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Keynes is teleported from 1936 to 400AD, one day after publishing The General Theory of Employment. He maintains all his knowledge of economic theory. He has a copy of up to 10 books on economic theory of his choice, translated into period-accurate Latin and Greek.

Rules to ensure the man actually gets to be an economist:

1. Keynes is now a fluent speaker of both Latin and Greek of the period, at the same level he is in English (he also maintains his knowledge of English for what it's worth). He has no knowledge of the future related to the WRE (e.g. the dates people died OTL) or future technology outside of economic theory (e.g. he can invent algebra, he can't invent viable steam engines).

2. Both Honorius and Stilicho have been given a 1 hour session on his theory and they are willing to give him a job to test out this "economics" thing. If Keynes can succeed in raising the revenues of a small province, they are willing to give him control of "economics" across the Empire. They will of course execute him if he becomes either a liability or tries to accrue too much power for himself. The rest of the royal family do not have the 1 hour session and are neutral on Keynes to begin with. Keynes has a background as a count with previous experience in raising revenue in the Empire (aka roughly his actual title and reputation in 1936).

3. Keynes has basic level knowledge of customs in the period. He's not getting theologian level knowledge, but he has a basic understanding of the Roman economy and social situation (e.g. he won't accidentally get stabbed on his first day for being bisexual and agnostic). This doesn't prevent him from being executed if people dislike him due to his policy.

4. Keynes will live until the age of 80 unless killed earlier, dying in the year 428 (he dies at 62 IRL). He is unaware of this and will need to use his political brain to figure out who to befriend to keep his job and head until then. In the year 400, assuming Honorius dies childless, the throne will likely pass to Stilicho's son Eucherius and he is aware of this.

5. Keynes is permitted to plot and scheme if he wants to. He is permitted to command troops, but the guy had no military background so you can probably imagine what will likely happen.

6. Keynes is permitted to teach others this new concept of "economics". Whom he chooses to teach is up to Keynes (though he faces the consequences of that), and how much they choose to learn is up to them and his teaching skills.

Win conditions:

1. The WRE lasts until at least 500AD.

2. Keynes dies of natural causes.

Hi,

I am taking my first EV roadtrip on Friday, driving a fair distance.

I'm driving copilot to an older person who isn't big into tech (it's her car). I agreed to help her with the trip, and setting up all the tech related things. Standard charging will be done at her home on the fat solar/battery setup with a level 2 charger she has, but it looks like we'll need to fuel up 3-4 times at charging stations along the way.

I drive one of the chosen chariots of all South Australians who want a small and cheap car: a Mazda 121 or first gen 2. Her existing vehicle is similar, but newer and not a model where 50% of the stock seemingly ended up in our state. Both of us have road tripped said small cars with small fuel tanks before, but while their ranges are surprisingly similar (500 for the petrol, 400ish for the EV), refueling an EV is very different.

For cybersecurity but more importantly practicality reasons, I'm trying to minimise how many apps I'm making the poor woman learn at once, while also learning the car on its first long drive. If they made brand new first gen Honda Jazz/Mazda2/2005 Suzuki Swift EVs with ACC and ventilated seats, she'd have slapped 30k down for that bad boy instantly, let's put it that way.

So far, we've been through downloading Waze and ABRP, and will go through signing up for Chargefox before we go (they run the RAA network and we live in SA).

My questions are:

• what, if anything else, should she download before we go? Are Waze + ABRP enough?

• Anything peculiar about road tripping an EV, aside from having to take longer stretch breaks?

• Is there a calculator for the range penalty at various speeds? I assume the car's range was calculated at low speeds and both of us tend to do 130 (afaik the car is speed limited to not much more than that anyway) in the country, is there any way to calculate what driving at x speed will do to the range? For ABRP I just told it to assume 20% worse economy than the figure it gave, which from what I read should roughly approximate doing 130 vs 110, is that close enough?

• I drive a car old enough to vote and she drives a base model: what changes have occurred in modern cars that aren't coming up in my research because ICE do them as well? I'm aware the car will be fast, heavy, big compared to what either of us drive now, smooth, quiet and utterly devoid of steering feel. I'm also aware that ADAS is very useful but also intrusive, and that I should avoid giving it as much personal information as possible.

• And for my personal curiosity (and the inevitable "Thomas, can you fix this software thing I don't like?"), are OBD2 readers still a thing on new cars? Are you able to do much interesting stuff like with Forscan, or are they now locked down too much?