This will depend on weather (like winter) and weight of the car. A friend of my had a full electric vehicle and had to go back to a gas car when we went on vacation, because the weight of his luggage in the car reduced 70 miles to around 25.
> because the weight of his luggage in the car reduced 70 miles to around 25.
No idea what this means. What electric car has a range of 70 miles? Why would it change by over half due to adding weight that's tiny in comparison to the car itself? This does not pass the smell test.
I'm finding this hard to believe. He had a car with 70 miles of range? Was it a 2011 leaf? That car had about 70mi of range but a payload capacity of almost 1000lb. Was your luggage just bricks?
Winter is more believable, cold weather does affect electric range and older EVs didn't have good (or any) thermal management on the battery. I would expect that a combination of fully loaded and cold weather to reduce range by 10-15% these days
"..a healthy community hand-picked by parents is not "the real world" though, is it?"
School isn't their only exposure to life. You will get exposure to other people and non-healthy people outside of school.
"Kids in public school are exposed to society at large, in both good and bad ways. My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in th"
When I was a kid, I was exposed to kids that should have been in prison..and many of them ended up there. My life probably would have been better if they weren't there.
"My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in there."
This can still be done with home schooling.
"The sad reality of parenting is that you're never going to be able to hand-pick your child's experience all the way through life. Sooner or later they're going to be exposed to the "hostile flowers" you describe."
I disagree. If someone is hostile and aggressive all the time, I wouldn't be around them as an adult. I hand pick my friends, and you probably do too. I also still get exposed to the assholes of the world.
"Personally I think learning to be around those people and still thrive is a part of childhood that prepares you well for adulthood. It may be more valuable than some of the academic work kids do."
If you are at work and someone is sexually harassing all of the women there or generally causing issues for everyone around them (preventing most other people from getting their work done). Do you think they should stay, so everyone can learn to be around them?
You seem to think everyone is a reasonable person that might just have a few issues. This is far from the truth and many times, public schools will just keep these kids there, preventing everyone around them from learning.
"In an ideal world, we should be challenging both"
Not really. Calling food poison and then complaining that poor people can't afford it implies that you support poor people eating poison and or eating the food.
The first complaint implies that they shouldn't be eating it at all and result is that I just can't take the second complaint seriously.
It's just a way to shit on big corporations without having to take responsibility.
You’re grossly misunderstanding the broader arguments through misrepresenting the claims as tied together, rather than the standalone grievances they are. A single system can have multiple flaws that interact on each other without necessarily creating a single, larger issue.
McDonald’s food is unhealthy and should be improved. At the same time, they have become too expensive for the poorer working classes to afford. These are two different problems, with different solutions.
You’re basically arguing that because I cannot demonstrate “one easy fix” to a complex issue of nuance that I’m essentially advocating for poisoning people, and it demonstrates your complete inability to grasp simultaneous truths or discuss complex issues effectively without misrepresenting opposition to score points.
I like how they try to say that Trump is in the same category:
- Witnesses, under oath, said they didn't see Trump near any of the girls.
- He was the only one to testify against Epstein years earlier.
- He kicked him out of his club after finding out he was a creep.
Are we talking about Donald Trump the convicted rapist with many credible accusations of sexual assault raised against him?
Donald Trump the child beauty pageant organiser that used to publicly boast about walking in on naked contestants?
Long term friend of Jeffrey Epstien, who organised parties for him with young models and sent cryptic birthday notes about secrets written on a drawing of the naked but undeveloped chest of a girl?
Who said his friend was a "great guy" who
> likes beautiful women… many of them on the younger side.
Somewhat of a nitpick, but Donald Trump is not a convicted rapist. ("Convicted" refers to being found criminally liable, and in any case Donald Trump has not, to date, been found liable, civilly or criminally, for rape as such; Donald Trump was found civilly liable for a sexual abuse but not rape as defined in the NY criminal code, though it was also found to be sufficiently accurately described by "rape" in the common vernacular that it was not defamation for his victim, E. Jeacn Caroll, to have described it as such.)
The 'rape' happened 30 years ago. There were no witnesses, nobody to back up her story, and the trial was a joke due to almost everything she said having so many holes in it, you could hardly call it evidence. Hopefully, you won't have this ever happen to you.
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Long term friend of Jeffrey Epstien, who organised parties for him with young models and sent cryptic birthday notes about secrets written on a drawing of the naked but undeveloped chest of a girl?"
From the same group of people that think kids learning about shit play in school, is fine.
it's a bit funny to be pearl clutching about what amounts to nothing.
It's already been coming out in the
past few days that liberal politicians and reporters are not only friends with Epstein, but helped his image and colluded with him during Trump's trial.
All eyes are on Trump. If there was any real connection to Epstein, the Democrats would have used it to torpedo his political career.
There isn't, and they witheld the document release at the expense of the victims.
My elderly father has been ill a few times over the past year and in the hospital (this is in the US). What I've noticed is that Doctors and Nurses keep pushing us to just let him die, instead of trying to keep him alive.
This wasn't something in passing. It's non-stop throughout his time there. To the point of harassment and they try to divide-and-conquer with my family. The first time, he recovered within a couple of weeks and went home.
He's sick again with RSV, and they are pushing it again. He will probably be released within a week or so. He has no dementia, heart issues, or cancer. His main problem is his knees, which is pretty common with a 90 year old.
I'm just not clear on the motive. Why care so much about this? It's not like he's a vegetable and suffering. His quality of life, even after the first time he came out, wasn't too bad.
It also seems like nobody knows what they are doing. If my mom hadn't been there to watch what they were doing, he probably would have died the first time.
Note: Insurers like United Healthcare have been caught creating incentive programs whereby elder care facilities are essentially rewarded for minimizing referrals of seniors to medical care. If you don't think that there are perverse forces at work in the American Healthcare payment system, it is my extreme privilege to bring these types of things to your awareness.
I know nothing about what happened in your fathers case, if it is exactly what you mentioned it sounds a little inappropriate but I’m wondering if something is lost in translation. You do mention he was admitted a few times to the hospital this year alone if I’m reading correctly, which is not normal and I am wondering if he is sicker than you are letting on in your comment.
Are these palliative care doctors and nurses engaging with the patient and your family? One thing they do is ask about code status (full code vs DNR/DNI) and clarify what the wishes of the patient are, help out with legacy planning, make sure everyone is aware of all the possible outcomes (not just death but reduction in QOL), and provide emotional support. Note that this job is not limited to a palliative team, but most patients and families don’t think about these things until it’s too late. CPR can have a pretty poor outcome in many elderly patients and can do more harm then good, so they may just want to make sure you have all the right information. It’s becoming the standard to engage in these talks sooner, not necessarily because they anticipate a poor recovery on this admission but you never know about the next one.
Just FYI and to tie this back to the original article, the physicians taking care of your father have no say in organ donation, it’s a conflict of interest for obvious reasons.
Our rule was that anyone who wanted to moderate “too much” was effectively not allowed to do so.
The catch being finding those who would help out and moderate effectively was not easy. And even then you were cycling through them regularly as inevitably if they cared enough they also cared enough that they stepped down.
I do wonder though if you have people doing it for the money, would that help or hinder?
One fairly busy forum I cofounded and "moderated" on, we intentionally call the moderators "Janitors" in an attempt to dissuade the sort of people who wanted "a powerful role" from even wanting to ask. It sorta mostly worked, largely because there were 7 very like minded cofounders of that forum who stared it as an escape route when a previous version was sold to a forum-monetising company (Vertical Scope, from memory).
You don't seem to know how Mastodon works. If moderators aren't self-consistent in their judgement, users can literally take their profile to an entirely different website with no service disruption at all.
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