pigeonburger
13hr ago
I dunno, I checking quickly with AI and at current average prices, a Chevy Bolt (one of the cheapest new EVs, with the Leaf) without any subsidy will beat a Hyundai Venue (cheapest new car in the US) at around 71 000 miles, 131 000 miles at the average of the last 10 years. Seems quite realistic both cars would reach that. EVs also have less maintenance costs too.
pigeonburger
13hr ago
I've been in a ride that had a malfunction that made it unable to stop (pirate ship), and a technician had to run under the ride to enable an emergency break, so I guess at least that one did not have remote access.
Trump voters would probably assume the guy is not a liar.
I think most would rather say that he's the victim of isolated demands for rigor, considering they've seen politicians lie to them with media covering up for them all their lives, that claiming Trump is an exceptional liar as a politician is simply due to the media not covering up for him, and that anyway someone who sometimes lie in a way that they deem aligns with their own interests for a change is a good thing.
Whether it does align with their interest is up to the reader to decide.
pigeonburger
16hr ago
Considering sous vide as a cooking technique typically involve two "kitchen gadgets", do you mean a vacuum sealer or an immersion circulator?
pigeonburger
1d ago
Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope.
Note, the denial doesn't say he didn't go there, or wasn't evaluated there, just that he didn't get treatment there. It's possible he went and they evaluated him and told him that he doesn't need treatment he just needs to take a week or two of rest and that's what he did.
pigeonburger
1d ago
I think it was somewhat worse in the Biden era though because there was the perception that progressives were seeing elevated prices as a way to achieve ideological goals opposed by the masses. For instances, progressives are, at least those I know, almost happy about elevated beef prices because they didn't think we should have been eating that much beef to begin with, that the low prices before were not capturing the environmental externalities of it. Same with single family home ownership. At least Trump's disregard for the economy is in service of attempting to achieve geopolitical goals, which yes, will depend on whether he achieves them, but it's not against the wishes of average americans who do not want to eat ze bugs and live in ze pod but probably do want to beat or diminish America's enemies abroad, although not necessarily at the price of increases in the cost of living.
pigeonburger
1d ago
as I have not personally seen consumer prices rise significantly
The problem is that in the average joe's mind, they expect that in a good or average economy, prices would go "back down" to what they've anchored as "normal prices", not that they will "only slightly rise" from what they consider an already abnormally elevated price. I think MadMonzer's evaluation is right, the sticker shock of seeing the elevated prices after COVID is what broke people's perspective of what a normal economy looks like. During COVID people expected economic disruption, so they gave higher prices a pass, but they didn't expect those prices to stick and then when you pile on the loss of productivity and increased government spending...
pigeonburger
7d ago
Exactly; horror's root is about feeling powerless. The games that do it best are those "sneak around the unstoppable force" style "first person hiders": your Amnesias, Outlasts, SOMAs... Alien Isolation is just, IMO, the pinnacle of execution of that genre. Alan Wake is pretty standard survival horror, in the vein of the Resident Evil: the extent to which you feel powerless is directly related to how dwindling your ressources are and how uncertain your distance to some relief is (in Alan Wake, chapter ends, in Resident Evil, save rooms or more ressources). I thought Alan Wake was a bit too easy on that front.
pigeonburger
7d ago
Of course, rape accusations are way beyond the pale as retaliation, and absolutely the law should be blind to the social games being played here. I'm just talking about why she was wronged which explains (but not excuse) why she reached for rape accusations.
pigeonburger
7d ago
It's their duty not to spread rumors, to attempt to smother the rumor if they hear it being spread, to downplay it ("we were all so high we barely were aware of what was happening so it's not like she just puts out for anyone") and plead her case to the frat and sorority leadership. If none of it worked, I would have considered Male 1 to be pretty much honorbound to get in a serious longterm relationship with her at least until they're out of education, to shield her from social consequences.
Of course, her deserving such consideration went out the window when the rape accusations went in. But it's fun to imagine a world where people aren't all scumbags.
pigeonburger
7d ago
If necessary/possible, otherwise at least plead in her favor and defend her from accusations and insinuations.
pigeonburger
9d ago
You must be living a blessed life to have been able to avoid it for that long
pigeonburger
15d ago
Can I just start it up and freakin drive or do I need some adjustments?
Do you have any experience driving an EV? If not, you need to adjust your expectations with regards to the instant torque you get with them
pigeonburger
17d ago
I don't think throwing a gun away is a crime.
Throwing a gun away is negligent handling of it. What if someone who's not allowed to have it (child, felon, mentally ill person) picks it up?
I don't see how any other paradigm than Conflict Theory is necessary to update in favor of the lab leak explanation. That scientific establishment was fanatically enforcing a zoonotic origin explanation in the face of the overwhelming common sense possibility of a lab leak, early in the investigation before they could have realistically have had all that much certainty, is not not a neutral act. Such strong narrative control is in itself at least evidence in favor of there being something to cover up, that the narratives that would emerge absent such control would be damaging to the scientist class, which increases the likelihood of the lab leak theory.
pigeonburger
18d ago
Assuming conflict theory, that your opponent is not just someone who disagrees with you, but someone who wants to hurt or destroy you, there is more information there than zero. The information you now have is "someone who wants to hurt me wants me to read DRINKING MERCURY WILL KILL YOU". You can interpret this at whatever level you want to, Vizzini-style, but the either way your opponent thought it advantageous to display that message. Probably it's wisest to ignore it for that reason, but that too can be used against you.
pigeonburger
18d ago
Yeah, but assuming you agree that guns at least an unfortunate necessity, I wonder what effect this would have on the class of people who agrees to work with them. Would we have particularly broken cops and soldiers (if you already believe they are fundamentally broken people, imagine I said "more broken")?
The way I explain it to my clients is that cloud is advantageous when you have unpredictable growth as it has the ability to scale up or down very quickly. Good for startups, good if you're expanding into new markets and face uncertainty. On-prem will usually end up cheaper if you can more or less predict how to size your infrastructure for the next 5 years. I imagine it might be unpopular in some domains to admit to shareholders that you know the company is not going to suddenly double in size.
That said, some companies (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) are working hard on bringing the disadvantages of cloud to on-premise anyway, making permanent fixed-cost licences unavailable or impractical, pushing even on-prem users to per-user and subscription models for software.
Now that I think about it, I'm starting to get into a new hobby/recreational activity that is skewing pretty pretty old (canoe camping) and the entire thing is a logistics puzzle for old people. You have to balance preparedness and comfort with ease of travel (more gear means more painful portages). It's like life is too simple and you need to find a way to make a challenge out of it.
The U.S. will fulfill its defense needs through contracts with Greenlandic businesses and with Greenlandic labor, whenever feasible.
This is technically an economic concession to Greenland. They have a client that's treaty bound to prefer them as suppliers, if they are able to fulfill the demand. Whether Greenlanders are able to seize the opportunity is doubtful, but it's an opportunity. If I were a Greenlander with some extra cash kicking around, I'd be looking at what supplies an american military base is likely to need.
I get why they would, because other definitions are fuzzy and open to interpretations, even though in practice most people I know can tell which one a place is by looking at what its core looks like.
To me no; town I would define as a locality that has most of the services needed for day-to-day life, a core that spans a few streets rather than one, but doesn't have the businesses and services that would truly make it independant. A town would have for instance pharmacies, supermarkets, maybe some chain stores like a walmart, a few restaurants, probably a high school, medical clinics but no hospital, no mall, no airport, no nightlife outside of local bars, minimal public transport. I expect people from a town make a trip to a city in a 1-2 hours drive radius a few times a year when they want to go on real "shopping" trip, need to go to a hospital, etc... There usually aren't any higher education institutions in towns either, so the kids often end up having to move when they start studying at that level.
A village, to me, has a handful of businesses, rarely spread on more than one street: a gas station, a local diner, a very small grocery store, maybe an elementary school, maybe a bar or two but everyone there goes to the nearest town in a 15-30 minutes radius for their real actual groceries every week, and to a city as often as the townfolks do.
I would even posit that the the village/town/city distinction is sometimes completely distinct from rural/suburban/urban. There are small cities in my province that exist essentially as service hubs for the surrounding countryside. They are a bit denser than a typical suburb but the economic engine is not the city. One of them, for instance, has a large veterinary hospital, the biggest agricultural school in the province, etc...
If 50% or more are employed in agriculture, it's a rural locality; Otherwise, if 50% or more of those not employed in agriculture work in a different locality, it's a suburban locality; Otherwise, it's an urban locality.
I don't think that works because there's plenty of small suburban or rural towns (in a way that we would definitely recognize them as such despite definitions) that are basically supported by a single big factory. People work locally, not in agriculture, but that doesn't make those tiny towns urban. And the tiny villages around them that supply some extra workers aren't necessarily suburban.
Outside of density, which could be used to make a hard criteria for analysis, but not necessarily capture the real spirit of the word, I would define the three as what proximity people are seeking there.
In urban localities, people want to be in proximity to other people. Density is a virtue here. In suburban localities, people want to be in proximity to the urban locality, but not other people. Density is not a virtue, but it will happen as there is a limit to how far people can be and meaningfully access the urban core. In rural localities, people want to be in proximity to open spaces (for economic purposes, like agricultural activity, for recreation or as an aesthetic preference).
pigeonburger
21d ago
That or correcting it ourselves. That said, homework doesn't count and I was in a high achiever school so the teachers probably figured if we don't do that correctly the only people we're cheating is ourselves.
MSRP of a Bolt is 29000$USD, MSRP of a Venue is 20500$USD, so the Bolt has to save you 8500$ of fuel to be saving you any money net over getting cheapest new gas car sold in the US. Current average gas price in the US is 4.34$ a gallon. So you'd have to burn ~1958 gallons to cover the price difference. And the Venue gets 31 MPG, so you'd burn that much in about 60 714 miles. So assuming free electricity, that's how many miles you'd have to drive either for the Bolt to start being cheaper.
NOT assuming free electricity, average price of a kWh in the US is 18.31 cents. The Bolt 2026 gets about 4 miles per kWh, so over those 60714 miles the Bolt will have cost 2779$ in electricity. I can't be bothered in graphing it myself to find where the Venue's cost overtakes the Bolt, but I asked AI to chart it and it found it was a bit over 90k miles.
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