Patched road surface, smooth?

I thought the purpose of patching roads was to create cheap speedbumps.

As always, its a bit more nuanced.
Car sales in general in California are subdued, the tax credit for EVs has been dropped and various factors covered here...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-ev-sales-drop-report-2026/


The report that CBS cherry picked...

https://www ...

Q1 2026 EV sales in California are down 40% from Q1 2025..



As always, its a bit more nuanced.
Car sales in general in California are subdued, the tax credit for EVs has been dropped and various factors covered here...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-ev-sales-drop-report ...

It's been odd when I come.onto the site.
Kind of stutters off and on again a few times.

Was ok this time though.

Van/people carrier, whatevs.

Looks like all the others to me, apart from it looks sort of 'eyeless'.

https://i.postimg.cc/vTRBvmHt/29837-aw604148.jpg


I saw one of those in Chi last weekend - at least I think it was one of those - it was all black and very quiet as it meandered around ...

Is having cheapo electric door handles an improvement?
I must have missed that memo.

Local charging station by a carwash, near a reasonable dog walking area.
39p per Kwh.
Doesnt seem too hard to rock up with dog, charge car and while its charging walk the dog.
Anyone with a dog should bloody well walk it regularly anyway, do both at the same time.

Some charging stations at ...

No idea, slept bollocko since I was a kid.

I'm not vegan myself, nor vegetarian either but I can understand people liking certain meat flavours, but without the battery hen, pigfarm, corn fed steroid beef stuff.
There, that wasn't rocket surgery to understand, was it?

Welcome back Bwana.
To be fair, I'd not realised you'd gone as such, just not posted for a bit if you see what I mean.

Docca wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2026 6:48 pm

The bluebells are out this week round here also.
There's a walk near here by the river with an absolute carpet of them this time.of year, I'll have to nip over this weekend for a look.

Believers just get on with their lives.

Some non believers seem compelled to ridicule and mock at every opportunity.

What happened to live and let live?

If only that were true. I've yet to have an atheist accost me in public or show up on my doorstep to tell me about science/reality ...

Basically I'm calling bullshit on it being anything even close to the difference in polution from the engine.


I seem to remember reading something from a scientist who knows about such things, that if when that started to go after emissions they were as they are now, they wouldn't have ...

Tyre wear causes pollution too. Especially on heavy EV's constantly accelerating and decelerating.

Euro 7 will be definitely limiting brake emissions and is also looking at tyre abrasion too.

The particles will end up in water courses and so as a polluting factor should be considered when ...

I reckon there has always been idiots in all professions.


But the Big Guy is infallible, right?

So if he was dishing out the orders, he's can't be wrong now. Unless he was wrong back then.

In which case, he ain't infallible. So why should we believe anything else he's (allegedly) said ...

weeksy wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2026 8:04 pm It wasn't reported anyway.

Huh? Thought I'd sent it.
Nevermind.

Reported.

Yeah, I remember that one.
Sandcast casings and so on
Liked it cos its smart that people built them but I didn't want one.

Paramo Velez Evolution smock/jacket thing.
Its sold as for skiers/alpine climbers and fellwalkers but its a waterproof jacket and as I walk the dog in all weathers and sometimes in the fells its something I could fire on without loads of midlayers.
Tried one of these on in a local (ish) outdoors ...

Been doing my own hair buzzcuts with clippers since I got rid of my mohican whe I was 20.
Before that a mate used to cut the sides so I didn't accidentally hack into the middle bit.
Hacking into the middle is much less of an issue nowadays and I zero cut it followed by a double edged safety razor to ...