One of my state's Republican senators is all-in on chemtrails and "Solar Radiation Modification" lunacy. It's curious how these are the same people who think humanity isn't capable of affecting the climate by burning fossil fuels and pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Oh I get it. Whites and their culture are to be despised when possible, lauded when useful. Seems pretty straightforward.
That's pretty much what I finally decided on too. Shrug. I work for a EU firm in the US so we even have a corp car policy that if you get an EV they'll pay for installing a charge station at your house which I suspect I could finagle (or end up paying only an upcharge for) into a decent home-size battery-storage that I've wanted as well.
Maybe my next car-buying cycle.
What people on
- yes, I'm a cutting edge tech guy; I would LIKE to drive an ev for all sorts of reasons, some of them irrational
- at the same time, I recognize the shortcomings and have to recognize REAL LIFE calculations of time, value, etc.
Initially, yes, I thought so too.
I don't know what universe you live in but it's rather often that I drive MORE THAN JUST to/from work in a day? I live in an exurb, so while I figured I could get by with 40mi/day on elec to cover the occasional run into the nearest shopping center, parts story, Costco, or Microcenter...well yeah, if most of my driving is going to end up being gas-powered (on an overweight, overcomplicated, under-engined vehicle as well) then...why waste my $/time on a PHEV?
Plus, IBM owns RedHat. So that's probably something. Then again, maybe that is the hyper growth software and services bit that they want to keep.
Yeah, and none of those or even the sub-$400 new laptops are worth buying when $150 5yo business laptops are available.
It's doubtful that Apple will create anything worth buying in the ~$500 market given the ~250GB storage on their $900 macbook air
Yeah they're whining here about this but they throw captchas relentlessly at those of us on standard net configs too. I would say its even more likely to get a robot accusation on desktop than a doublenat mobile session.
I drive to Chicago about once every 3 weeks - about 440 miles each way
I drive to a lake cabin about every other weekend on average (more in summer, less in winter) - 149mi each way.
You tell me if my "range anxiety" is rational, then? The run to Chicago is about 7 hours assuming I can align around traffic. No, I don't want to add 1.5 hours fucking around at chargers esp as ABRP shows at least 2 of the required stops are at chargers with 3 or fewer points - ie likely to be in use.
My work is 5 mi away, would have been perfect for a PHEV except for:
Common low temps by my home: -30f/-35c Dec-Feb; about every 3rd winter we hit -40 for a few days. Yes, I keep my car in a garage but there is no indoor parking at my work. No charging at work, either.
And what would my Chicago run take at -30F?
Audi PHEV has "30 mi" range on electric (supposedly) but the sales person admitted that this could drop to FIFTEEN miles in very cold weather.
They're also a fantastically wealthy petro state with a highly-educated population and a persistent culture of high conformity, collectivism, ecological responsibility, and social welfare most of which are features which have been famously hard to export to
And they are nearly entirely white making it extra ironic that their culture is so frequently touted as exemplary by leftists who simultaneously insist "white culture" is the source of everything wrong with the world.
The racial distribution of Norway population - surprisingly hard to find as they themselves attempt to hide it by using terms like "Norwegian" but then lumping in immigrants etc: are in fact 99.18% are white and 0.82% are multiracial.
https://www.neilsberg.com/insi...
So... are these the "good whites" then? Are they "surprisingly articulate" too? Or is it just that they conveniently drive EVs?
Shall we compare some numbers?
Miles per year: 8000 NO vs 16000 US
Norway average trip per US is even shorter in proportion.
Average Norwegian road speeds are much less (far fewer major trunk highways, basically)
Sorry, Thorsten Veblen was the one who wrote the book Conspicuous Consumption (where consumers make rational choices but it's about displaying things not efficiency with their money).
Not sure there was an ELI5 way to say that for anyone bothering to read it.
Let me guess, you're the same bot farm
Well, we're talking about Coke on slashdot so depending on their metrics, it's a success.
I strongly considered a phev for my last purchased car in dec 24, the math didn't math.
I expect eventually I will get an ev, but I still think they're a Veblenseque luxury* rather than a rationally good choice for most American drivers.
Rsilvergun: "we don't need plumbers any more because we aren't building cities"
Jesus Christ of all the colossally stupid shit you say, I'm impressed you managed to find something even dumber.
I know a c-student guy who just got his master electrician cert (training & cert paid for by his company) making about $110k comfortably with minimal overtime.
If you think kids come out of college with "critical thinking" skills, I'm not sure you've been near a college campus in 30 years.
"Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department." -- Werner von Braun
