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That's your intelligent opinion. Are we dealing with an intelligent electorate?

We grew up comparing the fuel consumption of vehicles in terms of volume per unit of distance - mpg or l/100km. From those figures we could work out how much it cost to travel a given distance. Now we are given the "fuel capacity" of an EV in kiloWatthours (kWh). Shouldn't electricity consumption figures be quoted in km/kWh? Here's an example: A vehicle can go 80 kms on a 30 kWh battery. That's 2.6 kms/kWh. One kWh costs, on average 30 cents. That's about 12 cents per km. Yes, I know. If you have your own solar generation the electricity allegedly costs nothing (ignoring set up costs for the solar system). But go away from home and you have to pay.

So does AI.But they don't stay there Long. How many AI's are there? Nev

He knows he is gone. Those around him do also. Nev

Don't be too sure of a Democrat landslide in the mid-terms. The idea of that happening is based partly in polling. Over the last three Presidential elections the polling has been way off compared to its accuracy before about 2008. There is a number of factors causing that. This video describes some of those factors. This video discusses the topic. The presentation is unbiased.

Yes. The person is a paraplegic, having been shot through the spine during the incident. Wouldn't look good shooting a cripple. Shades of the SS. Not the usual image of the condemned man backed up against a wall, being offered a last cigarette and a blindfold.

Sat what you like about Wikipedia, but at least it provides the references for the information included in posts. However, there is a rumour that AI agents are altering some entries. I think that id you want basi information on a topic, Wikipedia is pretty reliable.

Greek water polo team member.

He's also cancelled the Live screening of the Firing squad, The Bloke would have to be propped up and that will not look good. . About 80% of Americans are opposed to it. Nev

AI warns you to check it's advice. Nev

I can see A.I. being very useful for direct logic applications such as coding programmes. These are easily proven by test running the code. BUT Ignore AI 'summaries' like the ones google gives you. They are frequently wrong. In fact, the AI's have (for now) now been telling us they routinely make up things. Of course they call it cute things like 'hallucinating'. But the fact is, you simply can not assume the information that AI gives you is correct. Google: The tendency to hedge or create a false balance is actually a cousin of hallucination. When my system is caught between a guiderail to be "neutral" and a prompt about a controversial topic, it will likely "hallucinate" a sense of validity for an unsupported side just to satisfy its formatting goal of appearing balanced and polite.

Water polo is played in 8 minute quarters so the horses have a chance to come up for air.

It will be hard for him to contest the House vote in any decisive way if the Democrats win overwhelmingly. The Senate will be another story as it's likely to be close.

I have ridden in a few evs the last 2 weeks in the US. Uber rides, mustang mach e was nice . Kia evs good , didn't think much of the tesla 3 but liked the Tesla model s. All the drivers said they saved them a fortune compared to ice. But on hot days there range is cut right back running the aircon . My cousin in Phoenix bought a new all electric Audi last year but got rid of it due to range issues. I also got a ride in a hybrid camry, the driver preferred it because he doesn't have to lose time charging during the day and it returns around 55 mpg. And waymo driverless taxis are everywhere now, cousin's husband said they have 10,000 of them and more on the way.

My trucks use around 30-35 /100 km at gross weight of 27 tonnes .

Or a French letter and an Australian letter?

Just waiting for Australia vs New Zealand to kick off the World Cup in Sydney and listening to one of the organisers on the radio talking about the growth of Rugby League, and he was saying League is played in sixty countries worldwide now. The match in Sydney tonight is sold out, biggest crowd in fifty years.

https://7news.com.au/politics/donald-trump/us-president-donald-trump-criticised-for-sharing-ai-video-after-fatal-tiger-attack-c-23023432

What is the difference between a French Kiss and an Australian Kiss? An Australian Kiss is down under.

Royal Enfield Musket V-twin: https://www.musketvtwin.com/

Use a one lobe cam and have two sets of points ( in the correct position) and use 2 coils. You then need a generator, Battery, Start method and a Gearbox and clutch, preferably with a reverse gear. A Jo Hunt Magneto (Fairbanks Morse rotating Magnet) would be the best Magneto. J.A.P.'s use 50 degrees Nev

Here's a before photo of my old Howard Eight. It's a crusty old motor but I'd like to get it running again. It hasn't run for a lot of years, but there's still oil residue in the crankcase and timing chest and it still turns. Just the usual stuck valves and stuff like that. The Howard Eights are getting rare now but one good thing is that they share the same barrel, piston and rings as the single cylinder Howard Junior engine. Howard Juniors are fairly plentiful and a there's a lot of restorers doing them up, so new rings should be fairly easy to track down. If I can get it running ok, it might be a rat bike contender. People put them in road bikes but they need a bit of serious work and some mods to fill that role. For what I want, it would probably do the job. This contraption I'm trying to build will never be registered on the road and unlikely to ever go beyond second gear. A couple of cooling fans would help it a lot. The Howard carburettor can go to a rotary hoe restorer and be replaced with a 38mm round slide Mikuni. The other issue is it's missing the magneto and you'd probably have to mortgage the house to buy one if you could ever track one down. The other alternative is set up a battery, coil and distributer ignition. VW distributors are cheap and it would be an interesting side project to convert one. Just a matter of remanufacturing the drive and making a custom cam ring with the bumps at 205° and 155° instead of 180° to suit the 50° V angle.

I found this exploded view image that gives another look at the Howard cams. The image was named Howard Twelve, which could be right as I think the water cooled Howard Twelve and the air cooled Howard Eight shared very similar if not the same bottom ends. Second photo is a Howard Twelve.

Like "Leave it to Beaver?" Nev