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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • EVs usually have two modes, one that lets you mostly drive with one pedal, and one that drives like a gas car. Sounds like your driver was using the wrong mode.

    Personally I like the gas-car mode because I don’t want to misjudge the effectiveness of the regen braking and hit something because of it, since the brake pedal becomes something of a special case rather than just the ordinary way to stop.









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    “You worked for the Obamas, didn’t you?” Leavitt said to Jones.

    “Yes, I did,” he said. Jones had, in fact, worked from 2009 to 2018 as a senior medical leader in the White House. At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama, a fitness fanatic rumored to allow himself precisely seven almonds a night, was 55 years old.

    “Who is healthier, Obama or President Trump?” I asked.

    Trump stared across the desk, making eye contact with Jones. Jones didn’t hesitate.

    “President Trump,” he said.

    Trump nodded. There was no sign of a smile, as if there could not have been any other answer to that question.

    “Write that,” he said, turning to me.












  • Republicans warned to steer clear of the ‘abolish slavery’ slogan

    Republicans need to drop the “abolish slavery” political slogan if they have hope of winning back the majority in Congress, a center-left think tank is warning.

    Third Way, in a memo to Republicans shared first with NBCNews, warned Republicans against talking in extreme terms in the wake of the highly charged days following the execution of John Brown.

    “The impulse is emotional. The slogan is simple. But politically, it is lethal,” a memo written by Sarah Pierce and Lanae Erickson, leaders in social policy for Third Way. “Every call to abolish slavery risks squandering one of the clearest opportunities in years to secure meaningful reform of agricultural labor — while handing Democrats exactly the fight they want.”