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by silverquiet 1y ago
I have a friend who drives a Chevy Volt with a dead ICE engine; she just charges the battery and uses it as a (rather short range) pure EV vehicle. Not ideal, but it works for her until she gets something else.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
My girlfriend has the same car and I had about the same feeling in it - it's just a cheap Nissan that happens to be electric (and I mean that in a good way). As you said, quite good as a city car, and we even did a short road trip in i
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Perhaps elections have consequences.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> who’s putting money in their hands If we're talking about foreign oligarchs living in London, I suspect a fair amount of the money is coming from Russian organized crime.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> The UK needs to radically reduce its social safety net and simultaneously cut taxes, at least for new companies and small businesses. The only way out is real, sustained, long term growth and innovation. Stealing ever more of a shrinki
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I was going to post this - I just joined this week, but have a friend who has sourced audiobooks from it that I couldn't find any other way so it looks good so far. Their emphasis on friendliness is nice too and seems genuine.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I would say that it's called capitalism and not laborism for a reason.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Given how much Amazon's prices change on a minute-to-minute basis, I'd assumed there was some personal discrimination component in their algorithm already (and I assume that timing/logistics is also a big part of the price ch
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Certainly my observations are pure anecdote, and only really a handful of people; all of whom started smoking before vaping was available. That said, a cigarette is a pretty impressive way of delivering nicotine, which is why they are so ad
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Every single person I've known who switched from tobacco to e-cigarettes has switched back to tobacco. They all say it's better for one reason or another.
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Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit cuts jobs(reuters.com)
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Not regularly, but there have been contests to see how long people will stay on a rollercoaster. Speaking from some experience, after you've gone around a few times, it can actually get rather boring.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
OP said "using a classic car chassis". I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but you can make a lot of modifications to an existing car, but building your own from the ground up would be mostly illegal. I think in some sense, t
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Dumping would be the economic term for flooding a market with underpriced goods in order to drive out domestic competitors. I don't know if that's what they're doing, but it does seem plausible, though it's hard to imagi
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by silverquiet 1y ago
One issue I see with that theory is that America has been a bit of a holdout on fertility - I believe it has been fairly high amongst developed nations, though it has been in decline along with nearly every other country. I've read tha
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I appreciate the response. I feel like half the points in your third paragraph could easily be framed as economic factors rather than cultural (though I don't think those are as separate as people often seem to think). What is most int
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I neither have children nor travel often, but I believe that an annual Caribbean vacation is significantly cheaper than a child. I don't doubt that children can be as you say; that they provide a motivation and sense of purpose for the
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I agree that the tone is a bit much in places, but he does address this: > I have learned to accept who I am — that I am not like most people — and people conflate my passion and vigor with anger or hate, when what they’re experiencing i
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I actually tend to agree with this sentiment, but the fate of the Tiktok ban should probably be instructive here. America (at least the current government) is not really interested in world or technological leadership anymore.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
That actually makes one wonder if it will move enough within the lifetime of JWST to actually detect that orbital motion.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Probably so - I've long lost the thread of what most of this is about. For instance, the state recently passed a law requiring that the ten commandments be posted in every classroom. And I had to stop and think - how many of these legi
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I would say worse than that, we are doing the opposite of large-scale terraforming to create a planet that will be rather inhospitable towards the end of this century and even less so in the centuries that follow. I think the sci-fi delusio
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> I remember someone pointing out that a generation ship could be problematic because you have one generation who decides to launch this expedition but will never see the end, multiple generations who didn't choose this life and won
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by silverquiet 1y ago
There's a lot here I feel I can respond to, and I can't help but agree with the sentiment; I've been saying something like that to people here for years and was dismissed. That said, I think most of the push to drive down lab
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> Klarna, which presented Monday’s earnings via an AI-generated avatar of its chief executive I've suspected for awhile now that the most easily automated job would be upper management.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I've been thinking that reason must prevail for nigh on a decade and while there have been moments where it seems to, overall I can't say that I'm particularly optimistic at the moment. I have been told that "degrowth&qu
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> (Obviously all of that is bullshit.) It isn't obvious to me - that is rather plausible and a cute story.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> Not long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. This would have been a political certainty, as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. When business scr
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I think I was born an old curmudgeon because I've essentially always felt this way. That said, Spotify got me to subscribe at least for a bit because I could not match its catalog and convenience. I also try and keep a FLAC archive of
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by silverquiet 1y ago
And yet the Republicans have campaigned on tearing down government for my entire life. And people treated me like a fool for believing them.

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