We have started playing musical streaming services. First, we wait for our favorite shows to queue up all the episodes in a season (because they all LOVE to release one episode per week now). Once they are queued and ready for binge-watching, we sign up for that service, cancel immediately (which disables the auto-renew), watch everything they have to offer, and wait for the cancellation date. In that 30 days, once we typically have sucked that services content dry like a vampire, we subscribe to the next one. And around and around we go.

I have a spreadsheet where I have tracked the monthly mileage (including charging overhead) for my EV over the last 5+ years, and it has averaged $0.0523/mile over it's lifetime. That would be 1,338,432 MPB (miles per bitcoin) in my case, but then again I live in a cold climate, so YMMV.

Yes. On my (older) Model 3, you press the button on the end of the left stalk to do a single wipe and press in and hold for washer fluid. This button press is multi-functional. First, it will pop-up a touch control on the screen if you want to visually see what mode it is in, or touch the screen to change it. HOWEVER, if I need to adjust the wipers speed, I can press the wiper button then the left-right toggle on the left wheel to adjust the speed. [Off-1-2-3-4-Auto]. Even if my screen was broken, I know that I can single-press the wiper stalk button, then press the left wheel left/right to adjust the wipers to whatever speed I want.

See, that is the old fashioned way of thinking about fueling a vehicle. Let me explain. I only use superchargers when I go on long trips more than 250 miles away from home. That is about 4 times per year. This is because the lions share of my charging happens in my garage, while I sleep. I wake up with a "full tank" every morning, and seldom (if ever) have to worry about "fueling" while out and about. When I actually do need a supercharger, the navigation system in the car tells me exactly where they are, how to get there, how much energy it will take to get there, and how many minutes I will need to charge before continuing. We still have one gas vehicle in the family, and I admit I agree with you, I HATE having to actually DRIVE SOMEWHERE to fill it up.

The problem with battery swap boils down to "who owns the battery". Other countries have systems setup where you can lease the battery separately from the car, whereas in the US, that isn't really a thing. In addition, while some L2 stations may take hours, supercharging stations do not. Two summers ago, my family did a road trip from Minneapolis to Yellowstone, and our average stop (where we didn't sit down for a meal) was 20 minutes or less. Enough time for 4 people to stretch legs, go to the bathroom, and grab a snack in a majority of cases. Most of the time the vehicle was ready to depart faster than us, so we just let it charge a bit more.

"The treaty was informed by a fact-finding report which concluded that, even global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average, over an extended, decades-long period, would lead to high risks for “some regions and vulnerable ecosystems.” The recommendation then, was to set the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit as a “defense line” — if the world can keep below this line, it potentially could avoid the more extreme and irreversible climate effects that would occur with a 2 degrees Celsius increase, and for some places, an even smaller increase than that." From: https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

Homer: Financial panther, eh?
Banker: Mr. Simpson, you're a dollar overdrawn.
Homer: GET HIM SHEEBA!

It is a good thing they installed a bunch of them less than 2 hours apart in Canada.
https://supercharge.info/map

Sure, most of them are NACS chargers, but given the shift of North American auto makers to that plug type, it won't be long until all Canadians can drive completely across the country without worrying about 2 hour gaps.

I have to assume their internal developers implemented a sensitivity dial. Losing customers? Turn the dial down... Need to increase quarterly profits? Turn dial up.

In addition, the US CoC is responsible for lobbying that keeps DST a thing. You know, more daylight equals more time for people to spend money at stores.

"What we don't tend to know as Americans is that the biggest lobby on behalf of daylight saving since 1915 in this country — and to this very day — is the Chamber of Commerce," Downing, who died earlier this year, said in a 2015 video about daylight saving. [1]
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04...

I support multiple content creators through Patreon to make sure that they aren't held hostage to creating clickbait to appease the YouTube algorithms. However this makes me wonder if they will extend the ads to videos marked private that I get to watch a few days earlier than the general public through the Patreon interface.

This seems to fit the current situation at Intel: https://www.flubu.com/comics/D...

Why do I get the sneaky suspicion that replacing HR with AI will eventually end up like in Idiocracy when the computers automatically laid off all the Brawndo employees when the company stock plummeted?

Last time something like this happened, tax companies lobbied congress and said, "Please don't make your own option, that will put us out of business, we PROMISE to offer free tax filing for people that qualify!" Then, Turbo tax (and others) then buried the free filing links so deep on their web sites, that people ended up paying when they shouldn't have had to. Hassan Minhaj created turbotaxsucksass.com (now replaced with turbotaxsucksass.net), which linked to all of the buried free pages from all the providers.

However, what SHOULD happen is me logging into an IRS page, looking over the information they already know, me making corrections (if necessary), and clicking approve/file... Like other first world countries.

I don't live in California, so I had to look up prices on gas buddy and elsewhere, but here is what I can tell:
Palo Alto, CA:
Ave gas price = $4.69/gal / 30 mpg = $0.16/mile
Ave elec price = $0.19/kwh / 3.5 mi per kWh = $0.05/mile

Even in the most expensive areas of CA, they have off-peak tariffs (or solar panels on their roof) that can make charging your car even more affordable. Even in San Diego, where the average electric rate is $0.36/kwh, that is still $0.10/mile.