The original design didn’t have a hood and looked a but more like a mini bus. Can’t remember why they added the hood, but it was a combination of different things including not having a flat front that increases the chance of killing people vs letting them roll up on a short hood. I think wheel placement was another part so the side door to get in an out could be closer to the ground.
I kinda love how ugly they are in a utilitarian kind of way.
I love how the insane clown posse (ICP) was “a loosely organized hybrid gang” in a 2011 report by the FBI. Juggalos (ICP fans) have reported being denied housing, fired from jobs, arrested and given harsher sentences and being threatened to have their kids removed.
Christopher Pohlhaus however is allow to harass drag shows, openly march and chant racist shit in different towns, and nothing happens.
I love how we protect racist but go after everyone else, especially if they are associated with rap.
Conservatives everywhere seem to get this “good economic manager” perception for free. It shits me. The tarries he’s talking about would be a terrible idea for everyone - especially lower class consumers.
Seriously. Especially with the massive trade tarrifs he’s proposing… You think companies are just going to bend over and accept those extra expenses? No. They are just going to pass that expense onto the consumer as a cost of doing business.
Everyone on the left who complains about the lack of choice in elections should take note of which party these three politicians are from.
I assure you, Republicans are happy to let first-past-the-post and two-party rule continue until they’re finally able to seize all the levers of power. The only feasible way to give third parties any power whatsoever is to take your medicine and vote for Democrats.
The left in the U.S. seemingly has such a poor grasp of coalition oriented politics despite needing exactly that in order to become viable at all as political entities. It's maddening. If people on the left en masse could put their ideals on the back burner long enough (and we're only talking a couple/few election cycles) to force through issues of vote reform and campaign finance reform by working through the Democrats they could spend the rest of their lives voting for people that a) actually represent their values and b) actually have a shot at being elected.
Edit: That time frame may be optimistic, but the point stands. Cooperation/consolidation amongst the genuine left as a voting block/political force, and doing so through the currently actionable political channels, is what it's going to take to get to where we want to go.
Why do these three being Democrats excuse the rest of the party being to the right of Reagan these days? Those people taking note can also take note of the liberals in the party crushing this bill just as hard as their Republican counterparts. Progressives always take a back seat to the corporate loving war mongers that make up a bulk of the party.
This is the exact reason why we need ranked choice voting, so that progressives can actually get some representation for once.
What are your ideas for enacting ranked choice voting that don't involve leveraging the Democrats to make it happen?
It could maybe happen in individual states that allow citizen introduced ballot measures. That would be great. The scope and efficacy of that idea is pretty stunted though. You'd have to hope the measure passes in the first place, and counting on it to act as a catalyst for every other state to adopt the same is unrealistic. I'd expect a much longer time horizon on that approach than engaging with Democrats as far as making it the standard for the country at large.
That's the other alternative I can think of to get the foot in the door, but I'm very open to hearing anything else that's feasible.
The one thing I wish they did with these things is make the roof out of solar panels.
These things are going to spend most days sitting outside in direct sunlight. They have nice big flat roofs which makes them pretty perfect to throw on solar panels. You likely would not need much charge infrastructure for the new vehicles and you’d have cut the ownership cost down even more significantly (especially in states with high electrical rates).
Regardless, these things are a no-brainer even without solar on all the vehicles. These are low speed vehicles with dedicated routes and loads of stop/go action. There’s not a more clear place to use an EV.
It’s cheaper to put a light roof on a car, buy the same area of solar cells, set them up to charge a battery, and charge the car off that battery, than it is to buy a custom, toughened, solar cell the area of the roof.
Plus, you don’t have to haul around the extra weight at the worst location for weight in a vehicle.
She can’t be bothered by the entire WNBA and ESPN constantly being negative to her, these fake fan bigots and morons aren’t going to do anything to her.
However these people are still weird and deplorable.
Given the fashion for giving vehicle models latinate masculine names like Camino and Montero, they missed a trick by not naming the postal vehicle the Tristero.
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