I’m a dirty slut for iced tea, but not the cloyingly sweet stuff that you’ll find in restaraunts. And you’re right it’s much cheaper. A box of 22 gallon-sized tea bags is like $5.

There is a great XKCD that shows comparisons for the amount of sugar in a soda, and it’s wild. A 20 oz coca-cola has as much sugar as three cadbury creme eggs.

Yours too? I swear I lost ten pounds just by drinking water and tea instead of soda.

This. I have a DJI mini 2, and while that isn’t a combat drone used by anyone’s military, it’s pretty much impossible for me to see it at it’s “maximum” altitude of 122 meters and at that height I can get pretty good real-time video. I’m pretty sure it will exceed that altitude limit if I wanted it to, and there’s no way I could see it or hear it at 200 meters. And it would still get me useful video.

I have to assume that the drones being used by the UA are better than my silly little camera drone.

Ooo, that’s good. Also try William Shatner.

And then they will leave for a more idyllic life in the country because it’s so noisy.

I’m pretty sure the large open field behind my house, which used to be full of trees, is going to be turned into another gated neighborhood full of cookie cutter houses. And I just know someone is going to be close to my back yard, and they are going to whine about my wife’s chickens, especially since one of them is a rooster.

So they will piss and moan and try to make us get rid of the rooster. And then they will probably get a small dog that yaps all night.

I’ll also point out that there was an explicit understanding with the west.

Is “The West” the US only?

This. Stop begging the US for money and guns with one side of your mouths while telling us how terrible we are for everything with the other. We are facing some pretty significant issues of our own, and I know that when shit gets bad here, there won’t be a single country anywhere that will help us.

Did they forget that Finland created Simo Heyha?

I’ve almost bought DIvinity Original Sin a couple of times, is it any good?

They’ll just expand the Chicken Tax to cover EV’s.

I have DOS2 on my wishlist, I guess I just need to buy it.

The bigger problem is, it’s small and light that I’m not sure it could hold the batteries.

I sometimes back into parking spaces that are in front of a glass storefront so I can see that my brake lights are working.

I have a 1980’s 4x4 that needs an engine, and I am so very tempted to make it electric. It’s as bare bones as a vehicle gets.

The same Consumer Reports that got sued for overstating the rollover risk of a popular SUV?

I’ll take their opinions on EV’s with a grain of salt.

Great, the substation techs are going to start finding more fried remains of people trying to steal copper.

I learned a lot, and made a lot of IRL friends, on various message boards over the years. ADVrider.com used to be a lot of fun but I haven’t checked it out lately. One thing that was cool was looking for vehicle-specific forums, like a forum for EX-500’s or F150’s. These forums were great for keeping whatever car you have running, and were full of knowledge on the problems found in specific cars. A lot of them still exist.

The difference is, they aren’t locked in a hole underground with them.

for a while

Therein lies the problem. No matter what they come up with, it will not work forever.

CAN YOU NOT FUCKING READ ENGLISH, PRIVATE? WHY IS THIS ORGANIC COMPOSTABLE SHELL CASING IN THE ALUMINUM BIN? DID YOUR INBRED F150 DRIVING PARENTS FORGET TO TEACH YOU HOW TO RECYCLE? “JUST TOSS IT WHEREVER”, RIGHT?