jewayne

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by jewayne 3y ago
I do not feel that is an exaggeration whatsoever. About half of Americans would prefer to see Russia win the war. I think I'm getting downvoted for speaking the plain truth.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Except half of Americans are rooting for Putin.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yeah, those 737 MAXes are selling like HOTCAKES these days!
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by jewayne 3y ago
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." And I know you won't get that, either.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I love the anger at the notion that the Federal government might get involved in protecting the rights of people who don't happen to be you. I seriously doubt you'll ever be self-aware enough to understand the irony of it.
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by jewayne 3y ago
True, but I think that moment was 20 years ago. Level 3 charging makes most plug-in hybrids obsolete.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I like the fact that the capital costs of a Supercharger are low enough that they go into a variety of places. Yes, I love the Superchargers at Sheetz because I can grab a coffee or a bite to eat while I charge, but I vastly prefer a charge
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by jewayne 3y ago
Most of the Superchargers in the Cleveland area are at gas stations -- Sheetz, in particular.
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by jewayne 3y ago
The occupants of the vehicle would be safer, but what if your main worry is hitting pedestrians during in-city driving? If that was my worry, I would greatly prefer the 1990 model.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> But the smallest trucks were put in the car efficiency standards. I don't think that's exactly true. It's just that fuel standards for light trucks are now defined in terms of the footprint of the vehicle -- the smalle
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by jewayne 3y ago
> Revised regulations that incentive smaller cars would solve a lot of problems. I agree wholeheartedly, but the change in the CAFE standards had another effect that was just as important: it allowed Ford and GM to get out of the marke
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by jewayne 3y ago
Within the last two weeks I almost collided with another car while leaving a parking lot, because that car was moving in perfect sync with my left A-pillar, such that I didn't see it until it was directly in front of me. It was like a
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by jewayne 3y ago
But remember, injuries and fatalities are not the same thing. It could be the building shin-busting bumpers is the best way to save lives. Who knows?
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by jewayne 3y ago
I love how everybody here who mentions the CAFE regulations neglects to mention that they were a gift to the automakers.
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by jewayne 3y ago
But who asked for the government regulations? Perhaps the manufacturers themselves? Edit: Yeah, it was the manufacturers.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> Making up some macho strawman to attack actually obfuscates the problem and makes discussing solutions more difficult. Blaming the government for getting captured by industry also obfuscates the problem and makes discussing solutions
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by jewayne 3y ago
Many of today's gas stations will survive the transition to EV just fine, just not as gas stations. They already make most of their money via the attached convenience store -- ripping the pumps out will mostly just lower costs.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Absolutely. When people ask me whether an EV would save them money, my first question is "How much do you drive?", even before "Can you charge at home?" I don't know when it started, but it seems that EVs have broke
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by jewayne 3y ago
I only skimmed the original paper, but it really seems like they put a lot of work into not directly answering the central question: At what purchase price does an EV make financial sense? In the chart labeled "Break-even analysis&quot
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by jewayne 3y ago
To be clear, I don't believe in that goal in either case. But yes, the only way to truly end human suffering would be to end the humans.
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by jewayne 3y ago
If we accept that we are responsible for minimizing the suffering of both domestic and wild animals, isn't the logical conclusion that we need to drive those species to extinction as quickly as possible, thus completely ending their su
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by jewayne 3y ago
I think of it as lowering the cognitive dissonance. Highly analytical individuals are going to tend to be more highly sensitive to any contradictions in their belief system. On which side you land might be remarkably random -- one might bec
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by jewayne 3y ago
> this gave them the luxury of building these companies into powerhouses that didn't have much competition to worry about and that could be idealistic and also wasteful. But this advantage eroded after several decades so it eventua
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by jewayne 3y ago
Wow, a whole lot of people in this thread don't know about Jack Welch and his outsized influence on the current state of US business. No, US businesses did not always focus exclusively on current quarter's earnings, nor did they l
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by jewayne 3y ago
I have noticed that the assumption that politicians are corrupt and mendacious is actually quite empowering to the corrupt and mendacious politicians. It is remarkably effective at steering honest people away from politics, however.
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by jewayne 3y ago
If that were true, then recessions and depressions would be impossible. The velocity of money moving through the economy would be a constant, like the speed of light. But recessions and depressions happen, so we know that the disappearance
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by jewayne 3y ago
> Slow charging is also better for the battery. My understanding is that this is largely a myth, at least with modern BEVs with intercooled battery packs. My understanding is that modern battery packs can Level 2 charge with no additio
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by jewayne 3y ago
Maybe it would be, if the Tesla nav system didn't do most of that work for me.
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by jewayne 3y ago
And yet the 14 year-olds in my city keep stealing them every day. I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about the fix for older cars.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Not so much an advantage, but a counterpoint to the misinformation that says EVs take 45+ minutes to charge on a Level 3 charger. And also to counter the false belief (present only in EV debates, strangely enough) that the average stop on a

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