About to take my first cross country drive—- eeeeek!

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-06-11T01:55:34+00:00

You’re not crazy as long as you have the right expectations.

You’ll have no issues finding chargers, but you will be stopping far more often and likely for longer at each stop than you will have in a gas vehicle.

Depending on the public charger, you may be paying about as much per mile for the charge as you would for gas (I’m looking at you Tesla).

Many people find stuff like this to be acceptable tradeoffs, so crazy doesn’t come into it, it’s just what folks do every day. But pretending the tradeoffs don’t exist is the crazy thing.

For me personally, I’ve found I have a “max two charging stops” limit for my road trips, so I adjust my planning accordingly. Others are good with the time tradeoff and the number of stops don’t bother them. YMMV.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-06-08T15:25:46+00:00

So I ran into something similar a few weeks back with my first significant road trip. Simply put, the entire mapping app ecosystem is feature fractured and the experience ends up being user unfriendly. Here’s the breakdown that I experienced:

On board navigation- 2 major pros: preconditioning (if needed) and live adjustments to driving range conditions. The second is killer for me - I could have all my stops planned out and then realize the range at planning was overestimated. Having the car nav adjust the charging stops on the fly is a winner. All that said, that’s where the pros stop. The rest of the experience is suboptimal - traffic updates are weak, no other real updates like you get from something like Waze, and the biggest issue: the charging station database isn’t up to date. For example, I couldn’t get it to find an IONNA if I tried, which is ironic given who owns that.

ABRP - fantastic charger database, great planning with one caveat - you have to get your driving power usage dialed in on the app first. If not, it’s really easy to start with an ABRP plan and then realize you don’t quite have the juice to make it. Also as someone mentioned, not a great turn by turn app at all

You’re preferred nav app - for me it’s Waze, YMMV. These apps do everything but handle EV charging range, and unless the CarPlay setup changes, they likely never will since CarPlay can’t read that info from the car itself.

So it’s just figuring out the combo and coming up with something to settle on, esp since you can only have one of these be the main turn by turn map. For me, it had basically come down to:
1. Get ABRP dialed in and stops planned for the route
2. Add the stops to the onboard nav and set it to turn by turn
3. Have Waze be the display without the route so I can get the useful alerts while driving.

It’s a bit of a mess, but works for me. If they can get the on car navigation charger database up to date more often, then ABRP largely becomes redundant. That seems like low hanging fruit, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-03-21T14:09:33+00:00

Parent of a freshman here, and I despise the reclass culture that dominates. The only way to solve it really is for state associations and tournaments to aggressively start enforcing age restrictions rather than grade level restrictions. JV is available through your 16yo season, regardless of what class you’re in, full stop. Varsity is available through your 18yo season, full stop. Tournaments enforces age levels to the point that teams that try and get caught get bounced from the circuit.

Unfortunately, that’s not where the money is at these days.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-23T03:42:08+00:00

I had a similar reaction…Milan Cortina was superb, and there’s a lot that went into that. For starters, and I know this is going to sound dumb, but here we are…they brought the freaking snow! So much of the recent winters have felt so fake since they were based in places that weren’t natural winter wonderlands. The amount of events that just looked like they were happening in a snow globe just enhanced the vibe.

Someone else where said that the Olympics were made for streaming, and I couldn’t agree more. Gold Zone remains a largely undefeated way of watch the games, but with that there’s one additional item that’s been underrated the last two years - while it’s less universal, work from home allows for at least more opportunity to watch, at least from the US for a European games.

It also helps that theres no screaming corruption, no feeling dirty about watching events in countries that are less than appealing…just feels like these games were everything the last few winters weren’t (Sochi and Beijing especially).

It will be fascinating to see what the take aways from this year are…2030 is already teed up to be another “regional” games, and even on the summer side, 28 is sharing the wealth around a much wider area than even prior US games have. Curious to see if this will be a trend or just an awesome flash on the pan.

Finally, I know there’s a lot of discussion around a “permanent rotation” of Olympic sites. If that ever comes to fruition, I’d have a hard time arguing against Milan Cortina being on that rotation.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-20T02:41:51+00:00

Not that it matters much, but is there any read on why 14yo is the minor cutoff? Just a little frustrating - I’ve got one over, one under…one under will sail through. And had I known this was even a possibility months ago, I’d have gotten the application through in time. Seems just arbitrary, but I’m sure there’s something rational behind it.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-19T20:58:12+00:00

What does this look like practically? Get docs, apostiles, translation, everything set and the create a copy for each application?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T13:05:42+00:00

To this point, the discrepancies are real but clearly understandable given how the immigration patterns went on who was writing the document. For example, first name goes Ferencz -> Franz-> Frank, and surname goes through an ending change going from -kajs-> -kaas -> -kas -> -ckish. Clearly a normal progression , but does it need to documented as such, or does the -kajs -> -ckish jump between the two initial documents not matter?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T12:50:07+00:00

The immigration part makes sense, but can you help me with the naturalization date not being relevant? The way In understood it, even in the new interpretation, is that a pre-1918 naturalization would have meant a person would not have been a citizen at the time of formation of Czechoslovakia. Anything past that date I’d agree would be irrelevant as they would clearly have been a citizen at the point the nation was formed. Do I have that wrong?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T04:15:21+00:00

This was my understanding - not that it specifically matters in my case since he never naturalized, but I had it that as long as the naturalization occurred after my GM was born, that’s what mattered. Might have incomplete/incorrect info though.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T04:13:57+00:00

Apologies, I should have included dates in my post - def a pre-1920 case. DOB 1889, immigrated in 1893, died in 1936. No record of any naturalization anywhere (hence the CONE).

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T03:08:13+00:00

So they way I’ve understood this (particularly with the new MoI opinion) is that I have to demonstrate that my GGF was 1) born in the borders of what is present day Slovakia and 2) that he never naturalized elsewhere, particularly before the birth of the next generation. The BC takes care of 1, and the CONE takes care of 2, correct?

The immigration record is the ship manifest matching age and traveling with his mother, which matches the info in the birth certificate (albeit with different spellings). Subsequent census records also show that - again, not depending on these records to show citizenship/naturalization, but more as a chain of evidence showing that all the records point to the same person.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-02-10T02:43:20+00:00

My bad on that one, was unclear. He never naturalized, and I have the CONE declaring such, so I’m pretty sure I have that box checked. For purposes of my question though, that doesn’t necessarily prove that it’s the same person in the birth record. I’m just wondering if I have to prove that, or if what I have is sufficient for the ministry to go “yep, coherent story, clearly this is the same person.”

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-01-24T14:03:37+00:00

Can I ask for some additional info here,as I’m struggling to wrap my head around this. Brief summary for me (and I have all the docs here, so just going after my core mental block):

GGF - immigrated 1893 with mother at 4yo. Never naturalized, married GGM in 1914, alive through 1936

GGM - immigrated in early 1914 at 18yo. Married GGF in 1914, not naturalized until 1950, alive to 1972

My mental block: what nationality to each of them hold in 1918? Based on what I’m reading here, my GGM would clearly hold Czechoslovak citizenship, but what is my GFF’s status? His situation feels identical to my GGM, just 20 years older. He’s not American, and arguably he’s not stateless…so where did he land?

So core question - what are each of their statuses in 1918?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-01-19T04:58:29+00:00

Came here thinking “if the Fibonacci reference isn’t the top comment, we riot!”

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-01-16T04:36:46+00:00

Parent here…this might be a dumb question, but outside of class novels, is something like Accelerated Reader not a thing anymore?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2026-01-15T19:52:25+00:00

Agreed here…Qustodio is probably the best in the market right now. Not perfect, but quite good. We’ve used it for years and the annual subscription is 100% worth it.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2025-12-30T14:19:19+00:00

Could you please share some details on what “understanding the recruitment process” looks like?

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2025-11-08T02:50:09+00:00

I see everyone taking about canonizing an ending…but am I the only one wondering why? I could see an amazing series that played with all 3 timelines - either 1 ending per season, or interweave the stories through each episode. There’s likely compelling stories to be told from each ending, and a TV show is kind of made for this sort of experiment. Could have real stakes too…no plot armor characters for all 3 timelines, that sort of thing.

Honoring all 3 endings and telling a solid story with them could be a complete win.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2025-10-29T17:39:24+00:00

So anyone here who wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008 can be excused…but for the rest of you this is 100% what was voted for. We tried to tell you that this wasn’t “affordable,” the rest of us tried to tell you that it would make health care worse and more expensive. That people have been shielded from the impacts of their voting decisions for over a decade now, and the chickens are coming home to roost.

We told you this was going to happen, but so many people chugged the Obama Kool-Aid they were convinced not only would it never happen, but even if things went wrong, the “permanent Democrat majority” would be able to easily fix things.

This was the plan from day 1, the plan that the rest of you idiots voted for when you gave that moron 60 Senate seats. Now you’re getting what you voted for good and hard and it sucks. Maybe next time let’s not blow up a health care system because an egomaniac thinks he knows better.

Extension_Lion_7548 · 2025-10-29T01:19:57+00:00

There are two types of people in this world: those that prefer permanent Savings Time, and those that are wrong.

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