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tiredofsametab , 11 days ago

And if you end up burning natual gas / coal to meet the marginal increase in demand - as would seem fairly likely - then much of the thermal conversion losses you're saving in the higehr efficieny motor just get shifted to the furnace in the power station and transmission/distribution system; so that can erode some of the efficiency benefits.

1. liquid fuels still have to get from the ground -> refinery -> distribution -> gas station -> vehicle so there is transmission cost and loss there
2. "we can't immediately solve all of the problems so let's not do it" is a pretty bad take. Incremental progress is better than waiting for perfect which basically means never doing it.

Another good alternative is to try to convince people to get together and share their electric motors in things callled trains and do as many trips in those as possible - that's not too popular with most people unless the road congestion is really bad. Something to do with sharing being communism i think,

I 100% agree everywhere it's practical. Still, people are going to have to get to train stations somehow. Multi-modal transit could somewhat cover that, but some people would still practically have to drive. Convincing those people to only drive to the nearest station and not all the way to their destination is another challenge to solve.

tiredofsametab , 16 days ago

cons - they have no legal right to secede and the US government won't let them. It would not be pretty.

tiredofsametab , 28 days ago

animals have a huge evolutionary pressure to pick either the day or night to be their active period

Cats: I reject your reality and substitute my own. I'm not sure if there are any other animals that are crepuscular, but I assume there are.

Very neat write-up; thank you!

tiredofsametab , 1 month ago

For some types of bread, the machine can do it much more uniformly and without crushing. This can be difficult for humans.

tiredofsametab , 1 month ago

I'm mostly just commenting on why it was such a big deal in the time that it happened rather than today. Today, we do have more machines, easier access to knives, and generally less domestic work to do than was the case in this era. I do own a breadknife, though I rarely eat bread and it's mostly denser loaves when I do (a kind of sandwich bread the wife prefers or something like Baurenbrot for my tastes).

tiredofsametab , 2 months ago

Kinda bummed I'm on the wrong side of the planet for this. I guess Japan is a pretty small target to hit. It was neat watching the last one in the US on TV here. I remember as a kid in either the late '80s or early '90s we got to see one during school hours.

tiredofsametab , 3 months ago

My parents were like that. It came to a head in my teenage years. My mom was super overprotective. Never even got to see a musical I was in at a wrap party with other parents present because they wouldn't even budge on my curfew. I didn't have much of a relationship with them for years and went wild with all the freedom I never had soon after I graduated highschool. Drugs and everything else.

A parent should not be a friend, but be very careful in your approach. How I did not end up in jail or dead I have no idea. I was homeless living out of my car for a while. Edit to add, I graduated HS in the late '90s

tiredofsametab , 3 months ago

I mean, phone books were a thing in the US until very recently and one had to pay to not be listed (at least where I lived)

tiredofsametab , 4 months ago

So frustrating. I live in a country with something of a hybrid model. I pay very little at point of service and my taxes aren't super crazy or anything. Prices need to be clamped down upon.