Favorites January 9th 2022
They'd probably be voiced with European accents...
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.”
Hate to side with Frank Luntz, but when you're looking at an issue this popular...
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…
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.
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
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."
Speaking of drones... the article is paywalled, but again, a grenade on a cheap drone is extremely dangerous.
