Spoiler: We do not need one drop of "fuels" for cars, trucks and trains that are highly inefficient and / or lead to even more desastrous exploitation of and pollution to the environment.
@arstechnica saying we need x or y while suggesting the set of solutions includes cars suggests what we really need is not going to happen. Unfortunately that seems to be what is happening, we keep raising the bar, not realizing we need to start lowering it to get anywhere. It comes down to energy used per passenger mile. This is all well understood. A 2 to 5 ton rolling brick of batteries does slightly drop CO2 per mile but can't scale like mas transit.
@arstechnica That was amazingly fast... The Supreme Court only JUST declared that federal agencies have no power to do their jobs and already others have jumped on board it seems.
@georgetakei As the article points out, and as known by those of us who have worked food service, the peeler is designed to be ambidextrous. For your safety, you should always cut away from yourself. A peeler is still a knife, and knife safety is extremely important in any kitchen.
@georgetakei I would have told the attendant that I was concerned for the large gentleman's comfort and ask if I could be moved to another plane if there were no other seats available. They all would be nice about it, and there's a good chance I would get an upgrade or a discount. Often respect is rewarded.
@georgetakei The thing is, based on that story, we don't know if the girlfriend was homophobic. She might have been fine. It might be a case where her parents were from a different place and would have been OK if there had been a chance to educate them a little before the occasion. Maybe the girlfriend was afraid the parents would react badly, and that's why she wanted to get them out of there quickly.
@rbreich Please stop attacking our own. The polls have been proven wrong so many times, they are manipulated. Give Joe a couple weeks to prove himself. We need to appeal to Independents, not the far left Ds. We need to focus on reminding voters of Trump's character, convictions and the insurrection. If you care about polls then do your own but ONLY poll Independents in swing states. And we need to stop letting the media manipulate us.
@arstechnica Yeah, so how much will you be out of pocket when it breaks? And how are you going to drive when your screen fails to boot, or chokes on a software update?
@arstechnica The weather gadget tells me it's not just an onboard thermometer, it's downloading wx info, which means it's uploading location data, and you don't really have any idea what data is being uploaded. Was there a privacy policy? Was there any chance to say no?
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"Makes no sense," isn't much of a legal defense. Might want to hang back, Elon, and let your lawyers do the talking.
(Like this will happen.)
@arstechnica The article wasn't clear (or I missed it.) Does "bricking" just mean they're discontinuing? Normally in electronics it means doing something to render it completely unusable (such as erasing firmware.) It's bad enough we live in such a throwaway society, but if it's reaching the point companies actually destroy their discontinued products rather than just let people keep using them we're at full blown dystopia levels now...