Ah but did you notice? President Dwayne Herbert Elionzo mountain dew Commacho values experts, raises that not sure is the smartest guy in the world and tries to get him to fix the problems. Sure it goes wrong but even so.

I'm this reality, the president thinks he's the smartest person in the world and experts are shunned.

If it's nonsense then there's no predictable algorithm to prove it's a simulation.

Occam's razor should tell you we're not in a simulation because it cannot be turtles all the way down. At some point the computer has to run on something, so that someone must exist. The voice is therefore something, or something plus a whole stack of nested simulations. The latter is always more complex than the former, so if you use Occam's razor then the former is more likely.

possibly? Hard to determine. Maybe that's why humans like feeding animals. But ultimately the mush of evolutionary reasons end up as us simply enjoying feeding animals.

There's definitely a problem intellectually in anthropomorphising animals, but there is an equal and much more overlooked problem in assuming that animals must necessarily be different.

I can agree that an exceedingly few people would drive on a trip that would take over 40 hours to cover. At least not for a vacation or something. I can see this happening if paid to do so as a matter of delivering something that would be difficult or inconvenient to move by air or sea.

We're not really talking about professional truckers in this context. And it's not like America is unique in this regard either. Humptulips to Fluffy Landings is 3200 miles or so. This is almost exactly the same lengthe as European route E45, from Alta (Norway) to Gela (Scicily).

I can agree that the size of the USA is difficult to comprehend. The USA is unique versus most every other nation on Earth when considering long distances that people might drive.

The distance aren't uniquely long. You can drive 3000 miles from one end of the contiguous 48 to the other and it's about the same distance in the Schengen Zone from the north to the south.

In Australia you can drive for 38 hours and not leave WA, with the longest drives being about 2700 miles.

The interstate highway system is unique in how it allows such ease of travel.

It's not. It's modeled after the German Autobahn and looks and feels much the same as similar systems elsewhere. Wide lanes, wide curves, gentle grades, controlled access via slip roads etc etc etc. You get on and then drive for ages before getting off. Driving from Switzerland to the UK (well the tunnel was different, but the but to Calais, say), was little different from driving on the interstate in America.

Perhaps there's a different name for this crime in other nations than jaywalking which could confuse you.

No, Jaywalking is not a crime in my country. It's an American name for an American crime (albeit a heavily exported one).

It appears you are overthinking the analogy of choosing which clothes to buy.

Maybe you should have chosen a better analogy.

They will look at the longest drive that they are expecting to take while owning that vehicle to decide what kind of vehicle to buy.

So does everyone also own a semi tractor since the heaviest load they're likely to pull is moving house? O do people hire moving companies or a U-haul for that task? People don't buy for extremes on the whole. So why distance?

I don't know what to think of your comment on how dangerous it is to drive in the USA versus other nations.

Maybe consideration of how the road design is often very flawed?

How wide is this gap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You have roughly twice the deaths per mile driven compared to my country and 4x the deaths per capita. Some of that is due to longer distances but quite a lot is not having viable alternatives to driving. For example, I've been doing quite a lot of work in Bristol recently, with my head office in London. It's drivable, but I usually take the train, since the train goes at 125mph, even through congested parts of London, it's a lot more spacious than a car and I can work (or even relax) on the train.

Not why pick the heavier configuration of one car and compare against the lightest of another?

That sounds like you have an ace to grind and I'm sure you'd be all over it if I said the Tesla was only 5% heavier, which I could do by flipping the choices.

It's somewhere in between. Things is I didn't claim that EVs aren't heavier, but I did complain about people carefully cherry picking in order to exaggerate by how much on the whole.

But not by as much as people are claiming. It's heavier by between about 5 and 25%. The morons driving wankpanzers make far more difference.

Sure, but for someone that lives and works in Hump Tulips they may make a trip to Fluffy Landings once per month

That seems rather unlikely given it's a 43 hour drive. That's how big America is: it's large enough that the size is basically irrelevant for any kind of daily considerations. No one's making that drive, electric or otherwise.

For a person in China

Cool. But for a country that invented the crime of jaywalking at the behest of big business, you don't really have much of a freedom of movement leg to stand on.

Do you buy your clothes based on the average temperature? No, you buy clothes to match the expected extremes.

Do you carry a thick winter coat in Florida because you might at some point travel to Anchorage? Do you drive a semi tractor so you can move house yourself? No.

The infrastructure is fine in the USA for people that travel by hydrocarbon burners.

It's not though you have some of the most uniquely poor infrastructure in the Western world. That's why your roads are many times now dangerous power mile, never mind per journey than my country. And on the plus side is very prone to traffic jams. Why the plus side you ask? Well I'm most countries roads for safer during COVID when traffic dropped, but in America that was not the case. You've managed to invent a scheme which is somehow expensive, dangerous and inefficient.

Everything else is just cope. EVs are now at 25% of worldwide sales. There is no lack for America to worry about. And other countries are way way ahead per capita (which is what matters) for charging infrastructure.

Well, your buying power would be crippled.

The problem is that very few North American cities get enough funds for a truly exceptional transit system.

America is a very rich country. Nearly twice the GDP per capita compared to France which has excellent public transportation.

No one wants to pay for it.

No people are paying through the nose for a crappy transit system: poorly designed roads. What people cannot imagine is that any alternative to cars is even possible.

The model Y bills itself as an SUV. The Model 3 is, like the Camry, a saloon/sedan car. And the Camry weighs about the same as the Skoda Octavia above where the model 3 is 5%-25% heavier depending on which configurations of both cars you pick.

Conclusion: you are full of shit.

Yeah about that...

Also, re: serviscope_minor above: You don't compare vehicles by length; it's not a very useful metric. For size, you can compare by interior space specs - trunk / frunk volume, driver/front passenger head/leg/shoulder/hip room, rear passenger head/leg/shoulder/hip room. Length isn't a good proxy because it ignores packaging; a 1960 Chevy Corvette might be "long", but has very little interior space

I'm not a car guy, and I'm not going to spend ages googling, but the two cars I picked are broadly speaking similar sorts of car. Passenger cars with similar seating, not SUVs. Basically broadly the same category.

A Tesla Model Y battery is 1700 pounds, whereas a full gastank of a typical sedan is less than 150 pounds. The battery thus increases the weight of the Model Y by about 35% versus a similar gas fired sedan.

No because the electric motor is lighter than the combo of engine and transmission. Electric vehicles are heavier. The car after a quick search I found closest in length to the Model 3 is the Skoda Octavia. The weight difference is between 5 and 25% depending on which configurations you choose.

So yeah EVs are heavier, but it's not as much as your estimate and it's not catastrophic.

Worldwide figures are not relevant in this context,

They are if it's a question of scale.

Short answer: they're ahead because a/ they want to be and b/ because they have unique structural advantages, which other countries, who also very much would like to be ahead, do not have.

A is vastly more important than b. America is the richest country in the world. In terms of GDP per capita, Norway is a bit ahead but not wildly so. France has oodles of electricity and a substantially lower GDP per capita (a bit over half) and electric cars have double the share compared to America. The only structural advantage France has is investment.

Being loaded from fossil sales and having oodles of electricity available

America is loaded from a variety of things. Norway has easy cheap hydro, and that was important in the past. Btu we're in 2025 now. Wind and solar are now doable cheaply, and America has fucktons of heavily insolated land, and plenty of windy places too. What's missing is the will. Investment is needed in grid infra, and the BANANAs need to be told to go kick rocks.

Every time stories come along with excuses like America is too cold (it is not), America is too big (it is not), America is too poor (WTF), there aren't enough cars (there really are) and a litany of other excuses. It's purely political at this stage.

Does it even get cold in China?

Can't do. Also China's small isn't it?

You're not wrong. But..

Homonym not homenim. Yes it's intentionally confusing. That's the joke.

It's just a silly language joke that's all.