Traffic is the wrong side of the road for Japan. There is some text at the ground level of a building in the bottom left that looks like Chinese-style characters, but I’m not sure.

I hate that I have to look closely at these to try to evaluate if it’s AI or not. I think it’s real but I can’t say with 100% confidence.

Why are the profile pictures and account names Mike and Rachel from Suits while the main picture is not them?

I’m assuming they still print newspapers, but I can’t remember when I last saw our local paper for sale at a store. The vending machines are long gone.

And ink?

Maybe it depends on the branch of Amish. I’ve heard the ones in the Midwest are a little more relaxed than the ones in Pennsylvania.

A growing concern for all manner of hardware that relies on software to function. Give an added bonus to relatively weak warranty requirements for the U.S. that makes it easier for companies to suddenly dump support than in Europe or Australia.

Maybe even a candidate for c/nominativedeterminism

Microwaving the Pop Tarts is your first mistake: they should be toasted!

I’d heard the name, but just assumed it was one of those weird old west names. I had no idea it was named after a radio show!

I suspect he’s also going to become a training example for a lot of other people in various professions as well

I had to look it up; the Charge Station Pro is the one that allows bidirectional charging where the F-150 Lightning can serve as a backup to the home when plugged in, a great feature. The Mach E doesn’t have that capability, though, so it’s a wasted feature with that car.

I really liked the F-150 Lightning, but a full-size pickup with a crew cab doesn’t fit in my garage. I would have room to park outside in the driveway (and charger installation would be easier), but I don’t want to do that unless I have to.

The Mach E was nice, but I found the seats uncomfortable after about 30 minutes (the only part of the car I felt really was like a Mustang).

In any case I’m not in the market for a new car right now and don’t think I could afford a new electric vehicle with my current work situation.

For customers who buy or lease a new EV but already have a home charger installed, Ford will provide them with the cash equivalent of $2,000.

That’s a good incentive to try to poach a driver of another EV brand.

It did take forever. Rotary phones work by sending clicks down the phone line that automation equipment listens to. If clicks came too fast the equipment wouldn’t understand it correctly. This was one of the big improvements the touch tone phone brought: it was much faster to dial. Instead of clicks each button generated a tone at a specific frequency and the automated switching equipment could interpret it much faster. At least some of the early phones had a switch to make them send clicks instead, in case the local phone company didn’t support tones yet.

Makes me feel positive about Crucial’s support, though

You also need to keep in mind that there were not nearly as many phone numbers back then. While today a family of 4 might have a cell phone for each person (especially by the time the kids are teenagers), in the 20th century most families just had one number for the whole household (and the earlier you go there might have even been just one actual phone in the house).

Acme has the added benefit of meaning “peak” so it could convey the connotation of being “best”

His real innovation was a less expensive method to produce milk chocolate (although this process seems to produce butyric acid which is an unpleasant taste in chocolate if you’re not used to it) and becoming the first mass-produced chocolate in the US. The Hershey Kiss was just one of many products he made.

No, do it sequentially. To dial 515-2400 you put your finger in the 5, drag it to the stop, then release. Next put your finger in the 1, drag it to the stop, then release. Next put your finger in the 5, drag it to the stop, then release. Next put your finger in the 2, drag it to the stop, then release. Next put your finger in the 4, drag it to the stop, then release. Next put your finger in the 0, drag it to the stop, then release. Finally put your finger in the 0 again, drag it to the stop, then release.

The story is real in the American Voices features but the commentary is satirical

Are you able to charge at home? What are the costs to charge, especially at home vs at a public charger?

I guess there’s no real point to charging at home when your employer pays for it to be charged at a public charger, other than convenience.

Last year I was in a rental Chevy Bolt EUV for about 6 weeks that Kia paid for while replacing the engine in my wife’s Soul. I was really impressed with how inexpensive charging at home made it compared to paying for gasoline, but DC fast charging was actually more expensive than gasoline when looking at cost per mile.