HelixDab2

Hmmm, simple majority vote. Interesting. So if we somehow got a Democratic house with a Trump presidency, they could just refuse to confirm any VP at all, which would make the speaker of the House 2nd in line for the presidency.

Okay, so, the curb weight of a Ford F-250 is 7400#, while the curb weight of of Tesla Cybertruck is 6900#. That's a 500# difference, with the Ford being heavier. If it's the weight alone, then the Tesla should have better tire life than the Ford, and I strongly suspect that's not the case. Perhaps Tesla is spec'ing a softer compound tire in order to actually use the enormous amounts of torque that is available to it?

I know that off-road tires tend to die fairly quickly when used on the road--softer compound + less contact patch at any given time--but it doesn't appear that they're using off-road tires on the Teslas.

So what's going on here? Why are they burning through expensive tires so fast?

I'm not entirely sure that the president can simply appoint a new VP once they're in office, since VP is an elected position.

It's a fascinating question, and I hope that there's never any reason to see it answered.

I'm not so sure that he can be. He was nominated by Trump, and the party as a whole voted on both Trump and Vance, together. Would they need a new convention in order to select a new VP? I don't know. I don't think that anything like that has ever happened before, so it would be uncharted territory. Much like if the VP died in office.

First: I don't disagree with you.

Second: England is just too small relative to the overall population to really have places that would be considered "Nowheresville" in the US. For instance, I'm looking at moving to the desert, so I can get away from people. One of the towns I'm looking at has a population of 400 (people, total), and is about 60 miles from any city over 5000 people.

You get “compensated for you time” not paid

That's what they say, but that's not what actually happens. If the phlebotomist fucks up the draw, and your flow rate is so poor that they can't get what they need, you don't get paid. (Ask me how i know this.)

And yeah, IIRC most of the plasma goes to create clotting agents for people with hemophilia.

Blatantly false. "MSM [men who have sex with men] accounted for 67% (21,400) of the 31,800 estimated new HIV infections in 2022 and 87% of estimated infections among all males."

When you consider that gay and bisexual men make up a small percentage of the overall population--under 5%--the fact that gay and bisexual men account for 87% of all HIV infections in men tells you just how alarming this is.

My first thought when I hears that was, oh, that's not bad, that's about what I get out of a set of Pirelli Angel STs. ...Except that's a sport touring motorcycle tire. I usually go through at least one set of tires each year on my motorcycle, but it's been three years or so for the tires on my car.

I agree with you. Unfortunately, the law does not. The law privileges religion as though it was inherent and immutable.

When you're talking about 'richest people', that's total wealth, not just liquid money. The Rockefellers and Rothschilds may be wealthy as families, but no individual within them even comes close to having the amount of overall wealth that Musk and Bezos have.

This is not a good thing, BTW.

According to Forbes, he's the richest.

Simply require ALL electric powered two wheel vehicles that aren't motorcycles--whether nominally assistive or not--to comply with the same regulations as scooters. Easy, done.