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Dozens of students walk out in protest of Jerry Seinfeld speech at Duke ... https://youtube.com/shorts/woSLr3CqknY

With Thomas Massie losing his primary, it reminds me of how the Republican party has been failing in so many regards to enact any actual conservative policies. Every "victory" they achieve always seems to either benefit Israel directly or indirectly.

"Trump expanded the military, that's a conservative victory!" But to what end does that help in accomplishing something tangental to right wing advancement here at home? The answer is it doesn't, because it just benefits Israel once more.

@Zergling_man @shortstories there were EVs in the 90s but they were very much "compliance cars"/tech demos, along with the GM EV1 fiasco, and random guys building their own prototypes for decades when the batteries were lead acid.

Also back then: there was no issue of car companies using EVs as a trojan horse for everything you hate as a "package deal", they were literally like golf carts mixed with 90s cars tech wise.

@Zergling_man @shortstories also yeah the EV1 scandal made Elon Musk's tweets look like a joke to the point they made a movie about it (which had a sequel 5 years later with the early guys pushing EVs: Carlos Ghosn, DIYers, GM's CEO eventually warming up to them, and of course Elon Musk in his early days).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/

The tl;dr: GM leased out EVs, when the program ends they get them all back and crushed most of them, sent a few to unis for experimentation, and then got mad when uni students tried to rebuild them as EVs. The tide only changed when one of the EV1s got dumped at some tow yard from some uni that forgot they had it, and a YouTuber's friend bought it as a restoration project.

Then GM realized again that the EV1 scandal was even worse for them than VW's emission scandal or Elon's Twitter behavior combined so they recently changed face and started supporting the project since they also realized they couldn't repo a car they abandoned legally, and it'd look awful during the big EV push to say they did all that in the 90s.
https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2026/mar/0311-ev1.html

given that you can't discharge student loans, charging interest on them is actually usury under any definition.

@shortstories (Also there are *two* international solar car races, both going back the 80s. Solar cars are electrical by any relevant definition.)

Mind slightly blown to realize legendary long-defunct DC party spot House of Secrets has been maintained more or less as a time capsule for like 15 years and is doing an estate sale with the recent death of the owner.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/the-acne-industrial-complex?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1hyip9