everything after November 5 feels like the far side of an event horizon, a space and time I can’t possibly imagine

Cybertruck driver is upset that people are laughing derisively at him; other drivers advise getting an extra-dark tint on the windows or else just shrugging it off:

"I sleep and drive soundly knowing my Cybertruck existing in the world is itself a giant self driving stainless steel middle finger to all the snowflakes and communists out there."

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/i-dont-know-why-women-keep-laughing-me-when-im-out-driving-my-tesla-cybertruck/amp

@chris google c-motive their explainer videos have it all

Here’s the result, alongside a reproduction of Franklin’s original model. It doesn’t use a continuous flow of electricity, like all modern electric motors. Instead, it relies on the attraction and repulsion of electric poles.

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For nearly 300 years, a weird kind of electric motor that works on static electricity has been little more than a scientific and engineering curiosity.

Then a couple of PhD students threw themselves into figuring out if modern tech could make it viable.

Turns out they were right.

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Electric motors might be on the cusp of a transformation on par with the invention of the lithium ion battery, thanks to the pioneering work of Ben Franklin. (really)

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https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-motors-are-about-to-get-a-major-upgrade-thanks-to-benjamin-franklin-e96f339d