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So Who’s Working on the Excuses For Why It (a) Never Got Built, (b) Doesn’t Work, (c) Couldn’t Work?

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Electric avenue: LA getting car-charging road ahead of 2028 Olympics
NY Post | 11/30/24 | Chris Harris

California is about to become home to the nation’s second electric vehicle-charging roadway — with construction due to be completed ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The multimillion dollar UCLA project, funded with state grant moneys, will concentrate on a half-mile stretch of road in Westwood, according to the Los Angeles Times.

And it will come as the university prepares to host the Olympic Village — where all of the competing athletes stay during the games.

“A wireless inductive option is a game changer,” Clinton Bench, director of the UCLA Fleet and Transit, told the Times.

“When a vehicle is driving over [a charger], the vehicle can collect charge while it’s moving.”

Close to $20 million in grant money will be used to upgrade UCLA‘s bus fleet, replacing gas-powered vehicles with electric buses.

The EV-charging roadway will eliminate the need to connect any of the buses to electric charging coils.

Any electric vehicle that utilizes the roadway will be able to pick up a charge, thanks to several underground charging stations.

The buses would pick up charge while driving throughout the day or when parked at a stationary wireless charger.

So, a half-mile of road, at (say) sixty miles per hour, provides exactly how much time to re-charge the wireless charger the buses don’t have?

I Will Monger: Fear, This Time

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(Not the myriad other kinds of mongering.)

Your Next Hospital Stay Could Involve Fewer IV Fluid Bags. Here’s Why.
KFF Health News | November 27, 2024 | Jackie Fortiér

Let me guess:

  • Trump.
  • Global Warming.
  • They misplaced them due to DEI.
  • They didn’t misplace them, but still due to DEI.
  • Ain’t nobody got time for that.
  • Illegals using them with a straw like they’re Capri Sun, hoping for a high.
  • Reparations.
  • Their secret herbs and spices are secret. Oh. I thought this was KFC Health News.

As long as I have breath in my body, and there are things to monger, I intend to monger till the cows come home. To the dog in the monger.

Update: What the hell’s going on here?

Dallas doctor sentenced to 190 years in prison for tampering with IV bags
CBS | November 21, 2024 | Julia Falcon, Kelsy Mittauer

A Dallas anesthesiologist who was convicted of tampering with IV bags has been sentenced this Wednesday to 190 years in prison.

In April, Raynaldo Ortiz was found guilty of tampering with IV bags by injecting them with Bupivacaine, an anesthetic drug. Jurors said they were left with no doubt of his guilt and convicted Ortiz on all 10 counts against him. Sentencing was set to begin on July 22, then was pushed back to Sept. 16 and again on Sept. 18.

Oppo’s Law

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Let’s stipulate that for every political statement or action a person makes, there will be an unhinged fringe on a binge that sends them a death threat. This is well known. How many of these threats can you think of that were actually ever carried out?

Oppo’s Law:

Nothing is newsworthy about anyone getting a death threat due to politics.

This will eliminate about 61.234% of political stories.