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Ours didn't for what it's worth. It's a 31K car with the top level trim. She puts 20-25K miles on it a year so our I ce break even on green living is a couple years but that was not the driver. I figure less issues in the ev car than an ice and the battery replacement is something you see coming years in advance. It doesn't just happen. Prices will drop a lot. The days of ICE are waning but you'll see Wranglers broken down on the sides of the road for years and old gearheads will be slow adopters, which is cool. Each his own. A couple interesting observations having driven several EV cars in the test driving process: (1) Single pedal driving is an easy change. My car is a stick and I love driving it but there's something to be said in going from 3 pedals to a single pedal. It's pretty relaxing. My wife is a Luddite and made the switch in 5 minutes. Good bye brake pedal. (2) The autopilot driving on the Tesla is awesome. We did a 20 minute test drive. It was changing lanes on the highway, did a suburban road with tons of twists. All on autopilot. That technology is coming and it's fantastic. The highway and larger road driving is already here on the Teslas and some GMs (not the bolt) in some forms but we are not that far from turn by turn door to door. Driving in the Tesla, whether it was driving or I was driving, I never felt so safe. It's like having a 12-eyed supersmart co-pilot there to help. The price is steep and they don't have much of a service network but otherwise, it's really cool to see an American car company leading the way. When I give up my GTI, it will be because I am eager for this feature and so will pass my last manual transmission car! (3) Charging stations and network was the biggest stress going into this because she drives so much. Been zero issue. If we need to make a long drive, we will have to plan a little differently but it won't be hard, just different. The only trick would be if we drive it to the ADKs or somewhere where the network isn't as built out and there might not be 240V residential charging, even there, we could make it work.

My wife works all day in her car. Idling all day in her ICE car is something we both hated. Appreciate your judgments on our decision though. BTW way more fun to drive than equivalent ICE.

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Erm. At pick 30, you don't get Day One starters on the D-line. Kids that late are usually undersized and not ready to be on the field every play. If it was a year off to injury, yes. This kid's mother is a nurse who advised him to take off for Covid. He's not some lazy kid.

His highlight reel shows him keeping lineman at bay and leaving them to tackle RBs. This is something we desperately need. The QB pressures are a bonus. 15.5 sacks at The U...if he had that last year, he's gone before pick 10. Only thing that got him to 30 was taking a year off to skip Covid play. Someone said he's a "one year wonder." Sure, but that's a hell of a one year and at Miami no less. He's no Zach Wilson. He's not a Day One starter but I'd be coaching him up to be a big time year 2 contributor and a solid situational contributor in year 1.

If he had 15.5 sacks last year, he would have been loooooong gone at 30. A great pick and if you don't trust the culture at OBD by now, you're nuts.

Just got a 2021 Bolt Premier for my wife. 10.5 K off. Could have gotten 3K more with a Costco membership. Final price with taxes 28K. No haggle.

Totally agree.

Or tetanus or shingles or ...

The virus probably mutated to become less lethal combined with some immunity. That's the theory--no one knows. I'm not either. Wasn't before I got the vaccine and am not now. It may kill me. It may not. So might my drive to Home Depot this weekend. Whatevs. I am against the lockdowns but are we slowing down herd immunity by doing them? I assume so but I haven't seen anything convincing on what % of the herd needs to get it before herd immunity sets in.

This is as close as you can get to saying you were wrong? Assuming you understand that you were 100% wrong to say it "went away," I already answered this.

I've been responding to the first dumb post over and over. You can keep saying that you didn't say the Spanish Flu "went away" but of course you actually did and I've quoted it twice and the peanut gallery did a couple times too. Either withdraw that wrong statement or just keep dancing. It's OK to say you were wrong on the internet.

You are not Chef Jim? Did you take stupid pills today?

No?

Tougher class to evaluate because of Covid season. I predict there will be more later round future gems than normal.

The Spanish Flu never went away. Its variants still kill thousands every year. SARS-COV-2 is different as far as we can tell with its variants more contained to changes along its spike proteins. This makes it easier to vaccinate against long term and should make it a lot less like H1N1 that comes every year with massively deadly variants.

You can keep saying it but H1N1 never went away and SARS-Cov-2 is still different, just like I pointed out before.

That H1N1 virus mutates a lot--not like the SARS-COV, which has mostly mutated just along the spike protein. This is why the vaccines are proving more effective against the variants--the vaccines all focus on the spike protein. Also in 1918-21, 1/3 (!!!) of the human race caught it (herd, massive variant possibilities) and that H1N1 flu's direct descendants still rise up every once in a while on grand scale, 2009 being the most recent bigger moment, and are in circulation every year. It never "went away" as you said it did. As has been said many times, this ain't the flu for better (it should mutate more slowly, doesn't kill kids) and worse (it's been more contagious and deadly overall).

Tell that to my Dad. Our extension cord looked like a snake that ate 35 rats. I could repair that thing in about 3 minutes.

My yard is the same size as yours and I have an EGO. Zero regrets. The only differences are that it's quieter and I have to recharge the battery after I mow. Only had it for 3 summers but zero issues so far.

Continued good stuff out of Israel.

NFTs or Bitcoin or Gamestop?

Do we have advance stats on posts mentioning Duke vs catches?

I'm just here for all the fitness experts' views on Derrick Henry's terrible fitness regimen.

Like most of us. I don’t get summers and massive other holidays though. Stop with the teacher whining. They have a very important job. It’s hard in its way. It’s got some amazing upside benefits that it’s ok to brag about.