EVs have massively less brake wear because most braking is regen, not friction.
Then there is the whole cooling system too. Radiator, fluids, pump. Fuel pump and filter too.
It's not just the cost either, it's the hassle and time wasted getting it done. You can include diversions to get fuel too, since you can't make it at home.
Have you actually been to Europe with an EV? France, for example, is great. Loads of chargers, no effort. There is a guy on YouTube who does regular trips from the UK to Italy in a budget used EV and has no issues, if you want to see forn yourself.
Sorry but your country is apparently shit tier when it comes to infrastructure.
Showing that there's a right-bias in guest selection only proves that there's a right-bias in guest selection. That can be offset by other sources of bias, such as story selection, story presentation, interviewer-guest interaction, etc.
Most of the interactions I've had with the BBC here in the US (mainly through the BBC News Hour on NPR in the morning and some occasional online stories) come across as pretty neutral anecdotally, and MBFC, my preferred watchdog for this sort of thing, seems to agree. So I think the original poster's conclusion that the BBC is left-biased is probably untrue and likely comes from his own place of bias. But it's important not to overstate the case here based on one metric. A news outlet disproportionately taking on right-leaning guests could very easily be offset by, for example, the host being disproportionately confrontational to those guests or conveying story information before or after in a manner intended to predispose the audience to the opposing viewpoint.
The BBC, being publicly funded (via the TV license, not general taxation) is constantly monitored for any sign of bias. So much so that the last conservative government abused this to try to place people in their to ensure there is a right wing bias under the guise of "eliminating left wing bias". Recent events from Trump and the right wing press in the UK have actually let the BBC clean out a few of those people the Conservatives put into managerial positions, which was fortunately the opposite of what they wanted to achieve.
Question Time having predominantly right wing guests isn't news to most of us over this side of the pond though. The right still claims it's "left wing bias" though.
Also the guests are the main focus of the programme as they're usually government or opposition politicians or otherwise highly politically engaged people like top journalists, analysts, et al. so the guest selection having a bias is a bit of a concern as it means the BBC is giving more air time to one side.
Well, truckers who have driven EV trucks have preferred them - they are much easier on the body than diesel engines. The smoothness and quietness of EVs mean their backs and joints don't hurt as much after a long day of driving.
Spot the guy who's never driven in a lorry.
Or a sports car.
Vibration and harshness does not come from the engine. It comes from the road. This is why rail travel is often a lot smoother than road travel, you're not dealing with a poor road surface.
Try taking a car around a proper race track, the difference between that and street driving will be chalk and cheese, especially in a car with a hard suspension setup (which I strongly suspect, yours is not). Same car, same engine, same tyres, different surface.
According to the article, Reddit "believes it is also benefiting from shifting internet habits, as younger users seek out human-generated reviews and opinions."
According to human history, PT Barnum didn’t need a lick of help from non-human sources in order to prove there’s a sucker born every minute. 4chan is (mostly) human-generated too. Should we consider that a viable source of non-machine powered intelligence too?
Gotta love the circle-jerk logic of fallible greedy humans needing to create AI in business because of fallible greedy humans, who now seek out the advice of fallible greedy humans because of what fallible greedy humans have ironically done with AI.
PT Barnum was a hell of an optimist to think there's only one born every minute.
I use reddit. It can be good at times. The biggest problem there is no effective way to decipher crazies from normal people. The karma system is a joke. Most of the crazies (overly aggressive, angry, know-it-all, echo chamber weirdos) are the high karmas. Almost the opposite of what karma is supposed to be used for. This might be ok, but this same sort of fanatacism carries over to the mods. You go to some relatively normal sounding subreddit, and read some posts. Cool, so you respond to some posts. Ask innocent questions. Uh oh - the echo chamber jumps you with tons of downvotes. Then you respond (not being rude mind you - just sharing data to address the downvotes), and some snowflake mod decides they don't like your response and bans you. You can appeal but good luck - in their demented world the appeal is just so they can flex their basement troll "power". The mods violate their own rules, don't give you warnings (even though they say they have to), and repeatedly abuse their role. In all my years I've never seen such a poorly instrumented, and abused mod system. This even goes back all the way to BBS's.
If you know a way to cure tribalism, I'd love to hear it.
Until then, we'll just have to manage it as best we can.
I live in the UK and regularly read Reddit as an anonymous user (meaning I don't have an account) and it's fairly good. Most of the really nutty stuff gets filtered out relatively quickly and it doesn't seem to push anti-vax or other extremist propaganda to average people (read: those not expressly looking for it). Many of the UK centric sub-reddits are great examples of British humour, which is what brings me back and I suspect a lot of others. I suspect Tiktok like other forms of social media have just become cesspits of extremism, hate and their propaganda, much like TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter and it's reached a point where it's so obvious and so bad that it's insulting the intelligence of even those who do not posses much of it to be insulted.
Also Reddit is still mostly text... not another bloody video site where you spend 2 minutes watching something you could have read in 12 seconds... if you were taking your time about it.
Basically, people are looking for socials with the least amount of obvious bullshit.
We don't combat it, we die. That's why epidemiologists have been warning about the overuse of anti-biotics for decades.
Antibiotics do nothing against fungus.
True, but the same lesson is valid for broad spectrum anti-fungals like Amphotericin B.
It's an indictment of the poor way the US treats health care, not just the poor health care system but also the "quick fix" attitude of many Americans. If they get any illness they'll demand the doctor gives them magic pills (a broad spectrum cure, like azithromycin(zithromax)) rather than suffer through a minor illness and of course, the for profit health care system is more than happy to oblige (as is the greater corporate America, who don't want their serfs taking a week off to get better). Overuse of medication when the patient will get better with rest and isolation is why pathogens evolve to become resistant to them.
With fungal infections, prevention is almost always better and this comes in the tried and tested methods of hygiene and quarantine. First is to have a clean environment to prevent the fungus from having enough resources to establish itself, then keep the infected away from healthy patients.
We can hope it will work. We will see just how far the long arm of California law reaches. The Do Not Call list really became a verified list to abuse.
Sadly that's all those lists become, a list of numbers that tell scammers and spammers that a line has a person behind it. One of their biggest problems are paying agents to talk to unattended lines (the people working for scammers are happy to scam their employers, you're shocked, I can tell).
What's needed is to go after the telcos and other businesses that permit this, especially as they're profiting from it, even though it's indirect profit they're still benefiting and permitting it. You want to curtail this kind of activity, punish those enabling it.
I've never joined a no-call list in my life, I've always figured that keeping my number as secret as possible is a better defence which means not handing it out to all and sundry. It's like underpants, they know I'm wearing some but not what colour or kind they are.
Data goes stale fast though.
Don't they have anything like GDPR to deal with hoarding info?
It constantly amazes me how shit basic infrastructure is in the US. In Europe there is a land rush to get chargers in, and they are already everywhere.
Or if you have solar.
You aren't factoring in all the other maintenance a fossil needs too. Brakes, fluids, belts, gearbox, exhaust, filters, all sorts of crap.
Why is electricity so expensive there? Here you can get a cheap overnight rate that is about 0.1USD/kWh.
Trump is stealing Venezuela's oil. It's not going to get more expensive, although it might affect other things.
How come Ford can't make it work, when Rivian can?
There are some Chinese trucks that seem pretty good, but of course you aren't allowed to buy them.
You need a network to generate and deliver it. Storage.
"I shall expect a chemical cure for psychopathic behavior by 10 A.M. tomorrow, or I'll have your guts for spaghetti." -- a comic panel by Cotham
