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by dmbche 3y ago
I read somewhere that since today cars are made with computer aided design, and parts can have their usage simulated for cheap, manufacturers make their cars to last just as long as necessary - and the average car owner keeps their car for
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by dmbche 3y ago
I mean why not get a used Corolla for something like 4k? Maybe 5k? I don't know how much you are spending, but an old Toyota will be reliable past 200 000 miles, easy and cheap to repair, and you can find one that was a one owner car,
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by dmbche 3y ago
Sweet. Thanks for the input.
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by dmbche 3y ago
Lot of people are outside the city, and lots of countries are very, very large - the US is a good example. Americans drive double what europeans drive in a year!
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by dmbche 3y ago
Yes! Be careful, the dealer will tell you not to touch transmission fluid, but it should be changed after 70k miles - it looked like sludge on my 2017. Check everything yourself, trust no computers - if it doesn't catch an issue on you
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by dmbche 3y ago
I've started watching Regular Car Reviews on youtube recently - he waxes poetic about those cars, it's just beautiful to hear. Really was a nice time.
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by dmbche 3y ago
How hard would it be for a company to start manufacturing small, barebones cars, compliant with safety and emissions, 4 seat, 4 door harchback and a 2 door version? Barebones meaning single/double din radio, hand crank windows, no came
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by dmbche 3y ago
Yeah - I'm spitballing on what to do with empty office space that no one would possibly want to buy if we don't go back to offices. I garantee you that keeping em empty isn't lucrative, so we gotta do something with them. Hou
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by dmbche 3y ago
Probably more ground - but that's not the point. The f-35 is built to be good in all conditions, have long range and carry quite a lot of ordonance, all the while being quite stealthy. It's a do-it-all plane.(80-120M usd) The f16
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by dmbche 3y ago
Sure - that's also a great option, the government will make money on the permits and taxes from converting and selling/renting. Still better than keeping everything empty. It's possible the owners wouldn't want to start
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by dmbche 3y ago
It's only an opportunity for government as zoning/regulations have to be adjusted for this situation. If that happens, and it's made reasonable to convert offices into housing, pretty easy to make money from that. (Edit: by r
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by dmbche 3y ago
OC says "for less than 2 F-35s" - small budget cut to convert buildings into massive amounts of housing, seems reasonable at first glance
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Public security ministry warns Quebec forest fires could worsen(montrealgazette.com)
1 points by dmbche 3y ago|1 comments
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by dmbche 3y ago
Just for perspective - wildfire are not a part of the collective imaginary in Quebec. Environnemwntal disasters come in blizzards and continuous days of icy rain. Towns are being evacuated, and significant rainfall is not expected until 3 d
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by dmbche 3y ago
Leases are a large part of the market, and the simple fact that americans drive on average double the distance as europeans (just because the country is so spread out) makes the car a large part of americans life. Obviously it's also a
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by dmbche 3y ago
The spirit is that governement is an extension of "the people" and as such this violence is an extension of their own - i.e. in a healthy society the violence perpetrated bt the state is fully known and sanctionned by its citizens
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by dmbche 3y ago
Jesus christ almighty. Straight up blow a stop sign onto an incoming car. Why are self driving cars all that great anyway? I'm all for going back to driving stick.
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by dmbche 3y ago
Off topic, but what am I saying that's "bitter fringe lunatic cultist talk"? Trying to understand where you're coming from
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by dmbche 3y ago
Ha - funny.
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by dmbche 3y ago
Thanks for the kinds words, take good care !
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by dmbche 3y ago
"you can't eat silver" Meaning it's a perishable good, it's a different market. It's good to have a lot of small farms to not have monopolies and as a stopgap to massive crop failures/blight or just bad ma
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by dmbche 3y ago
I'm not a dumb person - I like to think at least - and am able to work complex software, run linux (arch) and use powershell quite often. I have no idea how to work in programming, and the environnement that is shown (non stop meetings
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by dmbche 3y ago
Great for you that you do regenerative agriculture. You realise that the amount of money you needed to get to a point where that's an option to feed yourself is impossible to accrue for the vast, vast majority of the population? And -
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by dmbche 3y ago
It's orders of magnitude less destructive. We have to at least try to make an effort and not give up and "enjoy the status quo while it lasts" It's going to take work - giving up before trying isn't going to help. A
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by dmbche 3y ago
“I made ‘Titanic’ because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie,” he told Playboy in 2009. “The Titanic was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, and as a diver I wanted to do it right. When I lea
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What is driving the high suicide rate among farmers? (2022)(news.illinois.edu)
39 points by dmbche 3y ago|90 comments
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by dmbche 3y ago
Do you have experience raising animals? I do. The sheer amount of excrement that you have to handle is absurd, and it's a well documented problem that the nitrogen leaks into aquifers and nearby water, causing massive problems (includi
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by dmbche 3y ago
You just need to eat beans for two weeks - then your flora is used to it and you don't fart (in my experience). Will go away if you stop eating beans though.
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by dmbche 3y ago
I think if the subsidies for meat are stopped or reduced this becomes much more interesting - kind of like synthetic fuel is stupid today, but when most cars are EVs synthetic fuel becomes a good idea for car enthusiasts.
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by dmbche 3y ago
I'm sorry, this is propaganda. These animals have not lived happy, full lives, and the mixed farming is about using their excrement. Nothing to do with animal well being.

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