Hear my prayer: From Orange County to Phoenix, a 26 ft. truck is estimated to cost $1,465. The same truck going in the opposite direction is estimated to cost $101.
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The very idea makes the mind reel: San Francisco, San Jose, Silicon Valley—all gone dark. The electric-car charging stations, the $500-a-plate sushi restaurants, the rows of workstations at Google, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce—all suddenly unplugged. This summer, blackouts could plunge large swaths of California into darkness—an act of deliberate policy, not equipment failure or operator errors.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
CBS2/KCAL9 has obtained an OSHA report citing the LAPD for an unclean work area. The report cited, among other things, “the presence of rats/rodents, fleas, roaches, flies gnats, mosquitoes and grasshoppers” at the LAPD Central Community Police Station.
This isn’t the first time rats have infested a city building.
Update! Bubonic Plague ‘Likely’ Already Present In Los Angeles, Dr. Drew Says
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Elsewhere: Tesla enters survival mode as stock price drops.
Rocky Mountain Low
Published this month in the Journal of Nobody Saw This Coming;
The legalization of recreational marijuana is associated with a rise of injuries, substance abuse and car accidents, according to new research.
A study published Wednesday in the journal BMJ Open found that Colorado hospital admissions for cannabis abuse increased after the drug was legalized in the state.
Researchers found that car accidents in Colorado increased 10% after [marijuana] legalization, and increases in alcohol abuse and overdoses that resulted in injury or death increased by 5%.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Woman charged with murder for fatally pushing elderly man from Las Vegas bus…
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A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And the vast majority isn’t ready for it.
The plan by PG&E Corp. comes after the bankrupt utility said a transmission line that snapped in windy weather probably started last year’s Camp Fire, the deadliest in state history. While the plan may end one problem, it creates another as Californians seek ways to deal with what some fear could be days and days of blackouts.
Because for the left, the best way to encourage people to forget about a problem is to bury it under a bigger one.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Now with third row seating.
Hey, want to see some spy pics of the "third row" that allows two "adults" to sit in back of a $TSLA Model Y? Are these two adults double-amputees, by any chance?$TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/CPCkOXI7l8
— Mark B. Spiegel (@markbspiegel) April 30, 2019
But wait! There’s more! Tesla’s Firesale Of Its Solar Inventory Begins
And more yet! Ugly turns uglier…
Oh well. At least there’s SpaceX.
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We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Don’t be alarmed.
They’ve already found a fix.
@Tesla a lot of people (tesla owners) stranded at the @riverside supercharger. No power in any of the 24 stalls! Help!?!?!?
— Ron Aldama 💯 (@aldama_ron) April 8, 2019
Womens’ Professional Hockey
An outdated, cisnormative idea whose time has died.
Smollett Hoax
A new theory emerges.
Jussie Smollett’s Attorney: Nigerian Brothers May Have Been Wearing Whiteface During Attack https://t.co/6I1EG6vkrM pic.twitter.com/0xB1hrv0J2
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 28, 2019
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
The European Union has provisionally agreed to force every car sold in Europe starting in 2022 to include software designed to slow drivers down if they break the speed limit.
EU leaders on Monday agreed that every car, van, truck, and bus should be fitted with a feature called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” designed to slow them down if they go too fast.
The software uses a combination of GPS, sign-recognition cameras, and advanced map software to pinpoint a vehicle’s location and the local speed limit. The software is designed to automatically slow down vehicles found to break the limit.
You don’t know what you’re talking about, because buggy whip.
The Torpedoes Circle Again
Celebrity porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion attempt against Nike…
IT GETS BETTER.
The co-conspirator in the Michael Avenatti case is celebrity attorney Mark Geragos, per @rebeccadobrien @mrothfeld. https://t.co/zNjDM4Ihn7
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 25, 2019
That would be CNN LEGAL ANALYST MARK GERAGOS.
More – “The instrument of Avenatti’s alleged attempted extortion was CNN/MSNBC. They need to reckon with the fact that they enabled and empowered someone that was clearly using them for grift.”
And How Was Your Day?
It was a little windy in Texas.
NOT 1 BUT 2 semi trucks flip over in same spot! Winds gusting over 80mph here in Amarillo Tx! EXTREMELY windy. If you are in a high profile vehicle SLOW DOWN! #txwx #highwindwarning pic.twitter.com/fvSrlCFcpk
— Blake Brown (@BlakeBrownWx) March 13, 2019
Via @Ryan Maue, who has other cool stuff.
Great Moments In Moral Panic
Some city registries say wait times for driver testing have increased significantly since the province took over driver examinations from the private sector March 1.
And some in the industry say the changes have also abruptly stripped them of their livelihoods, with the province taking over the work and outsourcing some of it.
Last year, in response to the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, the province passed legislation creating mandatory truck training requirements while also reversing the 1993 privatization of all driver testing.
The latter move was in response to complaints over the high cost and service quality, and even criminality, said Alberta Transportation officials.
But a canvass of several registries in Calgary that arrange the tests, including those for regular Class 5 licences, revealed frustration among staff who said customers could wait weeks to take a road exam, when before March 1 it would be done the same day.
The truck driver responsible for the Humboldt bus crash didn’t blow through that stop sign because he “lacked training”.
Riding Mass Transit Is like Inviting 30 Quebec Lobbyists Into Your Car
A brown paper bag just doesn’t buy what it used to.
Ottawa’s $2.1-billion light rail system, supposed to be finished by the end of this month, will not only miss its third completion deadline but is experiencing issues far more serious than city officials have led the public to believe, according to internal reports obtained by CBC.
The reports from the city’s rail operations show a litany of issues with the Confederation Line — the east-west system being built by the SNC Lavalin-led Rideau Transit Group — especially when it comes to the system’s ability to handle Ottawa winters.
“Vehicles are currently unreliable to the point that it has not been demonstrated that operations can be sustained during a winter weather event,” according to one report from last week.
The reports say that “panels are coming loose and breaking on LRVs [light-rail vehicles] due to snow building up on the vehicles,” and that snow and ice are “frequently causing the doors to freeze shut.”
Both brakes and bogies — the underframe of the rail car that holds the wheels — also freeze up if the vehicles “sit for any amount of time” outdoors during a snowfall.
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O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude.
h/t Steve from Rockwood