Did Puerto Rico's Teamsters Union Go on Strike During Hurricane Maria Relief Efforts? Reports that truck drivers are on strike in Puerto Rico are false -- Teamsters have asked mainland truckers to distribute supplies in the U.S. territory....
The Conservative Treehouse then went on to claim, again falsely, that the cause of this shortfall in truck drivers was a deliberate, coordinated strike action by the local Teamsters union. Similar claims were also made by the Gateway Pundit and entrepreneur Kambree Kawahine Koa.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters rejected these claims entirely, telling us the reports were “fake news” and adding that the Teamsters Local 901 in Puerto Rico was “doing everything but refuse to help” in relief efforts.
In a statement, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa called the reports “nothing but lies”:...
Indeed, Colonel Michael Valle — one of the sources cited by the Conservative Treehouse — went on to tell the Huffington Post:
There should be zero blame on the drivers. They can’t get to work, the infrastructure is destroyed, they can’t get fuel themselves, and they can’t call us for help because there’s no communication.
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A CNBC report cited in the Conservative Treehouse post also undermines the claim that there was a strike. As the reporter explains:
There are 3,000 cargo containers here at Crowley, one of the biggest shippers in Puerto RicoHere’s the problem – the truck drivers can’t get to the terminal to get their containers outYou’re looking at truck drivers who can’t be reached by their businesses by cell phone, they don’t have the gas to get to work, and then even when they do get to work, their semi-trucks don’t have fuel. The problem is the supply chain.
Etc, etc, etc.
Now, what you should be asking yourself right now is, "What sort of bullshit places have I been getting my information from that sold me on this story? What other bullshit have they sold me on over the years? What other bullshit do I currently believe that they sold me on?"
1) Day and night loads are very different from each other. Having storage for loadshifting lets you use a smaller amount of generation infrastructure at a higher capacity factor.
2) Loadshifting also lets you get by on fewer / less capable transmission lines. A good example of this is the old Castle Valley flow battery in Utah, on one of the Rattlesnake lines. By - again - charging at night and discharging during the day, halfway down the line, they help maintain the daytime voltage on the line when it would otherwise be experiencing excessive voltage drop or power quality problems.
Would pepper spray even work on an eagle? Birds can't taste capsaicin; if anything, it's numbing to them.
It's interesting to see how territorial these birds are. You can find lots of videos on Youtube of them doing things like attacking ultralights and such. I think they're simply going to have to "eagleproof" their drones. Which unfortunately will make them need to be bigger (and more expensive) for a given-sized payload, since a greater chunk of the mass fraction will need to go into structure.
Agreed. People had been assuming sonic because of the hearing loss and the hearing loud noises in the middle of the night, but that could just as well be a symptom of attacks from another sort, since the attacks have clearly done significant neurological damage. Either way, a technically advanced third party who wants to reverse US-Cuban relations seems to be the most probable perpetrator.
Don't mix up "bucking traditional style trends in order to be deliberately unusual" (for example, Prius Prime) with "bucking traditional style trends because it matters for aerodynamics" (such as aero wheels, grilleless designs, greater rear taper, shallower windshield rake, etc). The former is for people who want to shout to other drivers, "HEY, I'M DRIVING A GREEN CAR!!!", while the latter is simply physics and economics - lower energy consumption means smaller battery packs / less weight / less cost (or instead, longer range), fewer cycles at lower DoD on the packs, less cost to charge, faster charging from a given power source, etc, etc. It basically gives you a better, cheaper car.
Style trends change. Sometimes manufacturers buck style trends to stand out - with the Prius Prime, for example, there's nothing about having your rear end look like it was stepped on by a giant that helps your efficiency. But more often, they do so because it offers serious potential benefits. The latter slowly tends to become mainstream over time. "Back in the day", cars that didn't look like carriages were seen as weird. Raked, windshields (let alone curved ones)? Headlights -embedded- in the hood? A curved hood? Any taper whatsoever? Bumpers? On and on the list goes - all used to be seen as "fugly". As weirdmobiles. But they won out because they offered very real advantages, and people's style expectations changed accordingly as that's what they got used to seeing.
Turbines also tend to be noisy, and finicky, and have long spool-up times. It was worth giving them a shot, but they never really panned out, either for direct drive or as range extenders.
Model 3 is supposed to have a tow hitch option, according to Musk. PTFI took a picture of the underside of his and there's a cover over what's presumed to be a tow hitch connector, but he hasn't bothered to take it off and check;)
He's made it clear he's not going for the "cheap box" market. He's going for the high-end supercar market. The question is, who would buy a high-end supercar from Dyson?
Perhaps if he blows away the Tesla P100D (or whatever's current in their lineup at that time) on straightline acceleration, he'll get an obligatory number of sales from that chunk of the superrich that have to have all of the fastest toys. That's about the only hope I see for him.
That may be "revolutionary" for small electronics, but waveform sculpting with IGBTs is standard for EV motors. Except with vastly higher powers. Nobody's using brushed PM motors for EVs, unless you're talking about something equivalent to a golf cart. And it's been that way since the EV1 days.
If you want to see the direction Tesla is headed nowadays, for example, here's an interview with their motor guy.
And you have them. On the steering wheel. But for a passenger, looking at a big screen, it's a much better implementation to have context menus so you can add limitless functionality than to have a button for every last piece of functionality you want. You wouldn't do this with a computer or a smartphone, and you shouldn't do it with a car, either. Controls are multifunctional for a reason. And the passenger can get far more information and have much finer grained from a screen than they can from a button with a tiny LCD or similar readout.
Every time you're looking down at a screen
What part of the words "steering wheel" don't you understand?
And just ignoring that: the screen isn't down. That's why it's mounted on a stalk like that, so it's right in your peripheral when you're driving.
So you see not having a speedometer, oil gauge, emergency indicators, etc, etc as not a "need to stop" situation, but you see not being able to control your radio and climate control system as a "need to stop" situation?
I'm not getting your logic.
The immobilizer system checks for the presence of the cluster, so the vehicle won't start if it's not plugged in
So the car detected what it thought was tamper and behaved as it should for a tamper situation. Are you complaining about the presence of anti-theft systems, or just about that particular one being overly sensitive?
"Wheel-mounted controls frequently go wrong" - no they don't. "are easy to hit by accident in a panic situation" - and...? So you turn up the temperature when you're in the middle of a car accident - the big deal is...? "complicate the clock spring" - you need to extend the wiring harness into the steering wheel either way.
Controls should require the least movement of the driver away from their driving position as possible. That's steering wheel controls.
IMHO (If I Ran The Zoo...), the ideal interface to everything is a combination of steering wheel controls and tactile / auditory feedback. Anything that provides "feedback" on its own - for example, changing the volume, station, fan speed, etc - doesn't need additional feedback. Other things should have feedback unique to their activity - for example, when navigating context menus, having sounds unique to each menu so there's instant recognition of where you've navigated to. Visual feedback is also acceptable, but only when it's distinct enough that it can be immediately recognized by your peripheral, not requiring direct visual focus (e.g., different colored backgrounds, large distinct shapes, etc - the smaller the screen and the further away it is from the line of sight, the more dramatic the difference needs to be).
Clutter does nobody any favours. And IMHO, the benefit of something simply "being a physical button" is of limited utility, depending on the details - for example, with your typical row of preset buttons, your finger will tell you how centered it is on "a" button, but not on "which" button. It's IMHO much better design to have a smaller number of large (aka, hard to miss) touchscreen buttons right in your peripheral and which you can reach easily from your natural driving position than a larger number of smaller buttons not in your immediate peripheral which you have to reach more for.
What's safety critical? You can still use the wipers, it's just not as convenient. Yes, Tesla could certainly have delayed the Model 3 until production numbers were higher and the software was more mature. But why? The people who got theirs absolutely don't wish theirs was delayed. Why be mean to them? I don't see the reason. Everyone wins with the early release - both Tesla and the owners. I guess the only side that doesn't win is Tesla's PR department, because of articles like this.
That said, concerning FSD, I don't think it's wise to be selling that now. I see that as a potential liability for them. But selling "beta" cars? So long as they're safe to drive and the new owners know they're beta, I absolutely support that.
The list started being compiled after Tesla unveiled the vehicle and started deliveries, based on things that people wanted to know that they didn't feel were adequately addressed by the press kit, presentation, and reviews. There are now a few owners hanging out at the forum which have been filling out the answers to the list. For example, putting stuff in the cargo area, that's precisely what PTFI did with his most recent video, as a demonstration.
It's also important to realize, however, that these people are themselves just learning about their car.
I personally mount my phone in that location when I am driving
How on Earth do you bolt your phone hovering in the middle of the air half a meter recessed from the windshield?
Also, since when do cell phones come with 15" screens?
For some reason, looking down and sideways
It is not "down"; the instrument cluster-type info is at the exact same height as an instrument cluster. And not that far right. Literally everyone who's commented so far has said something to the effect of "It felt a little weird when I started driving it, but by the time I got home it was already second nature." It's a huge display right in your peripheral vision when your eyes are on the road, making everything easy to see, and making the buttons huge so that you don't need any precision at all in pressing them. It's extended forward from the dash as well as up so that you don't need to lean at all to press things.
It's unfortunate they couldn't have included a smaller screen
So that everyone has to hunt and peck when using the features on said screen? No thank you.
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Or just simply, Snopes:
Etc, etc, etc.
Now, what you should be asking yourself right now is, "What sort of bullshit places have I been getting my information from that sold me on this story? What other bullshit have they sold me on over the years? What other bullshit do I currently believe that they sold me on?"
Many roads on the island remain washed out or blocked by debris, and authorities have had trouble reaching out to truck drivers who can deliver supplies. “When we say that we don’t have truck drivers, we mean that we have not been able to contact them,” Rosselló said.
Power plants. Seriously.
1) Day and night loads are very different from each other. Having storage for loadshifting lets you use a smaller amount of generation infrastructure at a higher capacity factor.
2) Loadshifting also lets you get by on fewer / less capable transmission lines. A good example of this is the old Castle Valley flow battery in Utah, on one of the Rattlesnake lines. By - again - charging at night and discharging during the day, halfway down the line, they help maintain the daytime voltage on the line when it would otherwise be experiencing excessive voltage drop or power quality problems.
Would pepper spray even work on an eagle? Birds can't taste capsaicin; if anything, it's numbing to them.
It's interesting to see how territorial these birds are. You can find lots of videos on Youtube of them doing things like attacking ultralights and such. I think they're simply going to have to "eagleproof" their drones. Which unfortunately will make them need to be bigger (and more expensive) for a given-sized payload, since a greater chunk of the mass fraction will need to go into structure.
Ancient corpses are only used in building the support arms for the secondary mirror; the primary mirror is entirely corpse free.
Agreed. People had been assuming sonic because of the hearing loss and the hearing loud noises in the middle of the night, but that could just as well be a symptom of attacks from another sort, since the attacks have clearly done significant neurological damage. Either way, a technically advanced third party who wants to reverse US-Cuban relations seems to be the most probable perpetrator.
Sounds like if the goal was a third party trying to reverse progress in US-Cuban relations, they've partially succeeded already.
Are you under the impression that they left them on nonstop in predictable locations?
I agreed with you up until the last line. Essentially all modern EVs use waveform sculpting.
Don't mix up "bucking traditional style trends in order to be deliberately unusual" (for example, Prius Prime) with "bucking traditional style trends because it matters for aerodynamics" (such as aero wheels, grilleless designs, greater rear taper, shallower windshield rake, etc). The former is for people who want to shout to other drivers, "HEY, I'M DRIVING A GREEN CAR!!!", while the latter is simply physics and economics - lower energy consumption means smaller battery packs / less weight / less cost (or instead, longer range), fewer cycles at lower DoD on the packs, less cost to charge, faster charging from a given power source, etc, etc. It basically gives you a better, cheaper car.
Style trends change. Sometimes manufacturers buck style trends to stand out - with the Prius Prime, for example, there's nothing about having your rear end look like it was stepped on by a giant that helps your efficiency. But more often, they do so because it offers serious potential benefits. The latter slowly tends to become mainstream over time. "Back in the day", cars that didn't look like carriages were seen as weird. Raked, windshields (let alone curved ones)? Headlights -embedded- in the hood? A curved hood? Any taper whatsoever? Bumpers? On and on the list goes - all used to be seen as "fugly". As weirdmobiles. But they won out because they offered very real advantages, and people's style expectations changed accordingly as that's what they got used to seeing.
Turbines also tend to be noisy, and finicky, and have long spool-up times. It was worth giving them a shot, but they never really panned out, either for direct drive or as range extenders.
Model 3 is supposed to have a tow hitch option, according to Musk. PTFI took a picture of the underside of his and there's a cover over what's presumed to be a tow hitch connector, but he hasn't bothered to take it off and check ;)
He's made it clear he's not going for the "cheap box" market. He's going for the high-end supercar market. The question is, who would buy a high-end supercar from Dyson?
Perhaps if he blows away the Tesla P100D (or whatever's current in their lineup at that time) on straightline acceleration, he'll get an obligatory number of sales from that chunk of the superrich that have to have all of the fastest toys. That's about the only hope I see for him.
I'm betting it's going to clean up at the track.
That may be "revolutionary" for small electronics, but waveform sculpting with IGBTs is standard for EV motors. Except with vastly higher powers. Nobody's using brushed PM motors for EVs, unless you're talking about something equivalent to a golf cart. And it's been that way since the EV1 days.
If you want to see the direction Tesla is headed nowadays, for example, here's an interview with their motor guy.
And you have them. On the steering wheel. But for a passenger, looking at a big screen, it's a much better implementation to have context menus so you can add limitless functionality than to have a button for every last piece of functionality you want. You wouldn't do this with a computer or a smartphone, and you shouldn't do it with a car, either. Controls are multifunctional for a reason. And the passenger can get far more information and have much finer grained from a screen than they can from a button with a tiny LCD or similar readout.
What part of the words "steering wheel" don't you understand?
And just ignoring that: the screen isn't down. That's why it's mounted on a stalk like that, so it's right in your peripheral when you're driving.
So you see not having a speedometer, oil gauge, emergency indicators, etc, etc as not a "need to stop" situation, but you see not being able to control your radio and climate control system as a "need to stop" situation?
I'm not getting your logic.
So the car detected what it thought was tamper and behaved as it should for a tamper situation. Are you complaining about the presence of anti-theft systems, or just about that particular one being overly sensitive?
"Wheel-mounted controls frequently go wrong" - no they don't.
"are easy to hit by accident in a panic situation" - and...? So you turn up the temperature when you're in the middle of a car accident - the big deal is...?
"complicate the clock spring" - you need to extend the wiring harness into the steering wheel either way.
Controls should require the least movement of the driver away from their driving position as possible. That's steering wheel controls.
IMHO (If I Ran The Zoo...), the ideal interface to everything is a combination of steering wheel controls and tactile / auditory feedback. Anything that provides "feedback" on its own - for example, changing the volume, station, fan speed, etc - doesn't need additional feedback. Other things should have feedback unique to their activity - for example, when navigating context menus, having sounds unique to each menu so there's instant recognition of where you've navigated to. Visual feedback is also acceptable, but only when it's distinct enough that it can be immediately recognized by your peripheral, not requiring direct visual focus (e.g., different colored backgrounds, large distinct shapes, etc - the smaller the screen and the further away it is from the line of sight, the more dramatic the difference needs to be).
Clutter does nobody any favours. And IMHO, the benefit of something simply "being a physical button" is of limited utility, depending on the details - for example, with your typical row of preset buttons, your finger will tell you how centered it is on "a" button, but not on "which" button. It's IMHO much better design to have a smaller number of large (aka, hard to miss) touchscreen buttons right in your peripheral and which you can reach easily from your natural driving position than a larger number of smaller buttons not in your immediate peripheral which you have to reach more for.
What's safety critical? You can still use the wipers, it's just not as convenient. Yes, Tesla could certainly have delayed the Model 3 until production numbers were higher and the software was more mature. But why? The people who got theirs absolutely don't wish theirs was delayed. Why be mean to them? I don't see the reason. Everyone wins with the early release - both Tesla and the owners. I guess the only side that doesn't win is Tesla's PR department, because of articles like this.
That said, concerning FSD, I don't think it's wise to be selling that now. I see that as a potential liability for them. But selling "beta" cars? So long as they're safe to drive and the new owners know they're beta, I absolutely support that.
Are you saying you'd keep driving with a dashboard failure? No? Then what difference does it make?
Not everyone is going to buy autopilot, much less FSD (I'm not). That said, the car not only has cameras, it also has a dedicated rain sensor.
You think that hasn't been done?
The list started being compiled after Tesla unveiled the vehicle and started deliveries, based on things that people wanted to know that they didn't feel were adequately addressed by the press kit, presentation, and reviews. There are now a few owners hanging out at the forum which have been filling out the answers to the list. For example, putting stuff in the cargo area, that's precisely what PTFI did with his most recent video, as a demonstration.
It's also important to realize, however, that these people are themselves just learning about their car.
On Model 3, all basic features (including heated seats) are in a line on the screen at all times. Nice big icons.
Being able to keep important features always showing and have big icons for them is one of the advantages of using a large screen.
Akin to dashboard screen failure. You pull off, but it's not like it makes you crash.
How on Earth do you bolt your phone hovering in the middle of the air half a meter recessed from the windshield?
Also, since when do cell phones come with 15" screens?
It is not "down"; the instrument cluster-type info is at the exact same height as an instrument cluster. And not that far right. Literally everyone who's commented so far has said something to the effect of "It felt a little weird when I started driving it, but by the time I got home it was already second nature." It's a huge display right in your peripheral vision when your eyes are on the road, making everything easy to see, and making the buttons huge so that you don't need any precision at all in pressing them. It's extended forward from the dash as well as up so that you don't need to lean at all to press things.
So that everyone has to hunt and peck when using the features on said screen? No thank you.