GNU Terry Pratchett

Isn’t it weird how men who spend a lot of time thinking about gay sex keep turning out to be gay?

Nobody’s posted the vending machine?

Headline is dumb. If capacitors are better at being batteries than batteries are, they just become the next generation of batteries.

Bob.

It also calls all the customers who don’t want to be locked out of the product they paid for ‘fickle’ and brought up gamergate out of nowhere, so I’m honestly not sure what sort of agenda they’re pushing.

All the extra hardware required to make that work and the time and cost of installing and removing the extra battery pack means it’ll probably never cost less than just hiring a longer range vehicle for the weekend. People who really need the range wouldn’t bother, they’d just buy a longer range vehicle in the first place. Or one with the extra battery pre-installed and never remove it.

Not to mention that battery prices are continuing to plummet - we’re quickly approaching the point where cars are just coming with as many batteries as they can easily fit. Short range EVs are likely not going to be a thing in a few more years when it doesn’t cost significantly more to make a longer range EV.

IIRC VLC on Windows uses it’s own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don’t need to mess around with Windows codecs.

This. Removing the $200 Android tablet from the dash isn’t going to make cars suddenly $5,000 cheaper.

That’s double-plus ungood wrongthink, citizen. Report for re-education.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

- Percy Shelley

The advantage of EVs is they’ll get cleaner over time. If you bought one of those Nissan Leafs in 2012, you would have charged it using quite a lot of coal generated electricity. That same car today would use probably half coal and half solar. As coal continues to exit the grid and we build out more solar, emissions from EVs already on the road will keep dropping.

If you buy a diesel today, it’s still going to be burning diesel in 2040.

LFP batteries are taking over from the older NMC chemistry, and LFP doesn’t have those expensive toxic materials in them.

An EV fire that isn’t caused by the drive battery usually doesn’t affect it. The drive battery is a very dense insulated block near the bottom of the vehicle, so it takes a surprising amount of external heat to get it to burn.

Attaching a noisemaker to a vehicle is a simple fix and they’d do that if the trucks actually turned out to be silent.

Summon kidney stone.

I mean, that works well enough to go to space, so why can’t it get you to the store?

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Well, Marge’s voice actor is 73 now.

The show’s been running for 35 years. Lisa’s voice actor is 59 now. She is an old lady.