Suspected hantavirus on Oceanwide Expeditions:
The company seems to be missing an opportunity here.
They should be selling tickets for that cruise to all those “natural immunity" people. They'd make a fortune…
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ICE cars are increasingly becoming the “cars of the gaps” as anti-EV trolls invent ever-more bizarre combinations of situations to prove that ICE is “superior”.
For most people most of the time now the experience of owning and using an EV will be better than for an ICE. Certainly there may be exceptions, but the vast majority of EV-drivers were previously ICE-drivers, and the vast majority emphatically wouldn’t revert.
The people complaining about temporary myocarditis as a side-effect of Covid vaccines would whinge about bruising from their seatbelt after it prevented them going through the windscreen.
Good news: the world’s largest wildlife bridge — the Wallis Annenberg Crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills — is expected to open on December 2nd:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/annenberg-wildlife-crossing-opening-date/
Frustrating that the article leads with:
"After cost overruns and delays pushed back the project by at least a year…”
Why start there?
Per final paragraphs:
Near-record rainfall saturated site in 23,4. Inflation, labor shortages and sheer complexity pushed costs higher.
https://101wildlifecrossing.org/wildlife-bridge-faces-criticism-but-challenges-explain-costs/
Visualisation of “gas price equivalent” for EV charging (using residential power prices).
It obviously averages a lot out, but IMHO interesting nevertheless.
https://orennia.com/insights/what-ev-drivers-pay-at-the-pump-in-every-state
(For full context: There are clearly more advantages to EVs than just current "fuel" costs, and up-front cost remains an impediment to adoption for some. But TCO is an important consideration, and EVs are winning on that now.)
Basically hypocritical hit-piece from #NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/opinion/apple-tim-cook-outsourcing-china.html
Steve Jobs said many times #Apple would love to build more in America, but #USA simply doesn't have the tools and expertise.
Key quote from pre-CEO Tim:
“in America, you can barely fill a room with tooling engineers. In #China, you can fill several football fields”.
https://www.unz.com/bhua/steve-jobs-vs-howard-lutnick-on-making-iphone/
People who sold out America are the CEOs who outsourced to China in the first place instead of investing at home
Great to see another battery-induction range, from Electra:
I’ve had a Charlie from Copper (https://copperhome.com/products/charlie) for about a year, and it’s been excellent.
These allow just about anyone who wants (subject to affordability*) to to migrate from gas (and everyone should…)
Or even (as in my case) upgrade from an old induction range to one with better features
* Thankfully there are rebates in at least some states.
Jaap BurgerFrance 🇫🇷 is aiming to increase the number of high-power public EV charging points alongs the main routes:
By 2035
22,000 150 kW chargers for 🚗 at 900 motorway locations
8,000 chargers for 🚚🚛 (mix of 800, 400 kW and 100 kW for long-duration) at
560 motorway locations
https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/presse/plan-electrification-bornes-tous-grands-trajets-dici-2035
