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- Comment on For security reasons 2 days ago:
This is a feature, not a bug. The rest of us don’t want crap being sent to admin email addresses, so fix your damn email and try again.
Personally I use generated email addresses to most places, but my personal address is <FIRST>@<LAST>.us
- Comment on The Patriarchy 2 days ago:
Don’t rain on our parade. Let it be real
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 3 days ago:
Less plastics on your streets, in your yards, and fields, is also an important goal
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 3 days ago:
That’s interesting. I haven’t paid attention to caps in litter.
Here they ask that you separate caps and throw them out, to make recycling the bottle easier. Even if you do a bottle return, haven’t done that in years since we have recycling, but the machine shreds the bottle and pops the top off into a separate bin, I always assumed trash
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 4 days ago:
Personally, I believe it’s a strategy to improve social stability and wealth, after too many failed marriages based only on initial physical attraction.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 4 days ago:
I didn’t grow up in one of those cultures, but agree, there could be advantages. Notably, younger people are likely to focus on physical attraction, whereas marriage is a life long partnership that requires a lot more. As long as it’s not forced, the participants have a veto, I can definitely see advantages.
As a nerdy, introverted, shy, guy, bring it on. I have plenty to bring to a relationship, but not in finding someone to relate to
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 4 days ago:
Read the news sometime. A memorable recent one I read included the history of a barrier island town, the nearby ones already abandoned, and whether they need to abandon it yet or if it was still livable. The root cause was sea level rise caused by global warming
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 5 days ago:
Sure, we have standards to demonstrate that. We know that global warming is taking that livable environment away. We have established goals per country, and strategies to meet them. Those strategies map out limits for how much your vehicle can pollute, without being detrimental to everyone’s livable environment. Given the impact on people, we’ve made the compromise to phase those in over more than a decade, but after 2035 (in my state), the compromise is over. New cars for sale can no longer emit carbon dioxide as part of their operation.
Your existing vehicle is grandfathered since we hadn’t established those limits when it was manufactured
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
Yeah, that seems like more than enough activities to scale up to something that can handle more.
Unfortunately trams can have similar shortcomings all too easily, but I guess it’s the next strp
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
Right, but the technology is there. The obstruction is legal/policy, so older technology shouldn’t have to be the answer.
I’m frustrated with this sane issue at my ex’s condo. The entire complex is townhouses with parking in front. It also has the service entrance in front, so a charger is a short cable under the side walk from a unit’s service entrance to a pedestal at their parking lot. Cheap and easy, and everyone pays their own electric bill. So why won’t they do it? Oh well, if my ex doesn’t want that fight, it’s not my problem
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
The only problem with this idea is plugin hybrids should have been an important step. Why haven’t we already phased out pure gasoline vehicles for hybrid and plugin hybrid? We could have and should have done this when pure EVs were not yet practical.
But that time has passed. EVs are or could be practical for most uses, with current technology. Manufacturers don’t get to just build overpriced luxury vehicles and say “see, no one wants them: let’s go back to gasoline”. Not enough cheap EVs? We could if manufacturers would scale up, or if we allowed imports from China. Not enough charging stations? That’s just time and investment, and was rapidly changing at least up to Tesla’s layoffs. You don’t get to delay the build out and say “see, there’s not enough chargers”. Not enough raw materials? Huge discoveries in the last couple of years, and recycling ready to scale up as soon as enough vehicles are there. Not enough power in the grid? They only respond to steady growth in demand, and need that growth maintained over years. I suppose plug-in hybrid is better than gasoline but we’re really at the stage where the technology is practical and the biggest impediment is just doing it
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
Why Tram? While I prefer them as well and my area has some, this is the same scenario a bus can handle, and a bus is arguably better since it can go more places and be more flexible without infrastructure costs. For most places, we need to electrify buses and figure out how to make them a more appealing choice
Trains and trans are better at scaling for more populated areas but buses need to be part of that continuum
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
Not sure how to react with this one. On the one hand, we need a bigger and better used EV market, but on the other hand, this shouldn’t have been a surprise. It’s sort of like buying a 20 yr old Corolla, then complaining it can’t haul gravel
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
More importantly, people should give more priority to more common needs. I plug my car in when I get home, like my phone, and just always have a charge. It is so much more convenient to never have to go to a local gas station again. Much better than older cars where it seemed like I had to go every couple of weeks.
Yes, recharging my EV is less convenient on road trips, but it’s more convenient 95+% of the time
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
Freedom of choice is certainly important but we do all have to work together for the sake of our future and our children’s future. It is certainly a good idea to set efficiency and emissions standards, including up to a controlled transition to zero emissions.
It’s not even close to a situation of forcing any customers: we’re at a stage of forcing manufacturers to improve their products and work toward a transition in 11 years, and help encourage a growing market for them to profit by it.
This is back to old arguments like:
- free speech but you can’t yell “FIRE” in a coowded theater
- freedom to swing your arms, that stops before you hit my face
And connected to Tragedy of the Commons.
- breathable air and livable environments are something we all need in common. You have no right to take that from the rest of us
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
They may not even have thought of it. If you’re a customer of such a place, you could suggest to them that there are people who drive EVs and a similar benefit for charging would attract those customers.
Of course it probably comes down to someone would need to decide it’s worth the investment of setting up a charging station, so it’s not going to be cheap or fast
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
Maybe, but we don’t even know whether he knew the guy injured himself. Sure he was guilty of being impatient and ignoring the person directing traffic so I’m sure it’s consistent to keep going, but why would you even check on someone who kicks your car and falls down. Heck, it’s behind you in your blind spot, it would be all too easy to not even see
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
Yeah don’t watch. I’m usually fine with gore videos but this leg break is something I feel. I didn’t need that footage rattling around in my brain
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
Still not ok, when there is no downside for lying on a police report. Not everyone will be lucky enough to get dashcam footage contradicting four police offices conspiring to lie
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 week ago:
At least electrifying means that you’ll be ready for renewables- that has to be done as well
- Comment on The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find. 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, what even is the basis for this interview? They’re acting like it’s surprising to allow political speech on campus or for tax payers to be able to use the public university they fund
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
This is the import fact to get from this thread
FWIW, I’ve found stores that don’t even have rewards cards frequently have lower prices than their competitors’ reward card sale prices.
I’ve especially seen this with groceries. There are several choices, meaningful competition, and I find the stores that don’t push rewards cards tend to have better prices, even after counting the rewards
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
I wish. If they really were trying to better serve their customers, it might be worth giving up the data. However it’s long since become a goal of its own, a profit center, a strategy for conning the customer out of more money
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
There’s never as much free stuff as they make it seem, plus usually it means the regular price is higher than elsewhere. If a store is picky with their card, I take the hint and go elsewhere.
Although realistically, my ex also thinks she benefits from those, so I usually pollute her data. She doesn’t mind plus she gets the benefits quicker, whereas I like that the data is not directly connected to me
- Comment on There it is 2 weeks ago:
Instead of fixing the symptom, maybe you could address the underlying problem of all that clutter on the desktop. ….or pin it somewhere it won’t be encroached by new files
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 weeks ago:
And even more evident when you need to decide how to set up a bureaucracy, paperwork, and verification to judge whether someone else could be working more, or just not
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 weeks ago:
Same as now. My 40+ hr/wk making the world what it is, pays much better than any UBI. Until there’s a better solution for affordable housing and healthcare for my family, education for my kids, and retirement for me, I’m staying in the rat race
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not. Building code requires the steps to be consistent and I’m pretty sure there’s a maximum steepness.
Obviously we don’t know the history but I bet this was their best “make it fit” solution when the correct way would be expensive
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 2 weeks ago:
Could even be caused by code - complying with current code only applies to things you change.
For example, maybe the stairs were in a bad place so someone moved them (I briefly considered that). Now the stairs need to comply with code, such as maximum steepness. How do you make that fit? The right way probably involves expensive structural mods (or having just said no), so this is the contractor making it fit “affordable”
- Comment on Deadpool & Wolverine - Official Trailer (2024) Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman 2 weeks ago:
Starter and Waldorf would be key for any of these movies, and fit right into Stan Lee’s acting shoes