Puree (hot or smoothie) is a great way to introduce new flavours but it also breaks up the fibre making the fruit or veg much less healthy. If you are watching sugar intake this is very important. Sometimes disguising or hiding works. My kids liked cheese and salsa so many veggies had salsa or cheese or both on them initially. Eventually they ate the veggies on their own.

Nah that would cost money and taxpayers have already paid too much to him to need to pay more for his “care”.

Crashing the economy is the point, isn’t it. Every crash the richest few scoop up the assets and the peasants (most of Americans) settle for working for whatever scraps they can manage.

It depends on how conveniently the chargers are located. If you have a smaller battery and can go 200km you’ll need a charging station every 190km and mountainous terrain will change those distances as well. You many end up charging sooner than needed in order to get to the next charging spot. In reality it isn’t as bad as it sounds. I travel the BC interior with my short range EV and the savings in fuel make it worthwhile to stop more often. Even when I pay the high speed charging rates, it is about 1/4 the cost of gasoline per km but takes 15% longer time to get to destination vs our gas vehicle.

Enjoy your leave. You obviously have the sense to know that you are taking it for: your wife, your child and your mental health. You will give your family a better head start. Corporate won’t notice. If they are going to fire you, they’ll do it even if you had spent the time period working double overtime instead of being on leave.