Magiccupcake

@Magiccupcake@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Spends $40,000 on New Member Pins as Republicans Fume Over Spending⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $930 per pin, why the hell are they so expensive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot just swapped my electric car's battery⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The average car age is 12.5 years, so many of them are likely approaching 20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot just swapped my electric car's battery⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and that’s why I’m not advocating for 100 year cars.

  I’d be pretty happy with 20 years to, but 10 just feels like planned obsolescence.

  I also messed around with the math very loosly, and only accounting for ceashesgot off the road was in a crash, they could be expected to go 20 years or more without a crash on average.

  And that’s now with all the terrible driving that happens, especially at night. With slight deacrease in accident frequncy that number can increase a lot.

  So maybe 30 is a bit much for now, but its still like an ev that would claim to last 20 yeara.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot just swapped my electric car's battery⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So far most ev batteries do much better than cell phones, as long as they have cooling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot just swapped my electric car's battery⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you still have it backwards.

  We could very easily design and build a car that lasts 30 years. But we don’t, because manufacturers don’t want them to last that long.

  Evs don’t have transmissions, or complicated engines, and the wear on brakes is much less with regenerative braking.

  Other things like air conditioning and interior coverings could be easily servicable

  Why should the life of an ev by limited by its battery?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Prey and outer wilds are games especially enjoyed blind with no prior knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While the free market should be able to correct the problem, it can’t.

  I cant talk specifically about the uk, but in the US many locales have strict zoning regualtions that hamper building medium density cheap housing, perfect for all these people that can’t afford to live where there’s work.

  Examples are things like minimum parking requiements, driveway setbacks, and limitations on multifamily homes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart from water and salt, are there any inorganic foods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Calcium carbonate, is the main ingredient in tums, and is the main component of limestone.