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Why are you responding as if that was an attack? Not everyone needs to know every intricate detail of a system to use it. Nor should they.
That type of thinking is like saying unless you can cook a gourmet restaurant quality meal you don't deserve to eat at a gourmet restaurant. Absurd.
Yeah, that totally makes sense to me.
I did the same as a kid. Like if I was in a classroom with noisy classmates ("study hall") I'd shut my eyes and actively try to not hear them and embrace the nothingness "around" the voices. Kinda interesting that I have distinct memories of doing this _years_ before I was ever exposed to "meditation".
Yeah...I messed up. Damn window size and two different drivetrains for the Ioniq. Side note, web design sucks.
Yeah, I missed that there were the two lines for the Ioniq 5 weight based on the drivetrain, and a column that was not obviously hidden with my window size, my bad.
To me it all still comes down to charging infrastructure. The current state of batteries is good enough for me, but I live in an apartment and can't charge at home, and the availability/reliability local charging stations are a crap shoot, nevermind charging on a road trip.
But when (if?) I own my own house and can charge at home, I'll be in even with the current state of batteries.
I always bought into this "meme", in part because just about every EV review I've seen mentions having to compensate for the extra weight which makes those cars less performant at times, so decided to look it up based on your quoted vehicles here, and figured I'd save anyone else the same search:
A 2023 Rav 4 has a curb weight of between 3615 and 3775 lb [1]
A 2023 Ioniq 5 has a curb weight of between 3968 and 4663 lb [2]
So a difference of between 193 and 1048 pounds between the two. That's actually a lot less than I expected, at least on the low end. 193 pounds is basically equivalent to just having one extra person in the car.
As noted in replies, though, these _do_ take into account different drive trains, so the comparison is not not great from the start.
[1] https://www.toyota.com/rav4/2023/features/mpg_other_price/44...
[2] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/ioniq-5/compare-sp...
Look into autocross, if you haven't before. It's probably the most accessible way to get a taste of time-trial racing in real life, and events are held all over the place -- basically anywhere there's a community and a free, empty parking lot. You just need a car (any car as long as it runs and is safe), a helmet (probably the most annoying part), and usually less than $100 for admission.
Yeah, that's a fair point. But if things are flowing I regularly see 80+ (which probably lends itself to eventual 20 MPH when someone wrecks and causes awful traffic).
Definitely don't mind those late night drives, as long as you keep an eye out for people not signaling or not having their lights on.
It'd be awesome if we could invest in actual public transport instead of more lanes but...
A culturally relevant favorite of mine:
The lives of all they occupy, their eyes in dismal gloom
The all-piercing, dead oculi, mirrors of our doom
Oblivious to the trespass as you gaze into the black
The demon of surveillance insultingly staring back
Into you
Into you
73 MPH? Must be a leisurely Sunday church drive (at least here in the Atlanta metro, where cars engulfed in flame on the side of the interstate are not as rare as they should be).
I don't know what you expect this comment to do, lol.
Maybe they do, or did in this case, but I wouldn't expect them to keep me informed on what happened.
I had a situation a few years ago driving down a highway at night when all of a sudden I noticed a weird "thing" in the sky in front of me. It got closer and I swerved, but not enough to avoid it hitting the side of my car, taking off the side mirror and gouging up the front half of the drivers' side. Then I realized it was the plastic bed liner of the pickup truck in front of me that became unattached at highway speeds and flew into the air like a kite. My car was still operable, and I had a (poor quality, especially at night, but operable) dash cam, and the truck ahead of me didn't stop, so I sped closer to close the distance to the truck and for assurance, read out the license plate number aloud so the dash cam's microphone could pick it up before pulling over.
Contacted the police, took them about an hour to respond, and the officer gave me his email so I could send him the video. It was hard to make out but you could definitely see the object leave the truck, and a few seconds later appearing in my view, and me swerving.
Contacted insurance, they arranged the repairs, and I was out the deductible. About a week later I got a call from the police saying they looked up the plate and lo and behold, it wasn't even registered to a white pickup truck, but a blue sedan, so the plate was either stolen or swapped from another vehicle, at which point there really was no recourse.
Long story short, even if you have a dash cam, sometimes you're SOL. I _did_ use that as an excuse to upgrade my dash cam to one with better quality and night vision, but yeah, shit happens, and if nobody got hurt sometimes you gotta just accept it.
I'll second this but add _without a subscription_. I like the idea of Oura or Whoop but I don't want want the monthly fee, and just want the minimal amount of data (acceleration, heart rate, maybe temperature), in something I can wear along side a legit mechanical watch.
The Lakers roster has the highest average age in the whole NBA by like 2 years.
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/transactions/composition_s...
My favorite is (or, was) "Sleep Train Arena" in Sacramento. Sounds so exciting!
Same here. I replaced the few Alexa devices in my house with Homepods over the last year and have notice no difference in how well they work because I don't use them for anything particularly complicated, and I don't _want_ to use them for any more than that. The only thing Siri seems to mess up for my usage is not interpreting things I put on my shopping list correctly, but usually in a way that's still recognizable (like "milk this'll").
I mean no offense by this, but this opinion seems to be colored by your direct experience. There's is still A LOT of intolerance to these things to be found in the world. You're just not being exposed to it, most likely.
And maybe it's right that stories like that should be written by people who're closer to them?
Both books should be able to exist simultaneously.
I'm guessing the post you're replying to is sarcasm, or trolling, because it seems too perfectly absurd.
The "conflating" is addressed just a couple of paragraphs later:
The above cases are each distinct. You may agree with how the book world responded in some instances, and disagree in others. But what these cases convey is how much the literary establishment is struggling with a dread of “harm,” related both to content and authors. It speaks to the spreading sense that it thinks of itself as carrying out a moral mission, whose standards are those of progressive activism.
When I was growing up my father was pretty frugal, so he was very early on the train of replacing all of our home's lightbulbs with fluorescents. However, I don't think he really understood what color temperatures meant, so he always seemed to buy the bulbs with the higher temperatures. Higher is better, right? So he always went with the super sterile cold 5000K bulbs, and just as you say, home felt like some sort of weird sterile warehouse.
I think we have a larger problem where our education system is laser focused on "knowledge" and often abjectly refuses to teach anything that can be called a "skill".
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately, especially in the context of news media. As an American public school millennial I distinctly remember covering the term "yellow journalism" in social studies classes in multiple years. But the moral I always took from those lessons was "Back in the past, like at the time of the Spanish-American war, the news media fudged the facts to push their own agenda". Yellow journalism was just a vocabulary term used for something that happened a long time ago. We weren't taught to apply the lessons to our modern lives, which would've been infinitely more valuable than memorizing flash cards. I can't help but think that the whole fake news thing would've been much less of a surprise to people of my generation had a bit more time been spent on learning applicable lessons using history as a context, and not just remembering trivia.
Likewise when we had research projects or essays to write, it was just as you said -- a fill in the blanks exercise. If you found a book in the library that had something relevant you could reference, well, it was a book in the library, so it was obviously true, right? You're going through the motions but you're not thinking for yourself. I didn't get a real introduction into how to actually do research until my first year of college.
This is a valid point, haha.
New York requires annual car inspections that include emissions testing as well as a basic safety check (tires, brakes, head/signal/brake lights, horn, fluids, and a few other things). They "only" cost $20 but they put a color coded sticker on your windshield that is easily seen by passing cops, who will pull you over if you have the wrong color. Getting the inspection done is a bit of a pain in the ass, too, as because at least for me it would usually require taking at least an hour off of work to drive the car to a garage who could do it. And the garages seemed to often run out of inspection stickers, as they're provided by the state and only allot so many to each garage that does inspections. It was kind of a nightmare in its own way.
And if your car failed inspection, you were obligated to fix it, of course. I knew a lot of people who would postpone the inspection as long as possible and hope they didn't get pulled over. When I was pretty poor I had a car that frequently had its check engine light on (an instant fail for the inspections). It was cheaper to buy an OBD reader online that could reset the check engine light long enough to get the inspection done than it was to fix the problem.
When I moved to Georgia which only does the emissions test (and only in the Atlanta area counties), I was surprised by how quick it was. Perhaps coincidentally, I see many orders of magnitude more cars engulfed in flames on the roads in metro Atlanta than I ever did in New York.
Interestingly, Long Island City in New York has become the same sort of concrete soulless high rise area, with an equally uninteresting name.
https://ny.curbed.com/2016/8/31/12732412/long-island-city-de...
+1 for diesel exhaust. It gives me weird flashbacks of being on like a Greyhound bus or Amtrak train when I was little and with my family which are somehow comforting.
Anecdotal but the gamification of exercise with respect to some of the newer products out there (Peloton, Zwift, Apple Fitness+) seems to be a step in this direction. I've been using Zwift for the past couple of months and have ridden my bike more than I have probably in the previous year combined. Most of it I don't really care/bother with, but when it keeps track of your records and you beat one during an exercise, it does give you a little of that dopamine rush.
I'm kind of surprised that aliases have not widely taken off already.
The funny thing is that these aliases already existed, but we've largely eschewed them for our "real" identities. Prior to probably Facebook I think every interaction I had with other people online was behind a screen name detached from my real world identity.