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- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 hours ago:
There are actual checks and balance to ensure you’re a citizen and you vote at most once
- Comment on Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved 13 hours ago:
from the annal stone of the king
Sorry, but this sounds hilarious
- Comment on Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved 13 hours ago:
But now we know those big ricks can float
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 3 days ago:
So …. In a decade we’ll get ApplePay?
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 3 days ago:
Look up “wall fan with remote” on your favorite shopping site. Tear down that head chopper and put this on the back vertical wall
- Comment on The Patriarchy 6 days ago:
Don’t rain on our parade. Let it be real
- Comment on School board votes to restore Confederate names to schools in Shenandoah County - It Passed 1 week ago:
While we should be doing more to protect and support unionization, when results are different based on where you are, those people need to take some responsibility. I know some of the conservative states have it tough, but they operate under the same federal laws that Michigan does for autoworkers.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 week ago:
Personally, I believe it’s a strategy to improve social stability and wealth, after too many failed marriages based only on initial physical attraction.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 week ago:
I didn’t grow up in one of those cultures, but agree, there could be advantages. Notably, younger people are likely to focus on physical attraction, whereas marriage is a life long partnership that requires a lot more. As long as it’s not forced, the participants have a veto, I can definitely see advantages.
As a nerdy, introverted, shy, guy, bring it on. I have plenty to bring to a relationship, but not in finding someone to relate to
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 1 week ago:
The music industry figured it out: I listen to way more music than ever before and I willingly pay more than ever before
Video streaming keeps trying to make my experience more frustrating, less value to me. They’re scrounging for dollars is driving me away. I’ve considered my options for making video entertainment enjoyable again, and I’m just tired of the whole thing. I’m spending more time in projects, more time online, more time reading ebooks from my library. I’m watching less video than before, enjoying it less, getting less value for my money and it’s just all not worth it. Their efforts to profit more from my attention are getting them less of it and losing my willingness to pay
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 1 week ago:
It may have been more difficult and expensive than you’d expect. My understanding was distribution contracts tend to be per country. Netflix can’t just stream all the stuff from north of the border, but have to start over with buying rights to everything
This made more sense when distributors were all per country but not so much for streamers
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Seems like a good plan that’s right for your situation, but for all of our future, I hope that’s rare ten years from now.
For anyone in their own house, where it’s pretty straightforward to install a charger …. It’s damn nice to never again have to go to a local refueling station. Recharging your car can be just like your phone: plug it in overnight and it’s just always full.
Yeah, it can be a bit less convenient on a road trip, but 95+% time, plugging into your home charger is more convenient
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
What pros and cons have you personally experienced?
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure what those movies are like, and don’t want to know, but ……
My Mom watches horrible Hallmark stuff constantly. As far as I can tell, every movie has the same plot, they are low quality, etc. The thing is they are simple feel good movies for her. She finds them relaxing and gets good feelings from them, perfectly appropriate for “entertainment “.
If there is any parallel here, my point is that you don’t have to appreciate them for your Mom to. Why does it matter whether you agree with the movies or not: do you love her? Do you want to help her with entertainment that makes her feel good /relaxed/entertained?
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
That’s actually somewhat my argument for EVs. We know there are better ways to live, with lots of benefits including being more environmentally friendly, but it requires long term changes that were not good at and political will we don’t have. EVs are better than status quo, are needed for less densely populated areas, and are an improvement we can make now everywhere. Let’s “git r done”
Even here in the Boston area, which is arguably one of the best in the US for walkable cities and transit, where more improvements are hugely popular, where politics is solid blue and politicians are on board, transit improvements are a matter of decades. Here in the suburbs, I’d take the train into the city but that’s the only direction it works. I can walk to my town center and frequently do, but that’s not where my job is. Aside from people whose complete life is in the city, it’s difficult to see a time we could actually give up on cars. However there’s plenty of room for hope and optimism: we can take some trips out of cars, and we can continue to take more. Cars are necessary to step forward but the goal should be to minimize the cases where cars are necessary until people don’t find them worth having
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
You could easily argue the Hummer is symbolic of the problem with legacy manufacturer’s attempts at EVs, or at least the most extreme
Rather than create an EV anyone can afford, rather than design a vehicle around the needs of an EV, rather than care about any sort of efficiency …. Take a monster of excess and just keep adding thousands of pounds of batteries until it works. And you end up with more of a monster of excess: excessive price, excessive consumption of batteries/materials, excessive weight. You have a vehicle designed for people who values excess, made it even more excessive and godforsaken, and try to sell it to customers in the name of efficiency and reduced pollution. Of course it won’t work.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Yes, we’re finally getting some choices. Next time you need to purchase a personal vehicle, please consider which EV is right for you.
There are reasons Teslas are still most popular, and you may benefit by figuring out why, rather than spout propaganda
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
we are already starting to see EVs save people money on gas and service, and they are stupidly fast
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there was an article on measurable air pollution improvements in I think San Francisco, attributed to EV use
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the stupidity on industrial policy gets me: EVs are a new industry growing fast, and Chinese companies are growing fastest. Effing idiots want to throw away the chances for American companies to get into the new market. Sure, be more profitable for the next quarter while watching your legacy market dry up and don’t even try to make your mark. Somehow this is all twisted up in Sinophobia and racism and we’re in Bizarro World where everything is opposite
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- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
But so what? Yes, there are dependencies and initial costs to the environment. Petroleum based energy and products are integrated throughout our economy, effectively everything is dependent on fossil fuels. Everyone gets it.
Building out things like nuclear power or EVs only effect the operations and only of those specific industries/products. It’s only a start but these are examples of great places to start, where we can make a significant and highly visible difference.
There’s a very long tail of things to work on, for the foreseeable future, but you can’t balk at less than perfect. Do one thing on the list. Then do the next
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
You’re getting too anxious about what every little thing costs the environment. Yes, you’re right, there’s no silver bullet that makes anything magically sustainable, but there also doesn’t have to be.
Pay more attention to the overall environmental cost, or the change in environmental cost. Of course we’ll never get to zero, but it’s quite possible to get to a sustainable level. The big example is always an EV: sure, it costs the environment a little more to make an EV than an ICE car, but looking at overall costs, you’ve already made that up after only two typical years of driving on most places. And that will only get better as manufacturing gets more efficient and power production gets more green
with a sliver of insubstantial wind and nuclear power
Dude, come on. Looking at US electricity production, yes, natural gas is the biggest. But nuclear production is about the same as coal. And renewables are about the same as coal. And coal is dropping like a rock while most new electricity production is renewables. Despite short sightedness from some of our corporate politicians, it’s way more than a sliver
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Maybe someone should create EV incentives, with a requirement to be manufactured in country - both incentive to buy and incentive to manufacturers to invest in guaranteed growth area, and for their own future. Oops, that’s what we already have
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
There’s already a solid market for used cars, unless you mean EVs, so no use for an incentive there.
The point of an incentive is a temporary tool to accelerate the transition to less polluting technology. While EVs are new they naturally are more expensive, there’s temptation to import from cheaper countries, but the incentive makes them less expensive to buy, plus incents growth of local industry. I’d also vote to phase out the incentive after that transition has happened: fossil fuel incentives should have been gone half a century ago.
If you’re specifically talking the used EV market, the most important factor is time. The more new EVs there are, the better the used EV market will be in a few years. It doesn’t help to try to increase sales of used EVs when there are so few. If you are looking used, please be patient: let’s do what we can to accelerate the growth of new EVs, and one of the benefits will be a strong used market in a gpfew years
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 1 week ago:
The Rumjacks are a great band if anyone’s looking for something new
Holy crap, that’s not Green Day. I don’t know if those first few seconds were representative but really not my interests.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 week ago:
Wheel is excellent entertainment, and far more human than most of these pretenders.
I make the distinction among “streamer” who is doing a play by play similar to sportscasting, “presenter” is showing facts or teach a lesson like online learning, “op ed” to explain an opinion or parody, and “influencer” as someone trying to be center of attention but usually brings no value and has no reason to be famous except from being famous.
Maybe it’s just my own biases, but
- I can listen when my kids watch e-sports, recognize it as sportscasting
- I appreciate how “Everyday Astronaut” explains things
- I’ll go with Jon Stewart for presenting news topics with a sense of the absurd because I don’t have the patience to find a streamer equivalent
- somehow people like the Jenners, Lindsay Lohan, Kardashians, are famous for being famous, and supposedly “influence” people? Some of these really seem like the worst of humanity and ought to just be ignored.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
There are books
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Chargers earn reliable income? They even selll subscriptions. I have no idea whether they are profitable or not but there’s no reason this couldn’t be a nice steady income indefinitely
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
At least electrifying means that you’ll be ready for renewables- that has to be done as well
- Comment on The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks 2 weeks ago:
The article is not really specific to GPS, and the other systems have the same susceptibility to attack
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
So the company had a downturn, and has to cut costs to maintain profitability. Charging is not the core product, so why spend money on it. It almost makes sense.
Musk does have a habit of making large single-minded bets and it surely takes a giga-ego to do that. His rise was based on some of those being correct, but we’ll see if this one is
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
- you could still charge at home
- teslas include a free adapter to the other us standard, so you could still charge at any other charging network