Favorites January 9th 2022
They'd probably be voiced with European accents...
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You rarely see this type of overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement among voters today:
“70% of Democrats, 78% of Republicans, and nearly 80% of independents said members of Congress shouldn't be able to trade stocks.”
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Hate to side with Frank Luntz, but when you're looking at an issue this popular...
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Electric trucks arriving sooner than expected: a 40 Tn truck (!) that can drive “500 km during a work-day, with a short stop for charging, for example during lunch time”. That’s TODAY.
@VolvoTrucks expects half its sales to be electric by 2030.
volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-sto…
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Distressingly, many truck drivers don't actually stop for lunch. Maybe electric trucks will force them to stop and rest? Too much to hope for probably.
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DRONES BLOWING UP DRONES
From Raytheon Coyote Block 2+ anti-UAS demo at Yuma Proving Grounds #drones #uas #uav
🎥 youtu.be/RrRScxnDfrk
It's not the impact, it's the shrapnel
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Low cost warfare - sign of the times: "So serious is the impact of weapons that can cost as little as $1,000 that the US has lost the “complete” upper hand in the skies for the first time since the Korean war in the 1950s."
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Speaking of drones... the article is paywalled, but again, a grenade on a cheap drone is extremely dangerous.