Welp, your LLM doppelganger is getting better. It fooled me this time.
I strongly doubt anyone has actually bothered with making actual bots for
As for the tire particles, yeah, it's one of the trade-offs of modern civilization. In the grand scheme of things though, there are bigger environmental consciousness hills to die on.
Urban drivers (like in NYC or SF) cover 100–140 miles because trips are short and traffic is dense.
I literally wrote "outside of a major metropolitan area", so try to keep up.
Suburban or mixed-area drivers often push 200–250 miles just to get enough rides.
One charge at night is enough.
250 miles is about 3.5 hours of highway driving at 70 MPH. That's also ignoring that at those speeds, you're not going to get the EPA range rating out of an EV. Sure, you might get lucky and have a day where no one wants to be driven to/from BFE and every fare you pick up is right near your last one, but the reality of Uber driving in places that are more spread out (like central FL) is that you're gonna burn through some serious miles if you're expecting to put in a full day's worth of work.
Again, I own an EV and have literally seen people doing it because I talked to them about it while I was stopped to charge. EVs are great for a lot of use cases, but driving around like a bat out of hell for 8 hours a day is not one of them, yet.
It has to be very location dependent. Here in central FL, I'm convinced there must be hundreds of drivers who have just found a way to get free gas/charging, because absolutely none of the work is profitable (once you factor in fuel and vehicle wear-and-tear) and all but the most crappy jobs get snatched up instantly. If all you get are the awful routes that no one else wanted because they require driving out to BFE and back, yeah, you'll burn through your battery in no time.
Certainly, Uber trips are probably an ideal case for electric vehicle use (short trips, lower speeds with stop and go regen braking) but the economics of Uber driving are probably pretty touch and go from the various reports I am reading.
If you're trying to put in full days of work anywhere outside of a major metropolitan area, no, an EV won't really cut it. You'll have to stop at a DCFC station at least once per day and that's generally just as expensive as gas on a cost-per-mile basis when compared against the average economy car.
I actually ended up talking to someone once at a charging station who mentioned he was doing Uber. He looked like he was ready to pull his hair out.
Assuming this isn't your usual doppelganger troll and you're just posting AC to avoid burning karma, do you realize how incredibly unhinged you sound? Your previous post is about how our society is going to come apart at the seams with roving bands of Mad Max bandits, and then you're suggesting that we all come together, sing Kumbaya, and build some sort of urban utopia - the same people you're suggesting are champing at the bit to start shooting at each other.
This is your urban utopia, complete with a far-left Gen-Z goofball who was so oblivious to how much urban living sucks, he didn't even realize he took a selfie next to a giant pile of garbage. A lot of folks don't want to live like this, and effectively telling them they may as well vote Republican is a significant part of the reason why we're presently stuck with Trump.
No one else is likely to need this. But I can see celebrities wanting to stop all the shmucks from making AI videos of them.
Meanwhile over on X, Musk is sitting around like the real-life comic book supervillain letting everyone deepfake whatever they want. And it's actually kind of awesome.
But Kamala LAUGHED ok? She LAUGHED. Could you even imagine?
The GOP's outrage has always been performative. Obama put haute mustard on his burger: huge scandal. Trump posts AI slop non-stop: he's just owning the libz with his clever trolling.
That way he can continue to go after anyone who says mean things about him or tries to hold him accountable for his crimes.
We still technically have the 1A, for what it's worth. It's more likely that the plan is simply to bias the algorithm in favor of right-wing content, and deprioritize left-wing viewpoints. We'll know it happens when Harry Sisson's engagement falls off a cliff and you can't escape videos from all the Temu Gen-Zers trying to be the next Charlie Kirk.
This is not true
It hasn't happened yet, which places it more into the realm of "plausible rumor" than "not true".
Also, the kid looks like a vampire.
The lack of enthusiasm for EV sales in the US can be summed up as a $7,500 price increase, thanks to Republicans. Anything else is just splitting hairs. The Equinox EV was actually selling quite well before the tax credit got the axe.
Speaking of politics, there are countries where adoption is strong (Norway is the best example due to incentives) and countries where the politicians are trying to kill EVs (the US under Trump is the best example).
Quite a few of the world's democracies are shifting towards the right, and since EVs became a partisan issue - there you go. Seems like the same thing happened with plant-based meat substitutes, too.
To have a range of only 45 miles the battery would have to be seriously broken.
Some of the earliest models of the Leaf have degraded to even less than 45 miles of range. There's videos on YouTube of people who have bought one just to demonstrate how bad they are. Nissan used a passively cooled battery until very recently, and the earlier batteries also just didn't hold up well in regards to calendar aging. It's not uncommon to find one for sale with relatively low milage on the odometer, but the battery is still heavily degraded.
Almost all driving is pointless driving. You should be able to get everything you need on foot. After that there should be good public transit.
A surprisingly large number of Americans aren't even willing to accept the range limitations of EVs as reasonable, and that basically boils down to having to make a stop for 30 minutes rather than 5. The idea that we should be limited to the stores and restaurants within walking distance, and beholden to a train and/or bus schedule for everything else represents significantly more compromise than slightly longer pit stops.
Honestly, my take on it has been if you enjoy urban living, fine, you do you. I like that I have some space between me and my neighbors, and that the semi trucks noisily unloading goods for the local Walmart while I'm sleeping, takes place several blocks away in a commercial zoned area - well out of earshot.
It would be interesting to know how DOJ got access to the wallets but TFA doesn't say.
Yeah, I thought one of the major selling points of crypto was that it couldn't be seized by the government. Obviously, there's still the $5 wrench attack (which is actually a $21 wrench these days, thanks inflation), but having multiple crypto wallets would mean you could just surrender the one with the least amount of coin in it and deny any knowledge of the keys to the other wallets.
Now he can build a second ball room and paint this one blue.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
