I drive to Chicago from Mpls maybe twice every 3 months. Essentially 400 mi.

ABRT shows an EV makes a 6:30 drive over 8hr, almost 25% longer.

I even tried to rent an EV (Genesis GV60 from Avis, that was a clusterfuck) for a run last year and ended up just driving some shitty jeep because when I showed up they'd forgotten to plug the GV60 in and if I waited I'd have missed my meeting in Chicago.

That and I test drove a Volvo PHEV and a) it was kind of a shit ride, b) it has a 35-40 mi elec range* at best, c) despite them explaining when the electric would kick in, when I drove it around for 20 mins, IT NEVER DID...so what the fuck? Why would I pay for 2x powertrains and double the maintenance to (basically) drive an under-engined, overweight car?

*which sales admitted during MN winter coldest months would be more like 20-30 tops...I couldn't even GET TO WORK on that.

Look, I absolutely think eventually EVs will dominate. Right now they're for people who functionally could probably get by with a golf cart instead, virtue signalers, and religious zealots.

I think it's rsilvergun likes to lurk as AC
If you look, almost every one of my posts has this shit attached to it. Even if it isn't faintly political.

I have two sons and I can guarantee that "the system isn't skewed against you, look your older brother isn't a failure like you are" wouldn't exactly hit the way you probably intend.

Every word from every character in every work by Douglas Adams is a word written by Douglas Adams.
I can't make that any clearer. Every single word.

William Shakespeare wrote that.

Dick the Butcher doesn't exist, he's a fictional character.

Well, the singularity at the center of the black hole is a point (or, is a point if the black hole isn't spinning.) The term "black hole" refers to the event horizon and everything inside it. The stuff inside is not observable-- the math says it's a singular point (ignoring quantum mechanics, since there is no theory of quantum gravity), but that's not observable.

Technically, when we say it's spinning, the actual meaning is "the black hole has angular momentum." The word "spin" is just shorthand. Same goes for elementary particles, for what it's worth. An electron has spin, but don't think of it as having some part of it is moving in circles.

Yes, the singularity at the center of a black hole with nonzero angular momentum is theoretically not a point, but a ring.

Could go either way, depending on whether the angular momentums of the individual black holes, and the angular momentum of the two holes orbiting each other, are aligned or anti-aligned. Also, the gravitational radiation of the merger carries angular momentum away, so the angular momentum of the merged system is less than the (vector) sum of the angular momenta of the two individual black holes and the orbital momentum.

The characters in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are fictional.

It was in fact Douglas Adams who said this. (Or, more specifically, wrote it.)

What legal angle? Unless they're inciting violence, conspiring to commit crimes, or similar, these assholes have the same right to free speech as anyone else.

Which was pretty silly. Communism should have been framed more simply and accurately as the killer of massive numbers of people, mostly through starvation, but also through ideological purges. Fascism can't hold a candle to Communism in terms of death toll. Neither can religion, at least in absolute numbers. In the more distant past religion did some serious large-volume murdering on on a percentage basis, but the total numbers were smaller then.

Carriers are irrelevant now. It's the OEMs (especially Samsung) who have the power. Samsung would kick Google to the curb if Google tried to take over.

To the extent that the situation you refer to is a problem, it's a problem of market share and the resulting funding for ongoing development of an open source OS. Google's ability to enforce requirements on Android OEMs is limited because the big players or any significant consortium of the smaller players can simply choose to cut ties with Google if Google is too pushy.

Yes, Chrome established a different business model from the outset. Android went a different direction because, rightly or wrongly, it was believed at the time that it was necessary in order to fend off other participants in the smartphone ecosystem, and over time it has gotten harder to change the model, not easier. In particular, one major Android OEM has amassed so much market dominance that they can and often do simply refuse Google's requests. Legally, Google could cut ties, but that would be bad for Google and i think it would be bad for Android users, since it would instantly fragment the ecosystem. IMO, Android users (and I am one) are better off with a slower-moving but relatively unified ecosystem.

No, this is about the merger of the platforms. It probably will eventually result in some reduction in staffing, but it's not happening now, and hasn't happened in any significant way. Both Android and ChromeOS have been relatively untouched by layoffs.

The goal is to reduce engineering effort. Even Google has to consider costs.

This was announced on June 12, 2024.

It doesn't mean Android and ChromeOS will share a common UI. Android already supports several distinct user interfaces for different platforms (mobile, wearable, auto, TV), and there's lots of customization even within those spaces. I expect that once the transition is complete, ChromeOS will still look and act much like it does now. It may run Android apps a little better than it does now (though it already runs them fairly well). It'll just share a lot of infrastructure with Android underneath the surface.

From what I find online, microdoses of psilocybin are generally 0.1-0.3 g of psilocybe cubensis, which would give a dose of about 1-4 mg of psilocybin, not 15 mg.

... Are the modern equivalent of medieval indulgences "pay me money and you can go ahead and keep sinning".

And just as likely to be effective in a) stopping sinning an/or b) making you innocent.