Hoarding resources: It's hardwired into our "core-rope" memory and it was essential for our survival until very recently.

Ah, yes, the 2020 toilet paper shortage. I was so high and mighty after my early March Costco trip. It's good to be the king.

The future was promised to be that robots do the manual labor, and humans make art and sing merry songs.

Don't forget the part about getting to have sex with Orion dancers! Once you've gone green, you never go back.

I love how Lobot used to be exceptional as a "bluetooth asshole," but now he's mainstream orthodox.

He didn't change. We did.

Hey Europe, make your own competitors, and then the question will be..

I only wonder what will be financially left of MS, Alfabet, Meta, etcetera when ther only consumers are in the USA.

..why should US consumers use these services?

Here's the problem: if you stop relying on my cow, then the rest of my family here in my house, might start thinking they are allowed to get their milk elsewhere, too, thereby avoiding all the mind-altering drugs that I have been secretly putting in the milk to control everyone. Stop poisoning my family's minds with this subversive "use a different cow" talk!

If UK and EU citizens don't have to use our data-hungry and ad-barking servers, then US citizens might get the same idea! Surely you can see why that's totally unacceptable.

We shouldn't just presume careers that pay less are the biggest source of loan problems.

Why not?

If you take on debt to learn skills we KNOW will not allow you to earn enough money to pay off once in practice...that by definition leads to loan payment problems.

We need to STOP loans, scholarships and grants for any field that has no realistic promise of having the student make enough money to pay back plus extra.....let's only target fields we need that make money.

If you want to take the other crap...then feel free to pay for it yourself.

with majors that are money losers in the job markets.

Well, how about we STOP giving grants, scholarships and loans (especially loans) to students for degrees that are worthless. If you want to study the effects on underwater basket weaving on indigenous gender fluid mollusks....then you pay for it on your own time.

I think that might cut a LOT of waste out.....let's try to only train for things that will benefit society and make the student some money after school

Cut the students and that will cut the loans and colleges will have to drop prices back to more normal levels.

and even many fuckable men want to pay...because they want someone more attractive than they can get on their own or think it's simpler to pay a prostitute than look for a hookup on an app.

Remember, when you've buying SEX with a woman, you're not paying her to come there....you're paying her to LEAVE after you're done with the deed.

With regular women dates....it can quickly become much more expensive....as that they want more, don't always go away and if they stick around long enough they can really cost you.

In many cases, it's better to just set the parameters at the beginning....because either way as a man, you WILL pay for it.

In other words, it would be the ultimate super-31337 status symbol.

As an ignorant outsider shooting off his mouth on the internet, I would speculate that hybrids are likely helping the adoption of purely electric cars in a minor way, by adding scale to the production of various electric components.

A hybrid EV (at least the type popularized by Toyota) is just an EV with a local gasoline engine+alternator bolted on, right? So there are still electric motors in each. And I ass/u/me all the stuff that would be on an ICE's serpentine belt are electrically-powered on a hybrid, so the AC compressor in this hybrid could theoretically be the same exact AC compressor as in that pure-EV, etc. Thus some of the two markets' parts can scale as one, making them both slightly cheaper.

Throw in plug-in hybrids, and then we also get the fact that these plug-in hybrid drivers are creating some demand for charging networks, which of course increases the utility of pure EVs as well.

You only need to look at the overall population. 80% of people in the US live in urban areas.

What do you define as "urban"? I tend to think of extremely dense cities, like NYC or maybe Chicago.

I don't generally think of places like Houston as "urban"...since they are so spread out, not vertical like NYC where apartments stacked up and no private parking is the norm.....

IN the US, we really dont have THAN many classic urban areas.....at least not to my mind.

I think the urban of NYC matches more with Europe cities.....but. Many large cities like LA or Houston do not fil that type of urban mold.....

With that in mind I don't think you're comparing apples to apples with regard to EVs....

No kissing and telling! I demand you scrub from the internet all references to the personal information about the hugs and kisses I received from you.

Their big problem is that they haven't figured out how to make money on EVs. Part of the problem is their dealer networks don't want to sell them due to the lower maintenance costs. That keeps the volume down to where they can't amortize the costs properly.

In the US...also, there just is not THAT much demand for EVs. The people that want them largely have them.

You might get a few more when the price on EVs comes down and people see that used resell don't bottom out so much.....to make it a better value.

But other than that, the rest of us in the US just really don't want an EV at this time, especially those of us that cannot charge at home for whatever reason.

algorithmic feeds

We need to find, capture, try, execute, and then piss on the grave of whoever decided that the word "algorithm" was the best word for what they didn't like about Facebook. Their hasty decision, combined the word's apparent mainstream sexiness (who knew?!) is going to result in the word's loss.

The summary makes the article sound a lot dumber than it really is. But it is dumb, and the core dumbness from which the rest of the article derives is here:

I thought about setting up a self-hosted media server to stream everything to my phone. But ultimately, I got lazy

He knew real the solution to all his problems, but like he says, "I got lazy," and so he went to his comical Plan B. Despite weird statements like this..

Many folks are sick of streaming in general. They’re sick of giant corporations, algorithmic playlists, and an internet infested with AI slop.

..he actually doesn't appear to have any problem with streaming at all. It's just that he had been using a proprietary streaming service called Spotify, which does things very differently than a user-oriented approach (e.g. self-hosted subsonic API server) would do. Navidrome isn't a giant corporation, the algorithm of its playlist is "play what the user told me to play" and whatever AI Slop you play depends completely on what AI Slop you decided to add to your collection.

But by conflating streaming tech with proprietary streaming services, he gets to make up a lot of non-existent problems with streaming and sneak by the core premise of his entire article: "I got lazy."

So he decided against the obvious, and instead, went with a less convenient alternative. I particularly liked the part where he called cassettes "compact and super-portable" by comparing them to vinyl, instead of the actual media competition: flash memory, remote spinning-rust, etc.