EV's

[JWags85]

Pfft all that is soft as hell, my son H.W. and I are oilmen.

[Pakuni]

Pfft all that is soft as hell, my son H.W. and I are oilmen.

Fantastic reference.

[Skatastrophy]

What I don't get is what do you do if you have to drive your EV at night when the sun is down?

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

What I don't get is what do you do if you have to drive your EV at night when the sun is down?

Ideally that's where 15 minute cities come into play

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Tend to overstep bounds is an understatement.

Like this HOA that installed speed cameras and is imposing fines of $250 (first offense) to $1,000 to anyone driving above 15 mph.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/04/08/neighbors-voice-concerns-over-high-fines-speed-camera-tickets/

Or this person fined more than $1,000 and threatened with a lien for painting her shutters the wrong color, even though all her neighbors signed petitions saying they were fine with the color.

https://abc11.com/troubleshooter-homeowners-association-hoa-debra-blue/3018009/

Or this one that used Google satellite images to locate a shed that otherwise was not visible from the street and had been on the property when its current owner bought it. They told the new owner, three years after he moved in, to remove it or they'd place a lien on his property.

https://www.hoaleader.com/public/Are-You-Going-Too-Far-in-Searching-for-HOA-Violations.cfm

Or this one which demanded a 92-year-old disabled guy to remove the bench outside his home, which had been there for 10 years and allowed him to step outside and visit with neighbors. Their suggestion for this 92-year-old disabled man? Carry a chair inside and outside every day.

https://www.abc15.com/news/let-joe-know/neighbors-rally-for-senior-who-just-wants-somewhere-to-sit

The existence of HOAs isn't a problem. The way they're managed is the problem.
While these HOAs are theoretically run by residents, the rules are put in place by the home builder before anyone moves in, and then typically enforced by a for-profit management company that has a $$$$ incentive to find and punish even the most irrelevant of violations.

Someone saw the HOA episode of Last Week Tonight

[Pakuni]

Someone saw the HOA episode of Last Week Tonight

[Hards Alumni]

Obviously, a person who has never lived with an HOA.

When you buy a home covered by an HOA, there are certain declarations, deed addendums and documents you sign acknowledging the HOA, its authority and that you're subject to the articles of incorporation and rules laid down by the Board. You accept that or don't live in an HOA-governed community. Think of it as a mini-municipality.

The decorative restrictions are designed to keep a community looking consistent and well-maintained. In a community of white, tan and beige homes, do you really want to give someone the opportunity to paint their home hot pink?

Easiest way to thwart most HOAs: retain a lawyer. They'll crumble so fast, they'll make the Indianapolis 500 look like a footrace.

Thanks, I know what they are, I just think they're absurd.

[jficke13]

I will never get over that this is Robert Redford in this gif.

[lawdog77]

I will never get over that this is Robert Redford in this gif.

I thought it was Zach Galafinakas

[The Sultan]

Thanks, I know what they are, I just think they're absurd.

Most of them are pretty innocuous. I was in one because we had a common area, including a water retention pond that had to be managed. They could have levied monthly payments to do so, but some retired guy in the neighborhood mowed it for free.

[jficke13]

I thought it was Zach Galafinakas

So did I.

[jficke13]

Most of them are pretty innocuous. I was in one because we had a common area, including a water retention pond that had to be managed. They could have levied monthly payments to do so, but some retired guy in the neighborhood mowed it for free.

Our annual fee is practically nothing, they mow the area around a little playground and manage the retention pond. That's fine. There's also an "architectural review committee" that ostensibly has veto power over EVERYTHING you do on your property, including (if we read the HOA governing documents strictly) over every single plant you might want to put in. And you have to get approval before doing anything or they get really snippy.

Guy put solar panels on his roof without asking the all powerful HOA committee for permission first, and they threw a conniption, hired a lawyer, and spun up this big post hoc justification of "protecting property value." I pointed out that the very existence of an HOA is a threat to property value as many buyers refuse to subject themselves to an HOA, but if the HOA gets the reputation of a litigious one that would be as good as any of the worst boomer brain worm nightmares the committee could come up with for tanking property value.

Fast forward a few years and the dude still has his solar panels, but the HOA funding is several thousand dollars poorer because the attorney they hired to write a few threatening letters needed to be paid.

Worthless, the lot of them.

[lawdog77]

Our HOA has one good part-no political lawn signs.

[rocky_warrior]

I thought it was Zach Galafinakas

TIL - https://hollywoodlife.com/2019/07/09/zach-galifianakis-not-nodding-meme-guy-robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson/

[TSmith34, Inc.]

The World Needs More Batteries — But Not This Many
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-needs-more-batteries-not-070118435.html

(Bloomberg) -- The wave of battery factories under construction around the world will be able to produce far more cells than the global economy needs, BloombergNEF warns in a new report.

Demand for lithium-ion cells is growing fast, as automakers electrify their fleets and utilities install big batteries to stabilize the power grid. But manufacturers have announced so many new factories that capacity will outstrip demand for the rest of the decade, according to BNEF.

By the end of 2025, the global battery industry will be able to produce more than five times as many cells as the world will need that year, BNEF forecasts in its latest Electric Vehicle Outlook.

"This is good news for automakers and EV buyers but marks a challenging time ahead for new entrants to the battery industry," the report said.

[The Sultan]

The World Needs More Batteries — But Not This Many
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-needs-more-batteries-not-070118435.html

(Bloomberg) -- The wave of battery factories under construction around the world will be able to produce far more cells than the global economy needs, BloombergNEF warns in a new report.

Demand for lithium-ion cells is growing fast, as automakers electrify their fleets and utilities install big batteries to stabilize the power grid. But manufacturers have announced so many new factories that capacity will outstrip demand for the rest of the decade, according to BNEF.

By the end of 2025, the global battery industry will be able to produce more than five times as many cells as the world will need that year, BNEF forecasts in its latest Electric Vehicle Outlook.

"This is good news for automakers and EV buyers but marks a challenging time ahead for new entrants to the battery industry," the report said.

I thought this video did a good job describing the battery situation. A lot of these plants are being built because of China and protectionism.

https://youtu.be/rkxMdmipYqM?si=GhR680iJPSp0yAjm

[jesmu84]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/largest-us-oil-trade-group-090632457.html

We need to re-allow lead in paint/pipes/gasoline and asbestos

[Skatastrophy]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/largest-us-oil-trade-group-090632457.html

We need to re-allow lead in paint/pipes/gasoline and asbestos

We are going to see the oil industry acting in bizzare ways as it dies

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-faces-staggering-excess-oil-134925881.html

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

https://energywatch.com/EnergyNews/article17196825.ece?utm_campaign=EnergyWatch%20Newsletter&utm_content=2024-06-14&utm_medium=email&utm_source=energywatch

[4everwarriors]

Our HOA has one good part-no political lawn signs.

Kinda like Scoop den, aina?

[lawdog77]

Kinda like Scoop den, aina?

According to the pin at the top of the page

[rocky_warrior]

According to the pin at the top of the page

We try to respond to what we read or gets reported here.  We probably miss a lot.

However, we are living in a broken two party system.  The break, though, isn't in the parties.  It's in the money going to the parties, that the delegates must succumb to. 

Hence, it's broken.  Anyone that feels affinity towards a party is also broken.  Sorry, that probably offends many people.

[PointWarrior]

We try to respond to what we read or gets reported here.  We probably miss a lot.

However, we are living in a broken two party system.  The break, though, isn't in the parties.  It's in the money going to the parties, that the delegates must succumb to. 

Hence, it's broken.  Anyone that feels affinity towards a party is also broken.  Sorry, that probably offends many people.

Does not offend me at all.  Sucks that all we have is the far-right and far-left...

[rocky_warrior]

Does not offend me at all.  Sucks that all we have is the far-right and far-left...

Thanks bro 🙂 it's what "they've" paid for

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Does not offend me at all.  Sucks that all we have is the far-right and far-left...

No we don't.

Far right is facism. All power to the regime.

Fat left is anarchy.  All power to the people.

We have neither.  But we do have one side trying to overthrow free and fair elections and threatening "bloodbaths" if they aren't elected.
There is no one on the other side promising to abolish government or coming anywhere close to that.

Our country's politics already starts pretty far right of center. On a global scale we have far right and maybe slightly left of center (with the majority of that side being firmly in moderate)