that are probably now a bit underinflated unless the driver topped up when cold weather hit, etc.

@PhilWhittlesee @weir_racing @cybrtrkguy Yes. Even a fully preconditioned car hits a lot of very dense air on the highway. Wind resistance increases about 14% traveling at 70 mph at 10F compared to 75F and wind resistance is typically 50 to 75% of the total resistance at such highway speeds.

@flyrogo @MCCCANM At this point I use ANC vacuuming my house. It's always a good idea with noisy environments (except maybe as a pedestrian on a road or something.)

@MCCCANM Is the 737 cockpit that loud that you need ANC throughout the entire flight?

Windy out. Might go with max thrust just in case of windshear. I’d prefer to stay in Maui, but people need to get home & I suppose I do, too.

Wow, that's bad performance. I have a MY and am all over northern & central ME in the winter. If I only got 140 miles/charge, I'd dump the car too. I actually get over 200 @ 10F +/-. Luckily, the ski mountains, etc. have chargers for the return trip. 'Sounds like your new-to-EV friends could have used an EV coach for their trip. 'Too bad they didn't ask.

@RJR1225 @billysesesh @BasedMikeLee Trump hasn't ignored court orders. He makes a lot of noise and threats when a judgement doesn't go the White House's way, but then quietly follows a ruling until it can be overturned or some other workaround is found.

@billysesesh @BasedMikeLee Well see, that’s the problem with living in a cult echo chamber. He says and does things publicly, then five minutes later y’all pretend it never happened. 😂 Get some help.

FDR dangerously undermined the Constitution by deliberately weakening the Constitution’s twin structural protections: federalism and separation of powers Calling him the GOAT president is blasphemy

@ICannot_Enough That said, I wouldn't have Elon Musk back down from what he does at all. It is what it is.

@ICannot_Enough I love my MY and love the things Musk is doing for political discourse, AI, etc. That said, though the MY does well in sales numbers, I do know a great deal of people that have passed on EVs and Teslas because of him. This is to say Tesla is good, but probably could be even > .

2 years ago: "Elon destroyed the Tesla brand globally! It'll never recover!" Today: #1 selling EV in California: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV in the U.S.: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV in Europe: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV in China: Tesla Model Y

@TesCalendar1 I wish I took a picture.

@TesCalendar1 I saw a Y hooked to a 28' Airstream once in a Cape Cod Natl. Seashore day lot. 'Snuck a peek at the trailer placard: 7800lb GVWR. It had CT plates, meaning it came over the Canal bridges - those narrow, steep, busy bridges - at over 2X the Y's max towing limit. 😬💀☠️👹

What are the odds this Model Y towed this camper here?