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Comment Re:EV sales in *USA* plummet (Score 1) 307

Will you fuck off with this shit?

You car fuckers impose your stupid driving-only life on more or less the entire country, then pretend everyone in America likes it that way, despite the fact most Americans who have visited Europe or NYC (thus experiencing a real city) suddenly realize how great walkable cities are, and then you have the audacity to pretend those arguing in favor of building more walkable cities are somehow forcing you to sell your home and live in city.

No, you can continue to live in your bland personalityless suburban HOA home for as long as you want. You can shag your car's exhaust pipe every morning, we don't care. You can pretend you live in the "Country" because there's a few fields of cows between your ugly neighborhood and the office where you work. Knock yourself out.

We just want to be able to live in a real city, rather than that. Because we don't like it. Nobody sane who's lived in a real city does.

Comment Re:Also (Score 1) 48

bah.

Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!

The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.

[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]

Comment not really electrolux (Score 1) 123

That Electrolux isn't really an Electrolux.

a couple of decades ago, in one of those weird corporate maneuvers, it sold the name, and now sells its vacuums under another name, while the buyer sells non-electrolux as Electrolux.

So what she knows of Electrolux from the late 20th and early 21st centuries no longer applies.

But, yes, they were very good and lasted forever. Also extremely pricey.

Comment Re:Did anyone in these cities (Score 1, Interesting) 40

No, but those cities are at least car centric, so it'll be less of a problem.

Waymo's cars were infamous in SF, which is mixed use for the most part. In one notorious incident, it drove through a street party only for the people who had been having a great time until Waymo's fucked up car decided to plow through it promptly smashed the car to pieces. The people who design these things are unable to comprehend the concept of cities and communities not built exclusively around cars.

The three cities mentioned are, however, built exclusively around cars (well, downtown Detroit is its own thing, but unlikely to attract a lot of traffic anyway, and people generally don't live there.) So it won't be a problem.

Comment Re:Amazon did the same thing because of bad review (Score 3, Funny) 123

My experience has been different. When I did my research, I found those made in Germany had great reviews, those made in Asia - not so much.

Miele vacuum cleaners last so long that my mother-in-law is still flying hers about after she replaced her broomstick.

Comment Re:A word of warning about "roof paint" (Score 1) 52

We had to have our entire roof reshingled after a particularly bad storm.

It turns out that of the various colors, the lightest (or 2?) was actually energy star rated. So we took it.

It turned out to be worth about 2F inside as compared to the prior black shingles.

We got another 2F when we replaced the swamp cooler--the newer model had an 18" pad instead of 12".

Between the roof and the bigger pads, we only had a single non-monsoon season day where we had to switch over to AC this summer--in Las Vegas!

(I'm going to miss the swamp cooler when we move, but they're apparently not allowed in new construction. I have no idea when the cutoff was)

Comment Re:So what's the problem? (Score 1) 116

> Copium in spades, for not being able to get a driver's license (or maybe have the money to afford a car?). I bet you a chunk of cash you actually could afford one, but it's your fear of actually becoming independent on the bus (or some other equally poor*** dependent transit means) that renders you disabled to operate as a Western adult in a real sense.

What the fuck is wrong with you car nuts?

I've lived in both the UK and US. The UK is nicer to live in, period, because you don't have to drive everywhere. For people who don't have their penis semi-permanently fucking their exhaust pipe as they fantasize about the Porsche they'll afford one day, driving fucking sucks. It's minutes and sometimes hours of having to focus on moving a huge metal object between two white lines without killing anyone. It's boring, it's uncomfortable, it's just shitty in every way possible.

My experience is also most Americans, having visited the UK - or even New York City - and ridden on buses and trains, come back to the US feeling the same way.

What is it about you carfuckers that makes you think everyone is like you?

Comment Re: Good idea. (Score 1) 196

No man is an island. It's basically impossible to do anything that affects nobody else. If you kill yourself, you might have kids than then needed to be provided for by the state. If you harm yourself, even if nobody is obligated to help you, you can do emotional/mental damage to others who observe your suffering. If you decline protection of infectious desiese, you out others at risk. And so on and so on. Libertarians hate this one weird fact ...

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