Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

People still buy from them?

 

Dafuq? Good thing power supplies are easy to replace.

 

People who don't want to bother with the cheaper DIY route are like the ones who overpay for TRD Pro's and aren't capable or willing to build a rig for far less.

 

Just wait til they decide your electric car consumes too much energy to recharge and can't be sold there.

 

Funny you should say that...

(the WTF is the following is translated from www.autoweek.nl by tekdeeps.com yet I cannot find similar content on www.autoweek.com for some reason? Maybe my Google-Fu is fukd today...)


Toyota thinks it’s ‘too early’ for total EV focus

Toyota is rapidly becoming the most reluctant major automaker when it comes to the EV transition. The brand maintains that there will be plenty of room for non-electric newcomers in the coming years.

Toyota relies on hybrids for the time being. The brand has never made a secret of this, but Toyota confirmed this worldview today in a shareholders’ meeting. Automotive News caught that, according to board member Shigeki Terashi, it’s “too early” for a full focus on EVs, as seems to be happening with some other brands. “Some people love electric cars, but others don’t find the current technology user-friendly. Ultimately, it comes down to what the customer wants,” adds Technology boss Masahiko Maeda.

When a Toyota CEO says that, that in itself is reason enough to take it seriously. After all, Toyota is once again the largest car manufacturer in the world and therefore deserves some respect. Moreover, as a global player, the brand may have a slightly different world view than the average European. After all, Toyota also sells a lot of cars in America, the Middle East and Asia, and the EV flag is very different in those regions.

Incidentally, this reticent attitude does not affect the fact that Toyota is also working hard on EVs and electric platforms. The difference with many competitors is that the Japanese brand has yet to refrain from a vision of the future in which only EVs occur. So no ‘fully electric in 2030’ from Toyota City, but a more moderate vision of the future in which there is room for all known drive types, including hydrogen and hybrid technology.

 

Toyota is still banking on Hydrogen aren't they?

 

Somebody should. Not everyone wants to have to stop for long periods of time to recharge, and unless we figure out better battery technology and ways to recycle the materials effectively, we're just trading one way of polluting for another and using up different resources that will become scarce.

 

https://youtu.be/4n7bUYBYZPE

 

It's ok, MIT has a collapse of society in 2040 something and it's on track.

 

Don't know. Though something like that does solve the speed of refueling issues for extended traveling, as well as not necessarily needing to transport it to refueling stations if they can crack water onsite. Though there's also a bunch of safety related issue to be solved too. It'll be interesting to see if that has a play in the future in some capacity.

I'll now STFU to obey the No Talky

 

Looks like they already found one?

 

Yeah, It's too bad everyone has to fight over these conversations. I love new technology and ICE has gone pretty much as far as it can go.

 

Interesting

Edit: Maybe closer than we think based on THIS little snippet of society.

 

In my lifetime the world has be scheduled to end quite a few times. Every thing from biblical predictions to Mayan legend and computer meltdown have been used as predictors. I doubt MIT has any better chance of being right.

 

Well that's got to be a bit awkward in all sorts of ways....

Dad, 36, loses 20 years of memories after waking up and thinking it's the 1990s


A dad woke up one morning to get himself ready for school believing it was the 90s after having two decades worth of memories totally wiped.

Daniel Porter, 36, suddenly lost 20 years due to a rare brain condition.

The man from Texas, US, awoke next to his wife Ruth, 37, in July last year - but had no idea who she was, or where he was living.

He also had no recollection about anything that had happened since he was a teenager - but his partner says he is now more friendly and social than he was before.

The hearing specialist thought it was time to get ready for school and had no memory of his wife or daughter, Libby, 10.

The mum was forced to convince Daniel that he hadn't been kidnapped and that she was his wife with the help of his parents.


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Thankfully Daniel has been retaining memories since - but still doesn't remember the 20 years before that including his wedding day and the birth of Libby.

His wife said: "He woke up one morning and just had no idea who I was or where he was. He was very confused.

"I could tell he didn't recognise the room. He thought he was either drunk and gone home with a woman or that he'd been kidnapped.

"I could see him looking for an escape route. I worked out he thought it was the 90s because he remembered a WWE programme, so I researched when that was aired.

"I helped him get dressed and he thought I was putting him in my husband's clothes and my husband was going to come home any minute.

"Luckily, we were on his parent's farm so they could confirm that I was his wife and he believed them but he had no idea that he had a daughter and he was scared of our dogs.


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"He was angry when he looked at himself in the mirror. He was asking why he was old and fat."

After taking Daniel to hospital, Ruth discovered he'd suffered Transient Global Amnesia, a sudden, temporary interruption of short-term memory and the pair were told to expect that he'd have his memory back within 24 hours.

As well as losing memories with his loved ones, including meeting Ruth in 2006 at Walmart where they both worked and their wedding in 2007, Daniel has lost all memory of his education and has had to give up work as a hearing specialist.

Ruth has been trying to help Daniel get back some of his memories by driving them around his old neighbourhood and reintroducing him to friends.


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She said: "He doesn't remember meeting me, getting married, getting pregnant, buying our first house, our daughter's birth or 9/11.

"It's weird because I'm in an old relationship and he's in a new one.

"He hid Libby's birthday presents a week before he got amnesia so when her birthday came, we couldn't find them because he couldn't remember where he'd put them.

"His personality is different as well. He has different tastes in food, it's really strange but his sense of humour is still good.

"He's more friendly and sociable, he loves going out but he didn't use to."



Daniel had started having stress induced seizures in January 2020 after losing his job, selling his house to move in with his parents and suffering with a slipped disc in his back.

Ruth said: "We had a really traumatic year in 2019.

"Daniel lost his job so we sold our house and most of our possessions and we moved to Missouri for work but we didn't get paid so we ended up stranded with no friends or family around.

"I knew that when people have been through trauma that they can lose their memory of it but I didn't know it could cause 20 years of memory loss.

"He's going to therapy to see if working through the trauma can help but it's hard to work through stuff you can't remember."

 

Scary. I had a much smaller memory lose experience. About 10 years ago, went to work, logged in, went to my files, and I didn’t know what to do with them. Sat there peeked and poked (looked around) for ~30 minutes. Called my supervisor and told him I was sick and going home. Got home, called the doctor (GP) he had me go in for a checkup, he talked to a neurologist who put me in the hospital for observation. I had numerous blood tests (it wasn’t a STD), the MRI, spinal tap, etc. came up with nothing. Three days later they sent me home. Insurance picked up most of the bill.

 

... honestly your third leg was just phenomenal...

https://twitter.com/RugbyLeagueMen/status/1420627281194754048?

 

... well wouldn't you just love to have that swim into your trunks....

Bizarre worm-like amphibian is Florida's latest non-native species





Joining the ranks of creatures such as pythons, green iguanas and snakehead fish, the caecilian is the latest non-native species to be discovered living in Florida. Although it looks like a big worm, it's actually a unique type of amphibian.

Caecilians are typically found in central Africa, southeast Asia, plus South and Central America. In the Western Hemisphere, they don't occur any farther north than southern Mexico … until recently, that is.

Two years ago, Florida Fish and Wildlife workers netted a mysterious 2-foot-long (0.6-m) creature out of the Tamiami Canal in southern Florida. At the time, they sent a photograph of it to Dr. Coleman Sheehy, the herpetology collection manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Its body was later also sent to the museum, after it died in captivity.

Sheehy has subsequently received other caecilians collected in the canal, and now plans on conducting fieldwork to determine their numbers and range within the area.

The initial specimen proved to be a Typhlonectes natans caecilian, which is native to Venezuela and Colombia, and is the species most commonly sold in the pet trade. Given this fact, Coleman believes that the Florida population may consist of unwanted pets (or descendants of pets) that were intentionally released into the canal.


"Very little is known about these animals in the wild, but there’s nothing particularly dangerous about them, and they don’t appear to be serious predators," says Sheehy. "They’ll probably eat small animals and get eaten by larger ones. This could be just another non-native species in the South Florida mix."

Depending on the species, caecilians range in length from a few inches to approximately 5 feet (1.5 m), and can be found either underground or in freshwater aquatic environments – all of them have very poor eyesight. In recent years, scientists have determined that the creature's liver cells may hold the key to treating cirrhosis in humans, and that it is the first amphibian known to have a venomous bite.

Dr. Sheehy's research is described in a paper that was recently published in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians.

 

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