someguy3
@someguy3@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect 3 weeks ago:
Whut?
- Comment on Home 4 weeks ago:
Do spiders wander far from their net?
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
Like way to Kool your platform for anything educational where you want to pause to like at a graph.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Can you just give us the TLDE?
- Comment on Russian Embassy, UK 2 months ago:
Oh that guy’s definitely falling out a window. With socks, or else it’s gay.
- Comment on Russian Embassy, UK 2 months ago:
What’s the text say?
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
My comparison is that the metric system is like color vision. It’s like colors for traffic lights, but USC people insist it’s fine memorizing which light is which location. In metric you just see the world in a way USC can’t, but USC people insist they’re just fine.
- Comment on ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. 3 months ago:
This is clearly only the ones that negatively affect them.
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- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 3 months ago:
So this time IT can’t say “have you tried restarting it?”
- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 3 months ago:
I thought they were rolling back the update?
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- Comment on We might see Microsoft adding ads to BSOD 3 months ago:
BSOD?
- Comment on Bet y'all are very familiar with this 3 months ago:
I know what it is but I don’t get the joke on the title.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
Ah yes all votes for Nader. It did change things, but ask yourself how it changed things. The answer: changed things for the worse. Big time.
And all those protest no votes for Hilary. Again, how did that change things? Again, it changed things for the worse. Fucking tenfold worse.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
How do red states become purple states become blue states?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
worldle and globle
What’s this?
- Comment on Why are there "driveway connections by permit only" signs on roads? 4 months ago:
Ditches, which are part of the overall road design. The road isn’t just the asphalt, it’s the ditch and probably beyond too.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 4 months ago:
The first rule is don’t become another casualty.
Hunker down for a few days, iirc the most dangerous radiation will decay in the first few days. You don’t want the ash on your body. Fill your bathtub/whatever else with water to drink and ration your food.
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
AWD is overrated imo. Really don’t need, my next will be FWD.
I haven’t looked but I’m sure you could find a SUV or crossover with fwd.
But I agree with the other commenter, don’t buy a SUV. Cars or hatchbacks are really all you need.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Is “don’t tread on me” libertarian? I always thought it was right wing.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
And I can see through your personal attack. Cheers.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
It’s been around for a long time but you stop using it like that once you have a sliver of adulthood.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
No. It only has that meaning if you’re 14 and very edgy.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Capitalism doesn’t look that far ahead.
I agree it’s going to be problem. It’s already happened when we exported manufacturing jobs to China. Most of what was left was retail which didn’t pay as much but we struggled along (in part because of cheap products from China). I think that’s why trinkets are cheap but the core of living (housing and now food) is more expensive. So the older people see all the trinkets (things that use to be expensive but are now cheap) and don’t understand how life is more expensive.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
Sick is said as a bad thing. But in teenager slang it can be used as something cool.
- Comment on Yet closer to divine happiness. 4 months ago:
But then your feet aren’t touching the ground. It only said feet.
- Comment on Beijing intervenes in China’s solar industry as overcapacity dries up profit in the country's domestic market 4 months ago:
Seeing as China still burns fucking coal, I don’t see how there can be a problem.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
You have an incredibly adversarial tone, especially with “actual numbers” as if mine aren’t, so I’m not going to continue.
But I will point out I’m using averages and you are cherry picking low mileage per year, low fuel consumption, and low gas prices. And funny enough you are combining low mileage per year, with moderately-high battery replacement rate. You are picking and choosing.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
Some quick math from this realclearscience.com/…/how_expensive_is_it_to_cha…!
Puts slow charging at 1/4 the price of gasoline. That’s substantial.
Other searching says average of 18k km per year in Europe. With 6 l/ 100 km average age 1.76€/ l, gasoline costs €1,901 per year. Vs €475 for electricity. Saving €1,426 a year (1,527 US) Do that for 10 years and that’s €14,260 saved ($15, 270 US). I can only expect that savings will increase as gas prices go up.
As for maintenance anything with a timing belt is going to have a massive maintenance cost. There’s just no comparison in the design of these things. Electric motors have such a simple design. ICE cars have oil changes, transmission oil changes, coolant changes, spark plugs, starters, 12 v battery, accessory belt, timing belt, alternator. Yes EV’s have a 12v battery and coolant but these are not taxed nearly as much as ice cars.
EV motors are so simple they’ll handily outlast ice engines. And no transmission either. Boy if you’ve ever had transmission problems you’d never want another, EVs don’t have that. Tesla used to be on about a million mile drivetrain warranty because it really should be feasible. Ice cars can’t ever get that (on average).
Batteries yeah we’ll see how well new ones last. For a mile miles you’ll go through a few batteries, which get better each time.