The Sicatoka

The Bobulinski blockade is breaking. It's no longer just Fox, NY Post, and WSJ. Newsweek has published a story. C-Span has video of his presser on their site. Obviously the Brits have it because they cover US politics better than we do.

"Under Joe Biden's proposed tax plan the Proud Boys would become the Poor Boys?" -- @ScottAdamsSays Somewhere "Fiddy" Cent smiles.

We'll figure out battery tech at some point. I hope to be alive to see it.

Here comes my biases as an engineer; strap in. When I hear an engineer say "we'll work it out", we will and do. When I hear anyone else say "we'll work it out" it means they won't but will expect someone else (an engineer) to do it.

Joe Biden: (15:32) So 50k or 500k? This time Mister Biden's gaf took him ... wrong. His own plan calls for 500k charging stations. Now that that is cleared up, how does he plan to power those charging stations? Solar? Wind? I look out my window to a cloudy windless day. Those will not be viable until we have (as I've harped time and again) at-scale battery technology. Those will have to be baseline load as they need to be ready and available quite literally at the flip of a switch. Welcome to fossil or nuclear. That's baseline. But the rest of the secret they don't tell you: A level 2 (L2) or level 3 (L3) charging station is some heavy, large scale power company equipment (cables, transformers). Think of the difference in supplying power to your home versus a welding shop or small factory*. So the power company has a huge infrastructure investment (for the large equipment) to sell 20-30 kWh once in a while. (Average home uses 30 kWh per day; that's about half charge of a Tesla.) Normally equipment sized like that has continuous duty load (selling at least 2 to 3 hundred kWh per day, like a welding shop). Not at L2 or L3 chargers. Power company pays the big infrastructure investment to sell very little electricity. Who do you think makes up the difference? Oh, and building those larger cables and transformers? It takes a lot of energy. *The energy delivery is in minutes, not hours, so the cables and transformers have to be upsized to carry the high currents.

I know mixed-use urban is the "kinda hip kinda now kinda cool kinda wow" thing, but I must admit I'm kinda glad I don't live in that type of building in a Covid world.

The only time I appreciated his over-enthusiasm? Three words. Lightning. Strikes. Twice.

Masterfully played.

Did he really mean "go to oil" or is that another adorable Biden misspeak? Assuming he meant "oil will have to go", but we're not getting rid of fossil fuels? Um, ... oil is a fossil fuel. If it goes how are you not getting rid of fossil fuels? And can he please pick a date. At one point in the debate he says "2025"; then he rolls out a "2035"; and then in this quote it's "2050". Dan Dotson would be proud of that. Do I hear a "2075"?

Watch what you do there Butters.

The Debate: The Incumbent: Much better performance. Missed a couple chances for devastating debate shots. After last performance bar was set medium-high and he met or slightly exceeded. The Challenger: Strong start but visibly* and functionally** faded. May have put most devastating comment on the night out of his mouth on himself. Expectations were medium-low and he would've gotten a met save for the last 20 minutes moving the overall to slightly underperformed. The Moderator: Expectations were to try to keep a civil debate but all the fastballs would go at the Incumbent. No, a couple hard sliders and a fastball went the Challengers way also. My expectation was for a neutral-lean-left performance and Moderator exceeded expectations (meaning was better than hoped for). The only critique? The Moderator interrupted the Incumbent far more often and there were times the Challenger should've been challenged and cut off. Did last night change any minds? More than likely, no. *As night wore on you could see more and more of his thoughts on his face **His stutter appeared after 9 pm CDT; Rudy "Jubiano" and the "Poor" Boys came out without self-awareness or self-correction

Love him, hate him, he's not wrong.

Um ... yeah-no. That's like ludicrous speed.

Sorry why? That he's stuck with the wife?

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Fair point: They already shipped Le'Veon Bell.

Some days I'm not sure I'd take Moorhead.

People lie to contact tracers? Whodathunkit.

Hola mi amigo. At least now I know what song he's "dancing" to in his head.

All you'll get for Thielen at this point is a bag of used Covid test swabs and a coach face shield.

Why not shop Jefferson? Proven worth at first-round pick at the NFL level. You'll get more in return for rebuild.

I'm surprised they haven't come out with a "cumulative time at distance" formula. They're worried about a 24 hour window of "15 minutes at 6 feet". --> That's 2.5 minutes per foot per 24 hours. So if I spent 1 minute at 90 feet (90 foot-minute) with someone in a day? That's only 1/90 minutes per foot per day. Then again, lean in to 1 foot and chat for a minute in a day --> 1 minute per foot per 24 hours. But if I do that three times in a day that's 3 minutes per foot per day?

What did Mister Obama know about Mister Biden and his dealings that Mister Obama recommended Mister Biden not run for President? https://www.gq.com/story/obama-to-biden-dont-run https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/obama-cautioned-biden-about-running-for-president