Oh I didn't realize solarcity was a tesla startup in the past. What is your current relationship with Tesla Group?
I'm not specifically opposed to the tesla factory itself. but after much analysis and reading, I don't think electric cars are actually the future. In fact, the last time we had 1/3rd of the cars on the road, and they were fully electric,. was between 1895-1924. There aren't even that many teslas out there.
I'm an early tester of a similar technology, I owned a 2002 Toyota Prius, brand new, and drove it for 75,000 miles, until it saved my life. I have the photos from that somewhere, but I'll say thank God I took AP physics, I was able to calculate the best case scenario in my head while remembering there was a 2" in diameter titanium beam running starting 16" after the front of the car, all the way to the drivers door jamb. Recalling some stuff about force vectors, I decided to unstick myself from under the 18wheeler truck my car had drifted under after someone cut me off with half a car length in front of me, during 4pm rush hour SF bound traffic, first time it rained all year. Brakes were not happy with me, i drifted into the #2 lane as it was the only space to go, but had to adjust brakes for 2 rapidly closing car lengths, then ended up back in the #3 lane, as the situation in the lane I'd changed into wasn't working... so the car got upset at me in the #3 lane and the 4 wheel drive/continuously variable transmission gave up and or the chain snapped, and I ended up shooting to the right and under a moving 18wheel truck.
it got real dark. the car almost went all the way in, 95% of it was under the truck. I recalled a few things I'd learned while street racing in high school, and got the car unstuck, and went for the physics plan. The hope was in my calculations that if I'd hit the center divider at a 35-45 deg angle the car would at worst slide over to the left about 1.5 feet, and i would have to crawl out the window.
well it worked. i got out the window.. thought i was dead.. one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
but! as far as electric car battery production - it involves child labor:
check out this 9 minute news reel from Gravitas Plus. (yes the Indian one.)
but as far as the active factory itself, it gives people jobs, nothing against it.
But as far as the technology not being new and 1/3rds of the cars on the road being electric over 100 years ago.. (which may have seemed unsubstantiated and ridiculous, just check this out:
Okie, open to questions, thats about what I got. Pardon my long tale about one of the weirdest moments of my life, that car crash. Almost died at age 7 (nearly drown), 22(car crash), 22.5 (too much lsd at once), 25 (assault by four random people while trying to go to work at 4.30am) it was a lot, then I moved home and spent 7 years in quiet recollection.
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So I'm browsing a catalogue of film @ criterion collection. it occurred to me, that this might be hilarious to watch:
Q: The Winged Serpent
Directed by Larry Cohen • 1982 • United States
Starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine
Its name is Quetzalcoatl, a dragon-like Aztec god that is summoned to modern-day Manhattan by a mysterious cult. But just call it Q—because that is all you’ll be able to say before it tears you apart! Roosting within the spire of the Chrysler Building, this fearsome beast begins raining blood—from the bodies of window washers, construction workers, and rooftop sunbathers alike—onto the streets of New York. And only a shifty small-time crook (played with bonkers bravura by a totally unhinged Michael Moriarty) knows where the monster is. Cult legend Larry Cohen’s homage to the Ray Harryhausen–style creature feature blends awesomely old-school stop-motion effects with pungent 1980s New York atmosphere.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-march-31/videos/q-the-winged-serpent
Yes it's not a free service. Just give them your 10.99 a month and get on with it. But in the rare occurance you don't like old or actually artistic and widely varied movies from one of the best archival film gigs this world going, ignore this message.
I don't get nothin if you sign up, but there are a fantastic and unparalled collection of films there. Imagine if you went to a film buffs house, and all these films you'd never heard of were on their walls complete with descriptions.
That's exactly what criterion is.
https://www.criterionchannel.com
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okay that is kind of cute. i hope you are having a relaxing evening :) ?
hmmm i wonder if i should watch nosferatu (1922) or leave it for later in the month. its weird and i remember about half of it clearly.
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the review a few down by "roguer" in connecticut is extremely accurate.
its got a very complex and nuanced palate.
what kind of pizza did you have ??
i know a bunch of them that are true that people refuse to believe for some reason or other.
smartphones drive me so many shades of banannas i cannot use them. :) otherwise i'd say "yeah um hit that button that's shaped like a little upwards corkscrew / arrow and pointing backwards, thingy." 😅
sweeeet. i almost had pizza but made 3 days of stew instead. :) peas beef, golden lentils spices, potatos, such and such :) love cast iron cookin. took a walk, got 4 beers, (this local joint). had one. hazy ipa. super nice. tastes clean, and not like its full of garbage like the big boys or the craft places that got bought out over the last decade.
this was afterr crafting four replies to messages that had come into gossip, before i realized the ethernet was off. LOL
howdy do???
I wonder if the msgs i wrote when i was temporarily not on the ethernet connection went through. sending this just in case it pushes them somehow.
nice Openel knife. :-)
heya! how are you?? It's got sliced golden potatos, half a pound of green peas, long grain basmati (zebra), ginger, haldi, cayenne, black pepper, sea salt, and a pound of 93% lean ground beef.
awe that sounds fun, enjoy. :-) mine is on my bed taking a waking nap. lol. just walked in there and she lifted her head fully alert and was like "maow?"