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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I am so going to use the “I don’t feel it’s valid, are there any academic studies” line anytime I want to get my way

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I'm planning to use it against my wife the next time she suggests the wrong restaurant.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

You gonna be in deep do-do, if you do that. 😂🤣

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I just showed his comment to my wife. I got a chuckle and a scowl.

Lol!

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Hey, Ryan, you know I calls em as I sees em.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

No kidding. These people are morons - and it speaks directly to their obsession with the EXPERTS - only the EXPERTS can do the studies and only the EXPERTS can be relied on to give VALID information. Never mind your own eyes, ears, and your home thermostats that were shut off by the power companies against your will. Honestly, I want to laugh at their ridiculousness, but I have to cry because of their dangerousness. and there's SO MANY of them - I feel like we are living in a real life Dawn of the Living Dead.

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This is a great demonstration of how people are unable to think anymore.

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I'm not sure "unable" is the correct word. I think too d4mn lazy to think for themselves is closer to it. Could be ignorant, too. Maybe, it's a toss up of all 3.

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You're probably right about that. I guess there's no responsibility for oneself if you defer your decision making to others--whatever happens, it's on the others. The thought of that makes my head spin but it looks like a lot of people want that for themselves.

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Sep 23, 2022·edited Sep 23, 2022

Responsibility is a dirty word! If you're responsible for something, you can be blamed. If you avoid it like the plague, nothing is ever your fault. --- Of course, in actuality it can still be your fault, but you can play government, and deny, deny, deny. ....and blame, blame, blame.

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If we were living in a real life Dawn of the Dead, it would be vastly less stressful. What we are living in is where mouth breathers have decided to use “Idiocracy” as a manual instead of the satire it was supposed to be. We have some of that here in Texas, but our area councils aren’t this stupid outwardly. They lean towards the devious type. They have close session meetings Wednesday nights then everything that’s on the agenda for the official meeting Thursday is already decided on and the public has no say.

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Lovely. Sounds like they only practice ‘transparency’ in the public comment arena. The first time I typed that, it came out transcarency. Which may be more accurate, LOL. Transcarency….

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Yup. The mere fact that they ARE morons means that they are incapable of evaluating an “expert study” from a con job. And here in clownworld, most of what’s published is deeply flawed and likely to be politically biased.

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"Studies Show" is "The Bible says" for the 21st century secular Left ruling class...holy writ that only heretics and demons don't worship

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I was thinking of that when el gato malo posted his Substack on epistemology and the phenomenon of "we can't study X because a protected group might not like the findings." It is incredible how governments and universities have become more narrow-minded than old-school Catholics. I'm saying this from my own experience and do not mean it as a slur upon an entire faith--I specifically recall instances from my youth when I considered checking out a friend's Baptist church just to hear her sing in the choir and was warned away by family members who worried I'd stray. Can't hear someone else's views, because you might not be so sure of your own! These folks really are like the very religious folks of my youth, only they're adhering to an ever-changing creed. I don't know how they do it.

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I had a friend that was Jehovah's Witness, she asked me to go to church with her in Junior High. (We'd known each other all through Elementary. My parents and I weren't religious. RARELY went to church.) I asked my Mom if I could go. She was freaked out. Needless to say, I was not allowed to go. --- You don't have to be very religious to be closed minded to anything different.

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Trying going against religious expectations and picking a “secular” school for university. For much of my 20s, my uncles literally viewed me as an apostate of some kind.

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Heaven forbid you have to think about *why* you believe what you believe... I feel your pain. I'm past that point now, but I've been there.

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Yeah, very rearview mirror now, but definitely shaped my opinion of religion as an institution afraid of being challenged. Well, not religion itself, but a certain style of adherent, maybe.

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Yes. And of course, you can leave a denomination. You can't leave all of government. Even moving out of a given jurisdiction is hard. (I know; I did it.)

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That is the logical fallacy of "Appeal to Authority" and I actually bring it up in court when the other side insists that something must be true because it is on a business record or some form of official document. Most judges (at least the smart ones) embrace my argument.

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Not that they would be able to actually understand a study. It needs to be pre-digested by NPR.

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exactly, they need a priestly caste to interpret the holy books...same wine new bottle!

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Gosh. Well it only took 1,500 years of revisions to be ready for the peasants to read.

You'd think after that much time there wouldn't be any need for interpretation...

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"Tell me what to think!!"

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Sep 23, 2022·edited Sep 23, 2022

Its a great line. I plan to make great use of it going forward. Like when the border services agent asks me why I am not using the ArriveCAN app to re-enter my own country with a valid passport.

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When my husband wants to watch a football game, but I'd like some quiet in the living room... When the price of chicken has gone up yet again at the grocery store... Oh, I'm going to have a good time with that one.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

"I don't *feel* its valid."

Who has time for critical thinking and analysis when we have feelings?!

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

No wonder we are getting a flood of Californians into Florida. Good grief. California is a mental illness.

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Yes. Yes it is.

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Naomi - I live in Florida as well. It is insane how many people have moved from CA and NY in the last 2 years.

It scared me at first that they may do what has been done to Austin.

But in my experience it has been just the opposite; most people moving to FL are like minded folks who value personal autonomy and freedom.

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I moved to Florida from San Francisco last year. It's great to be here and have my vote matter (for DeSantis, for instance).

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I grew up in San Diego. My wife and I left in 08'. We just couldn't take it anymore.

The Left has ruined CA for the foreseeable future imo.

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CA State gov't is the Left's plaything. Every week I get self-promoting email from an elected official who uses State funds and facilities to advertise himself. Never signed up for it, no idea how this is legal. The email links to this website.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAOAG/bulletins/32ea599

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Libtards don't believe in the rule of law.

There is not a single thing I can point to that the Left has done to improve society.

It has become an ideology that promotes lawlessness when it benefits their destructive policies.

The hypocrisy is mind blowing. It is easy to be hypocritical without accountability by the government and the media.

This dynamic has put this country in precarious times. Truly an existential threat to our liberties and everything this country used to stand for.

I fear grim days are to come.

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California's true-blue voters listen to NPR all day long. They do not want to move to Florida. They think half the state went underwater in the 90's.

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Plus, if they visit they would be triggered by all the American flags people fly.

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They also think everyone's a meth addict and that people who say "gay" get the death penalty.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

One of the reasons I moved from San Francisco was the ubiquity of meth use and the refusal of cops to do anything. I saw more than one foot patrol in my neighborhood with $5000/month rents for a two bedroom walk right by open meth smoking. It's hard to miss the smell even with the human urine and feces smell. I'm in rural Florida, so yeah there are meth users, but the sheriff here does not tolerate use or possession.

Within a two-block radius of my place in San Francisco, there would be on average 6 car break-ins a week. Most were in broad daylight. Where I am now many people leave their cars running when they go into the grocery store (to keep the AC going). I haven't heard of any cars stolen (much less broken into).

Sorry if I'm ranting.

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I’m a Californian who fled this past spring for New England. You’re right—many of us who leave have been driven to by CA’s lunatic policies. We are escaping to places where we might again—finally—taste freedom, and we vote accordingly.

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This is an interesting comment on how far down into a pit of extreme ideological leftism California has fallen. I mean, when moving to New England means moving *away from* leftist lunatic politics, that's really saying something.

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SoCal is unlivable at this point, for many reasons. But it wasn’t cost that drove us out; it was ideology.

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Sep 26, 2022·edited Sep 26, 2022

What are the top one or two things that made Southern California unlivable for you? When you say ideology, in what ways did that manifest itself?

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1) Governmental overreach and malfeasance, especially with regard to Covid policy, but also in the day-to-day lunacy which Chris has described here many times (prioritizing the police fleet of Teslas, for instance, over fixing the streets).

2) Homelessness and crime. It’s everywhere now, not just in downmarket areas. Factor in how much it costs to live anywhere in SoCal, and it’s ridiculous to pay that much to have everything and everyone you love at such risk.

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<laughing> You have to ask that question? Really? Have you been asleep for the past 2-4 years?

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Ideology and you moved to New England? Seriously?

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Yep. It may seem like New England has been ruined by an influx of refugees from lefty states, but by comparison, it’s a veritable paradise of freedom.

That’s how bad it is in CA.

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You escaped to New England? New Hampshire used to be a conservative state but all the escapees from NY and CT ruined it.

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I’m not convinced. Florida today is like CA in the early 1960’s. The NY and CA folks are not conservatives. They are opportunists.

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Look at the gains in republican registrations.

I'm in the business community. We moved here from the midwest in April of 20' so that our kids didn't have to cover their effing faces.

In networking and meeting other parents, who relocated, I have experienced that they're, for the most part here, because they've seen firsthand the destructive policies of the Left.

Time will tell. Not all opportunist are bad. I am one. And also a father who knew I did not want my kids to be subjected to the crazies...;-]

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Although Gov DeSantis and the legislature want to protect kids it’s not an ironclad protection. Even in FL we have progressive school boards doing or allowing programs most parents object to. Look up what just happened in Duval County with health education sex kits.

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Agree. We have our own battles with the school board. The key is vigilance.

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Feed em to the gators or ship em to Martha's Vineyard if you don't want them, you've got options

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Funny. They have driven up real estate values unbelievably

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Or just send their parents back.

That might be more efficient?...;]

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Don't fret, you're getting the good ones.

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“If they had met during an actual blackout, debating the reliability of the electric power grid in the darkness inside a ring of candles, do you think the vote would have gone differently?”

Big LOL!

Now my serious answer: No.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Bad Cattitude wrote an interesting article that compared the ownership cost of a car like a Tesla to a Honda Accord--https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/price-of-gasoline-too-high-buy-an

If you look for it, you can find a lot of good info about the environmental cost of electric vehicles which is astounding considering this crap is being sold as a way to save the planet--it takes an incredible amount of resources to make the batteries and then when they're shot, there's no real way to get rid of them.

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They’ll probably dump them in the ocean like they did the plastic that was supposed to be recycled.

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sounds about right

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Anybody want to photo-shop a picture of a police Tesla pulling a utility trailer with a diesel generator? Or should we just wait till it happens?

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Oh, definitely wait until it happens. The pictures will be amazing. Cops in Teslas driving over heavily-potholed roads, cops in Teslas watching homeless psychotics shit on the street, police Teslas being towed to a charger....

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Sep 23, 2022·edited Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

California is like a pothole repair truck that gets stuck in a pothole.

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Sep 24, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

That's freakin hilarious!

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Best laugh so far! Hilarious.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Can't they just run an extension cord from Pasadena?

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That actually turns out to almost be their plan, since Pasadena has a local natural gas-burning power plant. The staff report says that in a power crisis the police department can just drive over there and plug in.

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OK, I know something about charging Teslas. If you follow Tesla’s advice and you are using a Level II charger (not a Tesla supercharger because that isn’t hooked up to the Pasadena Emergency Power) it will take you between 10 hours and 17 hours to charge up the Police Car after about 150 miles of driving (10 hr) -240 miles of driving (17 hrs). So, two cars to keep one on the road in an emergency?

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Wonder how many miles are driven during a shift and what % charge, if any, will be remaining at the end of a shift?

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Excellent questions! Assuming about 50% of the time they’re driving at, on average, about 20mph, that would be 240 miles in 24 hours. Tesla claims about 4 miles/kWh, but my hybrid gets about 2miles/kWh. So, let’s say 3mile/kWh. That’s 80kWh per day — the same size as the battery in most Teslas. Tesla recommends recharging the car at 20% and charging to 80%. So, 144 miles per charge. At the estimated use, charging would be every 14 hours. 12 hours is an easier breakout and provides a 2hr ‘reserve’. So, two cars per operational patrol unit; one in use and one charging. Swap them out every 12 hours.

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On a separate note, this assumes moderate temperatures. Batteries get remarkably less range in colder weather. In my hybrid, battery range is cut in half by freezing weather. So in Minnesota this would mean 72 miles between charges. Or 3+ charges a day of operation. So run the vehicle for 8hrs (80miles, but now about 1.5miles/kWh) put it on the charger for 8 hours. Again, one vehicle charging for one on patrol. But now changing vehicles every 8 hours, not every 12.

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Compare with a gas engine. 250 - 350 miles per tank. Fill up once per day for five minutes. One car per operational patrol unit.

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Will they be able to use air conditioning? 🤔

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Probably not. It will cut down on their milage!

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Yes, buy/lease more cars than you would otherwise need, just to have coverage for every shift. It's genius.

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Maybe they can sit in doughnut shops and conserve their EV battery.

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If only they had a dimmer control!...;)

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

what studies, surveys, and or publications support mr validty-arbiter’s reason to doubt former council woman’s indirect panic button?

they only concern these idiots show is when their progress is impeded by facts presented by reasonable people. the pedantic dismissiveness from someone who clearly doesn't even know what questions he should be asking is so fucking cringeworthy. I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS. the past two years ive watched educated, competent individuals spew the dumbest garbage (floating buckets of subliterate shit…still love that one) and no one is correcting them?!

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I was almost laughing out loud when the bearded dude asked for studies--academic studies!--when everybody in the country knows that Cali had serious issues getting power to all its customers just days ago.

I've never liked cats, but various Substackers whom I respect may make me revise my assessment.

Interestingly enough, NBER *has* actually published some academic papers on EVs, including this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w22862) about how EVs reduce pollution for white people, but increase it for POCs, and this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w27197) indicating that the "counterfactual gas-powered car" that EV drivers would have purchased would have been very fuel-efficient. (It's not as if the cop cars in your county that are being replaced were Hummers.) Ruh-roh.

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Also, if you think regular cop cars make a mess when set on fire, you'll be simply astonished by the giant blaze that those litihium batteries make. Just sayin'.

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Mostly peaceful explosion of course...

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Somebody warn Portland...

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Portland has been very clearly and extensively warned. But will it listen?

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Great citations. Thanks. Reminds me of the papers showing that California's rooftop solar programs hurt POCs.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Do these morons know how the electricity that powers the EV's is produced?

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From 100% sunlight and breezes, obvo. And happy thoughts!

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

It's almost comical how idiotic these people are

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They're not idiotic, but they're idiotic. In this instance, the person who is baffled by the idea that California's power grid might not be totally stable is a partner in a law firm:

https://www.lagerlof.com/jonathan-primuth/

I'm endlessly fascinated by the way smart people can be stupid.

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Sep 24, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

dipshits...

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

El Gato Malo?!?

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Did you see his meme on his last posting?

All I can say is you will laugh your ass off!

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Agreed, it was awesome!

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

We live on west coast of New Zealand, which is known for intense wind. My other half suggested to the local council, the pilling of driftwood, which often are used as bonfires, posed a significant risk to the beachfront houses and should be mulched and lush gardens be established as alternative habitats and natural firebreak. The mayor said he would need studies from landcare research to show fire was a risk..... what is it that prevents proper risk assessment and action in these people? all over the world this thinking has infected all our institutions.

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They assessed the risk.

Its you.

Everything burns.

Including you.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Never a shortage of dipshits! I don't live in CA--thank God--but I seem to remember earlier in the summer when gas prices were soaring and it was very hot there, the power companies were asking people to not charge their electric vehicles for fear the grid would blow up--not sure what to do if that's your only car. And this was while certain dipshits were telling Americans that were complaining about high gas prices to go buy electric--as freaking if!

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

There are idiots everywhere, but the highly educated population that makes up California’s various government/s might be the most idiotic. I am surprised he didn’t say “our grid has plenty of electrolytes. Now go away, baitin’!”

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This individuals can best be described as "Midwits". They have just enough IQ to get into trouble.

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Sep 23, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

It's a slippery slope to "feel" your way through a big decision. Our culture seems to be relying more and more on feelings for all decisions.

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How can you say this? Can you link me to any studies, cause I don’t *feel* it’s valid!

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