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It's a chicken and egg thing. It's good to talk it up, get as many early adopters that the current tech can work for as possible, because volume and experience is what moves you along the learning curve.

well - good. And a direct contradiction of his previous stated policy. This is one more nail in McCarthy's coffin with the non-freedom caucus majority of this membership who know it's not going to help them get re-elected. While it's still pretty unlikely, moves like this by McCarthy only improve the chance of a centrist majority ultimately taking over the House before the end of Biden's term.

So Chris Fetter never got to Buck's case in 2021?

I wonder if there is any reluctance for charging stations to put in fast chargers because of potential liability claims from damaged/degraded batteries? Fast charging is still bleeding edge.

the one and only perfect season, undefeated 1972 Dolphins send their regards.

Jeepers!

It's silly to say it because you'd think it couldn't possible be an issue, but I think for starters he needs to go with a different design or maybe slightly smaller glove. I now these guys all believe to their core that that extra inch of glove is what is going to make them a gold-glover, but Tork's more common problem seems to be not being able to keep the ball in the glove once he gets the glove on the ball.

I thought the recent report was that Keith's problem at 3rd was an arm he was still rehabbing?

Consider it a gift, the Tiger fielders apparently considered it one...

Then again it was the Tigers on one side of the field.

well, assuming we *allow* ourselves to keep driving gas cars. If they are banned we're driving EVs whether they go 500 miles or not. Btw, weird weather all around the world this year, ain't it? Seriously, cars might be a place where a cap and trade system might work. You get a fossil fuel allotment and you can sell it someone who needs to drive long daily distances. Those with fossil attachment syndrome can keep their F150s if they pony up. Another interesting question, assuming EV adoption continues apace, is whether there is some critical mass of EV adoption where the gas station distribution business starts to fall apart? I suppose trucking will not be electrified for a longer time - maybe if you are a gasoline holdout you're going to be relegated to truck stops to refuel? At any rate I think there is an assumption that both systems can co-exist for an extended period. Maybe that is true, maybe not. When do you suppose the last public stables closed in Detroit?

that should do it. I was expecting even more scoring in this one - Johnson with the smallest strike zone I have seen an umpire call in a long time.

Parker looking tentative at the plate.

baseball is funny they way different players seem to have 'cycles' that vary so much. Take Ibanez. Seems to always either do nothing, or have a multi hit game. And at the other end we've talked a lot about Candelario who seems to have long stretches on and then off. Now Vierling similarly.

Wentz wasn't much, but it might have helped if the Tigers had caught the damn ball better.

I'm not really seeing what they think they are going to get out of Wentz. The FB is mediocre, and the breaking ball command isn't sufficient to get guys out without a better FB. I guess he doesn't have a relief profile either so he starts until they give up on him ?

Joey, Wentz our lead?

One additional thing to remember is that gasoline is light - you don't really incur much driving penalty for having a 20gal gas tank, and even then it only averages half full so you're only carrying around 10 gal - or about 65lb. Put that 720 mile capable battery in your everyday car - it's going to be about 180 kWhr, and you are lugging around nearly a ton of battery at today's tech level - all the time. That's why I think in the end the average person is going to end up with two different modes of transportation replacing their current car. Whether that means two different types of vehicles in your garage or a shift to specialty hi-range rental vehicles for long haul travel or even a shift away from long distance car travel., whatever - there is a significant penalty, both in vehicle efficiency, but also in the capital cost tied up in the battery, to hauling around a lot of mostly always unused battery capacity that is fundamentally different from the situation with liquid fueled vehicles, and at this point I have to guess the economics of that will eventually force change into new arrangements. And of course by tomorrow the tech situation may change!

absolutely. The key right now is lack of social imagination. The IC automobile and it's fuel distribution infrastructure has conditioned us that the same vehicle should be capable of a grocery run as well as a 3 wk cross country tour. That is the social learning that may have to give way to some new understanding based on some new technological or social investment outcomes. This is mostly an American problem. In Europe and Asia few people have any desire to take long trips in cars because there are good alternatives - primarily efficient passenger rail systems. The 5,000 mile car trip is sort of a US/Canada Unicorn because of the size of the continent as well the relatively empty 1000 miles in the middle in between the places a lot of people want to go. Obviously, if battery charging tech can get us to a 15 min recharge that doesn't destroy the battery on regular application, then technology may yet save us of from having to change our transportation expectations, but it's not going to be the end of world if it doesn't, we can figure out another way to go on trips. Or maybe the long distance liquid fueled auto never goes away but its use case becomes so limited that it's not a significant CO2 source. Right now we are in panic mode (and rightly so), but the truth is that the planet already cycles massive amounts of CO2 - we have just managed to overload it anyway. In the end, small contributions from it's inhabitants will not *need* to be regulated away if rational management can be found - which is questionable of course. But lots of future to yet to happen.

This is the thing. Communication is always a two way street and we have zero actual facts as to how clear everyone had actually made their positions to each other vs how much other people were making assumptions. I was less than today years old when I figured out that unsupported assumptions by management are pretty much par for the course everywhere there are managers.

US would be wise to support the Armenian factions that want to put an end to the conflict. Step one is leverage them away from the Russians who keep stirring the pot of the local conflicts to prevent unified opposition to them from coalescing.

So I'm not going to make any assumptions here as to who is telling the truth and who is doing something less, but just given the above as the hypothetical, my question would be: When did we reach the point where no-one is responsible to exercise their own agency? I can't help a feeling that is much broader than this case in particular, that we are reaching a point where we have begun to conflate true power relationships that become abusive with simple economic proposition relationships that one side decides didn't bear enough profit. Lets just say - hypothetically, that Tucker was overstepping his boundaries - why does she accept that? He does not hold any true institutional power over her as a contractor, but maybe he can be a useful ally in securing new business or a potential detriment in steering it away. So he has an indirect kind of potential to affect her life - primarily an economic one. But people win and lose business for a zillion irrelevant reasons every day based on other peoples' decisions. Do we really want to put the law - or some regulatory regime - into the arena when someone cultivates a 'personal' relationship for basically 'business (even if that 'business' is directed to a social benefit) reasons, and then it goes south? I wont accuse Tracy of this because I don't claim to have any idea who is telling the truth, but I can see that that is one of the possible explanations for what went down here - she doesn't want to just walk away because she doesn't want to tick him off because he can be a career aid. But to my view, that's tough cookies. There are hundreds of times in life you need to just walk away from something the might have benefited you but you didn't like the risk or ethics profile. That's part of adulthood. And I have this gnawing feeling that that is the direction the legal regime is heading, and I'm not sure it's where I would go. Now all that said, I'm fine if MSU wants to fire Tucker for terrible judgement and questionable moral sense, but I'm less certain how much weight I'd give this case as a matter of 'abuse' - so far.

Paredes moves around a lot less than our Tiger wanderers. He has played in 125 games, 103 of them he's been at 3b - 81 times a complete game there. Vierling's most common spot appears to be RF with 48 appearances, McKinstry even less in one place than that. TBF, a lot of my frustration around the constant position shuffling is that no-one in the cast of thousands can actually play 3rd at a respectable MLB level, so moving more guys through there just seems to highlight futility. For a few games Vierling looked pretty decent there but ulitmately was exposed just like rest have been. /...sigh.../

Yeah - the appearance of things has already begun to shift somewhat. Tucker is probably done at MSU regardless, but today (as compared to yesterday) I think the odds for him walking away with a lot more of his money have improved - so MSU as an institution will be screwed again.

the best use case for the 1st generation of EVs is moderate distance commuting - lighter vehicles with much smaller batteries than the market has persuaded itself it has to build. That probably covers 70% - maybe 90% of current fuel consumption? Instead everyone is chasing the corner cases - extreme battery life and heavier vehicles to create the 'one size can fit all' vehicle when most families have two anyway, and that really strains the available tech and so may end up over promising what is delivered and in turn souring the public on the tech. It's America - go figure.